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Aug. 23rd, 2007 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeTwo weeks ago bumface and I went to see Gotye (pronounced Gore-tee-yeah) at the Gov Hindmarsh and he and his mini orchestra were so much fun, and he is so young and cute and talented I thought I would evangelise a bit. He is somewhat obscure in Australia and so I imagine he's unheard of outside of Aust but he certainly deserves wider exposure.
Heart's A Mess is the song he's best known for. It's catchy and haunting and has some great bass sounds and people went nuts when he started playing it. I love the film clip.
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Learnalilgivinanlovin has also gotten some radio play, it's a fun Mowtowny number.
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As you can see, when live he chooses to drum and sing. Bumface almost had an orgasm when she realised this.
Out Here in The Cold is from his first album, so I hadn't heard it, but the six-minute live version was entrancing. He introduced it as the song with too much B-flat, heh.
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For the tour he commissioned local artists to make film to be projected behind the stage. I put this here not because the visuals are especially stunning (although they're lovely) but because the song it's for, The Only Way, is a personal favourite and he opened with it and it ROCKED.
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This concert footage doesn't have the best sound quality but the waltzy, fun song, Coming Back, is another personal fav, and god! he is so! cute! with his little Cher microphone!
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Despite the good times we had at the concert I think my overwhelming memory is of the crowd getting caught out on the false ends and mid-way breaks he has on every song and repeatedly starting to cheer only to be interrupted in an embarrassed fashion by the band.
His second album, Like Drawing Blood, which was famously recorded in bedrooms around Melbourne, is pretty easily torrentable, but let me know if you want individual tracks uploaded.
Heart's A Mess is the song he's best known for. It's catchy and haunting and has some great bass sounds and people went nuts when he started playing it. I love the film clip.
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Learnalilgivinanlovin has also gotten some radio play, it's a fun Mowtowny number.
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As you can see, when live he chooses to drum and sing. Bumface almost had an orgasm when she realised this.
Out Here in The Cold is from his first album, so I hadn't heard it, but the six-minute live version was entrancing. He introduced it as the song with too much B-flat, heh.
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For the tour he commissioned local artists to make film to be projected behind the stage. I put this here not because the visuals are especially stunning (although they're lovely) but because the song it's for, The Only Way, is a personal favourite and he opened with it and it ROCKED.
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This concert footage doesn't have the best sound quality but the waltzy, fun song, Coming Back, is another personal fav, and god! he is so! cute! with his little Cher microphone!
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Despite the good times we had at the concert I think my overwhelming memory is of the crowd getting caught out on the false ends and mid-way breaks he has on every song and repeatedly starting to cheer only to be interrupted in an embarrassed fashion by the band.
His second album, Like Drawing Blood, which was famously recorded in bedrooms around Melbourne, is pretty easily torrentable, but let me know if you want individual tracks uploaded.
