Yay for self made projects. New-crafts have been gathering popularity for a little while now, with online sale sites such as Etsy making it just as easy to order a home-made sock puppet (if that’s your thing) from a maker in Texas as it is to purchase some mass produced gift from your local department store.
Here in Hobart we’ve got an abundance of creative talent and a handful of lovely stores that take pleasure in stocking their wares (Small Rhino, Love & Clutter, pocketspace). But paperpeople’s Jess and awesome Hobart artist Cat reckon it’s time for a specialised event, so they’re organising a makers market! Work could include comics, craft, jewellery, prints, toys, music, accessories or fashion - and they’re still accepting stall applications until March 6 so if you’re interested email oddandevenmarket@gmail.com
paperpeople’s favorite (now sadly defunct) Tassie band the Bad Luck Charms are catching the ears of some well-placed international media with their ace album Rant & Drift. That’s a photo Sean took of them before they broke up.
Check the review in Plan B magazine written by indie-press “legend” Everett True
“this record…touches on the same elegant minimalism that made The Go-Betweens ‘Before Hollywood’ so stunning, is creepily smart…and is no way a rip of any of the above. Yes,you could say I like it.
Meanwhile over at the Village Voice blog, True can also be found talking up their track “Impossible Love.” Wikid!
But probably the most exciting review is this one from the current Uncut. I know BLC drummer Matt reads this thing like a bible so it must be a bit of a buzz for him.
Great post-punk re-wiring by now-defunct trio.
3/5 Stars
Hobart, Tasmania hasn’t offered up too many well-known ground-levelling rock outfits - they all split before making their mark. Rant & Drift is another in a long line of posthumous releases from Hobart groups, which is a shame, as there’s fire in the trio’s combination or brittle post-punk rhythms and indie-informed guitar strum. Julian Teakle’s songs, all tense and raring to fight, are the strongest - and as a former member of The Frustrations, he was doing this kind of thing when the Rapture were in daipers.
Welcome to our new blog.
Here’s some photos of our mag launch party. They’re getting kinda old.
