M.I.A @ the Metro

Well the Big Day Out has left town and the sideshows are now finishing up. After the interesting results after trying to do the two Sydney shows again we are Big Day Out free for another year.

The only sideshow I have managed to see is MIA and I was totally excited, I have been a fan since my days in Canada and he albums are a little N.E.R.D with the fact that their is always one or two killer tunes and the rest is questionable.

Her support or double header as it was billed was a new outfit who I hadn't heard much of Die Antwood. They were interesting and got the crowd really fired up.

MIA has done it all she has recently released a online mixtape called Vicki Leaks (very clever Ms MIA).

Now to the set, you basically couldn't hear her vocals over the loud club beats, it was for sure she had taken her boiler room headliner seriously. The set was so club focused a lot of her good time hits were missed which was a shame. The set featuring "Boyz" featuring 12 randoms from the crowd on stage with MIA and her two back up dancers, "Paper Planes" with her at the top of the Marshall stacks and various other tunes to a massive club beat.

I enjoyed the show but it wasn't great, MIA has such promise and potential I was expecting a little more.

Overall MIA rates 3 and a half stars.

Film Freak 2011 - True Grit

So it's only a few weeks into 2011, and I have noticed I have seen a shitload of films already, good grief!

So True Grit is the latest with the mumbler Jeff Bridges and the oh so annoying Matt Damon.

But hey this film has had a heap of award nods and got a lot of people talking so I thought it was well worth checking out.

So how was it, I think the start was a bit slow but it generated into quiet a good film, with some extremely tense moments. I wasn't expecting some of the violence that was featured in this film, also there is some scenes with animals that may upset/scare people who are animal lovers (particulary horses) like me.

Okay so True Grit was a good film and enjoyable, but the slow start and the run time were a little too much, 3 gritty stars.

Top 5 @ 5 - Thu 27 Jan 2011

The soundtrack to Summer starts here:

1. Dr Don Don - King of Stars
2. Beth Ditto - I Wrote the Book
3. Chromeo - Hot Mess {Ducksauce feat. Elly Jackson}
4. Little Dragon - Looking Glass
5. Katy B - Lights On

My thoughts on the Hottest 100 - Triple J's 2010 songs of the year

So Cee-Lo was my song of the year and I think the worlds song of the year, telling everyone to scream out loud some nice little four letter words, this song however only managed number 7.

Angus & Julia Stone did deserve number one but after seeing them live I think I would prefer to just listen to their CD's at home in my bed. Well done to Little Red, love "Rock it", great song and an Aussie anthem in the making. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, sad year for the guys so good to see them do so well, a classy song too. Birds of Tokyo, yeah liked it when it came out now over it, Boy and Bear was a little disappointing cause it was a cover and "He Will Have His Way" is a one track wonder album (Boy & Bear - being that highlight).

6 Adrian Lux, love it! Cee-Lo Green already mentioned above, 8 The Wombats, could take em or leave em, Art Vs Science at 9, NOOOOOO loved them live, didn't love this tune. Mark Ronson - Somebody to Love me, Bang Bang Bang was the best song on his Record Collection album, not this one.

The remainder of the countdown, ABC News Theme Remix WTF, Rapunzel, LOVE Drapht SICK! SIA, Kanye and Duck Sauce, should all have been in the top 10 for sure!

Washington - Sunday Best should have been way higher! Dizzee Rascal & Florence and the Machine - You Got the Dirtee Love, should not have been in this countdown full stop. Darwin Deez is boring as bat shit.

Loving The Naked and Famous at the moment!

Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP, could have been higher, this is an anthem worldwide!

Example - Kickstarts, this was one of the only real surprises. Gypsy & the Cat did good this year. Kings of Leon suck now and don't deserve to be in the countdown.

Big Boi - Shutterbugg, party jam of 2010 for sure!

Evil Eddie - Queensland, deserved higher after the recent activities in QLD. Where was Kanye West - Power?

Muse @ 100 with Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever), not a great song, not a good band.

MIA - XXXO, number 101, great song should have been top 20!

Green Beats @ Camperdown w/ Itch-E and Scratch-E

I love to dance and it's been a while, so shaking my groove thing to Itch-E and Scratch-E at the Camperdown international bowling club was a dream.

Now the highlight of this was a woman wearing a t-shirt that had "I suck Cock for Satan" on it, and she was on a crutch. Loved it fully sick!

So Itch-E and Scratch-E have been awesome for years! They were fully sick yesterday too in the heat and at the bowls!

They played all the hits from their fab CD of last year, "Hooray for Everything". They started with the very racy "Other Planets" and contined through with "R.E.F.R.E.S.H", "Back 2 Jack" & the highlight being their classic "Sweetness & Light".

So the day was a celebration of all things Australian and you couldn't get more Australian than Green Beats with people all dancing to the one beat and feeling the love.

Happy 29th birthday to Peta Patricia Perkins too!

Green Beats and Itch-E and Scratch-E rates a big 4 stars!

The best Aussie albums of 2000-2009

1 - Powderfinger - Odessy Number 5 (2000)
2 - Missy Higgins - Sound of White (2004)
3 - The Presets - Apocalspyso (2008)
4 - Angus & Julia Stone - A Book Like This (2007)
5 - Silverchair - Diorama (2002)
6 - The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2001)
7 - John Butler Trio - Grand National (2007)
8 - Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night (2009)
9 - Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream (2008)
10 - Killing Heidi - Reflections (2000)
11 - Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2005)
12 - The Vines - Highly Evolved (2002)
13 - Jet - Get Born (2003)
14 - Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep (2005)
15 - Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine (2006)
16 - Hilltop Hoods - The Hard Road (2006)
17 - Sarah Blasko - What the Sea Wants The Sea Will Have (2006)
18 - Sneaky Sound System - Sneaky Sound System (2007)
19 - Temper Trap - Conditions (2009)
20 - Alex Lloyd - Watching Angels Mend (2001)
21 - Bernard Fanning - Tea & Symphony (2005)
22 - John Butler Trio - Sunrise over Sunset (2004)
23 - Powderfinger - Vulture Street (2003)
24 - John Butler Trio - Three (2001)
25 - George - Polysernea (2002)
26 - Eskimo Joe - A Song is a city (2004)
27 - Silverchair - Young Modern (2007)
28 - Hilltop Hoods - State of the Art (2009)
29 - Lisa Mitchell - Wonder (2009)
30 - The Whitlams - Love this City (2000)
31 - Pete Murray - Feeler (2003)
32 - Cat Empire - Two Shoes (2005)
33 - Living End - White Noise (2008)
34 - Pnau - Pnau (2009)
35 - Bliss N Eso - Flying Colours (2008)
36 - Josh Pyke - Memories & Dust (2007)
37 - Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls (2001)
38 - Goyte - Like Drawing Blood (2007)
39 - Kate Miller Heidke - Curiosuor (2009)
40 - The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High (2006)
41 - Missy Higgins - On a Clear Night (2007)
42 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (2008)
43 - Karnivool - Sound Awake (2009)
44 - The Panics - Cruel Guards (2009)
45 - Living End - Roll On (2000)
46 - Something For Kate - Echolahia (2001)
47 - Machine Gun Fellatio - Paging Mr Strike (2002)
48 - Spiderbait - Tonight Alright (2004)
49 - Cat Empire - Cat Empire (2004)
50 - Superjesus - Jet Age (2001)
51 - Paul Dempsey - Everything is True (2009)
52 - Little Birdy - BigBigLove (2004)
53 - Something for Kate - Offical Fiction (2003)
54 - Grinspoon - New Dentention (2002)
55 - Grinspoon - Thrills, Kills & Sunday Spills (2004)
56 - Faker - Be The Twilight (2008)
57 - Cat Empire - Too Many Nights (2007)
58 - Augie March - Moo You Bloody Choir (2006)
59 - Josh Pyke - Chimeys a Fire (2008)
60 - Gyroscope - Breed Obsession (2008)
61 - Birds of Tokyo - Universes (2008)
62 - The Waifs - Up all Night (2003)
63 - The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives (2004)
64 - Butterfly Effect - Imago (2006)
65 - Xavier Rudd - Food in the Belly (2006)
66 - Xavier Rudd - Solace (2004)
67 - Xavier Rudd - White Moth (2007)
68 - Grinspoon - Albisis & Other Lies (2007)
69 - Something for Kate - Dessert Lights (2006)
70 - Motor Ace - Shoot This (2002)
71 - 28 Days - UpStyleDown (2000)
72 - Kate Miller Heidke - Little Eve (2007)
73 - Powderfinger - Golden Mile (2009)
74 - Kisschasey - Hymns for the Non Believers (2007)
75 - Eskimo Joe - Inshalla (2009)
76 - Pete Murray - See the Sun (2005)
77 - Jet - Shine On (2006)
78 - Hilltop Hoods - The Hard Road Re-Strung (2007)
79 - The Whitlams - Torch the Moon (2002)
80 - Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones (2008)
81 - Urthboy - The Signal (2007)
82 - Grinspoon - Six to Midnight (2009)
83 - Waifs - Sun, Dirt, Water (2007)
84 - Urthboy - Spitshine (2009)
85 - Katie Noonan - Skin (2007)
86 - Paul Mac - 3000 Feet High (2001)
87 - Gerling - When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun (2001)
88 - Magic Dirt - What Are Rockstars Doing Today (2000)
89 - Sarah Blasko - The Overture & the Underscore (2004)
90 - End of Fashion - End of Fashion (2005)
91 - Jet - Shaka Rock (2009)
92 - Sneaky Sound System - 2 (2008)
93 - Powderfinger - Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (2007)
94 - Amiel – Audio Out (2003)
95 - Butterfly Effect - Final Conversation of Kings (2008)
96 - Little Birdy - Confetti (2009)
97 - Bertie Blackman - Secrets and Lies (2009)
98 - Waikiki - I'm Already Home (2002)
99 - The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers (2003)
100 - Bob Evans - Suburban Songbook (2006)

Hey so this year's birthday will be spent in....

Dallas, mother flipping Texas, stay tuned for my road to the States, starting real soon. I am also thinking of starting a BLOG based story "The Man with the tramp stamp" in vein of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, hmmmmmm so maybe that will start up soon.

Also Thursday I will publish the best 100 Aussie albums of the last decade 2000-2009, so check it out and comment let me know your thoughts.

Until then happy Australia Day for tomoz!