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The Black Keys "Have Love Will Travel" Live in Sydney 2008

brucini — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:45:28 +0000

Told you I’d bring you more live video I recorded from this years Sydney gig on 21 June at the Manning Bar, Sydney University.

This was the last song of the night. Note the time on the clock on the wall behind the boys about to tick over to 1am. Awesome to see them still cranking so hard at such an hour considering this was their second gig of the day at the same venue. Enjoy!

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Dan Auerbach vs Himself

brucini — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:13:45 +0000

Ahh Dan, would be grand to catch up with you some time and we can sit on a porch and I can whittle a stick and you can strum ya guitar and mumble a tune while the sun slowly sets.

A few people commented when I posted the “I’m Glad” live footage I recorded at the recent Sydney gig that Dan was using his Gibson SG again. So for you here’s a few photos of Dan in action from the gig I took with the aforementioned axe.

Kind of looks in some of the shots that Dan is playing with a blazing sun setting on him. Or rather, simply, the shots psychedelic distortion make up for the poor camera quality. Whatever the case as Dan rocks and thrashes himself into a type of trance you can only hope you could feel the music as he does.

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Review: Black Keys gig, Sydney, 21 June 2008

brucini — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:47:29 +0000

Sometimes when you have been looking forward to something for so long the event sneaks up on you and then even though you’ve had so much time to ready yourself you are rushing at the last moment. So it was before this gig. I gave up trying to get an interview with the band in the days before (not that I tried that hard) and maybe posting my questions beforehand might have freaked the boys out – or at least their Management.

Many months ago I had accidentally bought online 6 tickets to the show rather than 4. This meant I was organising others who might want a ticket. All was well until my friend Sorcha had the unfortunate problem of her car breaking down the day before the show, more so cause she lives 1.5 hours from Sydney. So after posting on the Black Keys forum for someone who might want the ticket 8 hours before the show (no one called), I was left holding an extra ticket I couldn’t sell. Surprisingly, no one was standing out front of the venue looking for one. Nevertheless, I wasn’t too bothered – I had paid for the tickets so long ago and I was where I wanted to be and I knew Sorcha would have loved to have been there too if she could.

Si, Junior, Ra, AG and myself got along to the gig at the Manning Bar, Sydney University at about 9.30pm. We were soon to find out the Black Keys weren’t coming on stage until 11.30pm. It was surely one of the latest start times I’ve ever experienced in this age of noise restrictions and early closing times since I saw The Tea Party at the Monash University Caulfield Campus back in the mid-1990s when they did 3 encores and the show finished sometime after 1.30am.

I thought one of the support acts the Dolly Rocker Movement had some interesting sounds going on but clearly the crowd was waiting for one band only. We took a position to the left hand side of the stage which gave good viewing and saved us from the Uni-crowd elbows and beer-spill of the main floor. After only one encore (the boys had after all played an afternoon gig the same day and it was now 1am) the show closed.

I’ll be posting videos (including a live version of “I’m Glad”), photos, merchandise, and thoughts about the gig in the coming weeks. Stay tuned…

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