hiya all.
So most moving stuff is over, the internet is back on, and I’ve been to a concert! 
I went to Xavier Rudd’s Dark Shades of Blue album release worldwide tour thing last night. It was amazing!
His support act was Dallas Frasca, who is a fairly hardcore, but totally cool girl. With pink/red dreads. My favourite song of hers is Got Me Goin’. Which is just totally.. cool. Words can’t describe really. You should check out her myspace.
So then comes on Xavier. With his song Dark Shades of Blue (I love the lyrics. They’re… poetic or something) and some songs from White Moth, then one of my faves off his new album – Edge of the Moon. It’s a totally like, sway your arms along, get totally rapt by the lyrics, and scream along with the chorus song. Well, that’s what happened anyways.
Oh. If you don’t know Xavier Rudd’s stuff, it’s like, aboriginal meets dance and rock 
– He plays didgeridoo, guitar, and stompbox and other various percussion things, and sings all inthe one song, while his drummer goes nuts with solos.
So I really love Xavier’s new album, it’s more rocky, but has a few quieter songs, and even a femail vocalist or two! (I’m not sure which song that is, but it’s another favourite.)
My favourite Xavier album (of the ones I’ve heard) is Solace. It has some amazing songs like Let Me Be, Green Spandex, and a personal fave (I even learnt it!) – Partnerships.
Onto Hey Big Aki.
I recently discovered them – I think due to a Vitamin Records newsletter or maybe it was unearthed. But it was a big day of discoveringness.
Hey Big Aki are a chilled out, guitar/ukulele band, they sound a bit like Sigur Ros/Elliot Smith. They’re nice to sit down and have a cold drink in the sun to Smith is the best song of theirs that I’ve heard – on my like-o-meter anyway.
Another person I’m RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREALLY really into atm is Damien Rice.
He’s Irish. He’s amazing. He’s more amazing.
He has a more quiet/slow/sad style, with um predominant vocals. There’s lots of cello, and girl vox too.
9 Crimes, of his latest album 9 is pretty popular – it was in Shrek the 3rd, but his stuff is in the soundtracks for a few other movies like Dear Frankie (what a good movie!) - It was topped off with Damien’s Delicate, a rather well known song off O, and Closer features a song or two and there are other things I can’t be bothered to name. My point is, there is a great possibility you’ve heard him somewhere or another.
If I had to say which songs I’d listen to, it’d probably be 9 Crimes, the Blowers Daughter, and Elephant. Or his myspace
His album 9 has a bit more hardcoreness though – like, Rootless Tree gets rocky… but I don’t know that album very well, so I can’t say what else. 
Well that wraps it up from me.
have a nice day full of musical wonders ah well. Catchya.
