You little beauty!

I got my new camera this week. It’s a Fujifilm Finepix S5600, and I’d like to thank patrickg of the Blueberry Fool blog for recommending this camera to me. It was only A$ 429 from Digital Camera Warehouse including delivery and a 1GB memory card.

(To give you an idea of how much that is, I work in an office 3 days a week and get about $A 380 for that).

But a camera is no good if you don’t use it, so last night I recorded videoclips of 4 songs by Brisbane DIY music outfit Lightbulb: (click here for Lightbulb’s myspace page).

“I Had To Grow Up Before I Grew Down” is a song about finally seeing the end of a long, hard, lonely road, and it’s full of heart.

The two instrumental tracks are called ‘Sparrow‘ and ‘Blue Sky Realm‘.

And the last song is a happy, fun pastiche/homage to Bob Dylan’s music, called:

“Dylan Hoedown (I’m Just Chillin’ Like Bob Dylan)“.

If you like Lightbulb, you can visit the Lightbulb myspace page or listen to Lightbulb free on last.fm.

This is just the start of what I can do with this new camera, so let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see. Enjoy the music!

Yes, you read that title correctly. This post is letting you know about a great music website, called - guess what? - Brisbane Music. Obviously, they went to the same “Why be subtle” School Of Headline Writing that I did.

The site is pretty new, but the best thing about it is their Brisbane Music player. They already have 14 tracks from the following artists:

Sonic Porno: Just Like You, Waiting Around

Glasshouse: Take Tomorrow, One in Five (click here for a YouTube vid of them being interviewed for Raw Audio)

Divisions: For Moomin, I Don’t Want to Find You, Hope for Resolution (YouTube user Dspry has some vids)

Asa Broomhall: Driving Back to You, Dark Eyed Darling, Get to You (2 YouTube vids here)

The Rocketsmiths: Some Time of Mine, Worth It

Mary Trembles: Too Much 1 (2 YouTube vids here)

Intercooler: Carving Others (and one video on YouTube).

Winds and Brackets: That Tight

Go and check out the band interviews and news on Brisbane Music as well. And if you’ve got any other Brisbane websites you’d like to see featured on Brisbane Is Home, leave a comment and let me know.

Today’s music is from Brisbane band Repeat Offender.

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This clip, by YouTube user xmandaxx, is from the Smile or Die Christmas party at The Living Room (click here for map) on 16 December 2006.

Repeat Offender will appear on the Rock and Roll Cooking Show on Briz 31 TV (UHF-31) at 8.30pm on Thursday March 15th, and repeated at 10.30pm on Thursday March 17th (click here for the Brisbane is Home article about the R’n'RCS).

Do you make video clips of Brisbane bands? If you’ve got some reasonable quality clips you’d like to show off, leave a comment and let me know.

A few weeks ago, I plugged a gig in the Valley Mall, by Tim Steward, (myspace, or last.fm), who is also lead singer of Brisbane band Screamfeeder (last.fm). I tried taking photos and videos, but it was just too dark for my low-end digicam to pick up anything.

But Raw Audio, the Internet TV and Radio station for Brisbane bands, has got a better video camera than me, and they have 16 minutes of footage from the gig:

If you’d like to own the CD itself, you can buy ‘How Does It End’ at Amazon.com by clicking here. 

Screamfeeder’s last.fm page also has heaps of free tracks:

• Take You Apart is totally free to listen and download.
• Rocks on the Soul has 9 tracks that are free to listen.
• Home Age has two songs you can listen to for free.
• And Kitten Licks has 3 free songs.

You can also buy Screamfeeder’s music at Amazon.com, if you want - just click here.

Have you got any Brisbane bands you’d like to see featured on Brisbane Is Home? Do they have videos on the net, or music on last.fm? Leave a comment and let me know.

Iron Chef America look out! You are a pale imitation of the original, and there is no-one on your show who is completely out of touch with reality and wears insane brocade jackets eccentric.

The Rock and Roll Cooking Show, lets you relax with local bands while they play tunes and cook up a meal.

It’s on Briz-31 (UHF-31) tonight (Saturday) at 10.30pm.

And if you’re not in range, you can watch videos, listen to music and see recipes from the show at The Rock and Roll Cooking Show’s website.

Keep reading to find out more, and see video clips from the show.

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