Shoutouts to a couple of bands

Well, they aren't the sort of shoutouts where I actually expect the bands in question to hear them. It's just that I've seen a few blogs and MSN taglines describing what they got up to yesterday or Thursday night, so I thought I'd follow suit.

Massive shoutout to Gyroscope. They completely rocked the Northcote last night, weren't afraid to get up close with the crowd, had lots of good singalongs and most importantly played like they were possessed by demons. Musical demons. Like the Robot Devil in Futurama. There were some wankers with rugby player necks playing the half-mosh, half-shove game at the front, but by the end, I conceded they'd done a good job in leading the chorus and amping up the dudes on stage. Special shoutout to the bass player's white-man afro. He's not quite got it to Wolfmother's lead singer's status yet, but it's outstanding nonetheless.

I love Gyroscope's songs so much right now (nearly every track off the new album), it's hard to remember back when I thought buying the album was a bit of a gamble.

Another shoutout to Hard-Fi. My first point of contact was Axwell's remix of Hard To Beat on the Ministry of Sound Annual 2006, which even I admit is a bit unusual for an indie rock band (although Rolling Stone magazine labeled them a cross between disco and ska?!?). I've been constantly listening to the song Cash Machine for about a week now and when I heard Living For The Weekend when I flicked to SYN FM first thing this morning, I just had to buy the album. Muy, muy impressando. Right after the first listen, I'm already calling it a big winner.