Name: !!!
Genre: Indie
Day: Saturday

Wikipedia sez: “!!! (often pronounced as chk chk chk) is an American band that formed in fall 1996 from the former bandmembers of The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers. After a successful tour together, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers decided to mix the former’s disco and funk style with the latter’s noisy aggressiveness, and !!! was born.”

Before today I had never listened to !!! before, and after listening to them I’m uncertain I want to hear more. They are odd to listen to, mainly because it’s combination of half-indie rock, half-experimentation, and the experimentation seems to overpower the indie sounds for the most part. I do want to listen to more tho so I can form a proper opinion.

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: Uncertain

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I’ve been pretty horrible on the update front since I’ve returned from the Gold Coast. Sure I’ve had stuff to write about, but I haven’t got around to it, mainly due to a mixture of work being a bit insane and a lack of free time at night given my fixture of exercise, eating and sleeping.

Fortunately for me, this has slowed down a bit this week which will mean the return of regular rants about television from myself amongst other things. With the Melbourne International Comedy Festival coming up, I’ll be previewing and reviewing several acts I’m seeing, ranging from your standard stand-up comedy shows to your arty-farty story based comedy acts. I always manage to see one act that I can’t get enough of at the Comedy Festival and this year will be no different, I imagine.

I’ll also be starting something that will be called A Coachella Alphabet, looking at each announced act from A to Z. Why would I spend so much time doing this? Because I’m going, of course. Lock it in Eddie, I will be in the desert with 50,000 other insane people listening to some of the better musicians from earth dishing it out, and I can’t wait.

April is going to be one loaded month. Only twenty-five days ’til it begins.