And the full line up...

Here's how the rest of it pans out. Honestly, I have had a lot of time on my hands recently. And I am aware that no one gives a shit. Over.

Favourite Albums
1. Art Of Fighting – Second Storey [Trifekta]
2. 78 Saab – Crossed Lines [Ivy League]
3. Rocket Science – Eternal Holiday [Modular]
4. The Wagons – Draw Blood [Spunk!]
5. Audiophile – Notes And Errata [independent]
6. Dappled Cities Fly – A Smile [Smash Music]
7. Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males - Sing The Tabloid Blues [In-Fidelity]
8. The Sand Pebbles – Ghost Transmission [Raoul]
9. TZU - Position Correction [Liberation]
10. Dallas Crane – Dallas Crane [Albert Productions]
11. Oneironaut – Pure Through Evolution [Low Transit Industries]
12. Decoder Ring – Somersault OST [EMI]
13. Grey Daturas – Long Dark Night [Crashing Jets]
14. New Buffalo – The Last Beautiful Day [Dot Dash]

Favourite Songs
1. Alex Jarvis – Seconds [Luxury & Denial EP: Pharmacy Records]
2. The Casinos – City Lights [City Lights EP/7”: Low Transit Industries]
3. Dr Invisiablo – Pop Song [demo: independent]
4. Wolf & Cub – Spirals [Wolf & Cub EP: Dot Dash]
5. Tobias Cummings – Your Eyes [You Incomplete Me EP: In-Fidelity]
6. The Rumours – If I Could See You [We Are Happy LP: Cavalier]
7. My Disco – In Figures Of Speech [Language Of Numbers EP: Crashing Jets]
8. The Morning After Girls – Chasing Us Under [2 EP: Fly Music]
9. The Grates – Trampoline [The Ouch The Touch EP: Dew Process]
10. New Buffalo – Recovery [The Last Beautiful Day LP: Dot Dash]
11. The Spazzys – Zatopeks [Aloha! Go Bananas LP: Fur Records]
12. Gyroscope - Midnight Express [Sound Shattering Sound: Mushroom]
13. Love Of Diagrams – In The Red [We Got Communication EP: Unstable Ape]
14. Sinking Citizenship – Last Minute Intervention [Broadcasting Germs: UXB]
15. The Fragments – You Saw Me Fall [single: independent]
16. Faker – Quarter To Three [Addicted Romantic LP: Inertia]
17. The Crayon Fields – Do It First [The Good Life EP: Cavalier]
18. Presets – Cookie [Blow Out EP: Modular]
19. Infusion - The Careless Kind [Six Feet Above Yesterday LP: Audioriot]
20. Intercooler - If I Try [Dance Of A Thousand Promises EP: Reverberation]
21. Darren Hanlon – The Unmade Bed [Little Chills LP: Candle]

NB: I made a point of trying not to include bands that featured on the albums list, for broadcast purposes. Lots of those albums have multiple songs that would have dominated the songs list. So there.

Favourite Live Bands
The Casinos
The Blacklist
Midnight Juggernauts
Rocket Science
Bird Blobs
The Drones
Wolf & Cub
78 Saab
The Wagons
Colditz Glider
Remake Remodel
My Disco
Kicks
Dirty Three
Deep Where All Drown

That's about it. I have a couple of favourite gigs, but simply, I love seeing bands, so it's kind of like splitting hairs. Thanks for getting this far - and have a great Christmas. Might see you at Mistletoe at Ding Dong this Christmas night.

2004: A Tyranny Of Distance Vanity Project

Today I present my favourites of 2004. It's also APRA week, so my sub bands get a look in too. Here is the projected line up - a playlist, if you will:

Two Thousand Mavericks – Hey Captain [single: independent] (subscriber band)

Favourite LPS
Decoder Ring – Somersault OST [Inertia] Snowflake
Oneironaut – Pure Through Evolution [Low Transit Industries] Flown Away
Dallas Crane – Dallas Crane [Albert Productions] Wrong Party
The Sand Pebbles – Ghost Transmission [Raoul] The Day Summer Fell
Dappled Cities Fly – A Smile [Smash Music] Corpus Kinaesthesia
Audiophile – Notes And Errants [unsigned] Untitled
The Wagons – Draw Blood [Spunk!] This Is What Death Looks Like
Rocket Science – Eternal Holiday [Modular] See The Sun
78 Saab – Crossed Lines [Ivy League] Beat Of Your Drum
Art Of Fighting – Second Storey [Trifekta] Along The Run (subscriber band)

The Crayon Fields - Do It First [The Good Life EP: Cavalier]

Favourite Songs
New Buffalo – Recovery [The Last Beautiful Day LP: Dot Dash]
The Grates – Trampoline [The Ouch The Touch EP: Dew Process]
The Morning After Girls – Chasing Us Under [2 EP: Fly Music]
My Disco – In Figures Of Speech [Language Of Numbers EP: Crashing Jets]
The Rumours – If I Could See You [We Are Happy LP: Cavalier]
Tobias Cummings – Don't You Know? [You Incomplete Me EP: In-Fidelity Recordings]
Wolf & Cub – Spirals [Wolf & Cub EP: Dot Dash]
Dr Invisiablo – Pop Song [demo: independent]
The Casinos – City Lights [City Lights EP/7”: Low Transit Industries]
Alex Jarvis – Seconds [Luxury & Denial EP: Pharmacy Records]

Sinking Citizenship - Last Minute Intervention [Broadcasting Germs LP: UXB Recordings]
Love Of Diagrams - In The Red [We Got Communication EP: Unstable Ape Records]
Fire Underground - Just Do It [Chase Scene EP: independent] (subscriber band)

Playlist

Todd Sparrow: Enough About Me (What Do You Think About Me?) (Here's To The Start Of Something Beautiful LP)
The Crayon Fields: Do It First ( The Good Life EP)
Royalchord: Through The Trees (Through The Trees EP)
The Gin Club: Wylde Bitch (The Gin Club LP)
The Spoils: Come Down (Goodnight Victoria forthcoming LP)
The Spoils: Warmington St (Goodnight Victoria forthcoming LP)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Breathless (Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus LP)
Tobias Cummings: Your Eyes (You Incomplete Me EP)
The Morning After Girls: Always Mine (2 EP)
Gaslight Radio: One Kid
Oh! Belgium: Cold Cold Kiss (7")
The Grates: Sukkafish (The Ouch The Touch forthcoming LP)
Night Hour: The Doldrums (single)
Night Hour: Maths & Magic (The Doldrums single)
The Raylenes: Never Play The Dane
The Fragments: Go Back (Obvious single)
After The Fall: You + Me = Breakdown (After The Fall LP)
The Scare: Stop! (Masochist Mimes EP)
Regurgitator: I Was Sent By God To Get You Off (Mish Mash LP)
Barrage: Marceline (SBS Whatever Sessions 2 compilation)
The Head: Onimba (demo)
Chasm featuring Mantra: Metamorphed Tongues (Chasm EP)
TZU: The Horse You Rode In On (Position Correction LP)
Cut Copy: Saturdays (Bright Like Neon Love LP)

Thanks to Sean of the Spoils and Josh of Night Hour for guest appearances as well. Kudos guys...

Gig Guide

TUESDAY DECEMBER 14
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow
Matt Handley @ Green Room
Ned Colette (CityCityCity) + The Sea Peoples @ Old Bar

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15
Faker + Riff Random @ Ding Dong

THURSDAY DECEMBER 16
Faker + The Bites @ The Espy
The Fray CD launch @ The Evelyn
The Casinos CD launch @ Shake Some Action, 161
Osterberg + Jape Squad @ The Tote
My Disco + Die Die Die @ Ding Dong

FRIDAY DECEMBER 17
Sojourn + The Hampdens + Night Hour @ Revolver
Tranquilizers + The Glass Age + Talk Show Boy @ Rob Roy
The Fragments @ Pony 2am
New Here Now Christmas show w/ Those Bloody McKennas + The Raylenes + Sophie Koh + Emma Heeney + Surrogate Turnip @ The Empress
After The Fall + Wishful Thinking + Tiltmeter + Behind Crimson Eyes + Porkers + Mesablanka @ Mooroolbark Community Centre (Freeza) $10

SATURDAY DECEMBER 18
Bird Blobs @ The Tote
A Ghost Devotion + The Beings + Night Hour @ Duke Of Windsor
Gaslight Radio + The Fragments + Alex Jarvis @ The Rob Roy
Whatever Sessions 2 launch w/ The Emergency + Sparrow Hill + ii + Artifishal Limb + The Rich @ The Empress
Bird Blobs CD launch @ The Tote
Regurgitator + Wolfmother + Macromantics + Dr El Suavo + Lucas Abela @ HiFi

SUNDAY DECEMBER 19
Dynamo + British India @ POW
Regurgitator + Ponyloaf + Pre Teen Braves + The Grates @ Corner
TZU @ St Jeromes
The Spoils @ Town Hall
Cut Copy @ Honkytonks

Live Music Week

No playlist as such this week, just lots of live music from the Midnight Juggernauts, Gelbison and Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males - who were the only ones fresh as a daisy. Put the rest of us to shame. Thanks heaps to those boys, and also to the guys from Faker, we all needed more sleep this morning.

Thanks also to all the good people that rang in to pledge and pay - we are grateful for everything, it is all much needed and much appreciated. Thanks to all our supporters!

Live Muic Week continues till Friday so keep those donations and subscriptions coming in... and keep listening!

Next week on Tyranny Of Distance, Josh Pyke of Night Hour will be calling about his new single 'The Doldrums' and I'm hoping to have a chat to Ben Lee, and maybe Regurgitator. Fingers crossed.

GIG GUIDE

TUESDAY DECEMBER 7
Ash Naylor @ Rainbow
Faker + CityCityCity + Tranquilisers @ Tote
PBS Festival Of Song Grand Final @ The Corner

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8
New Buffalo @ Gertrudes
Tobias Cummings & The Long Way Home @ Ding Dong
Fire Underground + The Harvest + The Penelope Project @ Kashmir

THURSDAY DECEMBER 9
Art Of Fighting @ Famous Spiegeltent
Wolfmother + Wolf & Cub + Die Die Die @ 161
Joni Lightning + The Hovercrafts @ Ding Dong

FRIDAY DECEMBER 10
22-20s + Dan Brodie @ HiFi Bar
Wolfmother @ Ding Dong
Jape Squad @ Pony 2am
Two Thousand Mavericks @ The Rob Roy

SATURDAY DECEMBER 11
Ben Lee + Laura Jean @ Ding Dong

SUNDAY DECEMBER 12
Spazzys @ St Jeromes
The Wagons @ The Marquis Of Lorne

MONDAY DECEMBER 13
Tex Perkins @ The Famous Spiegeltent

And not forgetting the massive line up at Meredith Music Festival December 10-12, featuring the following Aussie bands:
Dirty Three; Dexter & Shook Daily Crew; Rocket Science; Spiderbait; Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males; Red Eyes; Wolfmother; Dallas Crane; Hilltop Hoods; My Disco; Xavier Rudd; CW Stoneking; True Live; Dynamo; Ground Components; 67 Special; Wolf & Cub; Always; The Redsunband; Die Die Die; Digger & The Pussycats

See you there (if I am not blind)!

This week...

Aside from anticipated live sets from Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males and Midnight Juggernauts; Faker - the Sydney quintet behind that great track Quarter To Three - will be in for a chat. Talk then...

And just added, a live set from Sydney's Gelbison!! Listen in!