This is MP3Monster's blog. The blog covers music, technology, photography and anything else Monster considers worthy of blogging about.Oz Music
Posted by monster in General
When I travel, I like to hear local sounds, and have to visit a record shops to pickup some decent local tunes. In Oz they really do a good job of promoting music, and local artists in an unadulterated way. On the radio there is Triple J (funded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) who dont waste hours of time blathering on like Chris Moyles or Terry Wogan, there is chat but a lot more music without falling back to the over hyped boy and girl bands or the safest of safe choices; I mean Wolfmother got an interview during peaktime breakfast show. The musc is pretty varied within a show as well - no fear of going from Lily Allen to Nine Inch Nails to Nouvelle Vague doing an acoustic cover of the Sex Pistols God Save The Queen.
Then rather than having songs editted, cut or bleebed for language, the DJ will quickly warn of language, and let the song go.
The really surprising thing is despite the promotion of local bands, the amount of British music played is amazing, Lily Allen, The Prodigy, Coldplay and the list goes on.
Travelling Alone
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The toughest time when travelling alone, is the evenings, particularly when your evening is when your colleagues start working as you inevitably get caught up with work, so by the time you’re done it is too late to do a lot.
Australian & iPods
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Well I’m out in Australia for several weeks on assignment for my employer, which is why my blogging has been fairly quiet as I’ve had to try and prepare for the trip, plus address my usual work load.
The attitude towards ipods seems to be very different here in Australia compared to the UK is very different. In the UK it is generally held that you don’t flash your ipod and best to swap those white ear buds for generic looking headphones (I changed mine although not to generics, but nice Sennheisers). Over here though everyone seems to have an ipod or a clone, and the white buds are de-rigeur and you walk around with the pod in your hand unless your on the mobile.
