Patrick Carney vs Animal from the Muppets

Here’s a few photos of Pat in action from the gig in Sydney on 21 June.  I like the progression of the blur showing an increasing frenzy of movement.  To see the intensity of his drumming not wavering after an 1.5 hours of playing is really inspiring, so committed, with great unintentional drummer gurning (face [...]

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Latest funny Triple J Radio Black Keys interview

This interview was done on 20 June, a day before the Sydney “double header” concert. It’s a good listen with the boys off on a tangent as usual. They talk amusingly about their training for the 2 shows in one day in Sydney (see my other posts and footage about this gig below). They name [...]

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The Black Keys “I’m Glad” Live in Sydney

Apologies for the thrushy sound near the end, the boys were just rockin’ out too loud for my poor recording equipment (read: camera). For me this track was a highlight of the show. This is of course a Captain Beefheart cover which they also released as a free mp3 via their Myspace page a while [...]

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Review: Black Keys gig, Sydney, 21 June 2008

Sometimes when you have been looking forward to something for so long the event sneaks up on you and then even though you’ve had so much time to ready yourself you are rushing at the last moment. So it was before this gig. I gave up trying to get an interview with the band in [...]

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The weird Black Keys interviews continue…

This video interview recently appeared on Pitchfork.tv . I tells ya the boys just seem to have the strange interview where no one talks about their music down to a fine art. Well, I guess they do some where they talk about chord progressions but for some reason when it’s just them talking about goofy [...]

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