longtimeman

The Queen of Melbourne, Romy Vager, and her group RVG.

It's hard to believe this is the entirety of what we got out of the tenth anniversary of UV.

The forgotten Ultraviolence track

Thank you Elle! I've had the Pink OB theme for so long (because I love it), but the new Peyote one will make a wonderful switch up!

I think it was to do with release day schedules or something. From memory, the first places that it was available in the world were in New Zealand and Australia on 13 June, which was actually 12 June in the US. My copy was in my PO Box at 9am on the 13th (I only ordered it to get the bonus postcards, otherwise I would have gone to buy it in person). It leaked widely a day or two earlier.

glass ship incoming

It seemed rude to say "Here's some random guy ..."

Trust a music conference to not know how to mic a guitar.

oh brother ...

This reminds me of when you go to a Church for a wedding, and the Priest goes on an hour long tirade because he knows he's got a captive audience.

Just when you think he's run out of room on his Powerpoint page ...

You know what you have to do ...

'Change the setlist' has become the new 'Come to Brazil'. By which I mean, it doesn't matter how much you care about it, if you say it at every opportunity it starts to get boring as hell.

Just rewatching some of what I missed live, and she cuts out the 'But I can't' line in Tunnel, while smiling at the crowd!

Has she sung along to the A&W part before?

She is feeeeeeling these lyrics

I don't want to speak too soon, but the vocal mix sounds spot on.

Thank God someone's asking Lana the questions we all want answered.

It says 'Junior Firefighter' at the top. She's covering the bottom half with the logo and the rest of what it says (although 'City' is clear).

It looks like the AI robots aren't quite ready to take over

I've talked a lot of shit about the Daily Mail in the past, but this is a definite win for them.

I'm happy that there will never be a video for A&W, because it's such a vivid song (both musically and lyrically), any actual visuals for it would trivialise it.

I literally lol'd at the comment 'Is this real?'

Jeff Tweedy (one of the main guys from Uncle Tupelo, the band who just about defined alternative country as a genre) and Bleachers covering Margaret. I never thought I'd see the day, and this is one step towards all the disparate threads of my life becoming one. Edit to add - I didn't realise Jeff had mentioned Lana in the past!