Monday, October 09, 2006
Bertie Blackman
Bertie Blackman c/o Kara Rosenlund (SMH)Sydney, Australia
I call it the Sufjan syndrome. An awesome artist that fails to capture your attention at the time when everyone else is raving about them. For some reason I shy away from these types until months later; then I realise how good they actually are. Bertie Blackman is one of those. After listening to Nirvana on the impossible music festival on Saturday, I was reflecting back on my teens wondering where all the grunge had gone. Well thanks Bertie, you've resurrected my love of happy pants and baggy hats - that's not to say I'll ever wear those clothes again, but given the recent spate of 80's fashion popping up everywhere; you never know - it might just be around the corner.
Bertie has just released her second LP Black and can be purchased here.
Mp3's from her website:
Labels: Bertie Blackman, Sydney
6 Comments:
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Anonymous, 11:34 am
Anonymous, 11:34 am
mmm i love bertie but i too am concerned she doesnt get sucked into the eleven records missy higgins cess pool of mediocrity
Yeah let's hope not... Very few artists can sit in the top 40's whilst still remaining cool. We will see... at the moment I'm loving it - in two months, who knows? I used to enjoy Missy Higgins....
That nirvana set was something else, no? It was so distractingly goosebump-good that I almost affected a pedestrian blood-bath on Bayswater Rd.
I want Happy Pants. Specifically the type that look like my dog has regurgitated some time in the last 24 hours. Ah, childhood.
Right. Bertie. Shall download. Shall stop talking crap.
I want Happy Pants. Specifically the type that look like my dog has regurgitated some time in the last 24 hours. Ah, childhood.
Right. Bertie. Shall download. Shall stop talking crap.
Man, I hear that Nirvana set every year on the J's... played at the pinnacle of their career. I think it captures everything that they were from the time.
I'll tell you what scares me though, when the Triple J announcer goes: "and that was from 1992, 14 years ago" Makes me feel old (although I was only 10 at the time - took me another year to begin to appreciate rock music)
I'll tell you what scares me though, when the Triple J announcer goes: "and that was from 1992, 14 years ago" Makes me feel old (although I was only 10 at the time - took me another year to begin to appreciate rock music)
did anyone hear the smashing pumpkins one. Man, I never liked them. . . til now.
strange.
strange.
Now she's decided to turn to a more popular sound.
But I guess a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Still a good album nonetheless.
And with a name like Bertie... you cant help but love her.