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The Bedroom Philosopher
Justin Heazlewood (born 1980), the Bedroom Philosopher, is an Australian author, songwriter and performer. He has released several albums of musical comedy, toured Australia extensively, been nominated for an ARIA Award and published books about his experiences in the entertainment industry. Recording career 2002–2005 ''Living on the Edge of My Bed'' The Bedroom Philosopher began in 2002, Heazlewood submitted a three-minute radio piece for the ABC Heywire competition about his passion for folk music, which led to him becoming a regular guest on Triple J's ''The Morning Show''. He also filmed two pilot episodes of ''The Bedroom Philosopher Show'' for ABC Fly TV, a now defunct digital youth television station. He also secured his first major musical gig, playing support for Bodyjar and The Bumblebeez at Triple J's Unearthed concert later that year. The Bedroom Philosopher has performed in past years at the Big Day Out, Falls Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnie, Tasmania
Burnie ( ; Aboriginal Tasmanians#North, pirinilaplu/palawa kani: ''Pataway'') is a port city located on the North West Tasmania, north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the fourth largest city on the island, located approximately north-west of the state capital of Hobart, north-west of Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston, and west of Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport. Founded in 1827 as Emu Bay, the township was renamed in the early 1840s after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, and proclaimed a city by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 April 1988. As of the , Burnie has a population of 19,918, with a municipality area spanning , administered by the City of Burnie. Burnie's economy has historically been driven by heavy manufacturing, mining, forestry, and farming. Situated on the coastline of Emu Bay (Tasmanian geographic feature), Emu Bay, the city’s fortunes are closely tied to its deep water port. An intermodal freight transport facility, the Port of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth International Arts Festival
Perth Festival, named Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) between 2000 and 2017, and sometimes referred to as the Festival of Perth, is Australia's longest-running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features contemporary and classical music, dance, theatre, performance, literature and ideas, visual arts, large-scale public works. The main events of the festival take place every year, from February to March and the film program now known as Lotterywest Films runs from November to April, as part of the Perth Festival. Perth Festival takes place and various indoor and outdoor venues across Perth. The festival is run by UWA in partnership with the state government and the Perth City Council. From 2004, the Festival carried Lotterywest branding, and Lotterywest was acknowledged as the Festival's "principal partner". The artistic director for 2020 to 2023 is Iain Grandage. History The festival was created in 1953 by the University of Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcote (So Hungover)
"Northcote (So Hungover)" is a song by Australian musical comedian The Bedroom Philosopher released in February 2010 and is taken from the ARIA-nominated album '' Songs from the 86 Tram''. It was a notable radio hit on national broadcaster Triple J and its film clip, directed by Craig Melville and produced by David Curry, received over 500,000 views on YouTube. The song featured in the following year's Triple J Hottest 100 and charted at 12 on the Australian independent charts. Personnel * Justin Heazlewood Justin Heazlewood (born 1980), the Bedroom Philosopher, is an Australian author, songwriter and performer. He has released several albums of musical comedy, toured Australia extensively, been nominated for an ARIA Awards, ARIA Award and publis ... – vocals and acoustic guitar * Andy Hazel – bass and backing vocals * Gordon Blake – electric guitar and backing vocals * Hugh Rabinovici – drums Awards *Australian Directors Guild Award - Best Music Video *Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Safran's Race Relations
''John Safran's Race Relations'' is an Australian comedy documentary television series by John Safran broadcast on ABC1 in 2009. The eight-part series is about cross-cultural, interracial and interfaith love. His globetrotting takes him to Palestine, the Philippines, Togo, Japan, Thailand, UK, Israel, Netherlands, the United States. Episodes Episode 1 Episode 1 saw Safran travelling to Israel where his Palestinian boom mic operator made a donation to a sperm bank, then to the West Bank where a donation to a clinic was made by John, in an attempt to make half Jewish half Palestinian children – a "Jalestinian" Noting that he has dated three Eurasian women, Safran conducts an experiment by stealing and smelling the underwear of five Jewish and five Eurasian women (including Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls and actress Dichen Lachman) to see which he "prefers". Episode 2 Inspired by the 1961 book Black Like Me, Safran travels the streets of Chicago after undergoing m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN (TV station), ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every Australian states and territories, state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC Radio and Regional Content, ABC radio and ABC Online, online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Room Awards
The Green Room Awards are Australian peer awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, theatre companies, independent theatre, musical theatre, contemporary and experimental performance, and opera. The awards, which were established in 1982, are based in Melbourne, Victoria. History The Green Room Awards were established in 1982 by a group of theatre people, with the inaugural awards ceremony held in 1983. Blair Edgar and Steven Tandy formed the Green Room Awards Association. The Association's 40th awards ceremony, took place at Melbourne's Capitol Theatre to a sell-out audience on 29 May 2023. Description Association The Green Room Awards Association is composed of members of Melbourne's performing arts community, including journalists, performers, writers, directors, choreographers, academics, theatre technicians and administrators. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria. Awards The Green Room Awards recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, theatre companies, indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs From The 86 Tram
''Songs from the 86 Tram'' is the third full-length album by the ARIA nominated Australian musical comedian The Bedroom Philosopher, the performing persona of Justin Heazlewood. It is the soundtrack to his award-winning live comedy show. The album marks his first release on an established record label, Shock Records, and the first recording with his backing band, The Awkwardstra. Themes The album is notable for its theme; narrating the lives of passengers on board a Melbourne tram, navigating the Route 86, from Bundoora to Docklands via Northcote, Collingwood and through the Melbourne CBD. Heazlewood describes the album as an exercise in character exploration: ''In comedy, bogans get made fun of all the time, and old people and junkies are all easy targets. I was interested in taking on demographics that are rarely satirised in any way.'' Noting a lack of art, new media or otherwise, exploring modern Australian identity or actively countering international cultural influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Lubran
Hunters & Collectors are an Australian rock band from Melbourne, formed in 1981. Fronted by founding member, singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour, the band's other mainstays are John Archer on bass guitar and Doug Falconer on drums and percussion. Soon after forming they were joined by Jack Howard on trumpet and keyboards, Jeremy Smith on French horn, guitars and keyboards, and Michael Waters on trombone and keyboards. Also acknowledged as a founder was audio engineer and art designer Robert Miles. Joining in 1988, Barry Palmer, on lead guitar, remained until they disbanded in 1998. The group reformed in 2013 with the 1998 line-up. Originally influenced by krautrock and the productions of Conny Plank, Hunters & Collectors' early music featured abrasive percussion, noisy guitar, and driving bass lines, producing a tribal post-punk sound exemplified by their debut single, "Talking to a Stranger" (1982). The band recruited Plank to produce two of their early albums, ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown And Orange
''Brown & Orange'' is an album by the Australian folk comedian The Bedroom Philosopher (Justin Heazlewood) released in February 2009. It was produced by Chris Scallan, Martin "Moose" Lubran and Ken Heazlewood. It is the second album by The Bedroom Philosopher, following '' In Bed with My Doona'' in 2005, which contained his radio hit " I'm So Post Modern", the most popular independently released Australian single in 2005, reaching number 72 in the following year's Triple J Hottest 100. The music video for the album's second single, " Wow Wow's Song", acquired 20,000 plays on YouTube within its first five days of release and garnered many impressive statistics in Australia, New Zealand and globally. Concerts performed in 2008 as The Bedroom Philosopher and His Awkwardstra premiered many of the songs on the album. Personnel * Justin Heazlewood - vocals, guitar * Martin "Moose" Lubran - keyboards, guitar, percussion, vibraphone * Haydn Meggit - drums * John Maddox - double bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripod (band)
Tripod are an Australian musical comedy trio founded by Scod (Scott Edgar), Yon (Simon Hall) and Gatesy (Steven Gates) in 1996. They provide original songs and harmonies, strung together by comic banter. History Live shows Tripod began as buskers in Melbourne malls, performing a far-fetched prop act of which no record exists. They emerged as a musical act from the thriving Melbourne live music pub scene of the mid nineties, supporting popular local cover bands in such places as the Station Hotel, The Esplanade, the Central Club, the New Orleans Tavern and the Ritz, St Kilda. They were very much a cover band at first, performing three part harmony versions on hits by the likes of Elvis Costello, Bowie, the Beach Boys and Queen. They garnered a local following via regular residencies at the Commercial Hotel, Yarraville, just after it stopped being a biker bar. They soon became regulars at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Collingwood, a Melbourne comedy venue, where they honed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple J Hottest 100, 2005
The 2005 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2006. It was the thirteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. The broadcast began at 10am AEDT and finished a little before 7pm when the top song was announced. Broadcast live from the Sydney Big Day Out from 12pm AEDT, it regularly crossed to winning artists and listeners around Australia. Voters were limited to 20 votes each – 10 via SMS (charged at 30c per message) and 10 via the Internet (at no charge). Wolfmother had the most entries in the countdown with six, at that point the most by an artist in a single countdown. Their record was not equalled until the 2022 countdown 17 years later, by Spacey Jane, and was not surpassed until the following 2023 countdown, by G Flip. Full list Artists with multiple entries Countries Represented Notes * Bernard Fanning set a new record as the only artist to win the Hottest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Bed With My Doona
''In Bed With My Doona'' is the second album by Australian comedian/musician The Bedroom Philosopher and is a reference to the Madonna film '' Madonna: Truth or Dare'' which was known in some countries as ''In Bed with Madonna''. It was released on Nan and Pop Records in 2005 (see 2005 in music). The release was taken strongly by Triple J's audience, with the first single "I'm So Postmodern" reaching number 72 in the Hottest 100. Follow-up singles included "Folkstar" and "Golden Gaytime", a song about the ice cream bar of the same name. The first 100 copies contain Track 16, "Special Features", which is a live track recorded at Mic in Hand comedy night, Friend in Hand Hotel, Sydney September 2004. An additional 100 copies featured a special ‘coloured barcode’ but no live track, and were produced for the regional tour of Western Australia supporting Australian folk comedy trio Tripod. Track listing # Love Theme From Centrelink # Golden Gaytime # Megan The Vegan # I'm So Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
