LeighStarDust

So after months of saying ‘oh, we’re just organising this thing…’ and months of LeighStarDust being annoying and painful to her nearest and dearest friends and business associates…..

The CD Launch Has Arrived.

Now all we need is for the last three practices to fall into place, LeighStarDust to find that elusive yellow cardboard and the CDs to return from their journey to pressing land. Let’s all hold hands and wish hard, and everything will be just fine.

Make sure you cease wishing and hop in the car so that you can join us at the Jade Monkey on Saturday, March 3rd from 9pm. You’ll be very sorry if you miss Brunatex and Emergency Crank Radio, and even more sorry when LeighStarDust hits you for missing the Heart Suite, who have been practicising at all sorts of odd hours and under all sorts of strange conditions.

Feel free to send good karma, best wishes and bags of salt n vinegar chips LeighStarDust’s way in the next week…

xo leighstardust

He he he. I’m so good with the thinking up funny titles thing. I should get some award or something. It could be called the “Naming Stuff In A Heaps Funny Way” award, or the “Ianto Ware Award For People Who Have A Much Better Grasp Of The English Language Than He Does” award. He he he.

So last night Mr D very very kindly took me to a huuuuge concert. Being Adelaide, there were obviously several really huge concerts on all over the city, but the one we chose involved U2 and Kanye West. It was AWWWWWWESOME. I had a really good time. We caught a bus with thousands of people and lined up with thousands of people, and I was wondering whether I might start getting a bit narky with the audience, but amazingly I didn’t! I’m sure you’ve all read my ‘theory’ on how concerts should be organised into standing sections based on people’s heights and level of involvment in the music industry. If I was any kind of proper blogger I’d know which post that was and link it and all that. I think I may have mentioned it in the Emiliana Torrini story.

Anyway, I was a bit disappointed that not many people felt the need to shake their bootys or even CLAP for Kanye West. Come on, people of Adelaide! He was trying really hard! He made a funny rhyme about pre-nuptial agreements! He had a bored-looking booty dancer wearing white lycra! He’d employed some of our local string players from the Elder Conservatorium and given them some grouse eyemake up! He encouraged everyone who had a dream to ‘touch the sky’! Yeah! I’m with you Kanye, and I was dancing and willing to testify, I came up in the spot lookin’ extra fly. And so did Denni and Wizard. Sita did too, but she’s very famous so that’s why she did.

Does anyone else think that maybe Kanye was mixed a bit funny so that in comparison, U2 sounded way awesome? His voice was bouncing off everything, where as with U2 Bono’s voice was clear and singular as a bell. Hmmm.
People seemed to get their clapping gear out for U2 though, so that was good. You’d think they’d just come to see them or something. U2 really did deserve a big clap though, they were great! They had huge jumbo vision screen things with very entertaining video, the sound was great and there were lots of cool sing alongs. There were lots of very political moments and lots of moments encouraging love and oneness, and it was fun to watch us cynical and slightly reserved Aussies go ‘love? hmmm. Does that mean hugging and stuff?’ It was good, I felt very inspired. And then all 60,000 of us went home and cut each other off in our cars. It was beautiful.

I’ve also seen some real good CD launches lately - saw Brunatex, which is always a great event and the CD is one well worth listening to - and I saw 200 Motels, those dudes are just so rock n’ roll, and I can relate to lots of their lyrics. Good one guys!

xo leighstardust

Whoa! After nearly 10 years of piercing the ears and airwaves, LeighStarDust has received her first bad review. You can read all about it here or just visit the Triple J Unearthed website and search for LeighStarDust. And maybe while you’re there you can erase the bad review karma by putting up your own review… unless of course it’s a bad review too, in which case I’m not sure what happens in terms of karma and the last Buddhist I talked to seemed pretty vague on the whole thing also.

In other news LSD’s epic record-a-thon is almost over and it’s looking like January will be the month you should save your pennies for. On the topic, if anyone can suggest a grouse name for the SuperGroup part of the LeighStarDust SuperGroup, you’d get some kind of free CD present or something. Add yr comments below! Mum says ‘LeighStarDust and the Bibliotek’ is too long.

xo leighstardust

LeighStarDust was planning a couple of posts that said ‘hey! world! stop harrassing me!’ cause she had weird incident happen at work and another in the local shopping centre, but she’s decided to give it to the universe.

Here universe. Have two slightly odd men with respect issues.

Well, it’s been almost a month now and it’s still the thing LeighStarDust is telling people when they say ‘and how are you’?

She’s very famous, thank you!

On July the 28th and 29th she got to sing with one of her favouritist ever Adelaide bands (The Scholars) and also with a little back up band she likes to call ‘26 members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’. And those kids were not too bad. They’re going to go far in this town, as Matty B would say. Specially seeing as they’ve got the word ‘Adelaide’ in their name. People love to be name dropped. If only they were called ‘26 members of the Radelaide Symphony Orchestra’. What they have works pretty nicely though.

LeighStarDust has been very lucky to have done many different kinds of musical things in Adelaide. She’s played gigs with nearly everyone, sang or played keyboard on lots of people’s creative endeavours and jumped all over television and radio. Singing with the Scholars and the ASO in front of 900 people over two nights was definitely a big highlight.

All sorts of things made it completely rad, and of course a LeighStarDust doesn’t sing and tell, so some things can’t be talked about until the expose on Parkinson comes out. But here are some of the grouse things:

- Getting to hang out with Jamie and Ben. Awesome;

- Getting to meet lots of great new friends, one of whom can play the tuba (?) and one who is Taran;

- Sitting in on rehearsals. This is one of LeighStarDust’s favourite things ever. And the ASO + Scholars + Dom the conductor were so good at rehearsing that it was amazing to sit and watch them at work;

- Getting to hang out with Miss Sarah Masters and the Little Ice Agers, who were all being bits of the Polyphonic Spree and Ben Harper. You’ll have to ask them yourselves which part they got to be;

- Singing through the kicky-arseist kick arse PA system ever. I sounded huge!;

- Hearing ‘They Make Good Pets’ done by millions more musicians than usual - with a fantabulous arrangement. Particularly hearing the casio programmed beat played with real live percussion instruments. And the bit that Denni wrote even got orchestrated!;

- Getting to do some very fancy choreography;

- Yelling ‘hi Mum and Dad’ in front of 450 people;

Hooray! A million thank yous Jamie, for such a wonderful experience.
xo lsd
P.S. If you’ve made comments in the last week or so I’m sorry if they haven’t turned up. I had 360 spam messages and didn’t have time to go through them all, so I might have inadvertently deleted you