Nancy's Top Tracks of 2010

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Another year nearly over and yet another best of list. Personally this year was more eventful than the last; I started my Bachelor of Communications maj. in Journalism and realised how much I hate studying, although at least I don't have to travel for hours. I did yet another internship but this time at Acclaim Magazine. Check out my articles in the Japan, Friends & Renegade issues. Started blogging with the gorgeous Mayoress women and over at Skeleton Soup with the lovely Tony from the US. Continued writing for the lovely kids at SoundProof Magazine and The Dwarf. I also started working at the Softbelly Bar! It has all been ruddy-go. (Had to throw in an IT Crowd quote)...

Other than that I've had some great nights out with friends, met some wonderful people, had a few trips; one to see my sister get married in Hobart and a quick trip up to Sydney to reignite my love for Melbourne. Now I've babbled, here is my best of list in no particular numerical preference.

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More festival picks - Pyramid Rock

Yep, another festival break down. This time I'll give you my picks for The Pyramid Rock Festival, which is held down at Phillip Island (VIC) about an hour or so from Melbourne, held from December 30th - January 1st. I suppose this is your alternative festival for NYE if you're not into Falls or if you've recovered from the Merideth Music Festival. Or you could just come hang out with me, I'm sure I'll be being trashy at some apartment in the city again.

Enough babbling. Here are my incoherent suggestions.

1. Born Ruffians.

Aw, they're so adorable. I wrote about them previously- here & Pix has as well - here. Plus they write ace songs and call them things like Kurt Vonnegut. I have a Kurt Vonnegut tattoo so I guess they feed into my annoying pretentious hipster side. Actually that probably turned you off. Just have a listen.


2. Mystery Jets

Everyone knows that Young Love song, but even though that was a very sweet song I liked them a lot better when one of their Dads was in the band (2005-06-ish).


3. N*E*R*D

I haven't seen them live before, but this will be AMAZING when you've ingested one too many substances. I'm sure they'll have the best time slot, right before the clock strikes 12. It wouldn't let me embed my fav vid Lapdance with all the hot chicks with their boobs out, but you can see the edited version (lame) - here.

Others on the initial line up are:

The Temper Trap | Little Red | Xavier Rudd | Arrested Development | Chromeo | Gyroscope | Trentemoller | Miami Horror | Lightspeed Champion | Shout Out Louds | Jebediah | Oh Mercy

and a bunch of others.

so it goes.

This probably shouldn't warrant an entire post but Uni is killing my soul and I need a big ol drink and a 5 minute break (and yes it's only the first week). I'm probably way out of the loop but i've only heard of Born Ruffians in passing and never took the time out to listen to them UNTIL I saw via a friends Last.fm page that they had a song called 'Kurt Vonnegut'. That alone is pretty amazing, but turns out the song isn't too shabby either... or maybe I'm just temporarily hearing impaired because I love the name of the song so much.



Everyone should read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut also.