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I'm an Irishman living in Sydney for a few years at this stage, and I've been enjoying the spoils from working with the company that brought you the very site you're looking at.
If you've any questions, worries etc, please feel free to pop into the forums and ask!
Hope you enjoy the site! :P
Where to find me:
Online -
Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/home_spun
Twitter: folllow flungabunga
Last.fm : http://www.last.fm/user/home_spun/
blog : http://www.flungabunga.com
Offline (basically a list of my regular haunts) -
Lounge Cafe Bar - Surry Hills
River View Hotel - Balmain
Bertonis Cafe - Balmain
KinoKuniya - Sydney CBD
Don Don's - Oxford Street
On the bus :D
Music, Technology, Socialising, Drinking, Partying, Singing, Guitar, Coding, Cinema, Friends
Grant Lee Buffalo, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Beastie Boys, Sujan Stevens, The Smiths, Caribou, Nitin Sawhney
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It was only last year that MySpace was the hottest kid on the social networking block. But according to latest net usage figures, competitor Facebook has crept up behind and gone for the kill, with its share of the pie tripling in the past few months
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We've been waiting more than a decade - but finally the wait is over - Rage Against the Machine will be touring Australia this summer.
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Those Kings of retro rock, Royal Crown Revue hit our shores for a national tour, get ready to swing, baby...
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England's bad girl of music, Amy Winehouse, has reportedly collapsed from a drug overdose in London, resulting in her stomach being pumped
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Tori Amos launched her new interactive website today at www.toriamos.com
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With brand spanking new EP Blue On Blue clutched tightly in their mitts, Cut Off Your Hands are preparing an all-out assault as they head off on tour.
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The kings of pop rock are back with another solid album.
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Is the world’s most talked about website on a slippery slide down to the bottom of the social networking chain? Quite possibly if usage patterns in the UK are anything to go by, where its growth rates are trailing well behind its competitors.
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With the best Australian album of 2007 in their arsenal, Blue Mountains boys (and gal) Belles Will Ring seem on the cusp of very, very big things.
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Interstellar space travel will be within arm’s reach of one and all when local three-piece Midnight Juggernauts launch their highly anticipated debut album Dystopia on 4th August 2007.
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Returning from Brisbane just a few days ago, Newcastle band The Seabellies have been busy these last few months. Lead vocalist, Trent Grennel finds some time to answer FasterLouder's questions on what the future holds for the band.
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New Zealand ‘90s rock stalwarts, Shihad, are hard at work again. Two years have passed since the release of the band’s last album – the politically charged, 'Love is the New Hate'. There’s been the odd tour, with Shihad supporting the likes of the Datsuns and Evanescence. But it’s left fans wondering whether there will be any new material. Bassist Karl Kippenberger gives Fasterlouder the inside word.
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Gone are the days, though, when Wilco's frontman, Tweedy, would shift and alter the band’s line-up seemingly on a whim, altering their approach with each release.
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They’ve already had a massive hit with their axmen simulation game, so brace yourselves for Rock Band a video game that targets virtual singers, bass players and drummers as well as guitarists.
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No, it's not an April Fools joke - FasterLouder is reborn with a brand new look and feel and heaps of new features. We hope FL visitors old and new like the new lick of paint!
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They may have been the bridesmaid on the Wolfmother tour - but nonetheless Adelaide's finest, Wolf & Cub served up a lashing of good ol' fashioned rock that left the crowds gasping for more on their recent round of support dates in Japan, UK and Europe. Then there was their kickarse gig at SXSW
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The rumours are true – The Great Escape is back again in 2007 with a new improved festival that will be sure to deliver a smashing Easter experience and FasterLouder have jumped on board for the ride. Set up camp, book into the tent hotel or come and
Radio Soulwax is the apocalyptic rave up that Belgian dance music svengalis Soulwax have been curating at various venues around the world in the last year. Supported by New Young Pony Club, Rub N Tug, Bang Gang DJs and Gildas & Masaya from Kitsune
SunScreen Independent Music Video Fest is throwing the doors open for 2007 and launching in real party style with friends Kid Confucius, Intercooler, Fourth Floor Collapse and Extended Family.
They may have been the bridesmaid on the Wolfmother tour – but nonetheless Adelaide’s finest Wolf & Cub served up a lashing of good ol’ fashioned rock that left the crowds gasping for more on their recent round of support dates in Japan, UK and Europe.
If you like a touch of mayhem at your rock gigs, no doubt you are a fan of those rambunctious rabble rousers from across the water – The Mint Chicks. So you’ll be delighted to hear that New Zealand’s favourite merchants of mayhem are invading our sh
Check out what’s cookin’ on teh rock grill this weekend when FasterLouder Live takes over the Gaelic Theatre with 78 Saab, The City Lights, Paper Scissors and The Ringleaders…. MMMM Tasty…
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