The Pipettes at The Factory Theatre

The Pipettes

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Last night (December 29th) was the night The Pipettes (check out their MySpace page, too) had played at The Factory Theatre. For the people who don’t know who The Pipettes are, they’re a group (with a backing band, called The Cassette) who like to draw themselves from the 60s era of pop, like The Supremes and The Shangri-Las. They even have the whole hand and arm movements. If you don’t love their music, then you’ll love what they wear.

The support bands were okay (The Holidays and Tokyo Blonde). You can tell that they were beginners as their on-stage energy was kind of lacking, though listening to their recorded stuff, it’s much better. With time, those guys will be pros at touring.

I thought the set list was great, I was pretty much singing 90% of the time. Now, The Pipettes were great, but the crowd; I was pretty disappointed. I thought the crowd was going to go off when they would play their songs. I thought people were going to do the dance moves that they taught us during the gig. I even watched these lessons on YouTube and learned their moves two days just before the gig. I went through all that effort and NO-ONE else was doing it. Like I said before, I was very disappointed. My sister, standing next to me was saying she was embarrassed about me performing those dance moves… well, if everyone else was doing it, then she sure as hell wouldn’t be embarrassed. This troubles me a bit. I don’t want The Pipettes thinking that Sydney-siders are lame-o and boring people who can’t dance. We’re definitely not like that. I remember going to a Scissor Sisters concert and everyone was going off there, so it’s possible we could go off just as much with The Pipettes as much as the Scissor Sisters. See, I thought everyone would go off like in this music video. I just hope they can come back and we can prove to them that we’re perhaps the most frickin’ awesome people on Earth. I hope they didn’t go off the stage thinking we were lack-luster. That would be the worst, I think.

But overall, they were great and I enjoyed myself being there, and I’m really glad I went. I also got the front row so I could see them straight up.

She-Hulk says Happy Christmas!

On behalf of WendySkeleton:

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Fun Facts While Making This Ad

• While making this ad, I was too entranced with Kylie Minogue’s new song, 2 Hearts, which will explain why I didn’t post this yesterday.
• Between starting this post and now, I have eaten three hamburgers.
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Should I be surprised? Happy? Angry?

I got my marks for my finals exams, otherwise known as the HSC exams. They are as follow:

This is going to be a rant, so feel free to pass. There’s probably going to be a lot of jabber that doesn’t make sense here.

Not really surprised for all those marks, though I am angry with music, and it’s not because I got a lower mark than people would expect. Yes, that’s right, “people” rather than the word “I”. I find it really hard to accommodate to the criteria of music because when you perform for someone so they can mark, you have to shoot for a certain criteria. I do understand that that’s needed. Otherwise, the point of exams in music would be useless. For example, with music, there are three topics to study in music and for me, they were popular music, rock music and jazz music. Popular music was more difficult than expected because of the way the music industry is going. Like, what is pop these days? It’s filled with drum machines and simple beats. So I studied the day when pop was really pop, and that is the 60s. You know, the day when The Supremes were popular and everyone went crazy for them. So anyway, I studied them and the drums in their music. I thought I’d mix up two songs from theirs and combine it so there would be some variety in my piece.

Now that mark makes me think that perhaps my pop piece may have contributed to that low score, because I didn’t have enough technicality. Though it makes me think, because pop music is the meant to be the simple but catchy stuff. So how exactly is that meant to be technical? So playing pop music technically would mean that I would have to play it in its simplest form. And playing in its simplest form, maybe I could’ve bored the markers? Not saying that my pop piece had contributed to this mark, but it makes me think if they realise what pop actually is. If I could get a more accurate breakdown of my pieces then it would solve this, but they don’t bother giving it to us.

It just makes me think that if I’m going to audition in the future with bands, I hope they don’t judge me on the way the markers mark.