Category Archives: music

Melbourne underground band Asbestos Garage

As regular readers of my blog will know, I’m a fan of metal, progressive rock and a bit of eighties rock. The other day I had the chance to speak to the lead singer of Asbestos Garage, a Melbourne based band. Neon Kessler told me of their aspirations to bring glam rock back to Melbourne, …

September 8, 2008 – 17:55 | By lantrix | Posted in music | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Bigpond (Telstra) start selling MP3 Music

A big surprise is an announcement today that Bigpond Music (A Telstra owned service) has from today started offering tracks in MP3 format. This is a move away from the DRM windows media format that all their songs were sold as. When Bigpond started offering music sales a few years ago I was an early …

August 13, 2008 – 11:55 | By lantrix | Posted in internet, music | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Somewhere Back in Time

I have a short video I took of the Somewhere in Time Tour. It’s from the Powerslave guitar solo as played in Sydney. If you were at either of the events this should bring back some good memories! For a review of the evening in Melbourne, synultima has a blow by blow review over @ …

February 15, 2008 – 23:24 | By lantrix | Posted in music | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Maiden in Sydney

A quick note to say I put up the Iron Maiden photos at flickr from the Saturday gig in Sydney. These ones where taken with a better camera, so they came out pretty decent for being 5 meters from the stage! The setlist was great, and it was well worth getting Gold floor tickets. As …

February 14, 2008 – 22:12 | By lantrix | Posted in music | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)