2006

2005

2004

2003

30/12/02 Hyde Park World Music Festival, Sydney
13/12/02 Great Northern, Byron Bay
12/12/02 The Zoo, Brisbane
07/12/02 Homebake Festival, Sydney
09/11/02 The Empress, Melbourne
08/11/02 Revolver, Melbourne
01/11/02 Gaelic Club, Sydney
23/10/02 Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney
17/10/02 Prince Of Wales, Melbourne
30/09/02 Roma Room (Metro), Sydney
11/09/02 Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney
27/07/02 Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney
05/07/02 The Basement, Sydney
20/06/02 Roma Room (Metro), Sydney
02/06/02 Kelt's Bar, Blaxland
01/06/02 Roma Room (Metro), Sydney
17/05/02 Prince Of Wales, Melbourne
16/05/02 Prince Of Wales, Melbourne
20/04/02 The Metro, Sydney
19/04/02 The Metro, Sydney
13/04/02 Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney
11/01/02 Roma Room (Metro), Sydney

2001

20/06/02
Roma Room (Metro), Sydney

Sun, Decoder Ring, Pimmon

Lucy Nosferatu

Decoder Ring is a revelation. At some points watching this band I was so dumbstruck by the overload on all of my senses that I was worried I couldn't fit more in. The visuals (the mastery of Simon Killalea) were not just spirally stuff randomly put up there for effect. These were beautifully thought out short films designed specifically for Decoder Ring's incredible music. The indistinguishable embryo was my favourite film. It would close in on the blood flow of the embryo, and each Heartbeat would coincide with the music. Then it would pan out on the embryo again and it would have grown, almost be recognisable. It takes you until the very end to realise it's a bird, when the screen goes completely white - then a crack appears across it, as the bird begins it's life.
Most of the music is instrumental, and I thought at one point, could the band pull off a good show without the visuals? The answer's most certainly yes. Their sound is like a mixture of Radiohead and AIR, without perhaps some of the complexity. The arrangements are beautifully laid out, sometimes so simply constructed that you would never guess by the overall effect of it.