23/07/06 Splendour In The Grass, Belongil Fields
27/05/06 The Spanish Club, Melbourne
06/05/06 The Zoo, Brisbane
25/04/06 The Essential Festival, Gaelic Club, Sydney
16/04/06 The Great Escape, Newington Armory
06/04/06 Manning Bar, Sydney Uni
25/03/06 Pianos, New York
22/03/06 The Mercury Lounge, New York
18/03/06 Red 7, Austin
17/03/06 Brush Square Park, Austin
13/03/06 The Troubadour, Los Angeles
12/03/06 Tangier Lounge, Los Angeles
05/03/06 St. Jeromes Laneway Festival
01/03/06 Hopetoun Hotel

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23/07/06
Splendour In The Grass, Belongil Fields

Back to the McLennan Theatre, Decoder Ring have already started. I find a seated vantage point and soak up…I have no idea what to expect to be honest. This is a band who remind me of my dear friend Wendi – one of the finest people on the planet – and I owe it to her to find out why she likes them so. They are a band who are simply making the music they love without concern for popular trends or mandates. Verse-chorus-schmerse. Decoder Ring are one of those rare entities that have achieved the dream – producing their own music which, save for perhaps Radarmaker, has little to compare it to – whilst performing with the multi-media visuals they wanted. Total artist control. And they’re loving it. Are U2 really having as much fun as this these days?

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