The Double
This blog reviews seminal music, and to date, that has comprised of whole albums. Tonight I am going to review an outstanding gig featuring the Double. If you are reading this you probably know the musicians: Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White, Venom P. Stinger) and Emmett Kelly (Bonny Prince Billy, Ty Segall, The Cairo Gang). Tonight, in The Tote band room we were treated to them playing an unrelenting single piece lasting 45 minutes. Take a minute to think about that. A drummer and a guitarist. One piece. Forty five minutes. One chord. It is either going to happen. Or not. The band room was packed. They were preluded by Taipan Tiger Girls and Ausmuteants. Two pretty apposite draw cards. Well, TTG were. But so were Ausmuteants - in as much as they twisted the same musical elements as TTG. The Tiger Girls riffed for about 30 minutes on one song. Sometimes the synths were a little quirky; the guitarist played wit...