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What Does The New Drones Record Sound Like?
6:31PM Jess McGuire | We had a chat to our work experience kid Dan Luscombe last night, who also happens to wrangle a guitar in The Drones, and asked him what the new record sounds like.
His answer? In a word…
So there you have it.
They have also written a beautiful song about the moon landing, apparently. Very good. If you’re in Melbourne, you can catch The Drones playing The East Brunswick Club on May 14th before they jet off overseas for a couple of months to finish off the new album. Here’s hoping their time in the States is fraught with difficulty – not because we wish hateful things upon them, but because we’re hoping Dan pens another amazing journal during the trip a la his Oh Calamity! blog which kept folk up to date with their hilariously disastrous time in Europe last year.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:20AM Jess McGuire | Michael, a beloved reader, sent the following clip in to us for Clip Of The Day and it freaked us out. Not only because it’s, well, an amazing example of Japanese game show nuttiness – but because WE DID THIS VERY THING ON BOXING DAY WITH A BUNCH OF MATES*.
*Seriously. A packed recording studio full of drunken Melbourne chums spent hours – hours – fulfilling the deranged Christmas dream of Defamer Australia favourite Dan Luscombe from The Drones… we re-recorded We Are the World in its entirety, everyone taking on a different celebrity part, and the result was both horrific and amazing. If we ever get clearance from the motley crew involved (sadly, no Tommy Lee in sight), we’ll put the audio up here one day. The memory of Dan Luscombe belting out “Fucken, we can’t go ooooooooon…” haunts us to this day.
We also did Do They Know It’s Christmas. It was a very intoxicated event. More » 
Angie Hart On The Morning Show Yesterday
4:18PM Jess McGuire | This is a nice clip of Angie Hart performing ‘Stop Buying Things’ on The Morning Show yesterday.
Isn’t it lovely? And look at Facebook hater/Mitch Hedberg lover Dan Luscombe gently but powerfully work that guitar! Phwoaaar – ladies form an orderly queue, etc…
We are, of course, deeply disappointed Angie lied to the good people of Channel Seven by claiming she hadn’t performed Accidently Kelly Street for anyone in yeeeaaars when our Serious Journalism revealed late last year that she belted out an a capella version for a small child in Adelaide during her October tour (and whatever happened to that “only for people under the age of eight” rule, anyway? THE HOSTS OF THE MORNING SHOW ARE QUITE OBVIOUSLY OVER THE AGE OF EIGHT, WOMAN, WHY DO YOU FIB?) but all in all, this is a charming performance and we give everyone involved three thumbs up.
MORE: Angie Hart on MySpace. More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:27AM Jess McGuire | Today’s YouTube Clip Of The Day is dedicated to our favourite rock’n'roller Dan Luscombe of The Drones.
Along with a posse of assorted wonderful misfits, we spent a rather nice Christmas Eve having a few drinks and listening to Hall & Oates very hip music with the man, when all of a sudden he declared we had to gather around the laptop (the modern equivalent of an open fire?) and listen to mp3s he’d downloaded of a comedian named Mitch Hedberg. Having enough beverages under our belt, we agreed – and spent the next twenty minutes laughing uproariously at the weird, wonderful mind of the sadly now deceased comedian.*
Inspired after seeing Dan run through his personal rendition of Mitch Hedberg’s “greatest hits” on Saturday night, this morning we decided to turn to our old buddy YouTube to see what the clip crypt had to offer.
It offered up this.
Amazing. We fucking love Mitch Hedberg,
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Being Booted From Idol Has Hit Mark Da Costa Hard
9:02PM Clem Bastow | It seems Mark Da Costa is not coping as well with his Idol rejection as he first thought, and has turned to spamming innocent MySpace members about amazing Macy’s gift cards.
After all, all the girls are straight up lying when they say talent doesn’t matter.
We look forward to seeing Mark on late-night telemall within a few months, or possibly standing out the front of the Australian Diamond Company wearing a sandwich-board.
ED: In Mark’s defence, he’s in good company – half the bands we’re friends with on MySpazz have come to us with news of the amazing Macy’s gift cards. In fact, Defamer Australia’s favourite Facebook hater, Mr Dan Luscombe of The Drones, once retorted when the subject was raised by several chums at a bar “Have you actually bothered to check the offer out? I might have been alerting you to a really good deal, you ingrates!”. More » Last Night’s RRR Radiothon!
12:11PM Jess McGuire | What an amazing evening of music, and we say that with some degree of objectivity. No, really!
We had a stack of pre-recorded genius from wonderful artists who generously donated their time to lay down “tracks” of cover songs – and they were fucking awesome!
The atrociously handsome Dan Kelly not only did the world’s best John Butler impression for a station id (we’re trying to get the audio up here as we speak, stay tuned…) but he also performed a stunning and utterly unexpected rendition of Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May”!
Patrick J Bourke* of Dallas Crane fame offered up a version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”, iconic Australian music figure Stephen Cummings gave us Jason Donovan’s “Too Many Broken Hearts”, Lisa Mitchell from last year’s Australian Idol performed a lovely cover of “What I Like About You”, and SPOD worked some magic on Beyonce’s “Check On It”. Dave Graney and Clare Moore got their smooth on in the name of community radio with “Hard Times”, Melbourne’s own The Basics gave us an exclusive live recording of “Ebony and Ivory”, and Little Red moved us all with their a cappella interpretation of “Heal The World”.
But that wasn’t where it ended! We also had a host of surprise LIVE performers! The Good Intentions belted out Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumpin”, Ground Components – WITH A PIANO ACCORDION, FOR FUCKS!! – played Dallas Groundies’ grandpa’s song “Louis the Rat” and inspired a massive singalong, the ridiculously talented Sime Nugent crooned “The Greatest Love Of All”, and a supergroup consisting of members from Good Intentions, Eurobeat 3, The Drones, Ground Components – as well as Sime Nugent and Angie Hart – all contributed to a gorgeous take on Dire Straits’ “Walk Of Life”.
AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOUR HEAD WAS GOING TO EXPLODE?
Angie Hart and Dan Luscombe from The Drones did a last minute duet of “Islands In The Stream”.
All in all, a marvellous show. Thank you to all who subscribed to RRR during I’d Rather Jack, and if you didn’t? Do it now! On what motherfucking station will you see a line up like that delivering the goods with nothing to gain except perhaps access to a free slab of beer?
rrr.org.au is the station, but if you’re not Melbourne based, then we heartily recommend you support your own local community radio station any time of the year… It’s where the magic happens, people.
*Also a fellow member (along with Defamer Australia) of hip hop duo The Septics. More » MySpace Versus FaceBook
11:20AM Jess McGuire | Surprisingly not all that long after they heartily embraced the wonder of MySpazz, the mainstream media are in the middle of a love affair with FaceBook. As is the rest of the nation. The social networking site seems to have exploded over the past two months in Australia, and we can personally attest to the large number of people who have abandoned MySpazz for CrackBook/FaceFuck/StalkBook.
But there is one man who refuses to be sucked into the FaceBook hype. He is our favourite new blogger, the very wonderful Dan Luscombe from The Drones. He recently penned an amazing rant against FaceBook that nearly resulted in Defamer Australia deleting its own profile, so passionately and articulately did Dan argue for the pro-MySpazz cause.
He wrote it as a two part “note” on his own FaceBook profile, and has given Defamer Australia full permission to republish it as it is, quite frankly, fucking funny and deserves a wider readership.
VALE MYSPACE? 3:05am Sunday, Jul 15
What is it???
What is the attraction to this convoluted website? Where exactly does the appeal lie in this eyesore of an interface? This overly-intrusive, money-grabbing venture.
Yeah. Money grabbing. At least Myspace never asked me for my credit card details at any point. They want me to pay a fucking dollar to sent somebody a pathetic 3×3 cm GIF of a fucking “sock monkey”. Why don’t they just let me send it for free? Is it so the act of “sock monkey” giving doesn’t get abused and run rampant throughout everybody’s profiles? Well, I simply don’t wish to give everybody a “sock monkey” y’know. I can discipline myself in this practice, without the hurdle of a credit card payment.
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