N&W&T&S, now in shortform / New design

Noise & Words & Things & Shit has recently joined Twitter, under the guise of NoiseEtc, allowing for short and punctual impressions, updates, notices, announcements and 140-character reviews of Hobart music live shows and records.

If you're a Twit yourself, follow @NosieEtc for all the up-to-date meanderings you could (not) want. If you've never used Twitter in your life, feel free to watch the updates stroll by on the sidelines of this very blog in the new Micro Updates section in the top-left of the side panel.

In addition to N&W&T&S catching up with the online realm, it has received a humble design makeover. Criss-crossy, you can see it for yourself. If the orange is too glare-y, e-mail me some apples in disgust.

I have a few more impressions about This Is Not Art 2010 hiding away across various hard drives, so please feel free to ask here/twitter/in person if you still want those. It was ace, some of my favourite live shows were put on by 10,000 Free Men & Their Families, Songs, Bare Grillz, Horse Macgyver and Scattered Order. Hopefully I'll return in 2011 with more substantial offerings.

Launceston + The White Box / N&W&T&S Zine

Noise & Words & Things & Shit has been a little inactive recently. Apologies to the two and a half people that checked the site since the previous post. In the meanwhile, I travelled to Launceston for a pretty cool arts festival in Junction 2010, while at the same time exploring the Streets Alive urban art infestation (AKA, the 'let's cover the city in knitted cotton' festival.)

New blog location, move from orble.com, greater aspirations, &c.

Noise & Words & Things & Shit has been running for a few months now, over at Orble (www.orble.com/noise-words-things-shit/b3/). For various reasons (a far better designed blog page, more customisable, better URL, more popular) I've decided to jump ship over to Blogspot, so all old posts made over at Orble will be imported to here.

Noise & Words & Things & Shit covers underground music, mostly from Hobart, Tasmania (where I am situated). It tries to talk about things that haven't already been covered by other blogs. It is operated by just me (Alex Bennetts), but I am happy to expand with outside content if I like the work.

If you want your music featured/reivewed here, send an email to alexanderbennetts AT gmail DOT com. Same applies if you want an interview. If I like your band (I like a lot of bands), I'll probably write about it. If I don't, then make better music.

Bookmark N&W&T&S if you like the contents, and feel free to criticise everything here. Shit is in the title for a reason, after all.