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Top 20 Albums

1. Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2. The Presets – Pacifica
3. Meshuggah – Koloss
4. Anathema – Weather Systems
5. The Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
6. Twelve Foot Ninja – Silent Machine
7. Flying Colors – Flying Colors
8. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal
9. Stone Sour – House Of Gold And Bones (Part 1)
10. Neal Morse – Momentum
11. Green Day – ¡Dos!
12. Muse – The 2nd Law
13. Deftones – Koi No Yokan
14. Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made
15. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
16. Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I
17. Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
18. Gojira – L’enfant Savauge
19. Sigur Ros – Valtari
20. Passion Pit – Gossamer

10 Honourable Mentions (In Alphabetical Order)

• Adrenaline Mob - Omertà
• Elton John vs. Pnau – Good Morning To The Night
• The Faceless – Autotheism
• From Death Till Rebirth – Eclipse Of Impulse EP
• Grizzly Bear – Shields
• Linkin Park – Living Things
• O.S.I. – Fire Make Thunder
• Of Monsters And Men – My Head Is An Animal
• Rush – Clockwork Angels
• Sydonia – Waiting For Words That Don’t Exist EP

Song Of The Year
Storm Corrosion - Drag Ropes

Live Release Of The Year
The Devin Townsend Project - By A Thread: Live In London 2011

Top 5 Concerts (In Chronological Order)

• Roger Waters at Allphones Arena, Sydney
• The Devin Townsend Project and Meshuggah at The Forum, Melbourne
• Dream Theater and The Crimson ProjeKct at Gibson Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
• Radiohead at Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney
• Between The Buried And Me and Animals As Leaders at The Zoo, Brisbane

Artists I Saw Live This Year (In Alphabetical Order)

Abbe May. Animals As Leaders. Area 7. The Beach Boys. Beck. Between The Buried And Me. The Black Dahlia Murder. The Black Keys. Bluejuice. Bodyjar. Cabins. Cake. Chimaira. Connan Mockasin. The Crimson ProjeKct (x2). The Dandy Warhols. Dead Letter Circus. The Delta Riggs. The Devin Townsend Project (x2). The Dillinger Escape Plan (x2). Dream Theater (x2). Dredg. Evanescence. Even (x3). Fair To Midland. Frenzal Rhomb. Gojira (x2). Hilltop Hoods. The Jungle Giants. Kanye West. Karnivool. Kasabian. King Cannons. Kvelertak. Last Dinosaurs. The Living End (x7). Marillion. Mastodon (x2). Meshuggah (x2). Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane. My Chemical Romance. Primal Scream. Radiohead (x2). Roger Waters. Royal Headache. The Schoenberg Automaton. Sigur Ros. Slipknot (x2). Snow Patrol. Soundgarden. Sydonia (x2). System Of A Down. Times Of Grace. Trivium (x2). Twelve Foot Ninja. Twinsy.

Venue: The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle

1. Beautiful Distortion
2. Bouquet Of Thorns
3. Nothing Left To Fear
4. Lose Your Disguise
5. Video Games (Lana Del Rey cover)
   Guest vocals by Emily Leary.
6. Untouchable, Part 2 (Anathema cover)
   Guest vocals by Sahra Edwards.
7. Wet Sand (Red Hot Chili Peppers cover)

Venue: The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle

1. Beautiful Distortion
2. Ghosts (The Presets cover)
3. Dissolving With The Night (Blackfield cover)
4. Late Night Thoughts
5. Chocolate (Snow Patrol cover)
6. The Nurse Who Loved Me (Failure cover)
7. Karma Police (Radiohead cover)

Hey all. My very talented friend Jessica Ashby has just uploaded and released a cover version of my own original song, “Lose Your Disguise”. I originally wrote the track in July 2011, and have played it countless times since then, so you can imagine how refreshing it is to hear a different interpretation of the piece. Be sure to watch the video below, and check her out on Facebook to hear some other originals and covers.

Update (07/08/2012): I didn’t end up releasing this song last week. I’ve decided to postpone releasing it indefinitely, as there are a few cool things I came up with at the last minute that will result in this song being significantly better than the version you almost heard. Apologies to the one or two people who may have noticed I was even going to release this. It’s for the best!

A few nights ago, I played a live set at The Great Northern Hotel, and included two brand new songs in my set, “Raindrop Hearts” and “The Gallery”. The latter song is one that I have really loved since writing it, and was extremely keen to play it live. The former, however, was a song that I felt had potential, but it wasn’t taking shape. I almost didn’t play it, but on the day of the performance, I quickly wrote an ending to it so I’d have something to work with.

During the actual performance of “Raindrop Hearts”, the song really took shape, and I felt way more inspired with it than any other time I’ve worked on it. The following day, I spent a few hours laying down keyboard and guitar tracks, and sequenced a demo version together. I later added vocals, and mixed everything together, primarily just to add to the pile of demos I was accumulating to work with for my album. However, I decided I might as well polish the hell out of it and release it as a single. Admittedly, I’ll probably do more work on it before its release as part of my forthcoming album, but I am currently quite proud of it and feel like sharing it around.

I’ll be releasing it through Bandcamp this upcoming Wednesday (August 1st), essentially as a free download, but if you felt so inclined to throw a dollar my way, I’ve put the “pay what you want” option there. All money sent to me will go directly to my album fund.

Hello friends! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet lately. I’ve been busy with overseas trips, as well as a bunch of new tunes I’ve been working on. Here’s something different though! This is essentially a single-take recording of “Lose Your Disguise”, a song I wrote in 2011 and included on my free promotional sampler EP. I filmed it from the side as per normal, but also set up my iPad in front of me and used its front camera to get a second angle for the video. Edited them side by side, as well as a higher-quality recording from my Zoom H4n, and voila!

Why? Primarily because I had no original songs on YouTube, and didn’t feel like simply uploading old recordings, especially since all you’d see is a boring still image. I didn’t particularly want to put a brand new song up just yet as I’m still yet to make sure I’m totally happy with them, but I had made a few modifications to this track since releasing it last year, and thought it’d be interesting to share.

Enjoy! Stay tuned for new tracks and live dates.