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🧑 Joe Hardy (he/him) 📍 Eora

👇 writing and photography, mostly about music and culture

For work, I help teams be amazing. You can hire me.
I'm also the creator and co-founder of SydneyMusic.net

Interests: music, community, how people think, photography, social and environmental impact of tech

Cupholder Industries: The Playlist

28 August 2024 @ 14:02
Playlist cover image Photo by Olive Rush of EGOISM

Fucking amped to finally have a playlist to represent the Cupholder Industries vibe.

Caitlin and I have pulled together a selection of music we're loving right now - to listen to around the house, to see at shows, in DJ sets we're playing. We'll be constantly changing it and adding to it, so stay tuned in.

Available wherever you get your music that rips off artists - so please buy the music you value.

And here's the tracklist at the time of writing:

  • Annabelle Scobie - cat allergy

  • frugirl - Yellowfin

  • DJ ANDREW, girlfrompluto, Mx Toad, Sky Vermont - Doing Today

  • Chonzu - critter

  • Bridge Dog - Counterweight

  • Sadie - Late

  • Ariel. - Housing Market

  • Safety First - Haircut

  • Cherry Rype, marcella sunshine allen - INNER WEST PRINCESS

  • Trim Reaper - Modest Salary (Cupholder Remix)

  • Troth - Komodo

  • ealing, BAYANG (tha Bushranger) - KANDINSKYY

  • Mayke - 2phonecalls

  • Hed Ardennes - Dutton Bleeds Out

  • Porij - Marmite

  • Possible People, LOW STAKES, Pinz - I Don't Ask for Much

  • Hugh B - Low Pressure Dub

  • Sollyy, Isaac Puerile - RIDDLE ME THIS

  • The Cleaners From Venus - The Jangling Man

  • Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs - Real Life Feeling

  • Bastian Void - Marsh Ave

  • ADORER - Silk

  • Dying for Meg Ryan - Myself

  • Brooklyn Comic - Transient

  • Carb on Carb - I Know The End 2

  • Mannequin Radio - M Girl

  • Beryl - Paint the walls

  • Cassandra Jenkins - Petco

  • Mk.gee - Candy

  • Quivers - Oyster Cuts

  • Alan Sparhawk - Get Still

  • Gayngs - The Beatdown

  • Squirt Circle - Heavy Lifting

  • FUKHED - No C No A

  • EASYFUN, Iiris - Be Your USA

  • Lonelyspeck - My Angel Goes Before Me

  • California Girls - Carabiner Boys

  • Holliday Howe - never meant

  • Charly Bliss - Tragic

  • Vigilantonie - Dealah

  • The Buoys - Ahead Of Myself

  • Im Blu. - Booster Seat. flip

  • Willo - All Your Love

  • LUPO.THEBOY - Shelter

  • gooseball - Colouring Darkness

  • Carmouflage Rose - Late Nights

  • The Pool - Jamaica Running

  • Clairo - Flaming Hot Cheetos

  • Emotional Oranges - Be Somebody (feat. Tkay Maidza)

  • Kendrick Lamar - Rigamortus

  • Moonsign + Bilby - Let’s Split

  • Parallel Dance Ensemble - Shopping Cart

  • Blood Orange - Uncle ACE

  • Buzz Kull - Last In The Club

  • Hugh B - Astral Body

  • Severed Heads - We Have Come to Bless the House

  • Spoon - Paper Tiger

  • Dwight Twilley Band - Looking For The Magic

  • 1-800-Mikey - Plushy

  • X - Suck Suck

  • dust - Ward 52

  • Sick Fizz - Sick Fizz

  • Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve

  • Oscar + Martin - Recognise

  • The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You

  • Loose Fit, Hugh B - Exhale - Hugh B Dub

  • Hybrid Man - Ocean Drifter

  • DJ Plead - Liquify

  • Parades - Invaders (Review)

  • Carla dal Forno - Took a Long Time

  • Pleasure - Self Suck 210321

  • Rory J S - 26

  • Bluetung - Naïve Hope (Election Day)

Pizza Night

27 August 2024 @ 14:15
Pizza Night AE-1 / Fujifilm 400

Bit more WA life

Chonzu x Gooseball

27 August 2024 @ 14:01
Gooseball performing at The Dock AE-1 and Fujifilm 400
Lachlan guesting at Chonzu x Gooseball AE-1 / Fujifilm 400
Chonzu x Gooseball AE-1 / Fujifilm 400

Still think about this show a lot. Really proud for it to have been the first time this music was ever heard or performed live! Keep an eye out for the project - name and release dates unknown, but it's going to be special.

I'm Back From Two Weeks In WA

27 August 2024 @ 11:45
Rae at Portal Coffee Shot on the usual

I sat down in front of my laptop yesterday morning and somehow for the first time in months my brain felt clear.

I've been super burnt out. That's pretty challenging when every part of your life is reliant on you being a functional, productive person and there are no real avenues to take a break just yet. Considering this, I think we've been doing OK - been doing my best to put one foot in front of the other, but the constantly hum of stress in the brain really does a number on you and I've really found it hard to break the cycle.

But I've been fortunate to have the opportunity to head to WA to be with my kids in their current hometown over there for the last two weeks. It wasn't a "break" by any stretch of the imagination, but perhaps let's call it a circuit breaker: somehow I think the change in scene helped me to get to the point where I'm feeling a bit less run down and stuck.

Time with the kids was wonderful... we got to do Normal Life and Normal Life was really good: school dropoffs, making the Nats What I Reckon bolognese (honestly, it rips - I just wish I'd done a better job of figuring out how to render the pancetta, it's key), making this chorizo, kale and barley soup which was phenomenal for leftovers, talking about life, their school performance finale of Fiddler On The Roof (and the afterparty, bless), sourdough pizza night (feeding El's starter - stress), meeting my kids' employers - insane, Rae selecting a banging playlist on the way back from Cowaramup, PowerPoint Night, our Last Waffles tradition.

While there I met Aaron from Portal Coffee. His store was playing Twerps when I arrived - we had plenty to chat about... shout-out to the Buzz Kull feature hour, shout-out to recommending The Cleaners From Venus... good chats. Good coffee. I made him a playlist that started with a discussion about Sydney egg punk (and evolved to other random Sydney stuff).

I'm back in Sydney as of last Saturday. Grateful to my clients that made it possible for me to spend time with the kids.

Hoping I can maintain the clear-mindedness as much as possible from here on in, with a consistent, rational and well-structured-but-sustainable approach to keeping things moving.

Fucking psyched for so much coming up. Just gotta find the breakthroughs.

The Next Season Of Our Residency At The Dock Is Upon Us

11 August 2024 @ 11:53
Mayke DJing at The Dock Shot by me on AE-1 / Fujifilm 400

Our residency at The Dock continues!

  • August 11 - E4444E [solo]

  • August 18 - Spectral Gates

  • August 25 - Ariel taking over for the night with a live set and DJ sets from friends

  • September 1 - Andy Bull performing songs from his upcoming album "Collapse In Bliss" for the first time ever.

Music from 8pm. Always free. We party 'til midnight. Yes, on a Sunday.

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