#ballparkmusic

[pathos-p]

the perfect life does not exist - ball park music

[freakyleech]

I AM NOT A LITTLE FISH GOD DAMN IT I DONT HAVE TO SWIM UP NO STREAM FUCK

[anxiousartist95]

Poster practice - Lyric from Weirder and Weirder by @ballparkmusic-blog

[bestbefore-co]

26th May | Ball Park Music | Enmore Theatre, Sydney

26th May | Ball Park Music | Enmore Theatre, Sydney | @ballparkmusic @TheBuoys

Apparently named after a demand yelled out by someone in the crowd at a recent festival when Ball Park Music walked off-stage, the ‘GET THE F**KING NERDS BACK ON!’ tour saw the Brisbane five-piece embarked on a national tour, joined by Sydney four-piece The Buoys – we caught their show Sydney’s Enmore Theatre Photos by Matthew Waddingham.

[thesecondspiritblog]

Have you played with backing tracks live? Any tips. . #tameimpala #depecehmode #mgmt #thecure #morrissey #vampireweekend #beachhouse #davidbowie #martingarrix #avicii #mybloodyvalentine #newradicals #ballparkmusic #sevenlions #air #coldplay #sonlux #owlcity #indiepop #edm #neopsychedelia #housemusic #postpunk #dreampop #chillwave #synthwave #shoegaze #electronica #indiedance #danceelectronic (at Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQopDXVDk3r/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kevindiepart]

Finally! I can properly show everyone this uni assignment I've been working on. I used my last.fm listening data - that many of you may have seen - and visualised it! I'm really happy with it though I apologise for how 'emo' it is haha. I was grasping at straws to make analysis for this assignment. Please have a look! Link is in the bio!!! 👃 . . . #informationdesign #graphicdesign #canberradesign #unicanberra #music #data #lastfm #albums #stvincent #ballparkmusic #beck #lcdsoundsystem #magazine #publicationdesign

[sunmat2018]

So we come to the end of a two-day long celebration of the best music of 2018 that is the @triple_j Hottest 100, and what can I say but what a fantastic countdown it was! Not only did I get all of the songs that I voted for in the top 200 songs, 8 songs in the Hottest 100, 7 in the top 50 and 5 in the top 25, but I VOTED FOR THE TOP TWO SONGS IN THE HOTTEST 100!!!!!! LOSING IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!! This is something that hasn't happened since the first time I voted in the Hottest 100 in 2014, and I'm thrilled that it has happened again! To be honest, I do think that RÜFÜS DU SOL was robbed of a top 20 placement for ’Underwater’ but I'm overjoyed that it got as high as it got! Congratulations to everyone who got into the Hottest 100, regardless of whether I voted for them or not, and I'm really excited for the next Hottest 100 and I have confidence that the next one will be great too! #triplej #hottest100 #triplejhottest100 #triplejhottest1002018 #hottest1002018 #oceanalley #fisher #therubens #rufusdusol #alisonwonderland #ballparkmusic #florenceandthemachine #flightfacilities #goldenfeatures #ausmusic #australia #australianmusic 🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶😀😀😀😀😀😃😃😃😃😃😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtLaTnlgDvE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ga77jjhwmx00

[whoisdbow]

Ballpark Music. - Groovin The Moo - Maitland 2018 - Nikon F3 . . Full gallery online via www.backyardopera.com . . . . . . . . #35mm #35mmfilm #film #photography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #フィルム #filmcommunity #shootfilm #ishootfilm #shoot2kill #nikon #nikonf3 #fujifilm #fujisuperia1600 #ishootfujifilm #racquetstudio #nophotoshop #silhouette #lights #musicphotography #livemusicphotography #livemusic #music #ballparkmusic #groovinthemoo #australia #dylanbow #analog #analogue @ballparkmusic @groovinthemoo (at Groovin The Moo Maitland Show Grounds)

[katiegggg]

Sam Cromack ( @ballparkmusic ) These guys have been a long time favourite of mine and absolutely smashed it on stage earlier this year at Party in the Park. So keen for their new album and to see them again at ThisThat in November 😄👌 . . . . . #drawing #drawings #draw #portrait #portraiture #portraits #art #artist #artwork #sketch #sketching #sketches #photo #photography #portraitphotography #photos #ballparkmusic #triplej #australian #music #live #festival #concert #livemusic #musicfestival #triplejhottest100 #australia #eyes #eye #creative

[91raspberrybullets]

TBT to BPM killing it last weekend in Ballarat 😍 • • • #ballparkmusic #livemusic #sogood #tbt #throwback #bgl #bgcl https://www.instagram.com/p/BpWxWxBBq4h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hom4ptwswkry

[freakyleech]

@leek-lark im posting this for you

[s0000n]

it’s nice to be alive

[gaslightphotography]

.:: Ball Park Music ::. Shot for @loudonline #groovinthemoo #canberra #royalblood #haikuhands #amityaffliction #ladyleshurr #oceanalley #paulkelly #skegss #nwa #amine #bakerboy #alexlahey #tkaymaidza #loud #loudmag #loudonline #canon7d #ballparkmusic #gigphotography #bandphotography #musicphotography #livemusic #livemusicphotography #gaslightphotography

[theseagullsarewatching]

Ball Park Music was phenomenal. Absolutely amazing. #ballparkmusic #music #liveband

[kevindiepart]

Ball Park Music at Enmore Theatre - 9 March 2018

I was never the person to push to the front of a concert for the most 'complete' experience. While I do enjoy being close, I've finally learned what so many others before me already have, and that's to stay a good distance from young ones at the front.

My cousin and I entered the Enmore Theatre a part of the way through Hatchie's final song. She was the second support act for Ball Park Music. Following her was Ali Barter, and she was going to be on soon so we felt the need to get into through to the front. It was so roomy in the front that many of the patrons actually sat in circles to reserve their spots. That was definitely new to a lil‘ Canberran me. The carpeted floors of Enmore do allow it and we had heard that people lined up from 6pm to get in. Gotta rest those legs for the rest of the night!

We made our way to the front comfortably and were immediately exposed to a checklist of the worst behaviour you could find at a concert.

‘Aww yeah sorry mate, my friend is over there, I have to get to him' dawgs.

'Oh hey where are you girls from? How old are you so i can be creepy?' dawgs.

'Let's two-man mosh, I'll push you into those guys when the right song comes on' dawgs.

'I'm going to suck the soul from your face' couples.

The 'lets remove our underage wristbands and markings so we can get crunkcoco' dawgs.

'Oi i see a parting about 3 atoms wide, stank squad assume formation and move in' dawgs.

The 'let's sing that 'hey baby hoo haa i wanna know if you'll be my girl' song cause we're wild' dawgs.

'They're only the support who cares' dawgs.

That last one is especially important as my cousin and I were trying to jam out to Ali Barter, yet the conversations around us drowned her out. How’s that possible? It didn't help that The Enmore is quite wide and we were in a gap where the speakers didn't project too well. That probably affected our perception of Ali Barter as she played well, but to us the crowd and an uneven setlist let her down. (Research showed me that other reviewers praised Ali Barter so the crowd around me definitely had an effect.) Starting out with 'Please Stay' would be alright in a headlining show, in fact it was cool when I saw her last year in Canberra, but in a supporting slot it caused the crowd to tune out. At the same time, I was about to tune out my open palm into the backside of these two kids that wanted to mosh so bad because they needed a power trip. My cousin offered to scout out the back to see how it compared to the front and report back. I think she didn’t want to ruin my experience which was v generous, but we both had had enough of the front row antics and quickly tumble-turned backstroked away from the front.

We placed ourselves just in front of a railing in the centre-back of the floor. Luckily, and bless whoever designed it this way, the Enmore Theatre's floor slopes down the closer you get to the front until it's flat. In our position, we were elevated just above the head height of the crowd. We could see the whole stage and its beautiful arrangement. We were also well spaced and comfortable with the well-adjusted people around us. We were also about to experience the best concert I've seen by Ball Park Music.

Now I've given the tweens a bad rap in this piece. I was their age 3-5 years ago so it feels hypocritical of me to separate myself entirely from them. Due to how close we are in age though, I could see two things that positively contributed to the show. Energy and enthusiasm. It's hard to empathise with the dawgs who started making out with some underage girl at the front, or the two-man mosh boys, but I appreciate how they can make a party feel like a party. From the minute Ball Park Music stepped on stage, those miscreants gave them their all. It's always a bummer when you know an artist deserves more attention and the crowd is too busy with their hands in their pockets, so it was nice to see that on their 400th show the reception was phenomenal.

They played a good arrangement of hits from their catalogue, it didn't feel like a supporting tour for GOOD MOOD (2018) honestly. At one point they prefaced a song by teasing that they haven't played this particular song from Museum (2012) in a long time. I thought my lifelong dream since I first discovered BPM in 2014 was about to come true. They would finally play 'Bad Taste Blues Part Two' live. Nah big jk. Just 'Cost of Lifestyle'. That and the exclusion of Pariah make it not my favourite setlist from them. It was by far my favourite performance by them though.

Usually, an artist has to work up the crowd til they're finally moving and jumping 5 songs in or something? Ball Park had me going ham from the beginning. Especially during their song 'Hands Off My Body', a B-52s-esque banger. 'Happy Healthy Citizen of the Developed World Blues' closed out the night with confetti cannons and a reminder from lead singer Sam Cromack of the journey the band took to get here. This amazing song was so different from the rest of Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs (2011) poppy material and alluded to the grand ambition of Ball Park Music's sound and depth today. This was all the way back in 2011!

Here's to 400 more shows and a movie. Despite the hiccups, it was a beautiful show. After all, 'The Perfect Life Does Not Exist'.

EDITED for less vulgar language lol

[mixx-mode]

16 bands, 12 months, 3 cities, 1 life to live! - - • The Jezabels • Gypsy and the Cat • Emma Louise • Chairlift • Paul Kelly • Broods • Miami Horror • PNAU • Regurgitator • Sneaky Sound System • Beth Orton • LCD Soundsystem • Client Liaison • City Calm Down • Ball Park Music • Touch Sensitive - - [See the mixx-tape playlist link in bio] https://open.spotify.com/user/mixx-mode/playlist/1fban32m2vExbS8boCY5Zk?si=Gz7RuLHDSim1ZAEDgar-bw - - #thejezabels #gypsyandthecat #emmalouise #chairlift #paulkelly #broods #miamihorror #pnau #regurgitator #sneakysoundsystem #bethorton #lcdsoundsystem #clientliaison #citycalmdown #ballparkmusic #touchsensitive #2016 #2017 #live #musichead #obsession #indie #lifeinthefastlane #festival #love #bliss (at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)