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Beady Eye

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BEADY EYE

DIFFERENT GEAR STILLSPEEDING (Liberator)HHH

BEADY Eye is Oasisminus Noel Gallagher.Suitably, their albumsounds just like Oasisminus Noel Gallagher.That is, songs aping theirrole models — the Beatlesand the Rolling Stones.Great single The Rollerborrows John Lennon’s In-stant Karma vibe and thegrunt is turned up on FourLetter Word.Kill for a Dream is a budgetChampagne Supernova(Spumante Supernova?)while Liam Gallagher’ssweet voice is showcasedon For Anyone. All as youexpect, just missing a Noel-Gallagher-penned classic.

Cameron Adams

GREEN DAY

AWESOME AS F**K(Warner)HHH

GREEN Day’s tours be-hind their past two al-bums, American Idiot and21st Century Breakdown,have been non-stop crowd-pleasers, from explosionsto kids pulled from thecrowd to play guitar.Still, that should not dis-tract you from the fact it’sthe songs that make aGreen Day show such apunchy affair.Recorded around the worldon their 2009 tour (that’sBrisbane chanting alongwith Billie Joe on She),Awesome as F**k veersfrom epic to bratty.

Neala Johnson