Missing z's
In the tawdry world of pop music, high ideals and quality musicianship can often be trampled underfoot in the stampede to jump on the latest, digitally-perfected 'talent', the newest and most marketable teen sensation, the next Britney or Beyonce, West Life or Back Street Boys.
It's an industry dominated by big-money studios, profit-grabbing producers and easily-exploited fame whores.
But every now and then, a ray of sunshine breaks through the ever present clouds. An act so powerful and original, so youthfully exuberant and with such musical integrity, that even the most hardened cynics can but watch in awe.
I speak of course of the hard-hitting trio from Melbourne's western suburbs, the Werribee boys made huge, the devastatingly handsome, the silken-voiced and irrepressibly talented Boyz.
Yes, Jaxson, Alex and Dean are the real deal people.
Playing to packed houses from Taylors Lakes to Craigieburn this fearsome trio have been slaying tweenage girls all over this fine city.
But I fear something may have gone horribly wrong. The Boyz were last sighted in early May performing at the legendary Kidz Digz, BUT HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD FROM SINCE!
Could it be that the Boyz and their performance venues have used up all the spare z's in the suburbs and are now stranded in some horrific post zapocolyptic society!? Has the media attention become so great that they have had to go to ground to work on their next album, rumoured to be a psychedelic LSD-infused trance/trip-hop masterpiece?
Where this mystery will end only the baby Jesus knows. But be assured that I will not rest until the truth is uncovered and the Boyz are restored to their rightful place.
It's an industry dominated by big-money studios, profit-grabbing producers and easily-exploited fame whores.
But every now and then, a ray of sunshine breaks through the ever present clouds. An act so powerful and original, so youthfully exuberant and with such musical integrity, that even the most hardened cynics can but watch in awe.
I speak of course of the hard-hitting trio from Melbourne's western suburbs, the Werribee boys made huge, the devastatingly handsome, the silken-voiced and irrepressibly talented Boyz.
Yes, Jaxson, Alex and Dean are the real deal people.
Playing to packed houses from Taylors Lakes to Craigieburn this fearsome trio have been slaying tweenage girls all over this fine city.
But I fear something may have gone horribly wrong. The Boyz were last sighted in early May performing at the legendary Kidz Digz, BUT HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD FROM SINCE!
Could it be that the Boyz and their performance venues have used up all the spare z's in the suburbs and are now stranded in some horrific post zapocolyptic society!? Has the media attention become so great that they have had to go to ground to work on their next album, rumoured to be a psychedelic LSD-infused trance/trip-hop masterpiece?
Where this mystery will end only the baby Jesus knows. But be assured that I will not rest until the truth is uncovered and the Boyz are restored to their rightful place.
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