I've had the good fortune to find myself in Melbourne and Tasmania for the last week or so. Tassie is rad and highly recommended; the devils (pictured) are charming, though rare, and not at all malevolent-seeming; the landscapes are otherworldly in their beauty and there's even a fair funkload of art, music and other good things bubbling about.

To accompany this good fortune is the misfortune of missing a very fine-seeming few shows, and I've already mourned the passing of Bone's west-coast EP launch and French Rockets/Injured Ninja's combined record-explosion party in North Perth's excellent Chapel Space.

To complete my trifekta of interstate gig-regret comes this beguiling little number (again, a dual record launch) from nymphomaniac clunk-punk delights TACO LEG and euro-surf popstar-warriors WIND WAKER.

You should go to this gig, to make me feel better about not being able to. Or to make me feel worse.... or just because it's an ace-looking party.