Monochrome Monday (live streaming)

I'm supposed to be doing a post today on the phenomenon that is 50 Shades of Grey, but I've been awake since 330 am or something like that and enveloped by brain fog. Instead, I'll be celebrating the tech that is live streaming, enlightened musicians and concert promoters, who are happy to broadcast performances live for those of us who either can't afford tickets or live on the other side of the planet.

Right now it's 500 am and winter and dark down here in the South Pacific. Now, according to my smart little phone that makes it midday and summer in San Francisco, up beside the North Pacific. I haven't been there since last century but have fond memories of Golden Gate Park and welcoming in a New Year there. And right now, there are 32589 concertgoers listening to Allen Stone's cover of Bob Marley's "Is this Love?"

How do I know this? Well, as I clumsily attempt to land some text on the old phosophourescent screeen in front of me, I'm listening to a live feed from the Outside Lands 2012 concert in SF. Free. No dodgy copyright issues. No pirate radio mobile phone recordings. Just pure sound that feels like they've taken a line feed straight out of the mixing desk. It's been going for three days and today is the last. Click HERE to see who's on today and what time (San Francisco is 18 hours behind Oz and 8 hours behind London).

BIG THANKS to the tech wizards at TuneIn for the free software app and the following bands for daring to share their live performance wonderment with the rest of us in the cyberverse:

METALLICA     STEVIE WONDER 

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE 

FOO FIGHTERS    JACK WHITE

BECK 

SKRILLEX    SIGUR ROS 

JUSTICE

NORAH JONES   DISPATCH

THE KILLS   REGINA SPEKTOR 

PASSION PIT

ANDREW BIRD    GRANDADDY

BIG BOI

BLOC PARTY

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

SANTIGOLD

FRANZ FERDINAND

MSTRKRFT

REBELUTION

DIE ANTWOORD

FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS

PORTUGAL. THE MAN

AMADOU & MARIAM

WOLFGANG GARTNER

FUN.   DR. DOG

THE WALKMEN

WASHED OUT

CITY AND COLOUR

TWO GALLANTS

OF MONSTERS AND MEN

MIMOSA

ALABAMA SHAKES

REGGIE WATTS

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES

TAME IMPALA

JOVANOTTI

THE BE GOOD TANYAS

YACHT

ANTIBALAS

SHARON VAN ETTEN

TOM MORELLO: THE NIGHTWATCHMAN

GEOGRAPHER   SEAN HAYES

BOMBA ESTEREO

DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND

BIG GIGANTIC

THEE OH SEES

WALLPAPER.

TENNIS

ZOLA JESUS

WHITE DENIM

ALLEN STONE

THE M MACHINE

MICHAEL KIWANUKA

TANLINES

FATHER JOHN MISTY

ELECTRIC GUEST

CAVEMAN

JUKEBOX THE GHOST

PAPA

YELLOW OSTRICH

CORY CHISEL AND THE WANDERING SONS

BIRDY

HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND

ANIMAL KINGDOM

FUTUREBIRDS

INFANTREE