Giveaways: Datarock Australian Tour 2010

Chugg Entertainment, XIII Touring and LifeMusicMedia are giving away 2 double passes to see Datarock!

Norway’s Datarock have returned with the follow up to the geek-chic party album of 2005, Datarock Datarock and will be heading down under to serve it up live to Australian audiences.

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Tour Details:

Their debut mixed Happy Mondays punk-funk with warped Devo humour, and was well received locally with ‘Computer Camp Love’ landing #12 on Triple J’s Hottest 100. The new album, Red, has lost none of the duo’s aptitude for so-classic-you-must-haveheard-it-before hooks, but this follow-up is an altogether more concept-driven beast.

For example, lead single ‘Give it Up’ was actually an idea for a music video before it became a song, paraphrasing Beat It, Bad,West Side Story, and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo & Juliet. And what a music video it became, featuring red-hot moves and hot-red tracksuits that set the international blog world afire following its premiere on Pitchfork. Australia, too, gave it up for the track which received continuing support from Triple J, Channel V, and MTV.

As an album, Red is a thoroughly unashamed love-letter to the influences that made Datarock what they are today.

DEVO, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Talking Heads, Haruki Murakami, Don Delilo’s White Noise, Scott Walker, the works of John Hughes and Peter Greenaway, and even Molly Ringwald (in the song Molly) are all referenced. Pop cultural fluff that is meaningful because invoking them now as adults is a sharp reminder from a more innocent time that we should ALWAYS be having more fun than we are right now.

But Red is not all nostalgic longing. Datarock are just as interested in this day and age, expressed through their love-hate relationship with technology and communication. On ‘The Pretender’, Fredrik announces he is, “In love with my avatar!”, before reeling off a list of the multiple duplicitous identities available to him online – North Korean? South American? Presbyterian? ‘The Blog’, meanwhile, is an attempt by these technology-fetishists to romanticise the early utopian promise of the Internet, before it became something that people just took for granted and got annoyed by. It’s total retrofuturism.

Red isn’t just a socio-political tract about the fluid nature of identity in the Internet age. It’s also a eulogy for nostalgia. It’s an abstract notion in an era of instant data retrieval. And it’s the party album of 2009! Join Datarock and head back to the future when they perform over the New Year festival season and two special headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne!

DATES
Sat 2nd January 2010 Metro Theatre, Sydney NSW
Tue 5th January 2010 The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Victoria

– Datarock at iTunes

Visit Chugg Entertainment for full tour details and updates.

Conditions of Entry
1. Entry to this giveaway is for people 18 years of age or older.
2. Winners will be notified by email.
3. Winners will be determined by LifeMusicMedia. All entries become the property of LifeMusicMedia.
4. No correspondence will be entered into and the prize is not transferable or redeemable for cash.
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6. This double pass giveaway is for one(1) double pass per winner, to one(1) of the following Datarock shows:
Sat 2 January 2010 Metro Theatre, Sydney NSW
Tue 5 January 2010 The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Victoria