Photographer: Cynthia Lee
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News: BIGSOUND Trends Worldwide, Announces 2013 Dates
After eleven years, BIGSOUND has well and truly cemented its place on the global scale as the official Twitter hashtag, #bigsound trended worldwide last night.
BIGSOUND 2012 was the home of an intimate, frank and deeply personal keynote speech by Steve Earle, revelations of industry spats from the Are Artists Being Paid Too Much panel, or the passionate discussions of the creation and development of ground-breaking albums in the Making Records That Matter panel.
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The Incredible Kicks – Ineffective Lullaby (Official Video)
Live Review: Shihad @ The Hi-Fi, Melbourne – 6 September 2012
Review by Ben Connolly
Boldness is not generally an adjective jumping to mind when you think of Kiwi band Shihad. With its skinny black-jeans clad legs planted firmly in the safe melodic-tinged rock scene pushed forth as the genre de jour of the late 90s and early 00s, you’d hardly seek out their albums to push boundaries or explore sonic adventures. Even more so in the past few years, where they’ve rotated around the all-too-familiar downward spiral of record-promote-tour-hope for relevance-rinse-repeat: it’s hardly a recipe for the cutting edge.
There is, however, an impressive boldness with the simple honesty with which they’ve approached their career crossroads moment: shunning the best-ofs and karaoke tour of their past glories in favour of a 38-song full career retrospective (a completist’s wet dream), a fly-on-the-wall cinema doco exposing the bands lowest moment of changing their name in a doomed attempt to storm the US market, and topping it all off with a solid live whip-around aimed squarely at the true believers.
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Photo Gallery: BIGSOUND Live 2012 – Day 1
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Event: BIGSOUND Live 2012 – Day 1 – 12 September 2012
Artist: The Good Ship
www.awakeniam.com – Awaken I Am
www.strangers.net.au/ – Strangers
www.snowdroppers.com – The Snowdroppers
www.heroesforhire.com.au – Heroes For Hire
www.facebook.com/violentsoho – Violent Soho
Velociraptor – www.velociraptor.com.au
Date: 12 September 2012
News: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – February 2013 Tour Dates
“massive, achingly beautiful work, alternately elegiac and ferocious.” Pitchfork
Seminal Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor will bring their heartrending live show to Australia for the first time this February. Already announced to perform at ATP’s ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’, the band will also headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
GY!BE was created in 1994 as a solo musical outlet for Efrim Menuck, with the name borrowed from a little known 1976 Japanese black and white documentary. Three years on, Menuck was invited to perform at a show in Montreal, and asked bassist Mauro Pezzente and guitarist Mike Moya to accompany him. The band quickly grew to a core group of nine members and in 1997 they released their debut album F#A#∞. They’ve since gone on to release 3 studio albums and an EP, each generally consisting of an entire piece which is then divided into sections ranging from 15 to 25 minutes.
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News: Creepshow Halloween Festival – Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 02 November 2012
BANDS*BURLESQUE*DJs. Attention creatures of the night… The inaugural ‘Creepshow Halloween Festival’ hits Brisbane in November! See the venue transformed into a haunted mansion, playing host to seductive burlesque dancers and a horde of spine--tingling bands.
Performing live will be – The Kidney Thieves (Farewell Show & Album Launch), LeSuits, Engine Three Seven (VIC), Epidemic…Over, The Bertie Page Clinic, Arctic, The Incredible Kicks, The Pacconellies, Guards Of May, Cute Machines, and 8 Mile High DJ’s.
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Star Wars Family Car Decals
The Force is strong in this car
We had some fun conversations in the office as we tried to come up with families that we could create with this set of stickers. Dad as Darth Vader, Mom as Slave Leia? Ew, no. Dad as Chewbacca, Mom as Padmé Amidala? Let’s not think about that. Dad as Han Solo and Mom as Leia would work, but would they really produce a Yoda and a tiny Stormtrooper?
Q&A with Tom West – Traveller & Fortune
Traveller & Fortune are touring in support of their latest single “Little Plastic People”, including a slot at BIGSOUND Live 2012. Tom West took time out for Life Music Media.
Probably any number of songs by Ben Harper back in the day.
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Frengers by a Danish band called Mew
:: Name a band or artist we should checkout ::
Mew! Apparently not many people know of them
:: Favourite Quote ::
To be or not to be….. nah!
:: When on tour, you can’t live without ::
Internet
:: When you think of Australia, you think ::
Home… and kangaroos I suppose
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Photo Gallery: Shihad with The Snowdroppers @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 8 September 2012
Theatre News: South Pacific – Melbourne and Brisbane seasons!
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After 7 Tony Awards® and sell out seasons on Broadway and the West End, the Lincoln Center Theater’s stunning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific is set to tour the east coast of Australia.
Starring Lisa McCune as Nellie, Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Emile, Kate Ceberano* as Bloody Mary, and Eddie Perfect* as Luther Billis and Daniel Koek as Lieutenant Cable, South Pacific is opening in Melbourne from 13 September and Brisbane from 27 December, tickets and packages are selling fast!.
A superb 25 piece orchestra will play what is undoubtedly one of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most glorious scores, featuring magnificent numbers including ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, ‘I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair’, ‘Bali Ha’i’ and ‘There is Nothin’ Like a Dame’.
A ground-breaking new production, directed by Bartlett Sher, South Pacific swept the 2008 Tony Awards® and played to sold-out houses for two and a half years, making it one of the Lincoln Center Theater most successful productions.
* Melbourne season only
THE WIGGLES – Celebration Tour – From 17 November 2012
On May 18, Anthony, Murray, Greg and Jeff – The Wiggles – announced that 2012 would be their final year of touring together and unveiled plans for their final world tour.
Now having spent 2012 travelling through Asia, USA, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom and New Zealand, The Wiggles are finally coming home for their Celebration tour – the final shows together of Anthony, Murray, Jeff and Greg
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Video: The Beards – Why Having a Beard is Better Than Having a Woman – Live
The Beards play their song “Why Having a Beard is Better Than Having a Woman” live at Melbourne Uni August 2012
Filmed By CarbieWarbie © www.carbiewarbie.com
Catch THE BEARDS live at BIGSOUND LIVE 2012 – September 2012
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Photo: Uncle Fester and Lurch – The Addams Family
Publicity photo of Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) and Ted Cassidy (Lurch) from a personal appearance booking at Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park, Wakefield Massachusetts
Date stamp on back is 15 July 1966. Stamp is faint.
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Discover: The Invincible Summer’s debut single “Runaway”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me… an Invincible Summer” – Albert Camus
After spending the Australian summer in the chill of the northern hemisphere, Sydney based multi-instrumentalist Matt James returned home with a vision to establish a musical collective entitled The Invincible Summer, inspired by French author Albert Camus’ quote which he saw scrawled on the side of his Darlinghurst hall upon his return to Australia.
Runaway is the debut single from the forthcoming self-titled debut LP, due in store early 2013.
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