Photographer: Charlyn Cameron
Photographer: Charlyn Cameron
Artist: The Jezabels
Venue: The Tivoli, Brisbane
Date: October 14, 2011
Photographer: Charlyn Cameron
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Please welcome the below bands to the Soundwave 2012 line-up:
These bands will be joining the artists from the 1st announcement:
Continue reading SOUNDWAVE 2012 – 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT IS HERE!!
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West End Film Festival Call for Entries
The 3rd West End Film Festival is calling for entries for the 2012 program. Filmmakers are encouraged to enter Australian short films from all genres including drama, documentary, animation and music clips. The festival welcomes first-time and established filmmakers and creative producers to enter their unique works. |
Continue reading West End Film Festival 2012 – Call for Entries
DANIELLE SPENCER & STEVE BALBI
‘ALONE & TOGETHER’ Tour!
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Inspired by collaborating and co-producing an EP of acoustic remakes of tracks from Spencer’s debut album together (due for release in November), as well as working together on Spencers live shows both here in Australia and in the UK, Danielle Spencer & Steve Balbi have joined forces for a series of co-headline shows and are excited to announce the Alone & Together Tour. |
Continue reading DANIELLE SPENCER & STEVE BALBI ‘Alone & Together’ Tour – Oct/Nov 2011
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BRISBANE musicians unite to celebrate and promote the sounds of Brisbane.
On Sunday, October 30 the diversity of the Brisbane music scene will be showcased through an all ages afternoon gig at The Legions Club in Fortitude Valley as part of a showcase for the Brisbane Sounds #5 compilation album. |
Continue reading Brisbane Sounds #5 – 30 October 2011 | Event News
For anyone who ever thought that making good music was a lost art, LAURA compels you to think again. On October 14 the Melbourne five piece release their long-awaited third album, TWELVE HUNDRED TIMES.
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Of the new album, LAURA’s Andrew Yardley says ”’Cutting the fat’ – was the mantra applied to every aspect of creating TWELVE HUNDRED TIMES. Focused and obsessed, we were brutal in refining every note of every song. Songs and sounds became territorial, aggressively fighting for space. The weak were cut or cannibalised. Emotion was a scarce treat, allowed in small potions but neurotic self-restraint ensured it didn’t weaken our vision. Any reward songs gave us along the way was immediately ploughed |
back into the earth. TWELVE HUNDRED TIMES is lean and sharp as planned but is ultimately more sentimental then we envisioned.”
Continue reading Laura ‘Twelve Hundred Times’ Tour – November 2011
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Based around the core of front-man Rival MC (aka Fred Leone) and DJ Returnagain (aka James Vincent), Impossible Odds are an Indigenous Hip Hop/Soul group from Brisbane. Their long awaited debut album “Against All odds” has just been released. |
Continue reading IMPOSSIBLE ODDS – “AGAINST ALL ODDS” Album and Tour – 2011
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Get ready to be blasted into oblivion when The Killgirls launch the ANIMAL EP at the Queens Theatre in Adelaide this Saturday, October 22. Supported by ADL heavy hitters The Rules, Loot and Plunder, Bottle Rockets (DJ Set), AJ Sound, The Kings and General Admission this launch is going to eclipse their last mind imprinting launch event.
The Killgirls: ANIMAL was produced, mixed and mastered entirely by lead vocalist Mario Spate, and recorded by the band – Nick O’Connor on bass, Hamish Cox playing synths, Tony Irish on drums, Rusty Hutchinson on guitar – the EP is the sound of The Killgirls unleashed. The first single, ‘Astronaut’, is a bass driven dance floor anthem at the ready, and it’s coming your way. The Killgirls make music with teeth, for party people. They have played up to the ecstatic mayhem of the 2010 Fringe Opening Party in front of 40,000 people, scored a Boiler Room spot at the Big Day Out in 2011; rocked Parklife 2011 and played The Clipsal 500 2011, as well as many other shows around the country. They have shared stages with Crystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, Die Antwoord, Bloody Beetroots, Art VS Science and Oh Mercy!; have enjoyed syncs with Suburu, The Commonwealth Games and the AFL; will be taking the stage at the 2011 Parklife in Adelaide on October 3; are supporting Dead Letter Circus on the NO FRACKING WAY Tour in November, and this, as they say, is just the beginning. |
 Dan Wheldon after his Indianapolis 500 victory in May |
There has been a sad build-up to this weekend’s Armor All Gold Coast 600 with the tragic death of English driver Dan Wheldon in the final round of the IZOD IndyCar Series in Las Vegas this morning.
33-year-old Wheldon, who was set to drive with his good mate James Courtney in a Toll Holden Racing Team Commodore at this weekend’s race, was involved in a 15-car pile-up just 12 laps into the 200-lap race. |
Continue reading TRAGEDY STRIKES INDYCAR FINALE IN LAS VEGAS
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With his unique take on the pop genre, 2011 has been a determining year for Pluto Jonze. Following the release of his debut self-titled EP, Pluto has carved a name for himself as a refreshing and engaging performer and part of a new breed of talented Australian artists. Rounding out the year with a final run of east-coast shows throughout October and November (2011) with his Plastic Bag In A Hurricane Single Tour, we Take Five With… Pluto Jonze |
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Too hard to chose between AIR’s Moon Safari, Beck’s Sea Change and Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
:: Name a band or artist we should checkout ::
Pure X from Austin, Texas (Dry Ice is an amazing song) Also Mrs. Bishop from Sydney should be releasing some great material very soon.
:: Favourite Quote ::
Give a man a fish and he will live for a day. Fill a submarine with fish and there will be hell to pay, young man.
:: When on tour, you can’t live without ::
Gaffer tape. It’s my new religion.
:: When you think of Australia, you think ::
nawwww…
:: Worst thing to happen to music is ::
DJs
:: Best thing about the current music industry ::
will be iCloud when it becomes widespread. Steve Jobs’ parting gift to music will hopefully allow the industry to make money off illegal downloads.
:: Biggest influence ::
David Bowie
:: Childhood hero ::
Gary Sweet (in Police Rescue)
:: When you were younger you wanted to be ::
a Ninja Turtle
:: Last album bought ::
Geoffrey O’Connor – ‘Vanity is Forever’
:: First album you ever bought ::
Cake – ‘Prolonging the Magic’
:: First concert you went to ::
Grinspoon
:: Last concert you went to ::
aside from my own, Cadillac and Mrs. Bishop @ Oxford Art Factory
:: Favourite current band ::
Golden Silvers, although sadly I think they may have just broken up after only one release. So Gorillaz would probably be my favourite surviving act.
:: Favourite drink ::
White Russian
:: Favourite book ::
Old Man and the Sea
:: Favourite actor ::
Ringo Starr! No, probably Michael Caine
:: Favourite website ::
youtube
:: The best boredom buster is ::
youtube
:: The best film you ever saw was ::
Shawshank Redemption.
:: Your ultimate snack is ::
Ham and cheese jaffal
:: The first thing you do when you wake up is ::
hit snooze
:: Best piece of advice you’ve received ::
work out what you want before someone else does it for you.
:: Your biggest aspirations ::
play on Later with Jools, successfully tour the US, headline the first concert in outer space.
:: Best/worst gift you’ve ever given/received ::
Getting a Killing Heidi CD when I was 13 was pretty devastating.
** PLUTO JONZE ‘PLASTIC BAG IN A HURRICANE’ SINGLE TOUR – Oct/Nov 2011
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Continue reading HITS, Velociraptor @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 13 October 2011 | Photo Gallery
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Photographer: Stuart Blythe
Continue reading New York Dolls @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – 13 October 2011 | Photo Gallery
Select Touring, Big Apachee, Street Press Australia and Sludge Factory proudly present
Celebrating 35 years of living dead, UK gothic punk rockers, the Damned, make a triumphant return to Australia in January 2012. Lead by original members, guitarist/singer Captain Sensible and theatrical singer Dave Vanian, as well as long time members Monty Oxy Moron, Pinch and Stu West, the Damned return with one mission in mind: to wreak anarchy, chaos and destruction across the nation. Continue reading THE DAMNED Australian Tour, January 2012