October 2, 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi], Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and spiritual leader, (d. 1948)
October 2, 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
October 2, 1895 – Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
October 2, 1945 – Singer-songwriter Don McLean was Born on this day. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the songs “American Pie” and “Vincent”. More info here..
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The Gum Ball has announced dates for 2014, marking its 10th year as an independent boutique music and arts festival.
The event is set to take place again at the pristine country venue ‘Dashville’, in Lower Belford, on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th April 2014.
Slightly earlier on the calendar this year, the two night event will be held on the first weekend of the April school holidays. A move that organisers hope will better suit families looking to get away over the break before Easter kicks in.
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Don McLean (born October 2, 1945) singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the songs “American Pie” and “Vincent”.
Brisbane quartet Teapots latest single “Alley”. This is the first single from their highly anticipated debut EP Kings, due out late October 2013. Alley is a taste as they prepare for their E.P. launch at The Zoo, Brisbane on December 19, 2013.
Formed in August 2012 ‘Teapots’ are an Australian band based in Brisbane comprising of Shannon Rogers (guitar/percussion), Alex Neill (bass guitar), Mitchell Dormer (vocals/keyboards), Isaac Cavallaro (drum set/percussion).
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Paronella Park, Queensland
Do you know of an offbeat, unusual or unique attraction located in Australia? A hidden treasure, a scenic wonderland, an abandoned relic, a haunted mansion… any location or attraction that you’d like to recommend, we’d love to hear about it.
The submission form below does not allow for image uploads but if you would like to also submit photos of the attraction, please email them to lifemusicmediapics@gmail.com along with a subject line of the attraction name *as well as submitting the form below*.
Bridge to Staircase
Paronella Park, Queensland
www.paronellapark.com.au
www.bigdayout.com/headspace
Big Day Out and headspace, Australia’s youth mental health foundation, announced an exciting working partnership surrounding the Big Day Out 2014. With long-standing involvement in the support that headspace provide for 12 – 25 year olds, most recently through Rock N Ride, Big Day Out and headspace are raising the stakes in 2014 with the new headspace Stage and 2014 headspace Big Day Out national band competition.
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Pearl Jam sat down with Judd Apatow, Carrie Brownstein, Mark Richards, and Steve Gleason to talk about the band’s new studio album, Lightning Bolt.
Longtime friend, filmmaker, and photographer Danny Clinch captured these conversations and the band’s rehearsals in their hometown of Seattle.
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Following on from the electrifying response earned for their first single “Surf Song”, The Mistress has unveiled their second single “Vicodin” off their upcoming EP, showcasing the evolution of The Mistress’s sound.
Visit these links for more of The Mistress
www.facebook.com/themistressmusic
www.triplejunearthed.com/themistress
www.soundcloud.com/the-mistress-music
The Frontier Touring Company and Illusive have announced that Grammy award-winning hip-hop visionaries The Roots will take the stage for headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne this December!
Joining The Roots at both live performances as special guest will be Sydney’s very own hip-hop wunderkind Urthboy. The news of this headline tour coincides with The Roots’ highly anticipated appearances at this year’s Falls Festival, taking a break from their celebrated residency as the house band for US talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
The Roots were co-founded by childhood friends Black Thought and ?uestlove in 1987, their passionate and innovative approach to hip-hop took the band from talent shows to underground gigs in Philadelphia and New York to a tour across Europe.
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Melbourne singer songwriter, Tom Kline released his debut EP ‘Vintage Loneliness’’ on September 24 2013 through TK Recordings/AWAL and will embark on a national launch tour.
While Kline’s EP is available for purchase on iTunes, he’s offering a free download via BandCamp for two weeks, which you can download here- http://tomkline.bandcamp.com
“In a time when music piracy is rife, I figure why fight it? I want to share my music with the world. If they download it for free, I only ask that they share it far and wide,” says Kline.
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Q&A with Jimmi Laubscher (Lead Guitar, Backing vocals) from MY FICTION
My Fiction have launched their new album “Shallow Highs”. For more details visit the band facebook page at www.facebook.com/myfiction
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Pop punk is making a comeback and there is no finer act to showcase that than California’s Forever Came Calling.
It is evident the band has paid their dues by playing countless basement shows, DIY tours and doing what they can to self promote through various avenues. In 2010 the band played a role in the Warped Tour documentary ‘No Room For Rockstars’ where they sold their cds in line in hope that they would get to eventually play one of the shows. Their hard work eventuated at one of the last shows on the tour where they got to show fans what they are made of. Fast-forward to 2013 and Forever Came Calling have just completed the Vans Warped Tour playing all dates and over the last year have spent time on the road with The Story So Far, Handguns, Hawthorne Heights and more.
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To celebrate the release of the Deluxe Edition of the epic ‘Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow’, We Are The Ocean will be sharing a series of videos, filmed during the recording of the bonus material from the re-release at Middle Farm Studios. The first of which was BBC Radio 1 A list single – ‘Young Heart’.
Watch the first video ‘Young Heart – Live From Middle Farm Studios’
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In the misty days before Celtic Punk was ever a scene, Melbourne locals MUTINY were busy pioneering it – now, more than 20 years after their inception, they release the next chapter in the saga, the retrospective album Drink to Better Days. Since 1991, MUTINY have been bringing their gypsy-jazz-pirate-folk-punk jigs of anti-establishment to punks both here and abroad – Drink to Better Days weaves these halcyon days of grit, grind and mandolins together.
Folk punk for punk folk is and always has been MUTINY’s ethos, emerging in its infancy from the politically turbulent times of Melbourne’s squat scene. MUTINY fuses the uniqueness of the Australian experience with the folk-drenched sounds of the mandolin and piano accordion. Their music evolved over the years and through time spent abroad, the influence of tearing it up in countries such as Germany, France, Slovenia and Croatia seeping through into their music, resulting in cleverly cultivated masterworks like albums Rum Rebellion, Co-Op Brewery and EPs Bodgy Tatts and Bag of Oats.
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