Photographer: Charlyn Cameron
Photographer: Charlyn Cameron
Artists: They Might Be Giants, Tara Simmons
Venue: The Zoo, Brisbane
Date: May 8, 2013
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Live Review: Funeral For A Friend + Relentless + Dollarosa @ The Rev, Brisbane – May 8, 2013
Review by Michelle O’Rance
The Rev in Fortitude Valley was once hailed as a premier venue with its intimate settings and tonight it has reopened its doors to live music to host the first show on the Australian Funeral For A Friend tour.
Tonight’s bill is somewhat mixed with post hardcore locals Dollarosa and Sydney punk band Relentless taking the stage to warm the crowd up for the Welsh rockers.
Lachlan Dann has just a square meter of room to move around in on the tiny, crowded stage but he manages to manoeuvre around the drums and his fellow band mates and the local fans appreciate the energy he puts into his performance.
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Q&A with Angelo Conway – The Short Fall
Q&A with Angelo Conway, vocalist/guitarist of alternative indie rock band THE SHORT FALL.
Wendy Clear by Blink 182 (first song we learnt as a band).
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Little Hell, City & Colour
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Photos! Funeral For A Friend + Relentless + Dollarosa @ The Rev, Brisbane – May 8, 2013
Live Review: Groovin’ The Moo 2013 – Bendigo
Review by Ben Connolly
There’s always something special about country town festivals. For the locals, there’s the rare joy of rocking out with your house key in your pocket; for the ring-ins, there’s the extra heady buzz of a sugar fuelled roadtrip, or skanky train chug at the end of the night. From the get-go this buzz was palpable at Bendigo’s fifth turn on the Groovin’ The Moo carousel.
As always happens when you’re a big-smoke ring-in, events like these not only provide a musical feast but also a chance to see how the locals do it in comparison.
Observation #1: the locals love their festival. Sure the procession of beaten up shit boxes and busloads of hipsters from Melbourne bolstered the numbers, but the bulging excess of humanity dodging the cow pats and shielding their eyes from the dust eddies screamed of local pride.
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New Big Day Out Venue for the Gold Coast
Big Day Out has found a new home at Metricon Stadium & Carrara Parklands on the Gold Coast. In January, we came to an agreement with the State Government that guaranteed the festivals future to remain on the coast.
We have secured a new site for the Gold Coast event, ensuring its economic benefits stay within the region.
The move from the Parklands site was necessary to make way for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games athlete’s village to be built, with preparation and early works underway later this year.
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Kaki King to tour Australia May-June 2013
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Kaki King is a true iconoclast, a visionary musician/artist whose singular work rightly stands out amongst the easily formatted. Over her decade-long career thus far, the Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer has recorded five extraordinarily diverse and distinctive LPs, performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and The Mountain Goats, contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks (spanning Golden Globe-nominated work with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook on Sean Penn’s Into The Wild to teaming with Carter Burwell on his blockbuster Twilight score), and played to ever-growing audiences on innumerable world tours.
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TAYLOR SWIFT to bring The Red Tour to Australia & New Zealand
Photo by Josh Woning for Life Music Media – Full photo gallery HERE
The Frontier Touring Company has announced that 7-time GRAMMY winner and international superstar Taylor Swift is heading down under with her blockbuster THE RED TOUR. The talented singer songwriter today confirmed she will be performing stadium shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, as well as an arena date in Auckland, later this year as the first overseas leg of her acclaimed THE RED TOUR.
Notably, Taylor Swift will be the first solo female in twenty years to undertake a national stadium tour of Australia, with the last being Madonna’s Girlie Show tour in 1993, also promoted by Frontier Touring.
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Stereophonics confirm east coast tour with special guests Atlas Genius
Welsh rockers STEREOPHONICS make their eagerly awaited return to Australia this July – their first tour here since 2010 – touching down in three East Coast cities with special guests Atlas Genius.
Stereophonics, one of Britain’s most dynamic and celebrated live bands, will tour in support of one of their most revered releases to date, the critically acclaimed Graffiti on the Train.
With a stellar career history spanning 21 years – from 1998’s BRIT Award for Best New Band, through five consecutive UK #1 albums, to last month’s release of their eighth studio recording – Stereophonics have time and again cemented themselves as one of the UK’s greatest rock bands.
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Heavenly Antennas to Provide Musical Score for 2013 Vivid Sydney
Heavenly Antennas are a Sydney-based duo who collaborate to produce recording artists, film scores and huge sound-installations for multi-media events. Their music ranges from the arty and obscure – such as creating an entire score out of antique vibrators for an SBS documentary – to huge orchestral scores for immersive cross-media experiences such as the Shanghai Pavillion at World Expo, or the closing song of Doha Games, seen by 80 million people.Continue reading Heavenly Antennas to Provide Musical Score for 2013 Vivid Sydney
Photos! Tegan and Sara + Clubfeet @ Palais Theatre, Melbourne – May 2, 2013
Festival Review: THE GUM BALL Festival 2013
Review by Sian Hanigan
Photos by Amy Lee Freshwater
Driving out on a dusty dirt road, after passing the sleepy country towns of Cessnock and Branxton, we had reached our magical destination, ‘Dashville’, Lower Belford. The secluded bushy estate owned by the Johnston’s in the beautiful Hunter Valley, welcomed us with open arms. Local volunteers with cheek-to-cheek grins directed us to SPACIOUS camp areas nestled amongst the Australian gum-trees. Every person we pass, waving, like old friends.
And wait, only 10 minutes had passed and I knew it was my kind of festival. The camping situation was second to none, taking me back to childhood camp outs in east coast national parks. There was space, there were showers, there was the occasional melody of native birds through the music and it was BYO (definitely a bonus). People were friendly, an assortment of very young, very old and everyone in between. They were more than happy to offer you a cuppa from the billy, welcome you over for a sing-along, or in my case lend me their jumper leads to recharge my car… and the toilets were clean.
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Photos! THE GUM BALL Festival – 25-27th April 2013
Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater
Photographer: Amy Lee Freshwater
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Trail Of Dead announce “Source Tags & Codes” Australian Tour – May 2013
…And You Know Us By The Trail Of Dead will return to Australia this May to perform what is arguably their best and most influential record, Source Tags & Codes, which the almighty Pitchfork awarded a perfect score of 10/10. The shows will take place in two parts: a complete performance of Source Tags & Codes, followed by a set of highlights from their extensive back catalogue.
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Freedom Fighter join Blue King Brown
FREEDOM FIGHTERS JOIN BKB
New line up additions ahead of new album
Ahead of the release of their new album to be released later this year, Blue King Brown add two new freedom fighting backing singers to their band.
Joining Natalie Pa’apa’a are the powerful vocals of Lea and Petra Rumwaropen; daughters of the late Agosto Rumwaropen, singer/songwriter behind one of West Papua’s most recognised and outspoken acts The Black Brothers.
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