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So let’s set the scene of the Sydney leg of the Whiplash Festival “IV”: It’s been a 35-degree day of hot winds and sweaty butt cracks, but there’s been nowhere quite as hot as the insides of the iconic Sandringham Hotel in Newtown. Sadly, the heat is not all related to the scorching Aussie metal found within. This old venue is a steaming hot, sweaty, stinking series of boxes with stages and you feel the oppression from the moment you walk through the front doors. If the venue has air-con, you wouldn’t know it.
The building is a scene of barely controlled chaos with music equipment stacked into almost every corner. Don’t get this reviewer wrong. A pretty picture it isn’t, but there is the overwhelming positive aspect to the Whiplash Festival that remains: it’s an incredible showcase of Australian metal with bands traveling from every corner of this country to perform. That’s something that can’t and shouldn’t be undervalued.
Continue reading Live Review: Whiplash Festival “IV” at Sandringham Hotel, Sydney – 20 October 2012
Brisbane singer-songwriter 
After announcing themselves to a new legion of fans with their sophomore effort, ‘Riot’, 
Introducing 
In a pairing of innovative musical minds, Brisbane’s 
Mexican guitar heroes Rodrigo y Gabriela return to Sydney with their virtuosic mix of speed-metal heroics, Flamencan instrumentals and for the first time, in collaboration with prodigal Latin jazz pianist Alex Wilson. Hailed by critics as ‘one of those acts you have to see to believe’, Rodrigo y Gabriela promise an evening of jaw-dropping musical mastery and mind-boggling genre bending, veering between pin-drop intimacy and rhythmic ecstasy. Theirs is a soundscape that traverses not only the organic musical roots of their Latin heritage but pays joyous homage to their own musical heroes, the likes of Led Zeppelin and Metallica to Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix.
Future Entertainment announced that FMF 2013 tickets will be on-sale from noon in your local market today – Thursday 18th October 2012. After an overwhelming response to both our pre-sale and the announcement of our almighty 2013 line-up (that quite literally left our website cactus) FMF tickets will be officially on the market from midday! 
If there was a class for new bands looking to build huge amounts of buzz in as short a time as possible Take Us To Vegas (TUTV) would make perfect teachers. They have picked up over 17,000 new followers on Twitter in the last few months and have doubled their amount of likes on Facebook. Today they have released their new single and film clip “Apparently It’s Frowned Upon” and just upon one listen you can tell that this band is about to take over the airwaves. (Check out the video below)