- Leonard Cohen Documentary on Free to Air TV channel SBS at 10.00pm on Tuesday 10 February 2009: HOT DOCS: LEONARD COHEN: I’M YOUR MAN
- Axl Rose Speaks – Axl Rose gives his first major interview in nine years. He speaks of the media, new philosophies about the music industry, something about “freedom of the press,” how an album leaks — and strip joints. more…
- Glastonbury Festival Sells Out – Tickets for the legendary Glastonbury Festival in England have sold out months ahead of the event. more…
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Death Cab for Cutie Australian Tour, February 2009
Death Cab for Cutie Australian Tour, February 2009
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After their sold out Australian tour in August 2008, Billions Australia are pleased to announce the return of Death Cab for Cutie to Australian shores for a run of summer dates this February.
Kicking off the tour with an outdoor show in Fremantle, Death Cab for Cutie are then set to perform in intimate theatre surrounds in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. |
The year just past saw Death Cab for Cutie’s sixth studio album “Narrow Stairs”, debut at Number 6 on the ARIA Album Chart and an impressive Number 1 debut on the US Billboard Chart. “Narrow Stairs is rapidly approaching Gold sales (500,000) in their home country.
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PHILLY JAYS WOW BDO AUDIENCE AND ANNOUNCE NEW DATES
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PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY positively killed it when they made their Big Day Out debut last week after winning triplejunearthed.com’s BDO competition. Attracting the daytime’s largest crowd to the V Local Produce stage, the Sydney trio had the throng singing along to the already-classic Going to The Casino and new single Ready To Roll.
The Philly Jays invite you to see why they have been widely tipped as one of Sydney’s best new bands at their forthcoming shows. |
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Ben Kweller @ The Zoo, Brisbane 9th April 2009
| Ben Kweller returns to tour Australia in April in support of his new album Changing Horses, released through Shock Records.
The album is his fourth full-length and was produced by Kweller and recorded mostly in Austin, TX, where he and his family recently re-located. |
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The title is meaningful as it represents a sea change for the 27-year-old Texan-bred musician. Beginning with his first record, Sha Sha, released in 2002, Kweller’s albums have always been stylistically restless, moving from indie rock to ballads to anti-folk to melodic rock, often from song to song.
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Bon Iver @ The Tivoli, Brisbane 17 Jan 2009 Photos and Review
Photographer: Elize Strydom
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Matt Burgess of Burgo’s Blog attended the show and writes:
“Last night, I had probably the most visceral experience of my life, watching Bon Iver perform live at the Tivoli in Brisbane. To call it sublime would be an understatement.
It was over two years ago (side note: how fast is time going these days? I mean, honestly…) that the dulcet tones of Justin Vernon first made their ways to my ears. I managed to catch the tail end of the Hazeltons days/post DeYarmond Edison days, but really – if I’m honest – I was probably only fully hooked when I first heard Skinny Love. It’s a cardinal sin to admit something like that, when you’re a music blogger (especially considering the strength of the Hazeltons era), but that’s the moment when I realised that this was… different. That there was something transcendent in this music. So when the news made its way to me that Bon Iver would be performing at the Tivoli, I knew I would be going.
And man, am I glad I did.”…
Read Matt Burgess’s full review at http://www.burgoblog.com/2009/01/18/bon-iver-live-tivoli-brisbane-2009/
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ATP 2009 Photo Gallery
All Tomorrow’s Parties
January 15, 2009
The Riverstage, Brisbane
Photographer: Matt Palmer
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STEREOLAB announce supports for Australian Tour
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Prodigious, influential, boundary-pushing UK group STEREOLAB return to Australia after a six year hiatus to play two highly-anticipated side shows in Sydney and Melbourne, in addition to the national St Jerome’s Laneway Festival. Over the course of their 17-year history, the enviable, genre-shifting writing talents of Tim Ganes and the eloquent, elegant vocals of singer Laeticia Sadler have been honed to perfection, as evidenced on their 2008 release, Chemical Chords. At once experimental and crowd-pleasing, STEREOLAB have assured themselves a place in the in the indie-rock canon and are a live proposition not to be missed. |
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Stray Cats @ The Tivoli, Brisbane 26-27 February 2009
It’s been a long, long, too long a wait but finally Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker will be back down under on their Farewell World Tour.
Formed in 1979 the Stray Cats took the world by storm with their infectious rockabilly musical stylings and frenetic live shows.
Having created their own version of the standard rockabilly sound by blending Brian’s jazz & swing sensibilities with the band’s love of the 70’s UK punk sound, the Stray Cats have built up a devoted following and maintained an enviable live reputation throughout their 30 year career.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ATP 2009
For the inaugural Australian series All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) have announced that arguably the most significant Australian export of the last twenty years Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, are to make their curating debut. The Bad Seeds intimate knowledge of all things Australian (music and otherwise) coupled with their innate sense of the weird and wonderful will – we are sure – make for a series of very unique events.
Performers already chosen to appear at All Tomorrow’s Parties 2009 include seminal Australian punk band, The Saints – featuring original members Ed Kuepper, Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay performing their first Australian shows (outside Brisbane) since 1977; British transcendentalists, Spiritualized; avant-blues artist, James Blood Ulmer (US); krautrock supergroup, Harmonia (Germany); electro-terrorists, Fuck Buttons (UK); pioneering synth-minimalists, Silver Apples (UK); psychotic space rockers, Afrirampo (Japan); Ex-Swan M. Gira (USA), the jazz-noir stylings of the Laughing Clowns (Aust), former Go-Between Robert Forster (Aust), the synth-punk of Primitive Calculators: former Birthday Party guitarist, Rowland S. Howard (Aust), post-grunge/noise devotees, The Stabs (Aust), classical-rock teenagers Bridezilla (Aust) & the sublime ambience of The Necks (Aust)
The Cat Empire @ The Tivoli, Brisbane – March 12th and 13th 2009
The Cat Empire
Return to The Tivoli!
| Guess who’s back? The Cat Empire. After a quieter year by Empire standards, the guys are pulling together their ever-entertaining troupe to hit the road in Australia, with the announcement of theatre shows, and more to follow for Feb/March 2009.
The National Tour will support the Feb ’09 release of a new album – Live on Earth – which incorporates recordings of shows all over the world, spanning the bands career to date. |
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Black Mountain Australian Tour February, March 2009
| Billions Australia are pleased to announce that the wait is over! Canada’s psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are heading to Australia in February/March 2009 to take us on a ride of monster riffs, swirling Hammond and cosmic rock. |
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Black Mountain play summer festival dates at the Perth Festival and Golden Plains in Victoria but will headline their own club shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney!
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Australian Defence Force Air Show – October 4-5, 2008
Australian Defence Force Air Show
RAAF Base Amberley October 4-5, 2008
Link to flickr photo group for the 2008 Australian Defence Force Air Show:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/amberley/pool/
The 2008 Australian Defence Force Air Show, to be conducted on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of October will be the largest and most exciting Air Show conducted by the ADF.
This year’s Air Show will include aircraft from the United States Air Force, the Republic of Singapore Air Force as well as representation from across the Australian Defence Force.
The F-111, based at RAAF Amberley will star, performing its dump and burn display. The Roulettes, the Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Beret Army parachute team and the Navy Squirrel Team will also perform on both days of the Air Show.
A host of ground displays will also showcase career opportunities and capabilities within the Australian Defence Force.
A packed program of air displays will include participation from war birds from past conflicts and professional aerobatic displays.
Parking, food and facilities will be provided to guarantee those interested in an Australian Defence Force career and families and those interested in aviation enjoy an action packed day.
Full information about the Air Show is available at www.airforce.gov.au/airshow
Connect Four Art Party – 19 July 2008
Presented by 4C arts collective
A creative cacophony for a community cause
On July 19 the 4C arts collective will host the Connect Four Art Party, the follow up to the highly successful premiere March event.
The evening will feature of massive array of art in a multiplicity of styles and formats including some of Brisbane’s best bands and DJs plus burlesque, circus and physical performance and all kinds of other shenanigans.
Supplies will be provided for attendees to create and participate in making art to add to the event.
All proceeds will be donated to the Women’s Legal Service. This organisation relies on grants and donations to provide free legal advice for women in difficult circumstances.Saturday, July 19, 2008
5:00pm – midnight
Valley studios, Fortitude Valley
610 Ann st
BYO
LITTLE VEGAS AND THE FUZZ PARADE
THE STRANGE ATTRACTORS
LITTLE SCOUT
MA SHEEN
DASTARDLY KUTS
plus fabulous burlesque performances from:
LENA MARLENE
LADY LAINE
AND CIRCUS PERFORMERS (TBA)
Links:
4C Arts Collective