Going Off!

Was just checking out what was up and coming in the little town of Wollongong and it seems to be going off at the moment.

In the next month all these acts will be in town:

2008.02.28

Fresh on their Cat & The Eye Tour (which starts tommorrow (21st) in Melbourne), Van She, accompanied by Ghostwood (formerly called something else, completely unrelated to wood)
are playing at the Wollongong Unibar on the day before the day that only occurs every once in a while. Should be good. Tickets.

2008.02.24

There's a weird Bicardi 'win your tickets' event, which funnily enough isn't the reason it's weird, but it's because it's on at midday. If that turned you off, this might turn you back on, the line-up in my re-arranged order is: Pnau, Bumblebeez, Bang Gang DJs, then Scribe and Faker

2008.03.06

THIS

UOWs legendary annual party is back in 2008 with a stellar line-up of Australian musical acts including: Gyroscope, The Cops, Grafton Primary, The Bustin’ Crew DJs, Ras Gong Guerrillas, & Reason Strikes. Tickets / info.

OR... on the same night is also:

THIS

Datarock supported by Mission Control

From moshtix:

"Norwegian disco popsters Datarock, a.k.a. Fredrik Saroea and Ketil Mosnes... with their questionable leisurewear and propensity for writing songs about robot sex and the possibility of women having man parts, you could consider them as the new rave equivalent to Goldie Lookin Chain. Musically, though, they’re completely different, favouring an impossibly nagging car crash of the most basic electro-pop and addictive Parliament-style funk, all done with a Talking Heads sense of style that’s both noxious and compulsive... Catchy lyrics, taken from 80s pop-culture films has Datarock fast turning into pop music’s most aggressive sect since The Polyphonic Spree."

2008.03.18

A collection of artists set to perform under the banner of 'Union of Soul' at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens (subject to venue approval, although it pretty much has to happen now doesn't it?, now that they've told everyone, how pissed of would poeple get at those who deny permission). Althought I'd be going for Gotye and staying for... Gotye, the other acts (John Butler Trio, Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set and Lior) would be alright if your in the right mood. Tickets.

Cut Copy, JB Does it again

It's clear theres a trend, these days it seems normal to see a band releasing their ablum for free

(yes thats a link about Radiohead), or another method I just heard about was The Glimmers releasing their debut by giving it away for free... at their concerts.

Closer to home Australian bands, such as the previously posted about The Presets (which has a new release date on the 11th of April, there's so much news to catch up on!) and now Cut Copy have joined in. The stinge in me hesitated from ordering this copy (I'm hoping you've purchased that one already) hoping an offer like this would come up.

Identical to The Preset offer (except for the artist & album)

$20

In Ghost Colours

Singed By The Band

2008.03.21

Tracklist:

01. Feel The Love
02. Out There On The Ice
03. Lights And Music
04. We Fight For Diamonds
05. Unforgettable Season
06. Midnight Runner
07. So Haunted
08. Voices In Quartz
09. Hearts On Fire
10. Far Away
11. Silver Thoughts
12. Strangers In The Wind
13. Visions
14. Nobody Lost, Nobody Found
15. Eternity One Night Only

Due for release on the 21st of March (1 month tommorow!).

Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!

Let's hope all artists keep up with the good ideas. If you didn't check out the Cut Copy-Full-Length-Semi-Teaser-Mixtape 'So Cosmic' you can find my links to it here.

For some other teasers, check out these remixes:

Cut Copy - Light & Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix) (filden)
Cut Copy - Light & Music (Moulinex Remix) (filden)

I'm Back!

Back from holidays, and ready to catch up on 20 days of blog music and news I've missed out on... but tonight of course, is a night to celebrate being back... Party!!!

Don't expect too much from me atm, cause you probably know more then I do. In the brief amount of time I've been home I've managed to find two pieces of news, however old they are, that both shocked me.

1. Chemicals & Muscles?

Apparently Australian Muscles is supporting the Chemical Brothers on this leg of their tour. A very interesting pick, which I'm all for, but I can just see what many other peoples' expressions would be.. if they were too high to care. More info here.

2. Daft Punk at the Grammy's

Now I may have just been completely out of the loop here, but I had no idea about this, and still have no Idea if it's true, but it does come straight from the whores mouth. Check out the vid there.

What you can expect from me, in a soonish time frame, is something I haven't done before, involving promoting some tracks I picked up whilst holydaying in the good old land of the queen, qld.

Oh, and thanks and wow for the hits and comments while I was away!