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.

Grafton Horror!

Daft Punk will have left the building this time tomorrow, well actually, hopefully they won't have, hopefully they'll be at the after party with me at the metro. But alas, if they are not I will definitely be coming home content after seeing them strut their stuff all over the Sydney Showground. Stay tunned...



I caught Grafton Primary here in the gong at our local gay and lesbian friendly (not only!, although they do have a rainbow flag behind the bar). They went off pretty well, the crowd was pumping, not sure if this was due to their music or the camera crew they had walking round the joint. The original duo of Josh and Ben Garden from Sydney, added Robbie the drummer to help reproduce their sounds on the stage. Which they did pretty well, although I must say, I was disappointed they didn't crack out the keyboard axe.



Check out their track relativity and the Tommy Trash remix:

Grafton Primary - Relativity (zshare) (ysi)
Grafton Primary - Relativity (Tommy Trash Remix) (zshare) (ysi)

Also check out their interview with JJJ where they they discuss their interesting take on how each generation of musicians takes in the lasts and outputs it in a different way, and how each generation should try to appreciate the similarities and embrace the music.

I grabbed a copy of their EP after the show, which they were selling out of the boot of their car for $5 (which is pretty cheap), if you wanna pick it up check at itunes or jb-hi-fi.

The DJs on after Grafton were pretty regular, and by regular I mean I went downstairs so I didn't have to listen to them, which is pretty unfortunate considering the DJs were Miami Horror and they were (practically) the 'headliners' of the night. Before heading downstairs tho, they played one of the shittest mixes of Daft Punk's 'One More Time' I've ever heard, which still managed to get people dancing, tho the original, or probably any other mix in the world would have done so more. So that was kind of disappointing, but I'm not closing the book on them yet, as most of their own remixes are pretty damn fine. I'll post some later, at a time when I'm not going to a festival in 8 hours and dancing for 14 after that, now tho, it is time for sleep.