Tag: "Big Day"

The Count With... The Ghost Hotel
0 Comments. 625 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 2:13pm.
  Name/Band:   Aaron Gibson from The Ghost Hotel   Ten bands everyone should know about: I’m actually pretty unqualified to answer this question as I haven’t listened to anything recorded in the last five years with any kind of love, except maybe other Perth bands. So yeah, keep an ear out for the new Emperors and Split Seconds records – they should be pretty killer.   Nine... Read More
Q&A: Big Day Not Out
0 Comments. 1,519 Views. Posted 23 Mar 2012 @ 8:19am.
Tell us a bit about the history of Pub Cricket and The Yarra Pub Cricket Association?No one is entirely sure about the origins of Pub Cricket in Fitzroy (lost in the fog of time and beer), but social games have been part of the community history for decades. During the '80s, local pubs such as The Lord Newry, The Old Homestead, The Dan O’Connell and the Marquis of Lorne played each other... Read More
The Jezabels Headline Tour
0 Comments. 1,186 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:00am.
If you're yet to catch the phenomenon that is The Jezabels in the live setting, chances are you missed out on every major festival of the last year. But with one of 2011's greatest Australian success stories announcing a suitably epic headline tour, you now have no excuse to miss out. Buzz was at fever pitch when The Jezabels prepared to drop their debut full-length, and they more than delivered... Read More
Big Day Out, Sunday January 29, Flemington Racecourse
0 Comments. 1,484 Views. Posted 7 Feb 2012 @ 9:52am.
  Ah, Big Day Out. We meet again. As I was just getting over our hot date from last year, you’ve come around to greet me for another year. And, as always, you delivered me with some humour, a stack of fun and that extra bit of skin colour. Thanks for that, by the way.   Big Day Out is one of those festivals that always keeps me entertained. If not for the weird and wonderful array of... Read More
Core - October 12, 2011
0 Comments. 1,254 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 9:10am.
I'm all for artistic freedom and allowing bands to ebb and morph and shrink and flower into whatever mysterious being they want to become. People enjoy placing restrictions on music. On what bands should do and how they should sound.  Whenever my favourite bands (somewhat inevitably) dissipate into a sound I no longer like, I usually find it within myself to let them go... Read More
The Grace Darling Hosts The Emperors
0 Comments. 1,946 Views. Posted 14 Apr 2011 @ 1:15pm.
Emperors won Triple J Unearthed and played Perth Big Day Out on only their tenth gig. That’s rad. That’s because they are quite good. Rolling Stone told us to watch them last year, and we did, and now they’re playing, so we’re going to watch them in real life.   This group of Western Australian youngsters are doing pretty well for themselves. Securing a Big Day Out spot without even... Read More
Gareth Liddiard
0 Comments. 2,112 Views. Posted 6 Apr 2011 @ 11:03am.
It was 40 degrees, mid-afternoon at the Big Day Out. A crowd had gathered to watch Gareth Liddiard in the shade of the Hot Produce tent. Having released his debut solo album, Strange Tourist, a few months prior to this year’s BDO, Liddiard played a few tracks from the album, including Blondin’ Makes An Omelette, Highplains Mailman and its title track. The crowd listened intently to Liddiard’s... Read More
Battle Of The Boxes
0 Comments. 2,677 Views. Posted 18 Mar 2011 @ 2:40pm.
Ever had the urge to dress up in cardboard armour and fight people with cardboard weapons? No? Well three Melbourne guys got bored one day and decided to do just that.    Now, with the help of Michael Parisi Management and Aloha Management, the small backyard game created by friends Hoss Siegel, Josh Spiegel and Ross Koger has become an artistic movement known as Boxwars. ... Read More
Children Collide
0 Comments. 1,973 Views. Posted 8 Mar 2011 @ 8:50am.
It's a peppy, if nasally-challenged Johnny Mackay who's dismissive of the ravages the past month's touring has had on his body. "My body just held out for the tour," he says of the band's recent jaunts (plural) around the country for a run of festival spots with Falls, Sunset Sounds and Southbound and then the travelling Big Day Out circus. "I tested its limits - but... Read More
Ratatat at The Hi-Fi
0 Comments. 1,204 Views. Posted 4 Mar 2011 @ 11:45pm.
Ratatat are an interesting phenomenon: there are only two of them, no vocals, about 20 different instruments on stage, they rarely receive radio play and are responsible for the two of the best hip hop remix compilations of recent times. Since touring in Australia, they have gone from Ding Dong Lounge, to The Espy, to The Corner Hotel and finally, they've most recently sold out The Hi-Fi as... Read More
Tool Live at Sidney Myer Music Bowl
0 Comments. 2,314 Views. Posted 10 Feb 2011 @ 9:28am.
After catching the band at the Big Day Out two days earlier, and having seen the last show at Myer Music Bowl four years ago, it was always going to be hard not to be interested to see what Tool had to offer us this time around. With reviews criticising the last side show (most unhappy with the band's lack of interest in the audience and very long break in which the band stayed onstage in... Read More
Big Day Out By Ian Davis
0 Comments. 2,165 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2011 @ 12:48pm.
If you don't like festivals, the Big Day Out is on the third rung in Dante's downward path. A crowd voluminous enough to populate a mid-sized regional centre, a rabble of over-sexed tykes clad in tank tops and Bollé sunglasses, the odd Australian flag and a social world founded on self-indulgent nitwits and Mark Zuckerberg's invasive technology. Add to that the first genuinely... Read More
Big Day Out By Cam Ewart
0 Comments. 1,264 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2011 @ 12:48pm.
Children Collide started our day with a bang. A very loud bang. With each Johnny Mackay solo a squealing space jam, and fellow band members Ryan and Heath providing a stellarly tight rhythm section throughout, the day had started on a very good note.   Heading over to the main stage, we catch the first half of Airbourne's set. Taking the stage by literally running on and launching... Read More
Big Day Out By Chris Bright
0 Comments. 1,435 Views. Posted 9 Feb 2011 @ 12:48pm.
There's a reason Melbourne remains the cultural capital of Australia. Nothing gets in the way of Melburnians and a good music festival, not even scorching 40 degree heat. The festival attracted the weird and the wonderful, with a mix of skimpily-dressed, dance-party teens and hard-core Tool fans (wearing concert t-shirts that were probably older than said dance-party teens).   We... Read More
River Of Snakes
0 Comments. 3,032 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2011 @ 8:44am.
Name/Band:   “Raul Sanchez / River Of Snakes.”   Ten bands everyone should know about:   “The Cosmic Psychos, Mudhoney, The Saints, Useless Children, Bikini Kill, Scientists, Powdermonkeys, Nirvana, The Beasts Of Bourbon, The Ramones.”   Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:   “Garlic, olive oil, rice, tomatoes,... Read More
Big Day Out
1 Comments. 2,112 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2011 @ 7:00pm.
The annual Big Day Out circus rolls into town again this weekend… and my lordy what a lineup.  Wet your whistle on Tool, Iggy & The Stooges, Grinderman, Rammstein, LCD Soundsystem, MIA, Plan B, Die Antwoord, CSS, John Butler Trio, Sia, Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Wolfmother, Lupe Fiasco, Deftones, Birds Of Tokyo, Primal Scream, LCD Soundsystem, Edward Sharpe & The... Read More
Matt & Kim
0 Comments. 860 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2011 @ 4:00pm.
“Wherever people want to go and have fun, that’s where Matt & Kim make sense,” declares a super excitable Matt Johnson, the male namesake of New York duo Matt & Kim. Describing Johnson as ‘eager’ is to do the man something of a disservice. Cross a child’s Christmas Eve excitement with a puppy’s unwavering, tail-wagging affection, add a... Read More
Triple Rainbow Tour
0 Comments. 2,488 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2011 @ 12:24pm.
 This March, three of the nation's hottest young bands will traverse the east coast, joining forces for The Triple Rainbow Tour.   Melbourne's Eagle & The Worm, Brisbane's Ball Park Music, and Sydney's We Say Bamboulee are co-headlining this tour, which came into fruition following the Triple J Unearthed competition that snared each a slot at the Big Day Out festival in their... Read More
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