Tag: "brisbane"

First Lineup Announcement for BIGSOUND 2013
0 Comments. 493 Views. Posted 10 May 2013 @ 4:04pm.
Now one of the biggest music gatherings in the southern hemisphere, the Brisbane hosted BIGSOUND has announced its most impressive lineup to date. Turning 12 this year, Billy Bragg, Amanda Palmer and Kasey Chambers will head up the speaker's list, joined by 120 live artists playing over 12 venues. The first dozen have been announced including Xavier Rudd, Megan Washington, The John Steel Singers... Read More
Greenthief To Play Headliner Melbourne Show
0 Comments. 837 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2012 @ 3:49pm.
In support of their new single Mr Number 1, Brisbane rock trio Greenthief have announced a celebratory tour, including a Melbourne show. Mr Number 1 is a little taste of what's to come with plans to have their debut album released some time in 2013, and will see the Brisband boys working once again with ARIA-winning producer Steve James. Read More
Dune Rats : Fuck It
0 Comments. 674 Views. Posted 16 May 2012 @ 1:33pm.
Joining Bleeding Knees Club at the vanguard of Brisbane’s garage punk revival, Dune Rats are a mangy duo whose latest single has the burnt out noise pop thrust of Wavves, simple and melodic but also distorted and braying, with a snarl that can be traced back to Kurt Cobain. Read More
Jonathan Boulet, Kindness, Tom Vek Triple Bill
0 Comments. 885 Views. Posted 3 May 2012 @ 9:53am.
One of the many highlights on Sydney's massive Vivid LIVE lineup will be hitting Melbourne, with the Modular-curated triple bill of Jonathan Boulet, Kindness and Tom Vek making the trip south at later this month. The Melbourne show will mark the Australian debut for two of the UK's hottest acts - Tom Vek (pictured) and Kindness will be making their maiden journey across the pond for the tour.... Read More
Last Dinosaurs : In A Million Years
0 Comments. 1,226 Views. Posted 16 Mar 2012 @ 9:04am.
  Releasing their debut full-length album is Brisbane four-piece and 'Unearthed' darlings, Last Dinosaurs. Titled In A Million Years, the pop quarter have created an album with a much more experienced sound. However, this is to their detriment, the effects of such a growth-spurt leaving the songs feeling a little uninspired.   Debut single Zoom opens the album; a catchy and... Read More
MTC Lawler Studio Season 2012
0 Comments. 1,297 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 8:52am.
  As Australia’s oldest professional theatre company, the Melbourne Theatre Company has in recent years gained a reputation for traditionalism. They may be one of the most popular companies in the country, taking a record 20,000 subscriptions in 2010, but they are not renowned for taking programming risks. MTC set out to challenge this perception with the launch of their Lawler Studio in... Read More
Martyr Privates : Bless
0 Comments. 919 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:18am.
  Bless is proper lo-fi noise, with a driving rhythm and clattering drum beat. Brisbane three-piece Matyr Privates have channeled The Jesus And Mary Chain into their own homespun brand of stealth alt-rock, complete with drawling, belligerent vocals and a swollen guitar sound. Nice.   Read More
Velociraptor : Cynthia
0 Comments. 1,147 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 9:26am.
  Awesome melodic garage rock from Brisbane’s Velociraptor, heavy on the screaming harmonies and jangling R&B guitars, more Mersey Beat than Black Lips. This wicked fun single has one of those odd, stupid and memorable lyrics: “I tell her she should read the book / She says, ‘Why? I’ve seen the film.’” It’s funny, in a Norwegian Wood kind of way.   Read More
Rock The Bay 2012 Lineup Revealed
0 Comments. 1,848 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 12:15pm.
Brace yourselves, the lineup for this year's Rock The Bay has been unveiled, and it is nothing short of massive. The fouth annual Rock The Bay festival is set to take over The Espy, with none other than Brisbane heavyweights Dead Letter Circus headline the festival along with triple j favourites Floating Me, and some of Australia’s finest in Twelve Foot Ninja, Bellusira, Tim Mcmillan Band, Ten... Read More
Exclusive 360 Performance
0 Comments. 2,544 Views. Posted 22 Dec 2011 @ 3:36pm.
Everybody's favourite trash talking rapper (and recent Beat TV star) 360 is set to perform a very special intimate gig for a select few lucky fans. All you have to do to enter the draw is purchase and activate a Telstra Pre-Paid handset or Starter Kit and register the new number here to go into the draw to win 1 of 25 double passes to attend an exclusive performance. You'll see Australian hip-... Read More
Lil Wayne Postpones Solo Show
0 Comments. 2,621 Views. Posted 24 Nov 2011 @ 3:23pm.
Set to drop down in Australia for his debut tour later next week, Lil Wayne has been forced to postpone his solo shows. A statement released has said:   "It is with regret that Dainty Group announces that the Australian solo shows for Lil Wayne, which were scheduled for Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, have now been postponed due to scheduling conflicts. Lil Wayne will be unable to arrive in... Read More
The Hello Morning Announce Tour
0 Comments. 2,168 Views. Posted 22 Nov 2011 @ 10:24am.
Local sprawling folk-rock collective The Hello Morning have announced a massive East Coast tour, supporting the release of their ace new single Stone Cold Lover. The single precedes the likely lads' much-anticipated and long-gestating debut album, which is due to drop early in 2012.   With a lineup populace with crack musicians, the band's pop laden, soulful country tunes become psychedelic... Read More
I Oh You Melbourne Music Week Party
0 Comments. 1,848 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 10:54am.
In the name of Melbourne Music Week, notorious party juveniles I Oh You will be bringing one hell of a rad party to The Toff. Having recently been forced into hibernation to run their growing record label which features the talents of DZ Deathrays, Bleeding Knees Club and Snakadaktal the lads at I Oh You haven't really had much time to pull together their party forces, but this will no doubt be... Read More
Black Lips Sideshow
0 Comments. 1,722 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 9:12am.
Black Lips, the hell-raising rock’n’roll quartet from Atlanta, make their welcome return to Australi this March.  Already announced for Golden Plains and Adelaide Festival, this national tour marks the third by the Lips following their raucous inaugural dates way back in 2007. They have continued to tear apart stages all over the world and their upcoming tour shall be no different as the... Read More
Q&A: Apache Medicine Man
0 Comments. 690 Views. Posted 28 Oct 2011 @ 8:24am.
We hear you're taking time out of the studio to play Alcatraz At The GH tomorrow night. Have you seen the new look Greyhound since it's transformation? Apparently it's the shiz. We haven't had the privilege of seeing it first-hand yet but we've seen a few online pics and it looks like it might get pretty loose in there.   You recently made the Melbourne finals of the National Campus... Read More
Occupy Melbourne
2 Comments. 18,849 Views. Posted 6 Oct 2011 @ 3:22pm.
After much organisation and deliberation, a date and location has finally been decided for Occupy Melbourne - the international day of protest. It has been decided that the rally will begin at City Square on Saturday October 15, commencing at 10am. Occupy Melbourne is a non-violent protest as a means of sending a message to the financial sector worldwide. This day will be an international... Read More
Six Ft Hick
0 Comments. 2,489 Views. Posted 23 Sep 2011 @ 9:06am.
He may be “more into boats these days” rather than custom cars and quiffs, but Geoff Corbett of Brissie rock legends Six Ft Hick is still very keen about this year’s Chopped Rod & Custom Festival nevertheless. So much so, in fact, that he reckons the band’s actually been rehearsing for the event – no joke. “Yeah, we normally never rehearse because after 15 years of doing this we kind of know... Read More
Pond
0 Comments. 2,283 Views. Posted 30 Aug 2011 @ 11:30am.
From the award-winning independent theatre company, Grit Theatre, comes the visually-arresting Pond; the story of a house whose residents never leave.  Cut-off from the rest of the world, this couple create their own indoor environment, over which only they have control.   Receiving awards from Melbourne's Fringe Festival and Brisbane's Powerhouse World Theatre Festival for... Read More
Q & A With Nikko
0 Comments. 780 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2011 @ 9:33am.
What's the deal with the band's name? It doesn't mean anything, just a label for whatever we're playing. Define your sound in five words or less.   Electric, dynamic, cosmic, tragic.   Someone is walking past as you're playing, they get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   These guys remind me of a dream where I was surrounded by demons. They were... Read More
Chasing Ghosts
0 Comments. 1,266 Views. Posted 9 Aug 2011 @ 11:09am.
What's your name then?   Chasing Ghosts.   And the name of your event?   Just promoting my soon to be released album Confessions From A Phone Booth in store September 2. So playing around the nation currently, just returned from Brisbane and now playing a few shows across Melbourne this week.   And what do you do?   I'm a singer/songwriter playing folk-punk .... Read More
Splitting the Seconds
0 Comments. 939 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2011 @ 10:33am.
It always seems to be the people behind the lens that give us an insight into what happens on stage. But it's high-time that we take a step back and really give photographers their time to shine! Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer's Journal is leading Australian rock photojournalist Dane Beesley's backstage account on ten years behind the lens.   The book is an insight into the sweaty... Read More
DZ Deathrays' Rad New Clip
0 Comments. 2,011 Views. Posted 7 Jul 2011 @ 4:10pm.
Not content with launching an all-out aural assault on yer earholes, DZ Deathrays have released frenetic new clip for their bangin' EP cut Rad Solar. 2011 has been a ripper of a year for the Brisbane thrashers, with the duo all primed for a European invasion - aided by NME's slobbering assertion that they are the 8th most shit-hot act on the planet right now. Before setting off, the band... Read More
The Pugs
0 Comments. 1,097 Views. Posted 20 Jun 2011 @ 2:28pm.
  Name/Band:   “The Pugs, Josh (guitar/squeezebox/vox/mandolin) is answering.”   Define your genre in five words or less:   “Loud, fast, drunken folk punk.”   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   “What the hell was that instrument?”   How long have you been... Read More
You Me At Six Announce Tour
0 Comments. 2,644 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 3:50pm.
They were meant to be playing with Blink 182. A change of plan, though, has seen You Me At Six score the next best thing… a trip across Australia. The meteoric rise of You Me At Six has been much publicised in Britain. Among other acclaims, they’ve been labelled a “pop-rock powerhouse”, impressing music magazines around the nation. Just weeks ago, they took home the “Best British Band” gong at... Read More
Ben Folds Rocking Australian Suburbs
0 Comments. 2,441 Views. Posted 19 May 2011 @ 9:43am.
Musician and rock geek supreme, Ben Folds is set to thrill Melbourne this Friday. Tickets are still available for all his shows, but you'd better get in quick if you're a Melbourne fan, because they're almost gone. Starting off at the Royal Theatre in Canberra last week Ben Folds and his four piece group of minstrels have been rolling up the east coast, playing to ecstatic crowds at every show.... Read More
Lissie Headlines Her Own Australian Tour
0 Comments. 3,453 Views. Posted 16 May 2011 @ 4:12pm.
Originally brought out here by Washington, American folk-rock singer Elisabeth Maurus, better known as Lissie, will headline her own Australian tour. Lissie only arrived in Australia two weeks ago and has already impressed people with her performances supporting Megan Washington on her Tour of Laughter and Forgetting. With these performances, as well as the success of her debut album Catching A... Read More
Laceration : Prolonging The Pain
0 Comments. 1,552 Views. Posted 11 May 2011 @ 2:00pm.
After continual lineup issues and lengthy periods of inactivity following the release of their EP Killer Species in 2000, Brisbane based thrash outfit Transfear were officially laid to rest. But while the band were no longer active, it didn't mark the end of vocalist/bassist Rob Reiff and guitarist Michael Perry's continued musical collaboration. Instead, it was simply a way of marking a new... Read More
Teeth & Tongue At The Toff
0 Comments. 2,180 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 4:41pm.
Teeth & Tongue will launch their stunning second album in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this June.   This hauntingly captivating Melbourne outfit will play at Sydney's Good God on Thursday June 2, Brisbane's X & Y Bar on Friday June 3 and at The Toff in Town in Melbourne on Saturday June 11.    Teeth & Tongue is the musical project of Jess Cornelius, combined with long... Read More
Razorsex & Neckburn of Caught Ship
0 Comments. 2,043 Views. Posted 21 Apr 2011 @ 11:37am.
Ten bands everyone should know about: “These Are Powers, Throbbing Gristle, Indian Jewelry, Gang Gang Dance, Lego Dick, Horse Macgyver, Delia Derbyshire, No Zu, Black Devil, Mi Ami.” Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: “Water crackers, cheese, watermelon, plums, mock-human, grapes, cucumber, oyster, hummus.” Eight possessions that define you: “Australia cap, sneakers,... Read More
The Good Ship
0 Comments. 1,606 Views. Posted 5 Apr 2011 @ 11:56am.
  Brisbane was going through one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit Australia last January when the sea-shanty folk-rockers The Good Ship set off for the Illawarra Folk Festival. It was a bitter-sweet experience, as vocalist/guitarist Daz Gray recalls, because kick-starting the band’s biggest year yet required The Good Ship to turn their back on their troubled hometown. “The... Read More
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