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A Day To Remember 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 691 Views. Posted 17 May 2013 @ 3:49pm.
After tearing Soundwave apart in 2012, Floridian pop mosh crew A Day To Remember have announced their return to Australia. Armed with their brand new album, Common Courtesy, along with shit-hot new single Violence (Enough is Enough), A Day To Remember are pop infused metalcore at its finest. Joined by a brilliant support team in The Devil Wears Prada and Dream On Dreamer, if you miss... Read More
Flume @ Festival Hall
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Tame Impala @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 209 Views. Posted 14 May 2013 @ 11:54am.
It certainly cannot be said that Tame Impala have shied away from the spotlight. An ever-present name on a festival bill, the Perth psychedelic rock outfit have continued to build their fanbase across the nation and now take the stage in their biggest headline tour to date. The last time they visited Festival Hall, they supported MGMT. They now arrived just days after playing to thousands at... Read More
Flume @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 182 Views. Posted 7 May 2013 @ 2:09pm.
Wedged firmly at the back of the standing area filled with pretty young things, the Flume hubbub was buzzing. An audience amped by a performance from supporting act Chet Faker, arms flailed, bodies were hoisted on shoulders and throats ran hoarse when Flume graced the stage.   In a simple button-up with hair slicked to the side, Harry Streton embodied all things classic, not your usual... Read More
Manic Street Preachers Announce 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 436 Views. Posted 1 May 2013 @ 9:03am.
It's as good an excuse as any - Welsh alternative rock giants Manic Street Preachers will be making their way to Australia to coincide with rugby union team British Lions' visit. Thankfully for us, the Manics will be performing a rare headline show in Melbourne between their rugby-watching duties. Expect a hearty serving of greatest hits from the band's esteemed back catalogue.   Support on... Read More
The Temper Trap @ Festival Hall
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The Temper Trap @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 150 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2013 @ 1:51pm.
Everything comes full circle when The Temper Trap end their gig with defining hit Sweet Disposition. The single that launched the Melbourne five-piece into the Australian music consciousness has become an anthem of sorts and serves as a thank-you to an audience that has clearly loved them from the start. It was also an affirmation; The Temper Trap is here to stay. The crowd moved in thick... Read More
Tame Impala @ Festival Hall
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The Kooks
0 Comments. 821 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2013 @ 9:09pm.
Following a six-month break, The Kooks have been busy crafting material for a “groovier” fourth album, as well as rehearsing for their upcoming Australian tour. But unlike many musicians who you may expect to spend the time off collaborating, working on a solo project, or putting in some time with the family, The Kooks’ lead guitarist Hugh Harris says he did what every other young man would do... Read More
The Temper Trap
0 Comments. 657 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2013 @ 1:04pm.
It’s been almost a year since The Temper Trap’s second album came out. While the self-titled release did well, topping the Australian chats and producing several singles, it didn’t quite hit the commercial heights of their first. Singer Dougy Mandagi is surprisingly open about this, telling me that, above all, he still stands behind the album and its slower, softer sound. “The second album... Read More
Venue and Lineup Changes Announced For Movement 2013
0 Comments. 429 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2013 @ 9:51am.
Hip hop festival Movement have announced that artists Angel Haze and 2 Chainz will not be appearing. Due to a pending court case as well as visa complicatons, 2 Chainz unfortunately had to withdraw from the tour. In a bittersweet development for Angel Haze, she's had to cancel her trip to Australia due to recording commitments "with a certain high profile producer unavailable other than at the... Read More
The xx @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 413 Views. Posted 9 Apr 2013 @ 2:07pm.
Selling out two Festival Hall gigs, the crowd poured into venue like moths to a flame. The standing area was soon filled to capacity. Eventually, The xx filed onstage. Jamie XX manned about eight different pieces of equipment/instruments including his turntables, keyboards, drum machine and what seemed to be an glockenspiel.  Opening with Try, both Oliver and Romy were able to exercise... Read More
Flume
0 Comments. 894 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2013 @ 9:39pm.
It’s ostensibly a day off for Harley Streten, the Sydney producer who, under the moniker Flume, experienced flashpoint ascension in the past year – to the extent of being one of the biggest acts in the country at this point in time. Our first superstar producer? Streten is speaking from LA. He’s in the midst of an extensive US tour, selling out shows in New York, San Francisco and more. When he... Read More
The xx
0 Comments. 871 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2013 @ 8:38am.
The xx’s music has a hushed and intimate quality, and it often sounds like a private conversation between two lovers in the small hours of the morning. They are best appreciated late at night, but unfortunately, that’s not how festival timetables work, and when they toured Australia a few years ago, they found themselves paying shows in the scorching afternoon sun. “I remember feeling very... Read More
Iggy & The Stooges @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 697 Views. Posted 2 Apr 2013 @ 1:39pm.
Many have tried to follow in Iggy Pop’s footsteps, and many have perished trying. Forty years ago bookies would have given you even money for Iggy’s early death; 40 years later, the guy is still here, still playing, still laying waste to everything in his path. And tonight he’s at Festering Hall with his merry band of Stooges.   After the reunion of its original recorded lineup at ATP the... Read More
Frank Turner And The Sleeping Dolls
0 Comments. 218 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2013 @ 10:52am.
On the day of this interview, it had just been announced that punk rock troubadour and self-fashioned DIY spirit, Frank Turner, had made the switch for his US licensing – from the much-lauded independent label Epitaph Records to Interscope Records, a corporate behemoth under the Universal Music Group umbrella. Turner, perhaps having already fielded questions about the switch all morning, is quick... Read More
Iggy & The Stooges
0 Comments. 287 Views. Posted 20 Mar 2013 @ 9:28am.
Aside from being Iggy Pop’s guitarist and the founder of Raw Power, James Williamson is an intellectual avant-gardist whom humbly accepts a proto-punk title and defies David Bowie’s definition of ‘nihilistic rock’. “In all honestly, I’ve never really come to grips with punk rock and all the other titles. First of all, when we were coming up, there were no labels or pseudo genres in our... Read More
Ed Sheeran @ Festival Hall
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The Temper Trap Announce 2013 Melbourne Show
0 Comments. 1,092 Views. Posted 14 Mar 2013 @ 10:08am.
All-conquering global stars The Temper Trap have announced a very welcome homecoming show in Melbourne. The performance will follow on from their acclaimed self-titled sophomore album of last year. The band have been busy fulfilling half-time duties at last year's AFL Grannie, supporting Coldplay, and performing at this year's Future Music Festival. Read More
The Stone Roses @ Festival Hall
1 Comments. 649 Views. Posted 12 Mar 2013 @ 5:49pm.
God bless that mining boom. It’s been the summer of bands that five years ago no-one had a reasonable expectation of ever again seeing live, and now John Squire and Ian Brown have stopped using the music press to call each other twats for long enough to reap our high exchange rate to top up their nest eggs.   Conspicuously absent is any of Brown’s sandwich-board preacher style rants about,... Read More
World's End Press To Support Bloc Party
0 Comments. 432 Views. Posted 6 Mar 2013 @ 1:25pm.
The sought after support role for the Australian tour of British indie rockers Bloc Party has been filled by none other than Melbourne's own World's End Press.  Having spent much of 2012 working on their debut album, the band is ready to showcase some of their fresh tunes which incorporate enough genres to be accepted within a range of musical palates from techno to punk. Read More
alt-J (∆) Return To Australia
1 Comments. 1,239 Views. Posted 4 Mar 2013 @ 8:49am.
British outfit alt-J (∆) will be returning to Australia this July. Their Mercury prize winning debut An Awesome Wave has been certified gold by ARIA and achieved its highest chart placement globally in Australia, peaking at #9 on the album chart earlier this year. The band also featured as part of Laneway Festival this year. Read More
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band @ Festival Hall
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Tame Impala Announce Headline Show
0 Comments. 1,140 Views. Posted 13 Feb 2013 @ 3:42pm.
Tame Impala have announced a national tour to accompany their Groovin' The Moo dates later this year. Considered the brainchild of Kevin Parker, it is hard not to have heard of Tame Impala. Loosely formed by Parker, Dominic Simper, Jay Watson and Nick Allbrook in 2007, the band quickly rose to fame with their debut Innerspeaker ― a blend of neo-groove, psychedelia and rock. Tame Impala succeeded... Read More
Bloc Party Announce Future Music Festival Sideshows
1 Comments. 1,471 Views. Posted 21 Jan 2013 @ 9:15am.
British four-piece Bloc Party have announced a run of sideshows to complement their tour of Australia as part of Future Music Festival. After their explosive debut in 2005 with Silent Alarm, featuring the monster lead track Helicopter, Bloc Party further solidified their popularity with 2007’s A Weekend In The City, and 2008’s Intimacy. Following this, the band took a hiatus... Read More
The Descendents
0 Comments. 412 Views. Posted 17 Jan 2013 @ 11:06am.
When The Descendents’ iconic lead singer Milo Aukerman decided to take leave from the band for the second time in 1985 to indulge his interest in biochemistry, drummer Bill Stevenson decided to recalibrate the rump of The Descendents into All. It was a band name that reflected the philosophy with which Stevenson and Aukerman had carried into The Descendents. “At its simple best, ‘all’ is the... Read More
Two Door Cinema Club @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 385 Views. Posted 15 Jan 2013 @ 3:30pm.
It was a young and jubilant crowd that packed out Festival Hall to see The Jungle Giants, The Vaccines and good ol’ Celtic headliners Two Door Cinema Club. The latter haven’t been in Australia since their 2011 appearance at Laneway, but there was no love lost between them and the frothing audience. The band played tracks from inaugural release Tourist History, as well as more au courant tunes... Read More
Morrissey @ Festival Hall
0 Comments. 527 Views. Posted 15 Jan 2013 @ 2:21pm.
Only the indefatigable Morrissey can deliver the line, “You open your eyes/And you see someone you physically despise”, from Let Me Kiss You, rip his shirt off, and nearly cause a riot when he hurls it into the audience. The man, it must be said, looked fit and amazing.   ‘Holy crap, I’m watching Morrissey!’ This thought coursed through the mind of this scribe and, I’m sure, everyone else’s... Read More
Alexisonfire @ Festival Hall
3 Comments. 2,704 Views. Posted 8 Jan 2013 @ 1:23pm.
There was a sense of bittersweet anticipation as a disorganised shuffle of post-hardcore kids and slightly bewildered 30-somethings make their way from Southern Cross station to Festival Hall to see Alexisonfire’s farewell show to Melbourne.    However, when the band’s three founding members - Wade MacNeil, George Pettit and Dallas Green – walk onto the stage, that is awash in yellow... Read More
Parkway Drive
0 Comments. 412 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2012 @ 7:12am.
The title of World Conquerors doesn't sit too easily with Winston McCall. The frontman of Byron Bay's fearsome Parkway Drive will admit to having a few aspirations for the group, but he never envisaged anything remotely close to the achievements the quintet have notched up in the last decade. “It's always been a goal of ours to play wherever we could, [but] I wouldn't say we ever set out to... Read More
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