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Category Archives: Tour
The Swiss Melbourne Show – This Saturday!
I first got my hands on the Swiss via their first label, Really Real Records. I was so impressed by their understated disco-infused melodies that I bought everything I could get my hands on – which at the time consisted of four different colourways of the Really Real label shirt. I was just as excited [...]
Club NME Australia
Another of the good ship NME’s brands makes a splash in Australia for the end of summer. Featuring what promises to be an ‘iconic’ DJ set from a guy who was in The Smiths but wasn’t Morrissey. But with some great bands in support, I can see this being a pretty righteous party. Sock this [...]
Bikes Rock
The Bicycle Film Festival rolls back into town with the launch night on the 11th of November in Sydney. Think Nicole Kidman, BMX, fixies, bike polo and even recumbent cycling. Yes, even recumbents will be there – for better or worse. To make up for the recumbents the launch night will see Bridezilla, Jonathan Boulet, [...]
Midnight Juggernauts new album ‘TNT’
Or ‘The New Technology’.. kinda like the ‘The Energy Never Dies’… album doesn’t hit til early 2010, so there’s still time for at least a dozen more cheesily acronym’d rekkids to hit before Christmas. Please don’t become a trend Good excuse to have a tour, dates after the jump:
Russ Chimes
…is in town and we are beyond excited. Do yourself a big favour and see the saviour of blog-electro at the controls. If you’re lucky he’ll play that Outrunners remix. Catch him around Australia at the following spots: 7 Aug Limelite FREMANTLE 8 Aug Tank SYDNEY 14 Aug Electric Circus ADELAIDE 15 Aug The Prince [...]
Third time lucky?
Duran Duran did it back in 1998 with Night Versions. Soulwax did the same in 2005 with their own Nite Versions. It is 2009 and Van She have ‘reworked’ their debut album, V, into Ze Vemixes. ‘Reworked’ is the word because Ze Vemixes doesn’t sound like the Van She Tech remixes that went out with [...]
Jesse Rose + Zombie Disco Squad + Oliver $ = STROBE
Every time I look at the title of this blog, my mind flies back to the heady days of 2007; the year when electro first exploded into the mainstream, propelled forward on a wave of stomping house beats spliced with synth-rock and electroclash sensibilities. I remember thinking at the time how amazing it was that [...]
The Punks Jump UP
Punks Jump Up are in Australia at the moment embarking on their first tour for music and their second for pleasure. I was lucky enough to get Dave out of bed to have a chat about what they’ve been working on, their fusion of fashion and music and what they’re plotting this time around. So [...]
Todd Terje Australian Tour
Last week I got a chance to interview Todd Terje and as with all of my past interviews the introduction was predictably bad. To give you an idea of my history my very first interview was with Calvin Harris at his hotel in Melbourne. Being the super organised guy that I am I typed up [...]
Turbo Recordings Australian Tour
Tiga’s Turbo Recordings is gracing Australian shores with it’s presence starting this weekend in Melbourne as part of the label’s 10th birthday celebrations. Tiga himself was a little tied up putting together his next album (with Soulwax and Jesper Dahlback) to make it but he’s sent his trusty label mates the Proxy and Thomas Von [...]
El Guincho Sydney Ticket Deal
It’s a sad state of affairs indeed when an act as lovely as Barcelona’s Pablo Díaz-Reixa aka El Guincho, has to sell his already fairly cheap tickets at 2 for the price of 1 just days before his Sydney show at the Oxford Art Factory. His debut album, Alegranza, was one of the most charming [...]
Boys Noize, D.I.M., Fred Falke – Sydney
As the perfect addition to your long weekend plans, The Music People Sydney (website coming soon) will be hosting the above three boys at the Forum on the 25th January. I’ve got my schedule locked in for Big Day Out, and it looks like I’ll be frantically galloping all over the showground with too many [...]
The Spirits
I went to see my brother’s band, The Detours, play at the Art Factory a couple of weeks ago, and was fortunate enough to catch unsigned FBi darlings,The Spirits’ opening set. I spent the entire time making the fairly obvious statement to everyone that, “Shit. These guys are awesome (and I’m getting another wine).” Formerly [...]
Metronomy + Architecture In Helsinki
With all the festival madness going on at the moment I’ve managed to avoid most of the hype and focus on a few key acts I wanted to see. For December it was Whitest Boy Alive who I saw at Nevereverland on Sunday and it was incredible. For January I’ll be checking out Lykke Li [...]
Renaissance Man Australian Tour