Muscles is a dick. 

Back in October I was slightly amused about his plans to delete his Myspace account due to the deal that the News Limited owned company had done with the four majors in the US and what he perceived as the Independents getting locked out of the equation. At the last minute he decided not to delete his myspace after a call from their Marketing Manager who told him to check his facts. The funny thing about it was that instead of Muscles actually checking his facts he took the guys word for it and instead watched some pirated tv. Top work Muscles.

It was about this time I started to hear a couple of funny stories about the guy, how he wasn’t getting along with his label (Modular/Universal). One of the baseless rumors involved him inviting all the label staff to his house for a BBQ to make amends where he went around one by one giving everyone a hug and profusely apologising.

The latest dickery that’s emerged is Muscles announcing on his twitter account that he’s “cancelled from Nevereverland 2008″. This seemed to indicate that he’d been given the boot but now Modular have put this blog post up categorically stating that Muscles was…

“…offered a spot at NEVEREVERLAND which still stands and whether he chooses to play or not is his decision. Obviously we would like him to be part of our 10 year celebrations and hope he turns up to perform.”

He’s come back to say that Modular said they couldn’t afford him which would suggest that his asking price was too high… How much is a Muscles live set actually worth? 

Either way his latest blog post is pretty much him going head to head with his label, probably not a good idea for this one trick pony.

This all seems to stem from some idea that the world is out to get him. It’s all the ramblings of someone paranoid that the man is trying to get him down. I don’t think it’s the man that he’s got to worry about, I think he’s doing a pretty good job himself.

Update: Muscles has just announced that he is quitting the music business for good and may or may not release his follow up album “Manhood”.

Update 2: “Muscles has sought legal advice and legal proceedings are about to be commenced against Modular Records”

When I heard the festival was coming back again I was kind of surprised. Surely you can’t beat Daft Punk, why do it again? Even though this festival isn’t quite Daft Punk it’s still pretty spesh.

Klaxons
Hercules & Love Affair
Whitest Boy Alive
The Presets
Cut Copy
Ladyhawke
Tame Impala
Canyons
Bumblebeez
Van She
Lost Valentinos
Mission Control
Temper Trap
Bang Gang DJ’s
Bag Raiders

What more could you want?

Tickets to the shows go on sale on Friday November 7 and are guaranteed to sell out in 12 seconds flat.

SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER – HORDERN AND SURROUNDS, SYDNEY
SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER – MYER MUSIC BOWL, MELB
SATURDAY 20 DECEMBER – BRISBANE RIVERSTAGE, BRISBANE
SUNDAY 21 DECEMBER – MEMBERS EQUITY STADIUM, PERTH

xox
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