Our man behind the lens Justin Vague was in the mix at the 2013 St. Jerome's Laneway Festival , capturing some brilliant shots of Twerps , Pond, Chet Faker, Bat For Lashes, Alpine and Flume just to name a few. Thanks for the good times. [...]
Bat for Lashes have released their latest tour dates. Starting in Singapore, Natasha Khan takes her band down under for an Aussie feast, into the west coast of America and settling in London for Field Day! 01-26 Singapore - Laneway Festival 01-28 Auckland, New Zealand - Laneway Festival 01-30 Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre 02-01 Brisbane, Australia - Laneway Festival 02-02 Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival 02-03 Melbourne, Australia - Laneway Festival 02-05 Melbourne, Australia - Palais Theatre 02-08 Adelaide, Australia - Laneway Festival 02-09 Perth, Australia - Laneway Festival [...]
There aren't any specific inroads to make waves overseas if you're an Australian artist, but moving to the US, Berlin, or some subcultural hub in Europe with good pastrami and a nice local is probably a good place to start. While Gotye is probably carving out a spot for his potential Grammy and Tame Impala have sold out enough shows in the US to afford proper shoes now, there's still a ton of our Aus dudes making us proud over yonder. It's hard to keep track on all our exports. It's only when these bands make [...]
Ah, it feels good to be back. Thanks for being here with open arms-it means a lot to us. And now, to the music... Night Moves "Headlights" from Colored Emotions [ to be released 10/9/12 ] [ download ] Silent Rider "I Was A Bomb" from Silent Rider [...]
Facebook / http://laneway.bandcamp.com/ Laneway are Louise O’Reilly and Paul Hannan from Brisbane, Australia, "Love is a Devil" is the first single from their forthcoming album Turn Your Love Up (due September), the track serves as my introduction to the alt-folk duo and is a welcome listen today, which finds me still recovering from England's Euro exit (well the excessive beers and late night as a consequence of), the mellow, laid-back track is perfect to soothe my tired, aching mind and [...]
NEXT BLOCK PARTY: SOUL OF SYDNEY: GOD-FATHERS OF FUNK BLOCK PARTY Where: INNER CITY INDOOR / OUTDOOR COURT YARD SPACE When: Mid/ Late July DJ:S PHIL TOKE, SOUL OF SYDNEY DJ'S + FRIENDS TBA , INFO: EMAIL US FOR UPDATES soulofsydney@gmail.com JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT HERE About the Block-Party Picnic Movement In the name of [...]
Photo courtesy of Chugg Entertainment And what costume shall the poor boy wear? Lest we forget, it’s every effeminate mod’s fantasy to play in a guitar group such as The Horrors — I believe Vince Noir of The Mighty Boosh can attest to that, skinny legs policy notwithstanding. In their jaundiced gloom and unhealthy obsession with the ghosts of post-punk past, there’s no other outfit in this year’s Laneway lineup that quite share similar sensibilities with The Horrors. Not that it fucking mattered. Summoning energy and strange currencies from the darkest recesses, the band [...]
Photo courtesy of Chugg Entertainment While those familiar with Feist’s live show antics and visual spectacles from The Reminder tour may have been hoping for a sampling of it at Laneway 2012, her more minimal performance was still nothing short of amazing. On tow for her debut performance in Singapore was a tight six-member band providing just the right amount of bedding for Feist’s enamoring voice to lie in. With half of the setlist being from new release Metals , the crowd received a good mix of old and new tunes, [...]
Photo courtesy of Chugg Entertainment I was wondering if Toro Y Moi was going to fit in with the rest of the festival line-up, seeing how festivals tend to be guitar driven affairs. However, I was really itching to check out how Chaz Bundick and band were going to pull off their live show and introduce their much hyped "Chillwave" sound to Singaporean music-goers, or even to let my own ears believe it was more than just hype. Well, I'm positively thrilled to report that all my preconceived notions were unfounded. Toro Y Moi [...]
Photo courtesy of Chugg Entertainment The other band I had eagerly awaited was The Pains of Being Pure at Heart , one of my favourite indiepop revivalists who I guessed would go on to draw quite a following, but never quite expected to become big enough to perform internationally, let alone Singapore. But it seems that our gig-starved days of yore are coming to an end, while the C86 sound has resurrected and found itself a wider and younger generation of fans. Still, the Brooklyn band were very much the babies of the day’s lineup, [...]
Photo courtesy of Chugg Entertainment While it's only been my second time at any real festival, I've come to a conclusion that there are two phases in any all-day festival - day and night. While there's sunlight, there's a warm, positive vibe in the atmosphere; everybody relaxes, and you start getting to know new people. Come the night, the artificial lights spin out of control, and the culmination of all that pent up fun unleashes itself in a full blown frenzy. Then we have Twin Shadow , taking the stage just as the sun was [...]
I could have simply filled this post with “Whitney Tribute” and linked the above video in all its tender, touching and tearful glory and it would fit Dan’s brief for this series nicely, but that would be playing to the gallery. I was really looking forward to my imaginary fiancée Feist’s set, but it fell short of my expectations. (Sorry luv ) What met my expectations was Girls ’ excellent set. From the opening 1-2-3 opening punch of "I Will Always Love You", "Lust for Life" and "Laura", through the earnest "Love Like A River" and [...]
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MP3: Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed We're putting on a (free) post-Laneway party here in Auckland and are stoked to have Washed Out dropping by for a guest DJ set. Cheap beers available as usual. Monday 30 January 10pm - late D.O.C. Bar facebook event
Melbourne Australia band, Architecture in Helsinki were the special musical guests of local Melbourne take away show "Sideshow Alley" for a special acoustic rendition of "Contact High" from their newest release 'Moment Bends '
Let’s clear something up first, I’m gonna talk about international bands as I didn’t catch much of the Oz contingent. In case you have been living under a rock and didn’t notice, Australia’s weather has been off the charts lately. The night before Melbourne’s super well organised Laneway Festival it totally pissed down and washed out some gear on the river stage. Rat vs Possum was a casuality as staff got things under control. I chose to sleep in and spend my mid morning eating sweet ass scrambled eggs with carmelised onion down at A Minor place.I arrived quite dry [...]
ok, so this is nearly a week late sure, but you know what? I got there. Took me ages, but I got there. Laneway Festival last weekend was killer. The venue is amazingo, and man, that lineup...jeepers. When I reviewed last years, I wrote something along the lines of it being a music bloggers wet [...]
we weren't planning to go at first, but at the last minute, b and i got ourselves passes to see the xx and florence and the machine at the esplanade (many thanks v and a!). bursting with enthusiasm, florence delivered a spectacular show of epic proportions, with impressively high energy levels sustained to the very last song. in very stark contrast, opening band the xx operated with the barest of setups, presenting every note and breath to the audience's scrutiny. barring some rather disastrous sound engineering for the first few songs, the atmosphere they created was [...]
NEWS: Echo and the Fucking Bunnymen are coming to Australia. Yes. They really are. For St. Jeromes Laneway Fest , and a sideshow Im pretty sure. OOOooohh wont you commeee ooon down tooo myyyy....Rescue. MP3: Echo And The Bunnymen - Rescue Washed Out Im not even going to bother giving you the lowdown on. All I will say is make 100% sure that you get BOTH the ALBUM and the EP. Because, and I give you the Waves At Night promise, you [...]
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