Jackson Jackson have been busily traveling around the country with keytars and choirs playing to big crowds including more than 80 thousand Melbournians at the St Kilda Festival. Harry and Jan took Phrase on the road with them, and in what seems to be a celebration of the collaboration (yes I can rhyme too) Phrase has penned a verse for The Devil In Me which you can get as a free download www.jacksonjacksonmusic.com/freedownload
If, like the majority of rock’no’rollers, you’ve been salivating over your skinny black jeans and cowboy boots at the thought of Domino Records duo The Kills coming to Australia to play their delightfully scuzzy garage punk tunes from Midnight Boom, then some good news… V Festival are about to make all your dreams come true, with the announcement that Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart will be joining their merry musical circus around the nation in March/April 09 PLUS playing sideshows (supported by Louis XIV – a hot ticket if ever there was one, yes?).
Get ready to wig out and dance like your feet are on fire to Cheap and Cheerful; slink into a pelvis thrust to U.R.A Fever; get transported into riff bliss with the anthemic, exhilarating Last Day Of Magic; and get warm and fuzzy in your nether regions at the electrifying, raw and sexy as hell brand new single, Tape Song (released on March 13).
The typically lo-fi video for Tape Song contains footage filmed by the band while on tour in the US with The Raconteurs (aka The Saboteurs) and you can watch it right here:
The Kills Australian Tour Dates:
Saturday, March 28 – V Festival, Centennial Park, Sydney. Tix from Ticketmaster
Sunday, March 29 – V Festival, Avica Resort, Gold Coast. Tix from Ticketmaster
Monday, March 30 - The Zoo, Brisbane. Tix from Oztix on 1300 762 545. Wednesday, April 1 – The Forum, Sydney. Tix from Moshtix 1300 438 849. Friday, April 3 - The Prince OF Wales. Tix from Ticketmaster on 136 100.
Saturday, April 4 –V Festival, Melbourne Showgrounds. Tix from Ticketmaster
Sunday, April 5 – V Festival, Perth Showgrounds. Tix from Ticketmaster
Well, it’s not truly a flashmob since they’re announcing it publicly, but it sounds cooler than random short lived free outdoor event to scare unsuspecting pedestrians…
Time to face it – summer is departing Sydney at a high rate of knots, as are our tans. Which is why, on one of the final sunny weekends of the year, The Cat Empire are heading out for some sun & surf around our fine city. This Saturday when it’s forecasted to be 31C & sunny, Harry, Felix (hello hello!), & the full Cat Empire crew will be rocking up to Bondi Beach at 11.30am and First Fleet Park at Circular Quay at 1.30pm. Only the most prolific live band on Earth could haul their equipment & instruments between sites in time.
The good lads will be busking to raise cash for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal, so it’s not strictly free but who could begrudge that!?
The first time I saw The Cat Empire was at Circular Quay in The Basement club in 2002. A bunch of uni friends wandered into the club in a cynical beery fog late one evening, to discover the most fun and vigorous live acts I’ve seen in my life. I grabbed a CD from the merch stand and enthusiastically overtook DJ duties at uni parties. We didn’t need to recognise any of the tunes at the time to predict that the whole nation very soon would – and yes I’d like to take credit for being right. Success-o-rama.
Six years later, here’s a video of them playing their anthem The Chariot for a 30,000 strong crowd at Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne last Feb. It’s taken from their new DVD Live At The Bowl. Fingers crossed not so many people will turn up to the weekend shows, but it wouldn’t be surprising…
Catch you all on Saturday! For you unlucky non-Sydney peeps, we’ll have photos for you on Monday.
Doves, at long last, have returned with a new album, Kingdom of Rust (April 3). It was 2005 when Some Cities came out, back when W. commenced his second term and before Facebook was open to the general public. A long time ago. I like to think the band has been holed up somewhere fine-tuning their grand, cinematic and somewhat fornlorn sound…and I may be right judging from the first single and title track of the album, because it’s an exciting return to form.
It’s a galloping tune of Manchester meets the old west, and the clip visually captures the regret at the edges of the song with a loner in his pea coat driving across the dreary, dreamy English landscape. He’s following a roadmap and using a payphone to get to somewhere. Hmm… maybe it’s 1995 in the video. Take a watch to see where it’s all going.
Check out this punter’s Youtube footage from their mobile phone at Good Vibes Sydney. The weather may have not been so fantastic – but Kid Kenobi dropping Cutoff & Jon Ohms remix of Jackson Jacksons “All Alone” in his set really got the crowd pumping!
If you want to hear the original audio – it’s streaming up on their myspace now.
The Pet Shop Boys are about to release a new album, simply titled Yes. In fact, looking back at their extensive discography (and their first greatest hits Discography is a magical, must-have collection), the boys love the one word title: Very, Actually, Please, Fundamental, to name a few.
There’s been a bit of nostalgia, or an awakening if you will, to just how influential and downright brilliant the duo’s career has been nearly thirty years in. Especially as the new guard of the electro-dance-art-pop-hyphenated genre continues to capture the imagination of cool kids everywhere. This video medley revisits the hits just as PSB was honoured for Outstanding Contribution at the Brit Awards. Indulge in the medley right below as well as ‘Love, etc’, the new single co-produced with hitmakers Xenomania (Girls Aloud, Sugababes).
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