The warbly wonders of the UK, Wild Beasts are arriving in Sydney momentarily for the Laneway Festival – but not before announcing a super-exciting all-ages and free acoustic show show at Red Eye Records. Question is, will your boss let you off early from work to go see them? Fingers crossed…

The show will take place this Wednesday Feb 3 at 4pm at Red Eye Records, 66 King Street (between George and York Sts). Who’s up for loitering in the store afterwards flicking through countless 12-inches? God bless Red Eye…

Touring in the wake of everyone’s-favourite-indie-album-of-2009 Two Dancers, Wild Beasts are also appearing at Sydney’s Oxford Arts Factory and the East Brunswick Club in Melbourne. Tour dates here.

Promised we’d be back with Big Day Out reports didn’t we?

Those dedicated festival-goers who were primed and ready in the beating midday sun were treated to something very special… Miami Horror’s summer anthem Sometimes gathered up the early crowds.

Amazing to see Ben’s tightly coiled curls didn’t frizz up in the heat and Josh’s feathered shoulders wafting some cool air onto the crowd below – but really it was all about those Miami dirty synth arpeggios. Get into it!

When the Miami Horror chaps finish up the Big Day Out and Lily Allen tour you can catch them at MSFEST Launceston, St Kilda Festival at ESPY and with Phoenix in March. Full tour dates here.

Confession. I share my birthday with Laura Marling (b. Feb 1, 1990). But I was born in a decade that was neither the 1990s nor the 80s. This makes me feel a bit unaccomplished compared to my fellow February first-er.

Especially upon the news that Miss Marling is not releasing one album this year but TWO!

I Speak Because I Can will be released March 19th, it features the beautiful, wistful Goodbye England (Covered in Snow) and the ferocious folk number Devil’s Spoke. But it seems there are more songs to come, so following Laura’s sold out tour of Australia, she’s going back to the studio with Ethan Johns to record the companion to Speak. We shall receive that later in the year.

Brand new video for Devil’s Spoke, filmed in India.

You can pre order the album now at JB Hi Fi.

Robbie Williams performed Morning Sun, one of my faves off the new album Reality Killed The Video Star, at the NRJ Awards in France

…where he also took home the award for “Best International Male” presented by Jean Paul Gautier and the stunning Dita Von Teese… those French know how to do it don’t they!?

Keep an eye out for Rob at this years Brit Awards on Feb 16 where he will be awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Channel [V] are airing it in Australia on Feb 22.

Well it was bloody hot at this years Big Day Out Sydney but there was heaps to see and do to stop you thinking about the weather
Highlights for me were definately Peaches, Dizzy and Jet but it was all really topped off by Muse…AMAZING, especially their encore performance of ACDC’s ‘Back In Black’ with Nic Cester from Jet. Check it out here:

Lots more reports from the Big Days Out coming right up – it’s not finished the national tour yet!

If you’ve been watching SBS of late you would have heard a familiar voice in the Big Love promo running at the moment, yes that’s our very own Julia Stone singing For You from Angus & Julia Stone’s new album Down The Way due out March.

The guys will also kick off a national tour in March which is near sold out – log onto angusandjuliastone.com.au for all the deets.