If you’ve not heard today’s incredible 10th anniversary Splendour In the Grass lineup, have you not a computer / radio / phone / ears / eyes????

OK so camping tickets are $450 (ouch), but we’ve done the math & it turns that makes each set $5.55… Five and half bucks to heard the new LCD album live!? The full lineup is below, with our favourite acts on the LHS. (Full disclosure, they’re all ours!)

In your pre-Splendour research mode, we’re willing to help you out even further by giving you:

• Laura Marling Ltd Edn I Speak Because I Can CD/DVD with 5 free downloads, postcard artwork, and lyrics booklet
• Jonsi blockmounted poster featuring Go album art
• Operator Please signed 7″ vinyl of Logic / Logic (Dolby Anol Remix)
• Ben Harper & Relentless7 signed blockmounted poster featuring White Lies… art
• Gorillaz limited edition Plastic Beach CD/DVD
• Hot Chip One Life Stand double gatefold vinyl
• Goldfrapp Headfirst collector’s edition cassette

Just head to our sister store at theinsong.com/splendour, buy any of the singles or albums to receive competition details, and tell us in 25 words or less how you plan to warm up for Splendour.

As those that listen to Triple J Breakfast this morning would know Miami Horror have a announced a May/June tour AND new single titled Moon Theory and it’s HOT. Missed it? you can hear it here:

AND get online now at The In Song and you can pre-order Moon Theory and get a free, unreleased, remix from Perth maestro Shazam of their 1st single which EVERYONE loves Sometimes.

The Moon Theory tour will preview new material from their album due out later this year, and will be the perfect chance to experience Moon Theory live… I saw it at Falls and loved it!

Moon Theory Tour Dates:

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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.

After a night of seeing Miami Horror, Lily Allen and then Karaoke with The Midnight Juggernauts and some beers for good measure I’m a little weary while writing this post. Add to that the fact I should have posted this last week and it brings on feelings of inadequacy that I usually only feel in the bedroom.

But anyway I thought that it was worth posting some footage of Miami Horror and Neon Indian performing Make You Mine at the inaugural Sandcastles Festival in Melbourne.

Alan / Vega / Neon Indian features heavily on the new Miami Horror record that’s due later this year. We had a listen to some of the tracks yesterday and it’s sounding super cool. Think Manfred Mann meets Daft Punk meets AIR meets Animal Collective. Along with Neon Indian there’s also tracks that feature Josh from the band, Penelope from Golden Filter, Mai and Sam Lawrence (who sang with the band at Falls Festival and if you have footage of that post it!!!)

In true journalistic fashion I recently caught up with Hugh Waters the promoter of Sandcastles festival and asked him some amazingly in-depth questions.

Hi Hugh?

Hi.

Hugh, how was it putting on your first festival?

Interesting learning experience. It wasn’t full scale and we were working with people who already put on large outdoor events. It was pretty much just booking and promotion for us but definitely a fair bit different to clubs.

Hugh, as someone who gave Miami Horror some of his first DJ gigs do you feel happy to see where they are now? What do you think the album will be like?

Yeah its great to see Miami go from just an idea to the top of his game. I think it’s good they haven’t rushed anything and I think this will mean the album is good quality as well.

Hugh, what were some of your highlights from the day?

Seeing some of the smaller bands from Melbourne really pull good crowds and put on amazing shows. Madonna, Will Wagner , The Kickabouts, got the vibe going early.

Hugh, will Sandcastles be back in 2011?

Not sure depends on the councils feedback but i think everything went smoothly for them

And now to the video…

No… before you get excited, no date yet, but we do have an update from the desk of Benjamin, the man who bought you such awesome tracks as Sometimes (currently #9 on the club charts) and Don’t Be On With Her and will be seeing us in at midnight at the Falls in Lorne! Also voting for Sometimes in the Triple J Hottest could win you stacks of prizes www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100. Just send proof of you vote to miamihorror@emimusic.com like a screenshot.

Anyway here’s Ben’s update:

Hey All,

The album isn’t far now… We have about 11/12 tracks that are very closed to finished. I’ve decided to head back into the studio to push it a little bit further and tighten the production.

We’ve taken many different turns in direction for the album as times have changed and we guarantee it will be somewhat of a surprise for many people… expect a partially live-r sound that pay homage to everything from disco to 70’s prog and touches on a dreamier psychedlic sound. For us it is a huge step up from previous works and contains many tracks we’ve been holding back from long before the Bravdo EP was even released.

I’m excited to announce many guest collaborators that we’ve also worked with for vocals on the album. Alan Palomo from Neon Indian/Vega flew over to Australia and spent several weeks with me helping write both vocals and lay down ideas for some final tracks. The Golden Filter has lent us some lovely vocals along with the wonderful ‘MAI’. We are really excited about all these tracks.

It is planned for release early next year. In the meantime ‘Sometimes’ and its remix packages are available on itunes if you haven’t checked them out and a few more mixes are to come soon including one by ’shazam’.

Please Illuminate.
Yours truly,
Benjamin