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Yeasayer – 2011-02-12 – Cultural Centre Northbridge (Laneway Festival)

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:10 +0000

Yeasayer – 2011-02-11 – Fowler

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:09 +0000

Yeasayer – 2011-02-10 – The Billboard

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:08 +0000

Yeasayer – 2011-02-07 – Metro Theatre

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:07 +0000

Yeasayer – 2011-02-06 – College of The Arts (Laneway Festival)

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:06 +0000

Yeasayer – 2011-02-05 – Footscray Community Arts Centre (Laneway Festival)

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:05 +0000

Yeasayer – 2011-02-04 – Alexandria St off St Paul

Kara — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:39:04 +0000

Latitude Festival 2010

John — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:17:31 +0000

Latitude is a music and arts festival that takes place near the east coast of England in Suffolk. Now in its fifth year, Latitude presents a popular yet relatively niche collection of established artists from a very broad and respected spectrum.

I’m currently on a 100% attendance rate and it’s been a real pleasure seeing it mature into the celebration it has become. Unfortunately my veteran status didn’t stop me from taking every wrong turn on the way there, thus turning a three hour trip into a four hour slog.

I digress. Once I had exposed the lying wench within the satnav, I spent a glorious few days in almost unprecedented thirty degree sunshine and in the company of (among very many others) – Empire Of The Sun, Laura Marling, Corinne Bailey Rae, Richard Hawley, Wild Beasts, Chief, Hockey, Yeasayer and a fresh-out-of-retirement Belle And Sebastian.

Empire Of The Sun - Latitude 2010

Check out these photos from a glorious festival weekend, and have a look at the official site to see more of Latitude.

Image credit: John Williams Photography.co.uk

Chairman’s Blog: Coachella Festival

MarkP — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:28:03 +0000

I reckon it’s really important to travel. Whether its in a Rolls Royce or with a rucksack…
Travel gives you perspective and frees you up from the day-to-day. For me it gives me a kind of sense check of what you are doing, where you are going and what’s really important.

Even though I’m in my late 30’s… I am a hopeless case with spending at least part of my holidays on one (or many) of my favourite artists. There is always music involved. I can’t see that ever changing… Add in some of your favourite people in the world and I’m pretty damn contented.I’ve done most musical festivals in the world but for me, Coachella is the best and most intelligent. Goosebumps on multiple occasions. Hairs on arms standing up – check. Really – it’s that good.

Imagine, a dream line up… backdrop it with a lush green space in the middle of the California desert. Surround that with palm trees… Then back drop it with an intense mountain range. Cap it with some snow at the very top just off in the distance. Then add a picture-perfect blue sky and you are getting close. This is music lovers festival heaven.

At night the palm trees are underlit with different colored spotlights…and 5 massive Hollywood-style spotlights are planted around the parameters of the festival shooting into the sky and meeting up in the middle of the festival space. The sunset at the end of each day is something to behold as the sun rests for the night behind the mountains. And when the bands play, they play to a surrounding backdrop of palm trees or a hint of desert… it’s hard to explain in words but hope you are feelin’ me on how good it was. Although there were 60,000 people each day, it doesn’t feel suffocating or over-crowded. It’s clean and well-run. Yep. It’s pretty impressive. And if you believe in energies and spirits and those kind of otherworldly touchpoints… well I think it has all of that going on as well.

But most importantly, I have never seen so much incredible music and such a musically-forward line up as this year. I highly recommend it.

More at coachella.com but here’s my round-up:

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

It’s no secret they are one of my favourites – so to see them 2nd on the bill on opening night was a thrill (and a genius call by the promoters)… and I watched on like a proud father ‘cos I like to see my fave artists do well. They played a blinding, exciting, blistering set. Lead guy and legend James Murphy is actually an incredibly humble human – and as they finished a killer opener Us VS Them, you could see James having a moment to just take it all in. This is of course the last album and tour by LCD and it was a big crowd. James gave a great quote, something gushy about playing in between Them Crooked Vultures and Jay-Z and how insane it was for them. He called TCV “the chicken”, Jay Z as “the main course beef”… and that he was quite happy (and proud) that LCD are “the vegan option” on the menu. Funny! They have an augmented rhythm section now, and by the time the band are here for their winter shows… its going to be mind-blowingly good. Three new songs got an airing in the set with lead single Drunk Girls and future-classic I Can Change getting a great reception. They are one of the most exciting life-forces in music right now mixing English pop smarts with NYC dancefloor cool. Wow.

Even though their last album Sound Of Silver was hailed universally by all the good music critics as the best album of 2007, they have never enjoyed any of this exposure in Oz before (Triple J Album Of The Week, National NOVA airplay, Channel V Ripe Clip and the 1st 5 star review in the world). It’s brilliant and I am so proud.

Check out the vid and play it loud!

GORILLAZ

Damon and co. closed the Festival on the Sunday Night. It was beyond even my wildest expectations. To hear these tunes from the new album for the first time and with such an incredible band… including Paul Simenon and Mick Jones (from The Clash) was sublime. It opened with an extended version of the orchestral album opener which perfectly set the scene for the night’s musically adventures voyage. Also, just like the album, it was straight into Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach with Snoop Dogg’s rap beamed in via huge video screens casting him as some kind of stoner-musical-captain for the evening holding a periscope… and man, when that funky old-skool groove and bass line kicks in… I danced my ass off and grinned like a kid.

What else? lots of tracks from the genius Demon Days album in the set… It’s a kind of loose narrative in the setlist about the state of the world – that’s the deep genius of Damon Albarn for you. I actually shed a tear with happiness (as did Nathan from Faker) during Empire Ants. Yes, it was that beautiful. It has the Damon melancholy-meets-ecstasy musical trick in full effect with the beautiful and gorgeous tones of the singer from upcoming Swedes Little Dragon – it’s a match made in heaven. Seeing Bobby Womack let rip on Stylo was killer too. De La Soul were there for Feel Good Inc and Super Fast Jelly Fish .. insanely good. During White Flag while Kano and Bashy were giving it a full-pelt UK grime/rap assault. Damon just got a massive white flag and waved it around. Albarn has so much soul he should be black! Peeeeeeeeeeeaaace brother!

MTV are running a live stream of one of last week’s London shows still so go to it!

Others in brief …

THE MIDDLE EAST did really well and played early on Sunday. They have a lot of interest internationally and are touring the USA exhaustively upon invitations from Laura Marling, White Rabbits, and Mumford and Sons. Then there’s the European summer festival circuit. Glastonbury is a long way from Townsville, boys! I think The Middle East’s upcoming album this can be one of the most important Australian albums of 2010.

JONSI played as the sun started to set on the outdoor stage. Even in the 30 degree desert weather, Jónsi’s kooky icelandic pop made it feel like somewhere else. Cant wait for the tour. Just beautiful.
Watch Go Do here.

HOT CHIP had a really big crowd playing before Thom Yorke and Flea… and they nailed it. We danced, we sang along, bathing in their feel-good geeky electronic pop tunefulness. Its going to be magic when they tour with LCD.

Watch Ready For The Floor here.

DEADMAU5 is completing his debut album for EMI. He’s bringing in some big-name collaborators and its going to be one of the dance albums of the year. He collaborated with Daft Punk’s visual artists (they guys who made all those giant pyramids on the last tour) and at Coachella he unveiled his new “Mau5″ head which as you might know…he wears when he starts dj’ing. Check this out!

YEASAYER Hey! These guys were awesome and provided the first indie-singalong moment of the day in the Sahara tent mid afternoon. They are a really good live band, really playful and again, bring on the tour! Check them out…

Lots of other surreal things happened… like Nathan from Faker bringing Vampire Weekend back to our tent (!), like having Kelly Osborne and Agnys Dean the supermodel and John Waters all within reach side of stage as GOSSIP played. Then James and Pat from DFA got up onstage with them for their final song – a cover of Grace Jones Pull Up To The Bumper. I think I fell through the floor!

And of course also highly anticipated was Thom Yorke performing. His new band with Flea from the Chilli Peppers (yes it’s not a joke) is called ATOMS FOR PEACE. We all just gave each other “is-this-really-happening?” smirks as they came onstage. It shouldn’t work but it does. It works really well. Thom does his thing and Flea stomps around the stage slapping his bass. Thom played the whole of his album The Eraser and then at the end came on for three songs. I welled up in one of them. I think a lot of people did because Radiohead has soundtracked our lives and as we stood in the clear desert sky with the beauty of nature and music… It was really something. Check this out:
New Thom Yorke song called Give Up The Ghost. Sublime… I can’t wait to hear this recorded.
Radiohead’s Airbag… can you imagine how it was when he played the starting chords? Paul Mac came over and we just hugged in disbelief!

There were unconfirmed rumours this was me but I deny it all.

What an incredible couple of days… let’s hope the lineup is as magnificent in 2011 and we can do it all again! In the meanwhile, who’s going to Splendour!?

Splendour in the Grass 2010 – the full lineup + our festival warm-up pack giveaway

Kara — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:04:25 +0000

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.

Ben Harper & Relentless7 (only Australian show)
Empire of The Sun
Goldfrapp
Richard Ashcroft & The United Nations of Sound
LCD Soundsystem
Angus & Julia Stone
Hot Chip
Jónsi (of Sigur Ros)
Laura Marling
Broken Social Scene
Operator Please
Miami Horror
The Middle East
Yeasayer
Surfer Blood

The Strokes
Pixies (only Australian show)
The Temper Trap
Mumford & Sons
Florence and The Machine
Scissor Sisters
The Ting Tings
Band of Horses
Wolfmother
Grizzly Bear
Passion Pit
Midnight Juggernauts
Paul Kelly
Kate Nash
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Lisa Mitchell
Midlake
The Vines
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Tame Impala
The Magic Numbers
K-OS
Bluejuice
Little Red
Ash
Whitley
Delphic
Foals
Alberta CrossSpace Invadas
British India
Miike Snow
Washington
Philadelphia Grand Jury
Clare Bowditch
Band of Skulls
Two Door Cinema Club
The Drums
The Mess Hall
We Are Scientists
Violent Soho
School of Seven Bells
Last Dinosaurs
John Steel Singers
Yacht Club DJs
Jonathan Boulet
Dan Sultan
Oh Mercy
Cloud Control
Fanfarlo
Boy & Bear
Ernest Ellis
Tijuana Cartel
Frightened Rabbit
The Joy Formidable
Skipping Girl Vinegar
Gypsy and The Cat
Horrorshow
Money For Rope
Tim & Jean
Zennith
JaC Stone