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REGURGITATOR

July 16th 2010 08:18
REGURGITATOR


After dipping toes in the bubbling grease of contemporary dance for Rockshow in Nov 2009 they dropped the strainer in the chip fryer, frittered away on some new years festival appearances along with a few shows in the past few months.

Back in their classic 3 piece mode, after approaching Rockshow in this guise, and with Seja embarking on her own solo career they recently played some stand out performances (including Seja's last keyboard stand with them) at the Brisbane Powerhouse 10th birthday... and sold out shows in Sydney and Melbourne.


Back on the fries... they saturate the wrapper with new recordings, new tourings and a new soundtrack to cult classic Akira.


With Quan and Ben relocating to new home town Melbourne early this year they activated some fresh studio spaces in their recently acquired dwellings and started work on their first new material since the Love and Paranoia sessions in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. Quan has set up a recording blog here and see them use it... the tracks are currently being mixed by Casey Rice after some additional recording at Head Gap.. and will be released through digital outlets and physical forms in September.



On August 8 as part of the Graphic animation conference at the Sydney Opera House Regurgitator have been commissioned to produce a live score to the ground breaking Japanese anime film AKIRA.


Comic books, illustration, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our popular culture, they now define it. Graphic novels and comic art are now a leading source of inspiration for films, television, clothing, designers, musicians and artists the world over. GRAPHIC celebrates this brave new world in a weekend of specially commissioned productions – with musical responses to graphic art & stories, workshops, panels, a film program, a games exhibition and an animation competition. Highlight events include the Anime classic Akira with a live rescore by Regurgitator; Shaun Tan’s The Arrival live scored by Ben Walsh and the Orkestra of the Underground; and the big one – Neil Gaiman in the Concert Hall reading a new unpublished work, with specially commissioned live score by FourPlay and projected illustrations by legendary graphic artist Eddie Campbell.


Akira with live score by Regurgitator Akira is the benchmark film by which all other anime are judged, spawning countless imitators and defining many of the themes, concerns and style of the genre. Set in 2019 in post-World War Three Neo-Tokyo, this animated classic introduced the western world to adult-oriented Japanese animation and has been lauded worldwide as the movie that “started it all”. Akira started life as Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic 2,000 page manga (Japanese comic book), before being adapted into an animated film in 1988. The film will be shown in the original Japanese language version with English subtitles and rescored live by Regurgitator. As Australia’s most renowned and successful experimental art-rockers, Regurgitator have achieved triple-platinum status – an astonishing feat for such an uncompromising band – who never shy away from the unusual, the untried, or indeed any genre that attracts their creative sensibility.


Tickets available from the Sydney Opera House.


And following this...

Regurgitator embark on the most intensive headline tour since the 6 week long 2007 Amor e Paranoia tour with New Pants from China and I Heart Hiroshima... or the 2008 tour with guiding lights DEVO. For this latest slush in hot fat Regurgitator has invited new sensations from Melbourne RAT VS POSSUM and Brisbane's bursting with joy LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH along for the fries. Plus for a special one-off show... DJ KRUSH from Japan will be joining Regurgitator for a double headliner in Brisbane on SEPT 18 at The Tivoli

Tickets on sale in the coming days... from JULY 20 or thereabouts.


Faster Louder presents

REGURGITATOR

plus RAT VS POSSUM (expect WA shows)

and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH (except TAS & WA shows)

with co-headliner DJ KRUSH from Japan (Brisbane show only)


WED 15 SEPT Hobart REPUBLIC BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM

Tickets from Ruffcut Records - 6234 8600, Moshtix and The Republic Bar - 6234 6954, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


THUR 16 SEPT Adelaide THE GOV
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849) & Moshtix outlets, www.venuetix.com.au (ph 08 8225 8888) & Venue*Tix outlets & at the venue 11am-9pm Mon-Sat, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


FRI 17 SEPT Melbourne THE HI-FI
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Tickets online from www.thehifi.com.au Phone Tix 1300THEHIFI (1300 843 4434) & Polyester Records - Fitzroy & City, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


SAT 18 SEPT Brisbane THE TIVOLI
with DJ KRUSH (from Japan) plus LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH and RAT VS POSSUM

Tickets from Ticketek 132 849, www.ticketek.com.au, Rocking Horse Records (07) 3229 5360 and regurgitator.oztix.com.au Doors at 7.00pm


SUN 19 SEPT Byron GREAT NORTHERN
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Tickets from venue, www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), oztix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


WED 22 SEPT Katoomba HOTEL GEARIN
plus RAT VS POSSUM

Tickets from www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


THUR 23 SEPT Canberra THE MARAM
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


FRI 24 SEPT Wgong UNI BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Tickets from Redback Music, the venue, Oztix, www.bigtix.com.au, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au


SAT 25 SEPT Sydney MANNING BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Tickets: www.manningbar.com (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
An official selection of Sydney Fringe 2010


SUN 26 SEPT Karratha WA WALKINGTON THEATRE
Ph: (08) 9159 6859 for ticketing.


MON 27 SEPT Perth AMPLIFIER BAR
plus BOYS BOYS BOYS!

Tickets from Bocs, Moshtix, 78’s, Mills, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au



RAT VS POSSUM

...play experimental pop music. Layered and looped, billion-part harmonies, tom-heavy percussion, drum samplers, jangly guitars, casio keyboards and loop pedal. They released their debut ‘Daughter of Sunshine’ in April through Sensory Projects. A collection of psychedelic, faux-tribal pop songs written for the Summer, recorded during the Winter of 2009.‘Daughter of Sunshine’ is an album of multi-coloured ecstatical indulgences, chiming guitars, Cash Converters’ keyboards and a bandwidth of beats that documents the band’s first year of music making; capturing their evolution from a glitter-obsessed two-piece, playing to handfuls of barely-amused friends in living rooms, to the current five-piece, drum-heavy incarnation of the band packing venues ll over the place amid performances with Passion Pit, Jonathan Boulet and the like...

"...joyously experimental, infectious and unique."- Tom Hawking, Inpress

"Rat Vs Possum seized the stage quite unlike any act we’ve seen at the seasonal Triple R showcases and offered themselves up as one of the acts to catch in 2010.”– Sam McDougall, Triple R

“This is one tribe I am more than happy to be cannibalised by.”Wilfred Brandt, TwoThousand

"…absolutely inspired neo-tribal bliss and shambolic, shouty freak outs.”- Lawson Fletcher, Mess and Noise

"Dan Kelly wished he was 21 and living on acid and baked beans again at the Rat Vs Possum gig."- Dan Kelly's rad facebook status
www.myspace.com/ratvspossum


LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH

Laneous & The Family Yah make Grunty Indie Soul and Croon Punk for your earholes. Together with the all singing, all dancing Bird Fire Choir, Laneous navigates his band through abstract hip hop, punk and old soul. Alternatively cheerful, smooth and demented he cuts through the Family Yah’s at times fiercely syncopated, occasionally bombast and otherwise wobbly grooves with his trademark falsetto croon and charming hip hop murmurs. Bubblin’ up out of the artisan hot bed that is Brisbane’s West End, L&TFY are amongst the hardest working on the East Coast Touring Circuit. Their 2009 Debut LP “St Ill Regal” pushed the band onto the National stage with Triple J spinning Searing Life on High Rotation, a QSong Award and FBI rotation for Bubblegum, a triple j Unearthed ‘Parklife’ Win and critical acclaim around the country. This saw L&TFY spend the best part of a year on the road. Still though they found time to record and release 3 Limited Edition EPs – all now sold out and ascended to the vaults. Having finely tuned a high energy and dynamic live show the old fashioned way – through grueling trips up and down the coast, crashing on floors and fighting for DJ duties in the tour bus, their Sophomore Album “Found Things” is Laneous & The Family Yah at their most direct – a fight between the animal and the evolved, an uncompromised and highly joyous offering of soul, punk and hip hop. It’s release in September 2010 (through Bird Fire Records) cements L&TFY as amongst one of the most prolific acts in Australia.
www.myspace.com/lachlaneous


DJ KRUSH

Known as one of the first hip-hop artists in Japan, DJ Krush (Hideaki Ishi) is a globally renowned producer, remixer and DJ. DJ Krush constantly expands his field – working on film soundtracks, television dramas and commercials, as well as live sessions with other musicians. In 1991, Krush’s remix TVO was a hit in the London club scene. He released his debut self-titled album in 1994 (Shadow Records), and since then has released eight solo records, including releases in Japan, Europe and the Unites States, and numerous singles, remixes and collaborations. With his music ranging from hip-hop to techno and acid jazz, some critics have labelled Krush the ‘Godfather of trip-hop’, referring to the multi-layered psychedelic element of his music.www.sus81.jp/djkrush



GRAPHIC: AKIRA with live score by Regurgitator

Comic books, illustration, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our popular culture, they now define it. Graphic novels and comic art are now a leading source of inspiration for films, television, clothing, designers, musicians and artists the world over. GRAPHIC celebrates this brave new world in a weekend of specially commissioned productions – with musical responses to graphic art & stories, workshops, panels, a film festival, a games exhibition and an animation competition.

“Hyperviolent. Apocalyptic. Kinetic. Lurid. Akira is the definitive anime classic.” – Empire magazine

Akira is the benchmark film by which all other Anime are judged, spawning countless imitators and defining many of the themes, concerns and style of the genre. Set in 2019 in post-World War Three Neo-Tokyo, this animated classic introduced the western world to adult-oriented Japanese animation and has been lauded worldwide as the movie that “started it all”. The DVD has sold over 41,000 copies in Australia alone. It started life as Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic 2,000 page manga (Japanese comic book), before being adapted into an animated film in 1988.
The film will be shown in the original Japanese language version with English subtitles.

Regurgitator are Australia’s most renowned and successful experimental art-rockers, who have created a stunning new score to play live alongside Akira. Regurgitator have achieved triple-platinum status in Australia - an astonishing feat for such an uncompromising band – who never shy away from the unusual, the untried, or indeed any genre that attracts their creative sensibility.

Rated M15 - High Level Violence

Akira Trailer


See the rest of the GRAPHIC program here

Learn how to be part of the GRAPHIC animation competition here

Venue: Opera Theatre
Dates: 8 August
Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes with no interval

Book Online Now!
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THE SOUND OF NEXT SUMMER
PARKLIFE 2010 TICKETS ON SALE JULY 1!

Tickets for Parklife 2010 10th birthday go on sale THURSDAY, 01 JULY at www.parklife.com.au. Organisers of the festival, held on the Gold Coast (Sat 25 Sept), Perth (Sun 26 Sept), Melbourne (Sat 2 Oct), Sydney (Sun 3 Oct) and Adelaide (Mon 4 Oct), Fuzzy, say the line-up is their best yet, with tickets expected to sell quickly.
Not just more big acts in total, but some moments Parklife hasn’t seen the likes of, the Festival will feature unique sets fans will be buzzing about all Summer long. Bloc Party lead singer Kele’s smash solo album brings him and his band to Parklife to dazzle us with new tracks, plus the best Bloc Party classics live. Legendary US indie heroes The Dandy Warhols, responsible for some of the catchiest lyrics in modern rock and stars of the cult doco DIG! are joining the Parklife posse and six-time Grammy winner Missy Elliott with a 27-strong all dancing entourage and a brand new album.

Parklife always brings a bunch of hot fresh artists not seen by the Australian public before, and this year is no exception. Darwin Deez, Ou est le Swimming Pool, Dan Black, Chiddy Bang, Memory Tapes, Delorean, The Glitch Mob, Wolf Gang and a bunch more are headed this way for the first time.

Cut Copy will be playing their first Australian show in almost two years at Parklife, having just completed their rumoured-to-be-best-yet third album. Fresh from collaborating with Pharell on her latest album release ‘Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans’, Uffie has a new live show that’ll pop your glocks off! Midnight Juggernauts circle past Saturn and head back to Earth via Parklife with a new live show featuring album number two of dizzying kaleidoscopic pop, ‘The Crystal Axis’. While we’re still working out whether we should really dance around to The Wombats drily comic ‘Lets dance to Joy Division’; the band are holed up in the studio putting the finishing touches to their brand new album. Fuzzy faves Soulwax return to the Parklife fold with a new live show and material that will no doubt reconfirm why they have played over 120 live shows and festivals worldwide, and Holy Ghost! will play their first live shows in Australia.

The first major Australian summer music festival and the biggest outdoor festival for lovers of electronic indie music Parklife attracts crowds of140, 000 nationally, showcasing the world’s most relevant artists playing in some of Australia’s most picturesque city parklands - Gold Coast (Parklands, Sat 25 Sept), Perth (Wellington Square, Sun 26 Sept), Melbourne (The Sidney Myer Music Bowl & King’s Domain, Sat 2 Oct), Sydney (Moore Park, Sun 3 Oct) and Adelaide (Botanic Gardens, Mon 4 Oct).

Fuzzy Co-Founder John Wall is excited about the future direction of Parklife. “We have more bands than ever before taking the stage this year, with a really cool indie vibe. We know these guys are going to be on everyone’s lips and stereos by the time summer rolls round. For example, Missy hasn’t been to OZ since 2004. With her new album Block Party due out the same time she tours OZ for Parklife, we know she is going to be putting on an incredibly hot show. Kele, the lead-singer and guitarist of Bloc Party, is on a solo mission and will be debuting tracks of his new album The Boxer for his first time in Australia. Groove Armada has taken a whole new dark direction with their music on their latest album Black Light, so we can’t wait to see their new live show. The Dandy’s sold out their last tour in Australia and are going to be a special treat for Parklifers with their signature psychedelic sound.”

Ming Gan, the other half of Fuzzy’s founders, charged with booking the line-up agrees. “It’s just so encompassing this year. We have our first Spanish band Delorean – a foursome who have literally just released their new album Subiza and are coming down-under for the first time; and Parisian-based electronic artist Uffie who recently teamed up with Pharell to produce SUV, is edgier than ever. Berlin based Jesse Rose, credited with starting the fidget house movement, is coming back to Parklife... and hopefully won’t steal any more golf carts - Brissy you know what we’re talking about! We’ve got Dan Black coming to Australia for the first time – he’s been causing a big stir on the radio and internet and climbing the charts with his track Symphonies featuring Kid Kudi. We’ve also got Ou Est Le Swimming Pool and Chiddy Bang who have been featuring massively on the ARIA Charts and will both be playing their first live shows in Oz at Parklife.”

DATES

Gold Coast - Saturday 25 September – Parklands
Perth - Sunday 26 September – Wellington Square
Melbourne - Saturday 2 October – The Sidney Myer Music Bowl and the King’s Domain
Sydney - Sunday 3 October – Kippax Lake, Moore Park
Adelaide - Monday 4 October –Botanic Park, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide

QLD 2010

Parklife is moving to the Gold Coast for 2010, expanding to a 35,000 capacity at (Parklands) from smaller digs in Brisbane. Queensland Parklife has been the first event to sell out for the past four years, so the move is necessary to provide fans with a better venue and bigger capacity where they can see all their favourite acts - by the beach in Australia’s premier holiday destination.

ARTIST QUOTES ABOUT PARKLIFE

"Parklife is just a really fun festival. Whether you spend the day jumping around with friends or chilling out on the grass, we've always left having had a great time. Good times for 2010!" ***Vince Vendetta lead singer of Midnight Juggernaut’s

“Shore Thing was one of our best shows ever!”- Shore Thing is Fuzzy’s legendary New Year’s Eve party on Bondi Beach.
*** Groove Armada

“It's been nearly a year since we played any festivals so we have an awful lot of 'gig energy' bottled up.” ***The Wombats

“By the time we get down under, our live set is going to be phenomenal” ***Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

[I’m] Just bringing plenty of new tunes to drop, soak in the Park Life vibes and have a good time!
***AC Slater

I'm a lucky bastard! I had the chance to tour with Parklife three times already ***Busy P

We're just gonna have fun on stage and lead by example! ***Darwin Deez
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STONEFEST 2010

July 1st 2010 02:02
STONEFEST 2010
Bigger, Brighter, Bolder!
SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER at the University of Canberra


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"one of the most important bands of their generation" NME

THE NATIONAL
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Josh Pyke is a Sydney singer, songwriter and musician, and one of Australia's leading musical talents. His first EP ‘Feeding the Wolves’ was ARIA nominated and his 2006 debut album ‘Memories and Dust’ entered the ARIA charts at number four and subsequently went Gold. He has since toured the UK three times, headlined national tours of Australia and played at some of the country’s biggest music festivals. His second album, ‘Chimney’s Afire’, was released in 2009.
Josh Pyke
Josh Pyke is set to headline a brilliant line-up of musicians including Katie Noonan and The Captains, Street Warriors, Maggie Noonan, Koomurri Dance Troupe and Freshwater at the inaugural Sydney benefit concert Songs for Stories on Saturday 15 May at 7:30pm at the Sydney Town Hall, George Street, Sydney.


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VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S CHRIS BAIO

May 3rd 2010 03:15
VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S
CHRIS BAIO
TO PERFORM INTIMATE DJ SETS IN AUSTRALIA
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25 – 28 November

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Children Collide in June

April 26th 2010 09:59
Head to childrencollide.comand sign up to the mailing list before 5.00pm Sunday May 2nd to receive an exclusive Children Collide ticket pre-sale code.


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FIRST NEW HOLE ALBUM IN 10 YEARS

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RETURNS WITH
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