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W♥M127: Groovin the Moo 2012 Preview

W♥M127 (33 mins) Read More Groovin' the Moo Groovin' the Moo is an annual festival across Australia. It started in 2005, and is going strong in 2011 with a healthy lineup.

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Sally previews some bands from the upcoming Groovin' the Moo music festival, which takes place at Prince of Wales Showground, Bendigo (5/5), Murray Sports Complex, Townsville (5/6), Showgrounds, Maitland (5/12), University of Canberra (5/13) and Hay Park, Bunbury (5/19).

For more articles on GTM, head over to gtm.net.au or W♥M.

Song of the Sally is "Sally in The Galaxy" by The Penelopes (download available at soundcloud).

Andrew WK's conspiracy is true, the current Andrew WK is not the same as first Andrew WK (see Wikipedia)

Public Enemy's Flavor Flav is having fun with some recent restaurant adventures.

San Cisco, everybody's favorite young band at the moment.

Ball Park Music is cute… with a monkey.

Wavves … I don't get them at all, they're too noisy for me, but Americans love them.

Adrian Lux, Swedish DJ?

Bluejuice's "Act Yr Age" video is disturbing

Kimbra is the only female act at Maitland!

Song of the show is Maccabees' "Pelican", from their third album Given to the Wild.

BONUS: Guitar Wolf is on tour! Read their tour dates here and here. Also, Dig It Up at Sydney on April 22nd: Sally is looking forward to Red Kross, Hoodoo Gurus, and The 5,6,7,8's. And let's not forget Super Morrissey Brothers' "This Charming Man" in 8-bit style.

Maccabees are on tour:

04/21/12 Rotterdam - Motel Mozaique Festival 04/25/12 FLORENCE (Italy) Viper 04/26/12 BOLOGNA (Italy) Estragon 04/27/12 ROME (Italy) Orion 05/05/12 Bendigo - Prince of Wales Showground 05/06/12 Townsville - Murray Sports Complex 05/09/12 Brisbane - The Hi Fi

05/10/12 Sydney - Metro Theatre 05/12/12 Maitland - Maitland Showground 05/13/12 Canberra - The Meadows 05/16/12 Melbourne - The Hi-Fi 05/18/12 Perth - The Capital 05/19/12 Bunbury (Australia) Hay Park (16+) 05/23/12 Osaka (Japan) Umeda Akaso

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Groovin' the Moo 2012

Read More Groovin' the Moo Groovin' the Moo is an annual festival across Australia. It started in 2005, and is going strong in 2011 with a healthy lineup.

It’s here again already? Groovin the Moo, our favourite regional touring festival is about to take off around Australia. After last year, we’re super excited to spend another day hanging out in downtown Maitland at one of the most easy going events of the year and again they’ve managed to get a pretty amazing set of bands to play.

360, Adrian Lux, Andrew WK (One-Man-Party Tour), Ball Park Music, Beni, Big Scary, Bluejuice, City and Colour, Digitalism, The Getaway Plan, Gold Fields, Hermitude, Hilltop Hoods, Kaiser Chiefs, Kimbra, The Maccabees, Matt Corby, Muscles, Mutemath, Naysayer & Gilsun, Parkway Drive, Public Enemy, Purple Sneakers DJs, San Cisco and Wavves.

Saturday 5th May – Prince of Wales Showground, Bendigo, VIC
Sunday 6th May– Murray Sports Complex, Townsville, QLD
Saturday 12th May – Showgrounds, Maitland, NSW
Sunday 13th May – University of Canberra, ACT
Saturday 19th May – Hay Park, Bunbury, WA

Depending on which locations you might like to attend there are different places to buy tickets and other juicy bits of information that you’ll only find out from the official website: www.gtm.net.au.

So we’ll meet at Maitland Leagues Club for a pre-band aussie-style sweet and sour pork and a noice schooner of VB? Sweet! See you there!

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W♥M109: PULP

W♥M109 (37min) Listening options:Archive.org: W♥M109

Sally recaps Groovin the Moo in Maitland.

We touched a bit on Washington, The Go! Team, and Architecture in Helsinki. All bands we've previously love.

Strangely, Foster the People came up in the mix. I've already listed their tour dates with Gardens & Villa, so please look them up if you've never heard of them.

GRUFF RHYS
www.gruffrhys.com

We like Super Furry Animals, so it's natural that Sally reported on his live show. I'm including his tour dates below because I thought I'd miss his US appearance (but I have not):

5/27 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
5/28 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
5/30 Tempe, AZ @ Sail Inn / Rhythm Room
5/31 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
6/1 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
6/2 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop/ Popscene
6/3 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
6/4 Vancouver, Canada @ Biltmore
6/5 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
6/8 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
6/9 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
6/10 Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
6/11 Toronto, Canada @ Horseshoe Tavern
6/14 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
6/15 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge

**All dates with support from backing band Y Niwl

PULP RETURNS
www.pulppeople.com

After hearing that Pulp reformed, it was inevitable that they are going to be doing some live dates. At first only the UK dates were announced, but now they've decided to invade Australia. Obviously, Sally will be there to do the stalking when they arrive. Notably that they are only non-festival dates are at Sydney and Melbourne.

27 May 2011 Primavera Sound Barcelona, Spain 11 June 2011 Isle Of Wight Festival, UK 1 July 2011 Open'er Festival Gdynia, Poland 3 July 2011 Wireless Festival London, UK 7 July 2011 Exit Festival Novi Sad, Serbia 8 July 2011 Bazant Pohoda Trencin, Slovakia 10 July 2011 T In The Park Kinross, UK 14 July 2011 Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France 15 July 2011 Dour Festival Dour, Belgium 17 July 2011 Melt Festival Grafenhainichen, Ger 23 July 2011 On The Bright Side Perth, Australia		27 July 2011 Hordern Pavilion Sydney, Australia 29 July 2011 Festival Hall Melbourne, Australia 31 July 2011 Splendour In The Grass Woodford 10 August 2011 Sziget Festival Budapest, Hungary 12 August 2011 Oya Festival Oslo, Norway 13 August 2011 Way Out West Gothenburg 18 August 2011 Festival Paredes de Coura 20 August 2011 Terra Vibe Park Athens, Greece 27 August 2011 Reading Festival Reading, UK 28 August 2011 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK 4 September 2011 Electric Picnic Stradbally, Ireland

BONUS
Crow, an Australian band from the 90s. I don't have any of their music so I just glaze of this segment. Other Australian bands, RATCAT, and Smudge (Tom Morgan). The Cure doing their first three albums at the Sydney Opera House... and speaking of house, House of Pain at Groovin the Moo.

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REVIEW: Groovin The Moo 2011 - Maitland (7/5/2011)

Poor Maitland,.. or more specifically, the kids from Maitland… always being the brunt of our bogan jokes, when in reality, us kids from Newcastle weren’t much less boganic. To cut a long story short, Maitland was the scene of one of the locations of the Groovin The Moo festival, which tours around Australia each year to some more regional locations (rather than your capital cities like Melbourne or Sydney).

My first thoughts, as I walked up to the entrance, were “lordy… that person’s backyard is going to be a river of wee if people keep weeing on that tree” and “why did no one tell me that short denim shorts were ‘in’?” However, those thoughts soon faded because as funny as the female uniform was, there was some music to be concentrating on.

After catching the very end of The Jezabels (who were on unusually early on in the line-up… in my opinion), Darwin Deez was the first act on our list of must-sees. As quirky as his recordings was the performance by Darwin Deez and band. It was pretty much what I was expecting music-wise. Poppy, happy, guitar driven tunes; keeping the kids dancing, although most of the songs seem to be relate to some sort of relationship break-up. Sad and happy all at once: “Everyday ought to be a bad day for you”. The best part, by far…  was the choreographed interludes (to Enya, amongst other songs) performed by the entire band.

Those lads from Norway, Datarock, adorned in snazzy red tracksuits, played next on the adjacent stage and pleased the ever-growing crowd significantly. I do admit that although I enjoyed the recent 'Catcher In The Rye' release from Datarock, I’ll never be able to go past 'Computer Camp Love', which, to my surprise (and dismay) was released as far back as 2005…. feels like yesterday. And yes, to my glee, they played it.

Washington has successfully made it into the Australian mass conscience - proven by the shortening of their name to 'Washo' by various fans and radio DJs. Megan and the band played an upbeat and rather tight set, sticking mostly to the well known songs from 'I Believe You Liar', the main exception being their version of The Divinyl's 'I Touch Myself' where Megan appeared to be channelling Christina Amphlett. Megan Washington's band made no attempt to divert attention away from her, which would have been a challenge anyway, considering her diva-like presence on show. They did divide the popsters from the rock fans amongst the festival crowd, but there were many up front who may have been there only to see Washington. And some very enthused sing-a-longs.

The Go! Team were as brilliant live as I always remembered them. I don’t know what you think, but their energy on stage coupled with their performance of the songs that are just made for singing/yelling along, makes them more enjoyable live than sitting at home (or on a train or in the supermarket) listening to their recordings. Ninja makes the stage her own and has an amazing ability to get the crowd involved (I also think she might have laughed at how tiny my camera was compared to the other photographers - but also.... she probably didn't even notice it).

House of Pain really aren’t my cuppatea, but really seems to be just what the Maitland folk were waiting for. You can probably guess which of their songs is the only song I know and yes, the minute they started playing 'Jump Around' there was an insane mass flux of people moving towards the stage.  I was like an alcoholic salmon swimming upstream towards the bar.

Architecture in Helsinki were the last of my highlights from the day. I’d never managed to catch these guys live before. It was always on the list, and now my mission is complete. A band that is loved by squillions and so well-travelled, but have never crossed my path (not that that’s any kind of amazing feat).  Looking like they had just stepped straight out of the 80’s, Architecture in Helsinki played all their most well known tunes and more. The crowd watching was large and dense, making it slightly hard to see, but that really didn’t matter. 

Groovin the Moo: an excellent day out and a great opportunity for kids of all ages who might not live near a capital city to get out and experience live music in a festival setting. Fingers crossed that future Groovin the Moo’s can attract such a high calibre of acts and keep the crowds coming.

Link: Groovin The Moo 2011 - Maitland: Gallery.

Sally & John

W♥M104: Groovin' the Moo 2011

W♥M104 (45min: archive/podomatic/mypodcast)

Groovin' the Moo is an annual festival across Australia. It started in 2005, and is going strong in 2011 with a healthy line up:

The Go! Team

Architecture in Helsinki

The Wombats

Washington

The Holidays

House of Pain

UNKLE

Datarock

Darwin Deez

Song of the week is Darwin Deez's "Radar Detector"

BONUS:
Belle & Sebastian (again!) at the Opera House, Vu is seeing US Royalty today/yesterday, some Australian benefit, and a rant on Radiohead's "King of Limbs" price structure. All this and more.

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Festival Updates - Playground Weekender Set Times and Groovin The Moo

PLAN YOUR 2011 WEEKENDER…. Set Times, Site Map and final artist announcement!

Playground Weekender today release set times and the 2011 site map as well as a whole stack of local DJ’s for the Big Top, River Stage, Club Tropicana Pool and the brand new area – The Village Green. The Village Green, located on the lush grass facing the ferry wharf, is our new wine bar filled with soul and rare grooves. The perfect spot to watch the sun go down on Del Rio. So pop over to the website to download all that important information so you can get planning before Thursday.... hurry!

www.playgroundweekender.com.au

BIG TOP: Flight Facilities, Mowgli, Graz, Beni, Hoodrat & Frank Infusion (Prince Fingers), Johnny Powell vs Jimmy 2 Sox, Slowblow, Declan Lee, Butch, Ben Korbel, Pete Herbert, Garry Todd

RIVER STAGE: Cool Hand Luke, DubRave Sound System, Slynk, Mando, Kid Mac, Superbreak DJs, Mark Walton / Fretless with Jimmy Polar, Will Styles, Paradise Lost DJs, SWAT Sound System, WIM, Shortee Blitz, Son Of Kick, Gabriel Clouston, Mikey Morphingaz, Convaire, Omegaman Sound System, The Asthmatix vs Morphingaz, SWAT DJs, Funk Trust DJs, Last Call vs Sloppy Joe, Ben Peterson, Frenzie, All Souled Out DJs, Percussion Junction / Bently, Negghead (Nightmares on Wax), PH & The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor Grooveshoes

CLUB TROPICANA POOL: James Taylor, Murat, Bumblebeez DJ Set, Mo’funk, Minx, DJ Cassette, Alley Oop, S Kobar, Craig Wilson, Monkey Tennis DJs, Matttt, Boffa, Adam Webb, Webby, Get Milk or Die, Likewise, Gary Todd, Nick Law, Homegrown, The Owl, Danny Bass, Uncle Ru, Richie Edwards, Stuart Balfour, DJ Hodgie, George Tilly

VILLAGE GREEN: Simon Caldwell, Toon, Stephen Ferris, Trevor Parkee, Robin Knight, Frank Rodi, Jay Reddy, Somatik, Yogi, Lorna Clarkson, Lippo, Peter Glass, Gian Arpino, The Jazz Lord, John Cawley, Soulshaker DJs, Disasters At Work, Dust Tone DJs, Bentley, Random Soul, Vic vs La Fresh, Pipemix, DJ Steph R, Damien Ryan, Patrick Curda, Brendan Mooney, Generic Collective, Funkdafied DJs, DJ Create, Michael Wheatley

First release tickets are all sold out however limited final release tickets are still available from: www.playgroundweekender.com.au

BENDIGO | TOWNSVILLE | MAITLAND | CANBERRA | BUNBURY

The much-loved GTM recipe of taking a tasty selection of the most memorable, talented and exciting national and international artists to regional Australia and the Nation’s capital for five value-packed shows returns in April/May 2011.

The program features acts to satisfy all palates and is guaranteed to have everyone dancing, rocking and jumping around from gates open to lights out. Once more, music lovers from major cities, regional centres and small country towns will meet, party and fall in love at their local GTM.

“I’m really excited about this years program. Again we’ve been able to attract some of the best Australian acts going around, as well as an exciting selection of internationals. To take a lineup of this quality to audiences that would not normally get the chance to see these acts is something GTM is very proud of,” said Stephen Halpin, Cattleyard Promotions.

The GTM path becomes more entrenched each year, forged by the wonderfully energetic and dedicated audience that make the annual return to Bendigo (30 April), Townsville (1 May), Maitland (7 May), Canberra (8 May) and Bunbury (14 May). With a ticket price at under $100, GTM is one of the most accessible and best value days on the calendar.

Featuring over eleven hours of exciting acts, as well as improved and expanded facilities, this licensed all ages (recommended 16+) event will feature the return of the impressive double outdoor stages as well as the mighty Moolin Rouge dance tent. The culinary needs of all punters will be catered for with an abundance of local food and market stalls along with licensed bar facilities, slingshot rides and chill out areas.

Without further ado, please welcome the Artists (listed in alphabetical order) who are coming along for this year’s adventure:

AC Slater (USA), Architecture In Helsinki, Art vs Science, The Aston Shuffle, Birds of Tokyo, Bliss n Eso, Cut Copy, Darwin Deez (USA), Datarock (NOR), Drapht, The Drums (USA), The Go! Team (UK), Gotye, Gyroscope, The Holidays, Horrorshow, House Of Pain (USA), The Jezabels*, Nina Las Vegas (triple j), Sampology (AV/ DJ Set), Tim & Jean+, UNKLE Live (UK), Washington, The Wombats (UK) ...with more local and triple j unearthed artists to be announced! 

*East Coast Only, + Bunbury only

TICKET INFO: Tickets go on sale nationally TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2011 from gtm.net.au or moshtix.com.au or by calling 1300 438 849 (GET TIX).

Sally (sally@weheartmusic.com)

W♥M073: US Fest

W♥M073 [archive.org/mypodcast.com]

Vu, Sally and Brody talk a bit some US Summer music festivals.

 

Tegan and Sara - Our Trees

Some American festivals: Bonnaroo (Tennessee), 80/35 Festival (Iowa), Lollapalooza (various, currently Illinois), SXSW (Texas), Coachella (California), 10,000 Lakes Festival (Minnesota), Summerfest (Wisconsin), and Edgefest (inactive, Wisconsin).

We recorded that on a whim, so excuse the lack of research. Obviously, not a definitive guide. Here are some other North American festivals you may want to check out: Lilith Fair (various), Ozzfest (California, Arizona), Woodstock (New York), Pitchfork Music Festival (Illinois), and recently NXNE (Toronto, Canada).

I've been to a few giant festival, including the first Coachella and the now-defunct Edgefest, and I can tell you that generally these are gated. Food and drinks are extra expensive, and girls and boys tend to be topless, especially when it's hot.

The two interesting festival that I may be interested in seeing is the mostly-female lineup from Lilith Fair and Toronto's NXNE - obviously their answer to SXSW. I reckon that I love SXSW, that I will enjoy what NXNE might offer.

Other things we touched on, there is a new Teenage Fanclub album coming out in May, and Groovin' the Moo festival that takes place in "country towns" in Australia. If you stick around, Sally tells us why she hates Amy Macdonald.

Upcoming shows: Interview with Here We Go Magic (April 4^th), and the original Cristina (April 11^th).

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