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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!

sally () ♥ www.gtm.net.au

Bluejuice @ Newcastle Panthers - April 2nd, 2010

The Holidays

"Don't even.... don't even"...... Aah, the catch cry of a lovely Newcastle lass, wearing but only a few scraps of material and some high heels that would intimidate the most accomplished drag queen, being hoisted over the shoulder of a boy who's visible arse crack could easily hold more than a dozen pens. Don't get me wrong, venturing back to my hometown for a night out always fills me with joy, but wow.... did i feel overdressed! Anyway, enough of the talk about the Panthers clientele. Each to their own, Sally. Each to their own.

Newcastle Panthers (I still call it Newcastle Workers Club - force of habit). Have you been there? It is quite the soulless establishment. Downstairs is like a giant room with the odd partition and approximately a quarter of it taken up by poker machines; sport on every channel and a delightful display window where you can choose from a range of fabulous prizes if you spend several squillion on the poker machines. 

Now i hadn't seen a live show at the place since a certain Hoodoo Gurus / Spiderbait / Peabody show in.... ooh, had to be about 2004. I admit, i was a bit nervous going on past experience (not to mention the several scary nights i'd had in that auditorium watching various jazz ballet concerts.... yeah, I'll say no more).... let's just say i spent the entire duration of Spiderbait's set waiting in the line for the bar.

So the night was set to see Bluejuice on the big stage (yeah, it's not that big). First though, there were a couple of support acts that i should mention. Right! The first band... well, i didn't catch their name. They looked to be, possibly, a young local band? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong and you were there. Loud and dirty, couldn't really hear a melody as such, but I must admit i didn't give them a good listen. Maybe next time.

 

The Holidays - Moonlight Hours

 The second band, a band you may be familiar with, were none other than The Holidays. A bunch of guys from Sydney; couple of guitars, keyboards, bass and a percussion section with bongo drums. Nice. Now, when i go and see a band named The Holidays I want to be hearing upbeat and uplifting tunes. I want to feel the urge to dance. Did that happen? Well, yeah... i hope it wasn't the vodka talking, but you may have been able to catch me having a little boogie. Quite calypso in their feel, you might say a tropical holiday-esque feel (you probably wouldn't though). After turning up with only knowledge of their single, Moonlight Hours (have a listen to it on their myspace page, very catchy or just clicky on that there youtube clip), I didn't really know what to expect. I can't say that they have a wealth of different sounding songs, but if you like Moonlight Hours, i guarantee you'll also like the rest of their songs. As far as stage presence was concerned, it was pretty standard. No crazy antics to fire up the Newcastle crowd, but i can't say it was boring. They did succeed in making me feel old, however. The Holidays: Nice shoes.

Bluejuice

So, I'm not sure if it was a good or bad thing. Probably good for me (crowd-hater), but not so good for Bluejuice. The auditorium was nowhere as full as i expected it to be (and they'd barricaded off the sides of the room making the area even smaller)... especially based on the fact that the majority of pubs in Newcastle would have closed before Bluejuice went on stage (ie. assumed influx of Good Friday drunkards) ...AND i would have thought Bluejuice would have been right up your average Newcastle persons alley. Not a shabby sized crowd though by any means; and they loved it, which is the main thing. I've never seen a crowd get into the clapping and hand actions to quite the same extreme. It was a bit like a hardcore wiggles concert in that respect.

Adorned in karate uniforms they took to the stage to play every single from their now current album Head of the Hawk as well as quite a few others; all the hits (.... Broken Leg, Ain't Telling the Truth, Vitriol, etc), some old some new. As well as the "hits" there were quite a few new inclusions to the set list. Quite an exciting indication of offerings to come. With the same quantity of energy that you usually get at a Bluejuice show the guys delivered what seemed like about 20 songs with only the odd occasion of microphone disconnection and no injuries to speak of (even with a spot of crowd surfing included).

Special mention also goes out to whoever prepared the lighting/background animal related animations going on during the show (I assume keeping in with the giant animal theme that runs through the album and single art for their current new album Head of The Hawk). Very amusing. Brilliant!

So, you fancy seeing them? Well, there's still a load more tour dates on the list... quite the road trip for anyone with no job and/or a lot of time on their hands:

 

Bluejuice - "Ain't Telling The Truth"

WEDNESDAY 7 APRIL – ROI BAR, ALBURY

THURSDAY 8 APRIL – EUREKA HOTEL, GEELONG

FRIDAY 9 APRIL – PRINCE OF WALES, MELBOURNE

SATURDAY 10 APRIL – KAROVA LOUNGE, BALLARAT

SUNDAY 11 APRIL – THE SOUNDS LOUD ALL AGES FESTIVAL, MOONEE VALLEY (ALL AGES)

THURSDAY 15 APRIL – ANU BAR, CANBERRA

FRIDAY 16 APRIL – UNI OF TASMANIA, TASMANIA

SATURDAY 17 APRIL – HOTEL NEW YORK, LAUNCESTON

FRIDAY 23 APRIL – HI FI, BRISBANE

SATURDAY 24 APRIL – COOLONGATTA HOTEL, COOLANGATTA

SUNDAY 25 APRIL – GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON BAY

THURSDAY 29 APRIL – WOLLONGONG UNI, WOLLONGONG

FRIDAY 30 APRIL – KATOOMBA RSL, KATOOMBA

SATURDAY 1 MAY – PANTHERS, BATHURST

WEDNESDAY 5 MAY – THE GOV, ADELAIDE (ALL AGES)

THURSDAY 6 MAY – NEWPORT HOTEL, FREMANTLE

FRIDAY 7 MAY – PRINCE OF WALES, BUNBURY

SATURDAY 8 MAY – CAPITOL, PERTH

Official website: http://www.bluejuice.info/

 

That's all for now.

 

Sally

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 04/05/2010 10:37:48 ♥ sally () ♥weheartmusic.com♥twitter.com/weheartmusic♥news.weheartmusic.com  

astreetlightsong - bluejuice - bridezilla - robin guthrie

Things.... things! Things have been piling up, waiting for my attention. Today is the day, for me to share these things with you. Lucky, yes?

ASTREETLIGHTSONG
Just wanted to give you an update on how this Sydney-based trio are doing; a few interesting tidbits, in case you were curious.

Looks like the boys are on the road... showing off some of the songs soon to be presented on their first album. So yes.... if you're in Sydney on the 5th of September (and you aren't planning to be dancing like a crazy person at Britpop) mosey on down to Spectrum and you can see the boys playing to their home crowd; sure to be a splendid evening.

The following week you can catch them in Brisbane, playing at Big Sound (music industry summit and showcase - ooh! quite a lot of splendid bands playing).
Buy tickets here: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=29844

There's a new tune available on iTunes, Remind Me. Not bad, not bad. The same predominant electronic sound as anyone who had already jumped on the ASTREETLIGHTSONG bandwagon would be accustomed to, but i think it's got the level of catchiness that I'm sure will lure others onto this said bandwagon. You'll also get a free copy of this single if you buy a ticket to their shows through moshtix. Bargain!

Something a little more interesting.... the bands previous single, The Lighthouse, has had a very splendid music video created for it. Stemming from a collaboration between the Polish visual artist, Karolina Glusiec and members of the band, the video is being featured on Rage as Indie Video of the Week, but you can watch it right now if you click right here.

 

www.myspace.com/astreetlightsong

Bluejuice
Recently announced nominees of a J Award for music video of the year, Sydney band Bluejuice are all over the shop at the moment. I really just want to point you in the direction of the video that accompanies their latest single, Broken Leg. Despite being an incredibly catchy song, the video is hilarious.

Bluejuice - Broken Leg extended version

The information sitting before me also says that September 18th is the release date for the new album, Head of the Hawk.

http://www.bluejuice.info/
http://www.secret-service.com.au
http://www.dew-process.com

Bridezilla
A band I've heard lots about, but not heard lots of. I thought it was time i paid some attention. I know they've been around for a while, but i didn't realise how incredibly young they were (and still are, i assume). After releasing their debut EP in 2007, Bridezilla have become a favourite at Triple J and independent radio; being compared to bands such as the Dirty Three and Cat Power.

The band was hand picked by Nick Cave to play at the recent Australian ATP Festival and will now share stages with some of the world's biggest acts at ATP Festival in New York in September.

Based in Sydney, Bridezilla have reportedly been locked away in rural NSW recording their debut album with US producer Kramer. Recording has finished, and the album is set to be released in the US in 2010. Now they are a bit older; more mature their debut album is sure to be a success with their already large fan base. The album is due to be released in the US in 2010 (not sure about Australia though).

 

Bridezilla - Brown Paper Bag

So.... I've been presented with their self-titled EP (I'm assuming it was shunted my way, being Australian and all), which was released in Australia ages ago (2007).... What's it like? Well... it's sound-laden, smooth and haunting. Sweeping chords, embellished with violin and a spot of saxophone. It's not the sort of music for those with short attention spans or itching for a dance, although St Francine and Brown Paper Bag are slightly more upbeat

 

As well as an upcoming show at the Hi Fi Bar in Melbourne (September 5th), I've also got some US tour dates for you:
Sept 12th - All Tomorrow's Parties - New YorkSept 14th - Bowery Ballroom W/ Sleepy Sun & Autolux - New York
Sept 10th - Club NME - The Annex, NYCSept 17th - The Echo W/The Drones - LA

www.myspace.com/bridezillaa
www.inertia-music.com
www.myspace.com/inertia

 
Robin Guthrie
If you like elevator music than Robin Guthrie is for you. I'm reading about this guy and what the internet tells me is that, amongst other things, he's been a "massive" influence on bands such as My Bloody Valentine and M83. Interesting no?

But anyway, 28th of September sees the release of Robin's new album, Carousel. What I've been given is a single off this album, Some Sort of Paradise. Pleasant enough, but i must admit, after getting about 2 minutes into the track i was thinking "i hope this song has a hard-hitting, catchy chorus (the sure-fire way into sally's heart)"... but no. Yeah, the song is instrumental, but not even a catchy interlude (which I'm sure is the completely intention of Robin and highly appealing to a great swathe of people).

Robin Guthrie - Some Sort of Paradise

I haven't heard the rest of the album, and I do feel slightly terrible considering the resume of Robin, but listening to Some Sort Of Paradise with my eyes closed I could have sworn I was sitting in the toilets down at Marrickville Metro. Great hangover tune.

Feel free to have a listen and disagree with me.

http://www.robinguthrie.com


Have a splendid day!
Sally
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