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Elbow And Bombay Bicycle Club Australian Tour

November 24, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

In the most exciting tour announcement in quite some time, UK band Elbow have revealed that they will be returning to Australia less than a year after absolutely killing it at Splendour In The Grass. And, as if that wasn’t enough, they are also bringing fellow UK band, the excellent Bombay Bicycle Club, with them for the series of shows. This is not a tour to be missed, and it looks like I may just have to break my ‘no festival hall gigs’ policy. Tickets are on sale December 6th.

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Big Day Out Sideshows

November 21, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

While I wasn’t personally a big fan of the Big Day Out lineup this year, and can’t really see myself braving that crowd again, there are definitely a few bands I would quite like to see at headline shows. With that in mind, here’s a bunch of Big Day Out sideshows that were just announced for Melbourne.

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Active Child ‘Diamond Heart’

November 20, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Active Child is the moniker of LA electronic musician Pat Grossi, but then if you don’t already know that then you probably don’t listen to a lot of Australian radio, because his debut album ‘You Are All I See’ has been played like crazy lately. Local label Spunk have recently announced that they will be re-releasing the album as a deluxe edition, featuring some new bonus tracks, one of which is the rather stunning ‘Diamond Heart’, which personally I find as good or even better than most of the album itself, which is a high compliment indeed.

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Laneway Sideshows Announced

November 15, 2011 by Lachy 1 Comment

Today has brought with it the announcement of a ton of Laneway sideshows. Chillwavers, get ready to spend a lot of money. Here are all the details for Melbourne.

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Last Minute Bright Eyes Sideshow

October 27, 2011 by Lachy 1 Comment

In a truly surprising move that is indicative of the complete lack of competent organisation of Harvest sideshows, Bright Eyes have announced that they will be playing a Melbourne sideshow a mere two weeks before hitting our shores. This is great news for fans of the band that can’t make it to the festival, given that this is heavily rumoured to be Bright Eyes’ last Australian tour.

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Grouplove Returns

October 12, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Despite gracing our shores only a few months ago, Grouplove have announced that they will be touring Australia over the new year, playing at the Falls Festival and a string of headline dates. I caught both a headline show and their set at Splendour In The Grass when they were last here, and not only are the a fantastic live band but they’re also the nicest people you could hope to meet. I cannot recommend strongly enough that you get along to one of these dates if you haven’t seen them live already.

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