Big Day Who??? Today’s announcement of the headliners for the Big Day Out festival was overshadowed by the revelation that Bon Iver will be playing at next year’s Golden Plains festival, as well as performing a series of sideshows around the country. Literally the only disappointing thing is the choice of Melbourne venue- it looks like a trip to Sydney (and not the music bowl variety) might be on the cards.
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Eddie Vedder Melbourne Bootlegs
Fan-made bootleg recordings have surfaced from Eddie Vedder’s two recent Melbourne solo shows. To say I’m happy about this would be an understatement: the show I went to was so utterly special and magical that it could not possibly be relived through studio recordings, especially seeing as many of the songs Eddie played do not exist in studio form (at least not in the style he played them).
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Big Scary Announce National Tour
Melbourne’s own Big Scary have announced that come March they will be hitting the road for their first ever national headline tour, in support of their EP-compilation album ‘Four Seasons’.
Continue readingThe National Falls Festival Sideshows
Update: Everything is confirmed now. The dates were right, but the Melbourne venue is actually the Palais. Tickets will be available for $75 Monday morning from here, however there is a MyTicketMaster presale from midday tomorrow. Here’s a poster that was up in the Melbourne CBD advertising that The National will be playing a Falls […]
Continue readingThe Jezabels
I’ve really been enjoying Sydney outfit The Jezabels for a while now, however I’m yet to see them live. This is set to change soon thankfully, with the band announcing that they will be playing a stand alone Melbourne headline show at The Toff on July 15th. They are coming off a successful run of […]
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