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| WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH // SUGARLAND
THURSDAY MARCH 20 // PIVOT
Australia’s very own Pivot make history as they join Warp Records esteemed family, the trailblazing trio are the first ever Australian group to ink a deal with this industry leading, innovative and internationally renowned label that has made a home for such diverse and genre leading acts as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Boards Of Canada, Nightmares On Wax, Maximo Park, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Battles, and Jamie Lidell. Comprised of infamous Sydney based siblings Laurence and Richard Pike accompanied by Perth electronic wunderkind Dave Miller, Pivot’s Warp debut is due for release in the latter half of 2008 with the first single “In The Blood” dropping in May, followed by a string of live dates. Equally influenced by Synthesizer luminaries; Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre, Warp label mates Autechre and the post-punk new wave of Talking Heads, Pivot’s sound exudes an omnipresent sense of melodrama and what can only be described as a sort of ‘apocalyptic joy’. Catch them before they head overseas, at their one and only Sydney show: Thursday March 20th, Oxford Art Factory W/ Mark Pritchard (UK), Jack Ladder (solo), Sleater Brockman, DJFKFC, Spod DJ, Sticksy + Mailer Daemon. Ticke FRIDAY MARCH 21 // GOOD FRIDAY! // ANDY UPROCK GALLERY LAUNCH
FRIDAY MARCH 21 // GOOD FRIDAY! // CLICK CLICK
SUNDAY MARCH 23 // SURPRISE INTERNATIONAL GUEST DJ
WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH // MIKE HERRERA
FRIDAY 28 MARCH // GLASS CANDY (EARLY SHOW)
Purveyors of the iciest disco this side of a slush puppy on ice skates, torchbearers of the neu-Italo sound and the prize horse of NYC label Italians Do It Better, Glass Candy are coming to Australia to play at the V Festival and do a couple of perfectly decadent sideshows. Glass Candy will play headline shows in Sydney on Friday March 28 at the Oxford Art Factory and on Thursday March 3 at The Toff in Melbourne. Glass Candy have been the subject of so much internet buzz over the last 6 months that they had to get earplugs to keep the noise out, though thankfully they have some certified stone cold jams to justify the expense of custom hearing protection. The music of producer Johnny Jewel and siren Ida No echoes of 80’s synth pop, late 70’s Italo disco and the synth-futurism of the likes of Jean Michel-Jarre and Jan Hammer, with a hint of creepy David Lynch-ian feeling. Glass Candy have been at the forefront of the sound that has become synonymous with Mike Simonetti’s New York-based Italians Do It Better label, largely due to the fact that Johnny Jewel moonlights as a producer for many of the labels acts. Glass Candy and the label have carved out a distinctive niche that sounds like one may have thought 2008 might have sounded like back in 1972, with it’s vintage synthesizers and elegantly vacant, entrancing vocals. Glass Candy’s atmosphere heavy, super crisp disco act is set to be one of the more interesting and progressive V Festival sideshows and one well worth your lobster. SATURDAY 5 APRIL // SUGARTIME PRESENTS SCARLET BEAUS!
SUGARTIME BURLESQUE GIVES YOU BOYS! SATURDAY 5TH APRIL, 2008 After three years as Sydney’s leading cabaret entertainment group and talent agency SUGARTIME finally brings its enormous audience what they have been crying out for… BOY BURLESQUE at the Oxford Art Factory on Sat. 5th April! Like their popular ‘Scarlet Debut’ nights of new cabaret talent, SUGARTIME will feature not only world famous male performers but also emerging male artists of the stage. SCARLET BEAUS will be a full night of provocative shows, with sexy all-male singers, dancers and strip-tease acts. Head-lining the SCARLET BEAUS show will be Ryan Styles, a man known as the ‘international drag terrorist’ a performer from London fresh from the Adelaide Fringe Festival with his hilarious and disturbing repertoire of mime, magic and extreme make-up. He has toured the world and performed in shows from the Guggenheim in NYC to the Zurich Festival of Arts and Glastonbury. Australia’s B-Boy turned international visual and installation artist Andy Uprock featured in SUGARTIME’s critically acclaimed touring show ‘The Absinth Club’ last year and brings a new solo dance work to the SCARLET BEAUS despite busy preparing for his new role as the cultural attaché for MOOKS and his round-the-world ‘cup-rocking’ art exhibition. Dallas Della Force is the long ago created and continually re-crafted alter ego of Sydney performer and stylist Daniel Squires Cater. With a strong focus drawn from the details and styles of fashion history and popular culture, traditional drag and burlesque performance, Dallas has become a cross cultural identity. Seen in the smoky corner stages of Kooky and Man Jam to the bright lights of the Opera House Studio, no wonder Dallas has graced the cover of gay community paper Sx News no less than nine times in her exploration of hyper-masculinity and female icons. Also on the bill is Trash Vaudeville, the ‘other half’ of Sydney’s most famous Hoola Hoop outfit ‘Hula La’ with SUGARTIME’s Kira Carden. Sexy swing dancer Cougar Jones, magician Adam Mada and many others will make for a packed night led by actor Drew Fairly, one of Sydney’s funniest MCs. SUGARTIME club nights and entertainment agency has attracted rave reviews from Paris to New York and has hosted numerous themed burlesque events to sell out crowds. SATURDAY 12 APRIL // DAVE NADA (T&A RECORDS)
One of the US's most sought after club-packing, party-rocking DJ/producers, Baltimore's Dave Nada is touring in April, playing the Oxford Art Factory Saturday 12 April. Known for his ability to get people on the dancefloor and keep them there, resident at America's #1 destination for Baltimore club music - Taxlo in Baltimore city - he regularly plays with the likes of Tittsworth, Diplo and Scottie B. Nada will arrive in Oz fresh off a national Mad Decent US tour with hot new talent Blaqstarr. His 12” 'Kick Out The Jams!' on T&A Records blew up last year (#1 on Turntable Lab's top sellers chart, high rotation on BBC Radio 1 in the UK, etc), and his future release schedule includes records on Unruly and Hai Karate Records. Expect a rapid fire DJ set of hip hop, Baltimore club, electro, rock, and more - coming at you in April. WEDNESDAY 16 APRIL // SVEN KONIG/SCRAMBLED HACKZ
With a blend of noise and beat boxing conspiracy, musical virtuosity and buggy software appropriation, radical plagiarism is apparent when witnessing the phenomena of Sven Konig in action at Oxford Art Factory on Wednesday April 16. Copyright infringement has never been easier than with Scrambled Hackz! Intellectual property is a misconception deeply conflicting with the basic principles of any cultural production because it completely negates its collaborative nature. Gramophones records, magnetic tapes, vinyl records, digital samplers and computer have already liberated the samples long ago. But still - to infringe copyright - one has to decide which sample one actually wants to steal...artist comments. The collective dis-pose-contemporary is please to announce the ‘Music to Observe Electronic Sheep ' unofficial tour by Sven Konig. The Berlin based conceptual media genius, performer and founder of Pop Modernism International Inc. mind - music - machine remixes 80's and 90's MTV aesthetics in a constant media flux. ‘Scrambled Hackz Live’ presents an orgiastic electrical storm of dysfunctional MTV aesthetics - the software producing an improvised audio-visual remix of a symphonic orchestra in real time which seduces and satiates the viewer into a frenzy of generation X nostalgia. Sven Konig has been invited to perform in a wide diverse range of art institutions and sonic arts and new media festivals throughout Europe and North America such as FutureSonic, Manchester, UK and Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland to Transmediale, Berlin, IRCAM Centre Pompidou and Caroussel Du Louvre, Paris, The Distillery, Boston and Society of Art and Technology, Montreal to the Canadian Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto among others. This will be his first visit to Australia. http://www.myspace.com/svenkoenig http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz http://www.dis-pose-contemporary.info The tickets will be on sale the 12th of March through www.moshtix.com THURSDAY APRIL 17 // THE RAVEONETTES
The Raveonettes return to Australia for live shows in support of their new album LUST LUST LUST Following up on their 2005 release, Pretty In Black, the Danish distortion duo have hit back with an album more rebellious, more sinister and most importantly – more original. Lust Lust Lust explores the devil in us all but the devil has all the best tunes. The Raveonettes released their first EP, Whip It On, in 2002 which was recorded entirely in the key of B-flat minor, and the 2003 full-length debut, Chain Gang of Love, stuck to B-flat major-making their mark on the emerging new garage-rock scene with a flair for the dramatic. Their image was pure '50s retro-cool: lanky, dark-haired Sune Rose Wagner and six-foot blonde glamazon Sharin Foo wore black leather and sat astride motorbikes. The Danish duo doused their stripped-down songs about sex, suicide, and prostitution with noisy, fuzzed-out guitar, sweet boy-girl harmonies, and sleazy surf-punk twang. With sonic comparisons to The Velvet Underground and The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Raveonettes bubble-gum '50s pop and nostalgic kitsch has only amplified their credibility as one of indie rock's most innovative bands. "A dark and dirty collection of spanking electro fuzz combined with 50's surf rock that is, frankly, mindblowing" 9/10 - Rocksound Mag "Their most engrossing album to date" 8/10 – NME "A bleak, uncompromising masterpiece, it's their best yet" 4.5/5 -The Fly Magazine Thu April 17th Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney from www.moshtix.com.au TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 5th MARCH www.chuggentertainment.com www.thirteenth.com.au www.theraveonettes.com www.myspace.com/theraveonettes FRIDAY 18 APRIL // MANY MACHINES ON 9
Widely recognized as one of the most exciting acts on the live circuit in their hometown of Sydney Australia, Many Machines on Nine (MM9) are a band that have continued to defy notions of genre with a blend of heavy rock and electronica all their own. Since first taking the stage in 2002, they have honed their mixture of crushing intensity, haunting melodies, and irresistible beats seamlessly into a surprisingly accessible hybrid, proven time and again to not only attract crowds, but to get crowds moving. Remaining independent since its inception, Many Machines on Nine (featuring drummer Ben Ellingworth, bassist Luke Ford, guitarist Kerry Foulke, and singer/programmer/producer Daniel Sutherland) has relied on hard work, mesmerizingly energetic live shows, polished, professional quality (self-produced) recordings, and above all, strong, hook-laden songs to create a groundswell of support that has cemented their reputation as one of Australia’s most respected bands. As well as touring around the country headlining their own shows, and supporting some of Australia’s premier acts (such as The Butterfly Effect and Cog), Many Machines on Nine have also shared the stage with major international artists such as Static X, Ill Nino, and Dry Kill Logic, and have played to crowds of over 10.000 at two of Macquarie University’s Conception Day Festivals. But rather than be content with winning over traditional live music fans, in November of 2006 Many Machines on Nine remixed and revamped their sound and took the stage at an underground dance party (Hard Wars Indoors) to perform a live set alongside world-renowned DJs Scott Brown and DJ Neophyte, in front of 3,000 glow-stick wielding ravers. The overwhelmingly positive response of the crowd goes a long way toward explaining why Many Machines on Nine were invited to perform on national television at the 2006 MusicOz Awards (the Australian music industry’s night of nights for unsigned artists), where they were nominated for Best Hardcore/Metal Act, Best Dance/Electronic Act, and Best Video, not to mention Artist of the Year. 2007 is set to be a big year for Many Machines on Nine. As they continue to tour to promote their second EP Prosthetic Blvd, both in their home country and abroad, they have begun pre-production on their first full-length album, and have also commenced production on a remix album, featuring the versions of tracks off of Prosthetic Blvd and their self-titled 2003 debut that they previewed so successfully at the Hard Wars Indoors dance party. Constantly looking forward, constantly evolving, Many Machines on Nine are a band to listen to, watch, and lose yourself in. SATURDAY APRIL 19 // DIE!DIE!DIE!
Die!Die!Die! Promises Promises Australian Tour April 2008 Oxford Art Factory // 19th April 2008 // $15 + BF NME - “Promises Promises…a rumbling fistfight bedecked with all the bite, bile and urgency of Pixies wrestling Big Black on the precipice of Hell. ”Music Australia Guide - **** “Hot melodies, droning guitars, brilliant vocals…a classic blast of punk energy” Monster Children Magazine - “Promises Promises is a boon. From the haunting ‘Blinding’ to the clash of “Blinding” the new album is tight.” Groupie – ***** “Insanely amazing second album from New Zealandish post hardcore punk band Die Die Die. Never ending energy, heartbreakingly angsty vocals and hazy dirty guitar noise. Kings of the post millennial punk scene. All hail the kings” Oyster Magazine - “Punk at it’s purest…This is post punk for a new generation.” MX Newspaper – “Listen, listen, listen.” Hailing from New Zealand’s deep, dark south, the rawkish post-hardcore punk band DieDieDie have long made it their mission to not only deliver enigmatic, blistering tracks on searing releases, but to bring their blistering live show to as many towns as they can, as often as possible. Due to bring their brand new record Promises Promises to an eager east coast of Australia this April - off the back of a recent jaunt to SXSW and boutique tours of the USA and UK - the group are set to keep this reputation intact. Having previously worked with the legendary Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Shellac) in Chicago and Dale Cotton (HDU, Dimmer) on their brilliant Locust Weeks and eponymous EPs, Promises Promises, saw them in the studio with NZ’s Shayne Carter. Revisiting their brawling, infectiously abrasive sound, Promises Promises and its pummelling, primal rhythms and shard-like guitar work looks set to enhance the act’s well earned misfit-savant reputation. *Promises Promises is out now on Etch n Sketch Records FRIDAY APRIL 25 // MY DISCO
Melbourne trio My Disco launch the release of their second highly anticipated album Paradisewith a national tour. 'Paradise' is set for release through Stomp on the 25thof February 2008.Recorded in Chicago at Electrical Audio Studio,sound engineer extraordinaire Steve Albini (Pixies, Mono, PJ Harvey, The Stooges) hascaptured My Discos minimal, yet intricate sound perfectly. Well known for their precise and flawless live performances, Ben Andrews (guitar), LiamAndrews (vocals / bass) and Rohan Rebeiro (drums) have gained a strong and dedicatedfollowing since they first came together in 2003. A lot has been accomplished in the last five years, from countless headlining shows within Australia and around the world, to playingsupport for international bands such as Battles, Mogwai, Death From Above, Comets On Fireand Deerhoof. They have also just been announced for the Future of the Left Melbourne support later this month. With several vinyl releases already under their belt, the band released their debutalbum 'Cancer' in 2006, from which stemmed an abundance of glowing reviews, radio support,sold out album launches in Melbourne and Sydney, plus extensive tours of Australia andabroad. My Disco will be touring nationally to coincide with the album release - details below. 'As expected, the production from their hero Steve Albinicaptured the group as they really sound inspired.' Blunt Magazine FRIDAY 2 MAY // CLICK CLICK PRESENTS THE GALVATRONS ALBUM LAUNCH
Having established their name in the Melbourne indie, rock and electro scenes with their previous projects, The Galvatrons, have spent the last 5 months cutting their teeth in the studio and on the road. Recording their debut EP (out in April) with Lindsay Gravina (Shihad, Magic Dirt), and touring non stop since their inception, The Galvatrons have been tearing it up on local and international stages with the likes of The Divinyls, Grinspoon, The Presets and You Am I. In just a couple of months their four track demo turned up in the U.K., New York and L.A, creating a hype that most bands dream of and they were the punters’ highlight at the recent Meredith Music Festival in December. Their electrifying performance at Melbourne Big Day Out had everyone talking, and they have just returned from their London showcase where they wowed the music critics (their London show was ‘Gig of the Week’ in London Music Week). They are currently on a 30 date tour with New Zealand rock gods Shihad. With an EP out in April and their debut album due for release later in the year, 2008 looks set to be a huge year for these four boys from Melbourne. |
