Ahead of his performance at Changing Lanes Festival in Sydney, we catch up with Spookyland.

Who are you and were might we know you from?

Marcus Gordon, I write songs.. I perform and record them under the name SPOOKYLAND.

A story you've probably told far too often... but where do you come from? (How did your band form / What made you start playing the music we're listening to now?

CHANGING LANES FIRST RELEASE SOLD OUT AND SECOND ROUND OF ARTISTS ADDED!

MAPS Entertainment is excited to announce the first release of tickets for Changing Lanes has sold out!

Second release tickets are now on sale and we’ve got a handful of new artists added to the line up as well.

2nd ANNOUNCEMENT:

Big Scary
Canyons DJs
Brous
Ellesquire
Cameras
Spookyland
The Black Cherry DJs
Domeyko/Gonzalez DJs
Colonel Dubya P Flawstane

And here we go for another week! First up as always is our video of the week, this week belonging to The Jezabels' "Endless Summer" - the first single off their highly anticipated debut album Prisoner (due in store 16 September). It's a stunning track - we already knew that - which now has an equally impressive music video to boot. You can never have enough pretty girls and horses in any music video, we do say!

With Raval gone and the Annandale under similar threat, Sydney is once again set to witness a facelift of its live scene. Hotel Hollywood, around the corner from the Macquarie Hotel, is looking to pick up from where Raval left off, while two new venues have popped up, looking to fill a gap in the live scene that goes all the way back to the Hopetoun closing in 2009.

What can you say about an act like Spookyland? The young singer-songwriter certainly has a way with words and knows his way around a guitar, but it's really hard to shake the fact that... well, he's a bit of a weirdo.

Canada’s DAN MANGAN hits the road with a swag of special guests; Matt Corby, Andy Bull, Nicholas Roy and Spookyland

Dan Mangan is eager to hit the road in Australia again. This time around, he’ll have a full band with him to help refold the road maps and bring out the gritty richness of the album.