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LANEWAY FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SIDESHOWS
Sometimes once is not enough. Nothing beats the experience of watching your favourite band in a festival setting but some bands so are so great that they need their own stage, their own night. The Laneway Festival is pleased to announce a series of very special sideshows for your aural pleasure.
Daniel Johnston Australian Side Shows
With special guests Old Man River & Kid Sam
ON SALE 11th DECEMBER at 9AM
Wednesday 3 February - The Prince of Wales, MELBOURNE
Ticketek 132 849 www.ticketek.com.au, at the venue 03 9536 1168 www.princebandroom.com.au
Or from Polyester Records (Fitzroy), Greville Record (Pharan) and Missing Link
Thursday 4 February - The Metro Theatre, SYDNEY
Ticketek 132 849 www.ticketek.com.au or at the venue 02 9550 3666 www.metrotheatre.com.au
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
ON SALE MONDAY 7TH DECEMBER, 9AM
Wed 27th January
Enmore Theatre, Sydney
www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
Thu 4th February
Palais Theatre, Melbourne
www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100
MUMFORD & SONS
Special Guests TBC | Presented by The Brag
Wednesday, February 3rd : Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Tickets: Moshtix, Ph 1300 GET TIX (438 849), or www.moshtix.com.au
Public tickets on sale 9am Tuesday, December 1st
BLACK LIPS AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Tickets on sale Friday 27 November
Thursday 4 February 2010
Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Tickets from Corner Box Office (57 Swan St Richmond 12-8 Mon-Sat), ph. 9427 9198 or online www.cornerhotel.com. Also available at Polyester Records (City & Fitzory store)
Presented by Beat & Three Thousand
Monday 8 February 2010
Manning Bar, Sydney
Tickets from Moshtix: online at www.moshtix.com.au, ph. 1300 Get Tix (438 849) and all Moshtix outlets. Manning Bar venue access centre ph: 02 9563 8000, online at www.manningbar.com
Presented by Drum Media & Two Thousand
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
'Florence and the Machine's mad art-pop will be 2009's most beautiful noise' - The Guardian
'Florence...manages to be grandiose, relatable, and incessantly catchy all at the same time' - Popmatters
Londoners FLORENCE & THE MACHINE have had a massive 2009 off the back of their fierce, thrilling, Mercury Prize-nominated debut Lungs. And what lungs the 22-year old frontwoman must possess. Capable of raising roofs with her voice and raising temperatures with her fiery, impassioned performances, Florence is a talent of the kind that emerges only every so often.
Replete with soaring melodies and hummable hooks, Lungs features radio favourites 'Kiss With a Fist', 'The Drumming Song' and 'Rabbit Hole (Raise It Up)'. Catch Florence and her well-oiled Machine perform these and more when they play in Australia for the very first time.
Tix on sale: MONDAY 30th NOVEMBER
Tuesday 26 January
Metro, Sydney
Ticket outlets: www.metrotheatre.com.au , www.ticketek.com.au
Wednesday 3 February
Prince Of Wales, Melbourne
Ticket outlets: www.princebandroom.com.au , Polyester Records (Fitzroy & City), Greville Records, the Prince of Wales public bar (12 noon - 10pm, 7 days),
phone bookings 03 9536 1168 (visa/MC only, 10am - 6pm, Mon - Fri)
HOCKEY
Dance punk/indie rockers HOCKEY will make their way to Australia from Portland, Oregan for the first time to perform at the Laneway Festivals and headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne.
Compared in sound to bands such as The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem, HOCKEY spent 2009 performing at international festivals Glastonbury, Reading & Leads, T In The Park, Bonnaroo and Hove as well as touring with Passion Pit and Friendly Fires.
Praise for the four piece has come from all quarters. With second single "Song Away" acting as a holistic mission statement wrapped in a nod and a wink, "These scruffy bike-riding vegans could
easily be enjoyed by fans of Dylan, Springsteen and the Hold Steady as much as they could by devotees of LCD Soundsystem" says U.K.'s Guardian newspaper. "See them now while they are still playing small rooms," advises Time Out New York.
Hockey's debut album 'Mind Chaos' is out now, featuring 'Too Fake' & 'Song Away'"
TIX ONSALE: Thursday 26th November
Thursday 28th Jan,
Metro Theatre, Sydney
www.metrotheatre.com.au
phonecharge:(02) 95503666 www.ticketek.com.au phonecharge:132849
Wednesday 3rd Feb
The Hi Fi, Melbourne
www.thehifi.com.au ; Phonecharge 1300THEHIFI, Polyester, Greville Records.
WILD BEASTS
"This beautiful album is a treasure that deserves plundering." 9/10, NME
"Wild Beasts tuck broad ambitions into succinct, brilliant songs. They're fascinated and perplexed by nothing less than the human condition, the unpredictable mixture of intelligence and reflex,
invention and destruction." New York Times
"Wild is right! Vocalist Hayden Thorpe combines a wild-eyed Antony yelp with a low and brooding Morrissey croon, slamming his singular voice against songs that pulse and jangle - restless music for restless times." Rolling Stone US
The UK's WILD BEASTS are an otherwordly delight. The indie-rock Domino signing have critics falling over themselves in praise of their boundary-pushing sound on their second album, Two Dancers. A record of tightrope-high drama, it finds the Wild Beasts on fire. Two Dancers is alive with its sense of possibility, a sound that shimmers and sways in the band’s own mercurial fashion.
Lead singer Hayden Thorpe's enormous falsetto voice, which soars over chiming guitars, is truly unique and live, the four-piece is as affecting as it is audacious. As audacious as say, Arcade Fire crossed with Antony & The Johnstons. Don't miss this rare pleasure as Wild Beasts play the Laneway Festival and sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne this summer.
TIX ONSALE: Thursday 26th November
Monday 1st Feb
Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
www.oxfordartfactory.com , www.moshtix.com.au
Thursday 4th Feb
East Brunswick Club, Melbourne
www.eastbrunswickclub.com , The East Box Office, on 03 9388 9794
