2008 Splendour in the Grass Sideshows- inc Wombats, Vampires and Sigur

Hey kids, my man Benny put it to me that no one gets any info from tradehooks, well at least this is one place where you can find all the Splendour sideshows in one place. They include:

SIGUR RÓS – On Sale Now!
Friday August 1 – Festival Hall, Melbourne – Get Tix
Saturday August 2 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney – Get Tix
www.sigur-ros.co.uk

LAURA MARLING – On Sale Now!
Tuesday August 5 - The Factory Theatre, Sydney – Get Tix
Wednesday August 6 - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne - Get Tix
www.lauramarling.com

THE FRATELLIS – On Sale Thursday June 5
Thursday July 31 – Capitol, Perth - Ticket Info
Tuesday August 5 – Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne - Ticket Info
Wednesday August 6 – Metro Theatre, Sydney - Ticket Info
www.thefratellis.com

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION – On Sale Thursday June 5
Wednesday July 30 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne – Ticket Info
Thursday July 31 – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney -Ticket Info
www.myspace.com/lightspeedchampion

DEVO AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2008
Thursday 31 July 2008 - Festival Hall, Melbourne
Friday 1 August 2008 - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Saturday 2 August 2008 - Splendor in the Grass Festival, Byron Bay
Tuesday 5 August 2008 - Thebarton Pavilion, Adelaide
Wednesday 6 August 2008 - Metro City, Perth

Cold War Kids
Sunday 3rd August
The Tivoli, Brisbane
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au or venue (07) 3852 1711
Monday 4th August
Enmore Theatre, Sydney
ALL AGES
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
Wednesday 6th August
The Palace, Melbourne
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

WOMBATS
2nd Aug - Capitol Perth
5th Aug - Enmore Sydney
6th Aug - Under 18s Matinee - The Hi Fi Melbourne
6th Aug - Over 18s - Hi Fi Melbourne
7th Aug - The Gov Adelaide

MSTRKRFT
1 Aug- TBA WA
8 Aug- Prince Bandroom VIC
9 Aug- Metro Theatre NSW

Vampire Weekend
Monday 4 August Metro Theatre, Sydney 18+
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au; Metro Theatre Box Office 02 9550 3666 or www.metrotheatre.com.au
Wednesday 6 August Prince Bandroom, Melbourne 18+
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au; Prince Bandroom 03 9536 1168 or www.princebandroom.com.au


Something unrelated for the kids

Biz Markie- Turn tha Party out (paul nice remix)

New Track: The Vines - "He's A Rocker"

The Vines have a new track "He's A Rocker". It has some simple lyrics e.g. chorus: "All he ever playin was that Rock n Roll music, Rock n Roll music, yeh, All he ever wanted was a reason to do it, to do it, chyeah".

Wow incredible, so imaginative, it's mind blowing.

But nevertheless i'm a huge Vines fan and am looking forward to their performance at Splendour in the Grass.

Check their myspace out
And buy shit at Amazon

mp3: The Vines - He's A Rocker

Splendour in the Grass Lineup 2008 Released

Hey all, finally the Splendour in the Grass Lineup for 2008 has been released on Triple J this morning.

The Lineup is as follows

Devo
The Music
Wolfmother
Sigur Ros
The Living End
The Presets
Tricky
Vampire Weekend
Ben Lee
Cold War Kids
The Fratellis
The Wombats
Pnau
Laura Marling
The Vines
The Grates
Operator Please
Band of Horses
Van She
The Panics
Gyroscope
MSTRKRFT
Lightspeed Champion
The Brown Birds from Windy Hill
Scribe
The Gin Club

Details:

Splendour In The Grass 2008
Sat Aug 2nd and Sun Aug 3rd
Belongil Fields, Byron Bay

This year all tickets to Splendour will be sold online through the new ticketing service Qjump. You can check them out by visiting www.qjump.com.au.

Ticket Prices
Event ticket $199 (inc gst) + BF
Green Event Ticket $206 (inc gst) + BF
Camping ticket $132 (inc gst) + BF

Tickets are onsale at 9am, Thursday May 22nd.

Ed Banger News - Ed Rec Vol. III, SebastiAn, Justice

The new Ed Rec Vol. III will be released on the 26th March, so put that on your calendar. The tracklist as below is exciting, i haven't heard a lot of those tracks, probably because they haven't been released yet. Busy P, Justice, SebastiAn and So Me should be stand outs, but Mehdi and Feadz could also be good.
Ed Banger have graced us with a little 10min or so 'minimix' or 'teaser' mixed by Feadz:

Get it Here (zip) - RECOMMENDED

They are doing some release parties as well:
- May 16 - Montpellier / La Dune
- May 17 - Clermont-Fd / La Coopérative de Mai
- May 18 - Paris / Secret Venue
- May 23 - Aix en Provence / Studio 88

Check that all out on their Myspace, also you can listen to the mix by Feadz there as well.

1. Mr Oizo - Yves
2. Busy P - To Protect And Entertain (feat. Murs)
3. Mr Flash - Over The Top
4. SebastiAn - Dog
5. Uffie - Robot Oeuf
6. Justice - Stress (Auto Remix)
7. Mr Oizo - Minuteman’s pulse
8. Dj Mehdi - Pocket Piano
9. Krazy Baldhead - No Cow, No Pow
10. DSL - Find Me In The World
11. Feadz - Back It Up (feat. Spank Rock)
12. So Me - Decalcomania

SebastiAn's latest release is the EP "Motor" coming 28th April.

This is what Ed Banger has to say about some of the songs from the EP:
“Motor”: basic, excessive, devastating, the definition of what the Ed Banger crew likes to call a “turbine”. As alarming as an over-heating reactor: a bomb has been deposited on the dance floor.
“Momy”: Vangelis and Moroder captured in the eye of an electronic cyclone.
“Army”: terminal atomization. No one will come out alive.

A few teaser songs have been leaked, thanks to Asian Dan and One More Disco, the track Momy was leaked just recently.

Sebastian - Motor (Distort Edit)
Sebastian - Momy
Sebastian - Kinder Kut

And finally Justice are touring in France (gayyy), on the dates below.

- April 18 - Strasbourg / Zénith with Uffie feat. Feadz and Scenario Rock
- April 19 - Bourges / Festival du Printemps
- May 15 - Montpellier / Zénith with Uffie feat. Feadz and Scenario Rock
- May 16 - Grenoble / Summum with Uffie feat. Feadz and Poney Poney
- May 18 - Paris / Olympia with Das Pop SOLD OUT
- May 20 - Dijon / Zénith : support act Uffie feat. Feadz and Scenario Rock
- May 22 - Nantes / Zénith : support act Uffie feat. Feadz and Scenario Rock

Now this is a big call, but, JUSTICE WILL BE PLAYING AT SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS. I'm making the call, someone has to do it. This is how they'll do it:
They are playing at the Emmabodafestivalen in Sweden on the 1st August, and then they catch a plane to Australia, play on the 3rd August for Splendour and then fly to Tokyo for the Sonic Festival on the 9th August, which has been confirmed.
yep, its so simple.

Splendour In My Ass - More Rumours

So i'm getting a bit excited for Splendour in the Grass this year. In The Mix posted the other day that the festival will be held once again in Belongil Fields in Byron Bay, despite the rumours of it moving.

The dates are Saturday August 2nd and Sunday August 3rd.

Now as mentioned before the lineup for Splendour often looks somewhat similar in parts to what goes for the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, the full lineup for it has now been released featuring:

Coldplay The Verve The Sex Pistols The Jesus and Mary Chain Panic At The Disco Justice Band Of Horses The Wombats New Young Pony Club The Prodigy 311 The Fratellis Maximum The Hormone Zebra Head Beat Union Fatboy Slim Alicia Keys Paul Weller Devo Junkie XL Spiritualized The Lost Prophets

Bedouin Soundclash Mutemath MGMT Jack’s Mannequin Cajuan Dance Party Crystal Castles The Hooisers Friendly Fires Xavier Rudd South Central OneRepublic The Metros Late Of The Pier New Found Glory We Smoke Fags Trivium The Subways The Ting Tings Old Man River Polysics Silversun Pickups Skindred Against Me! Vampire Weekend

That lineup would go alright i guess.

Fatboy Slim - Don't Let the Man (Justice Remix)
Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
MGMT - Electric Feel

Splendour in my Ass

No. Im not talking about that movie Selecta made back in 06'. Splendour in the Grass is on again this year folks rumoured to be on the 2nd and 3rd of August. They bought a massive site outside of byron bay, everything was going to be sweet, enough camping room for all, sadly however the dirty, vegie eating, dirty haired, bong guzzling hippies, that inhabit the surrounding areas protested and thus it is back at the old site again this year. So it will be harder to get a ticket than a new kidney once again this year.

Over the last few years it has become apparent that many of the acts playing at Fuji Rock festival in Japan come down to Byron, as it is typically a week or 2 prior to Splendour. The fuji lineup has come out and some of the acts are listed on Inthemix.

Other rumours include Radiohead and Hotchip.

Full details will be revealed by Splendour on March 25.

gigz.