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Groupie has Good Vibrations Festival Covered + Last Chance To Win VIP Tix!
By Lucas | February 9, 2010
Who can’t wait for the weekend!?! If you’re in Sydney pray for good weather cos it might make the day a little more comfortable, but rain, hail or shine Groupie will be out in force at the Sydney show this weekend. We’ll be getting our camera in the faces of every artist we manage to grab a hold of whether it be Killaqueenz or The Killers! Can’t wait to see Salt-N-Pepa!!
Don’t forget you still have a chance to win VIP tix thanks to our friends at Jager!! It’s pretty simple, tell us the most interesting story of your ultimate party experience, and you could be on your way to Good Vibrations Festival 2010 with VIP tickets and a very cool prize pack. Check out all the details and enter right here http://pagesonline.it/jagermeister.php, but be quick entries close Wednesday!!
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Gig Of The Week – Good Vibrations Festival Sydney
By Groupie | February 9, 2010
It’s finally here! GVF Sydney is on this Saturday at Centennial Park, Sydney.
Check out the site map and set times for the big day:
or go here to download and print out for the day
Happy GVF Everyone!
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Album Of The Week: Delphic – Acolyte
By Groupie | February 9, 2010
Delphic are another band under the burden of the hype which swells up at the beginning of the Blog New Year, but we predict they’ll be one of the lucky few to get through it. After speaking to the band for this month’s issue of Groupie (out this week) they revealed that they knew that come the season of “Acts To Look Out For in 2010” lists, they had to have their record done and be on the road. Check out the Feb issue to hear how they went about preparing for the inevitable media attention they had in store.
The band were known in Manchester for impromptu outdoor raves and back alley gigs which helped shape their distinctive sound. “We’d hire our drummer Dan’s generator and get a couple of lights going and take it out to a field,” says vocalist/keyboardist James Cook. We’d just setup pretty roughly, the sound was awful. So we’d do it ourselves and get a few friends down, then you’d see faces that you didn’t quite recognise and it was friends of friends and then more and more people as it grew. It was a great atmosphere because everyone there just wanted to party and it was late at night and it was dark. Mostly they were in fields and also in our rehearsal room where there’s not really enough room to swing a cat and you could only fit about fifteen people in there.” These live experiences are thoroughly integrated into the band’s debut album ‘Acolyte’.
‘Acolyte’ is a fifty minute ‘set’ of tunes which is more nu-rave than any nu-rave act that officially held the tag when it was conceived. Amongst the dance beats there are some song writing highlights of the likes of ‘Doubt’ and the very New Order-sounding ‘Submission’ where Cook displays his vocal chops to quite impressive effect. While ‘Acolyte’ is not as immediate as other hot albums of the moment, there are definitely moments on there which await the second or third listen. It will be interesting to see if they’ve got another album in them, in the meanwhile we should be able to catch them our way in the next few months.
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Giveaway: Chicks Who Love Guns
By Groupie | February 9, 2010
The young loud louts known as Chicks Who Love Guns have only been around for less than a year but have made a bit of a name for themselves already by living up to the “screamo” description which so many bands put on their MySpace page but rarely deliver on. While the band haven’t included “screamo” on their MySpace themselves, it’s definitely one of the first words to to use when you hear their rough and ready post-punk debut EP ‘Vomit On The Dancefloor’.
Check out the title track and others on their page here, and you can check them out at Spectrum on Feb 19 for the EP launch party. Most excitingly, if you want a free copy of the EP, all you have to do is scream at us in the comments below and it’s all yours! We’ve got five to give away.
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Download Of The Week: Gyroscope
By Groupie | February 9, 2010
Fixtures of the Australian music charts and Triple J’s Hottest 100, Perth’s own post-grunge peddlers Gyroscope are gearing up for April 9, when ‘Cohesion’, their fourth hard-rocking LP, is scheduled for release.
Produced by Gil Norton, who has also worked with bands such as Foo Fighters and Pixies, ‘Cohesion’ is set to rival the success of 2008’s ‘Breed Obsession’, which reached #1 on the Australian charts, went gold and spawned four singles. It’s a tough one to follow up, but Gyroscope have been on a steep upwards trajectory ever since their formation in 1997, and aren’t showing any signs of slowing now!
You could wait around for them to hit a venue near you during their national tour in the lead up to the album release, or you can have instant gratification by downloading the song ‘Live Without You’ from ‘Cohesion’ for gratis: Just pay a visit to here and thank our friends at Universal!
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Is Jump Jump Dance Dance Australia’s Next Big Thing?
By Groupie | February 8, 2010
You all saw the freaky bears/bear-like creatures in the Rock-afire video treatment of Jump Jump Dance Dance’s funktastic ‘Do It For Love’, which rocketed around the blog world like a… rocket.
Vid here
Now the band are gearing up for their very first Australian tour on the Future Music Festival lineup, and have released the video for their brand newie ‘Show Me The Night. Here’s the video, so check it out and tell us if you reckon these guys have a big future ahead of them. We do!
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Mark Ronson Spills On Danimals’ ‘Versions’ & Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’
By Groupie | February 8, 2010
Music projects funded by non-music brands have become regular news recently. You have Jean Paul Gaultier commissioning a Martin Solveig and Dragonette collaboration, there’s Franz Ferdinand creating a track for Dior, and more locally, we have Toohey’s Extra Dry’s ‘The Lab’ project rounding up Mark Ronson and his many merry men (Santigold, John Taylor from Duran Duran, Sean Lennon to name a few) to write and record with an Australian band of his choice.
As you probably know from our close coverage of the Ronson project here at Groupie, Sydney act Danimals were the lucky chosen ones to fly to New York for some serious jam sessions with the world’s best musos. While Mark Ronson has just announced that his own album will include the likes of Santigold, Scissor Sisters and Miike Snow, he was duly impressed by the input from the Australian upstarts in creating the song which will be used in future TED campaigns.
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Sneak Peak At New Issue….
By Groupie | February 5, 2010
We chat to the boys from Delphic and find out what level of pressure they are under after being touted as the ‘Sound of 2010′.
Plus interviews with Yeasayer, Hot Chip, Anna Lunoe and more….
New issue out next week!
It’s coming…
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Vampire Weekend Return This May
By Groupie | February 5, 2010
Yes yes – they are coming back for more. It’s true we have an almost unhealthy love for Vampire Weekend, so we are crazy excited at Frontier Touring’s announcement that the boys are returning to Australia this May.
Tuesday 4 May Palace Theatre – Melbourne 18+
Thuesday 6 May Thebarton Theatre – Adelaide ALL AGES
Tuesday 11 May The Tivoli – Brisban ALL AGES
Wednesday 12 May Enmore Theatre – Sydney ALL AGES
Sunday 16 May Metro City – Perth 18+
Tickets on sale rom Monday 22 February, 9am Sydney time.
Frontier members pre-sale starts Thursday 18 February, Noon AEDT.
You’ve been warned.
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Gorillaz sneak peak
By Groupie | February 5, 2010
One word = radness
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