Brian Setzer, rockabilly’s most iconic ambassador, has unleashed a brand
new line-up for his upcoming Australian tour.
The tour will now include a 2nd & final Melbourne show at The Palace
on Tuesday April 3. Tickets for this 2nd show will go on sale at 9am,
Friday February 3, with pre-sale tickets available from Wednesday February 1.
Dubbed ‘Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot!’ this new look is an all-out assault on the
rockabilly norm, an overcharged and thrilling attack of American rock n’ roll.
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It’s official! Oscar + Martin’s show with Parking Lot Experiments and Milk Teddy at The East on Wednesday 29thFebruary will be the last EVER show at The East Brunswick Club.
Pete and Pam, the venues owners, have thoroughly enjoyed their time with The East, but after many years in the industry, have decided it’s time to kick up their heels and retire. Unfortunately, the new owners will not be continuing the band room.
During it’s time, The East has been host to such great Australian acts from a wide variety of genres, including The Drones, The Mess Hall, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lisa Mitchell, Cloud Control (all previous Australian Music Prize recipients), Laughing Clowns, C.W. Stoneking, Regurgitator, My Disco, Big Scary , The Hard-Ons, Airbourne, Angus and Julia Stone, Boy & Bear, Urthboy, The Temper Trap, Jet and Seekae.
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Entries for Australia’s only Truly Independent music awards, Musicoz 2012, are now open. Celebrating the best independent music from across the country, the Musicoz Awards are now in their 11th year with 2012 looking to be the best show yet.
The independent music scene in Australia is a thriving and ever-growing part of the wider music community with over 24,000 artists playing more than 95,000 shows a year and recording in excess of 115,000 songs. The Musicoz-Truly Independent Awards highlights the enormous amount of talent and diversity within the Australian music scene.
“Musicoz was a critical factor for Blue Juice”, says Jake (Blue Juice) who are just one of a long list of Musicoz Award winners who have enjoyed the exposure, credibility and developmental help that only the Musicoz Awards continue to deliver.
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FRIDAY 27 JAN
HIATUS KAIYOTE
Fresh from blowing up heads at Woodford Folk Festival and a mini-tour Hiatus Kaiyote are back in Melbourne to play a few sneaky shows before going deep into the studio to finalise their debut EP due out in April.Their rare sound is a hybrid breed of neo-soul, future beats, freakish time changes and coupled with a strong live performance that’s seen them compared with the likes of Little Dragon, Bjork, Georgia Anne Muldrow and The Dirty Projectors.They’ll be joined on the 27th Jan by DJ Ty spinning future beat and nu-jazz goodness in-between their two sets.
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
SATURDAY 28JAN
CACTUS CHANNEL
Hear that sound? Hell yeah! Cactus Channel play Bar Open this Saturday night Raw loose and nasty, The Cactus Channel is a ten piece funk orchestra straight out of Princes Hill High School in inner city Melbourne. These guys are funkier than the sandwich you left in your lunchbox over the school holidays! With a musical maturity beyond their years, The Cactus Channel hit you with the biggest ton of funk this town has ever seen. Melbourne’s funkiest high school band just turned 18! Come and celibate with them – you’ve no excuse – its free!!!!
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
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LARGEST EVER ARTIST GROUP TO EMBARK ON MENTORING JOURNEY
Fourteen Victorian artists are amongst the largest ever intake into an Australian artist mentoring program, announced by Youth Arts Queensland today.
A total of seventy-five young and emerging artists nationally have made their artistic match, and will work with respected arts professionals as part of the 2012 JUMP National Mentoring Program.
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Friday 27th January
CREATIONS (USA)
ASHES OF DECEMBER (QLD)
DELAWAREWOLVES
THE ROSETTA STONE
CREATIONS are originally from Sydney but are now based in El Centro, California and they’re coming back to destroy Australia in support of their new album “The Gospel”‘ on Mediaskare Records. They are touring Australia With special guests Brisbane party Moshers ASHES OF DECEMBER in support of their debut album “‘Dying Is For Fools”‘.
See them stop into Pony for a night of mayhem on Friday 27th January, with local support from Delawarewolves and The RosettaStone.
Doors 9.00pm
2am late show
THE VOLATILES
FREE
Fresh from band camp, THE VOLATILES are back to show Pony how to play some straight up, red raw punk rock. Carefully pacing themselves for the 2am slot on Friday night these 5 are gonna be running on pure rock delirium. Playing a couple of new tunes and some older classics it should be a great night to have a bit of a dance andwatch as some band you might not know becomes your new favorite.
3.00am tunes by:
WHITE RABBIT
FREE
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EMINEM’S ORIGINAL CREW HIT OZ - 2012
D12, an acronym for The Dirty Dozen, is an American pop/hip hop group from Detroit, Michigan, USA. D12 success with album releases in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia has been well documented within pop culture.
D12 were formed in 1996, and achieved mainstream success after one of its members, Eminem, rose to international fame.
D12 have had a number 1 ARIA selling album and single in Australia. Fast facts and stats:
1st Album debuted at number one on the U.S. and Australian chart plus number two on the UK chart, also reaching the top of the Canadian charts.
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