Balls to that!

So it seems to be festival overload on the dancefloor at the moment and I'm going to pitch in with my belated opinion on The Falls Music & Arts Festival line-up announcement. It'll be highly biased, but you probably don't come here for a fair and balanced report on things. Actually I think I just stole 'fair and balanced' from Fox News.

Anyways, the line-up was announced yesterday and I really didn't hear much talk about it. No-one seemed to care this year, or maybe my friends are just getting old and over the idea of Falls. This years line-up includes:


Interpol | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts | The National | The Living End | Public Enemy (performing Fear of a Black Planet) | Klaxons | Angus and Julia Stone | Tame Impala | The Rapture | Ladyhawke | Cold War Kids | Sleigh Bells | Peaches | Hot Hot Heat | Paul Kelly | Ash Grunwald | Children Collide | The Beautiful Girls | The Soft Pack | Dan Sultan | The Morning Benders | The Cool Kids | Junip | Kitty, Daisy and Lewis' | The Middle East | Cloud Control | Washington | Boy and Bear | The Bamboos | Tijuana Cartel | A-Trak | Edan the Dee-Jay | Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend) | Beardyman | The Cuban Brothers | Daara J Family | The Jezabels

Big Scary

VIC ONLY
Marina and the Diamonds | Yacht Club DJs | Sally Seltmann | World's End Press | Casiokids | Dan Kelly | Jamaica | Charlie Parr | Jonathan Boulet | Last Dinosaurs | Sampology | Eagle and the Worm | Jinja Safari | Tim and Jean | The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra

If you're going to have a line-up like that I can see why no-one was excited about it. I'm so over cutesy bullshit like Washington and the hippie blues & rootsy crap like Ash Grunwald and The Beautiful Girls. Don't even get me started on The Living End. I liked their EP when I was about 12 but since then my taste have evolved, obviously some people's haven't. Also many of the Australian acts I could probably catch in the city on the weekend for like $10-$15 so there's no wow factor there.

If you are going to go, here are my picks. If I just insulted artists you like then you'll probably think I have horrid tastes. I really don't care. I doubt the organisers of the festival will read this, let alone offer me free passes to review it after my little rant.

The Cool Kids : I could go on about these guys all day and I already have on this blog. If I don't get sideshow tickets to this I think I might cry.

Kitty, Daisey & Lewis: You may think it's a contrived 50's throwback. I just think it's awesome.

Klaxons: I like nearly everyone else listened to Myths of the Near Future excessively. I'd be interested to see how translates live. I haven't listened to any of their new stuff, maybe I should get onto that although I'm worried it'll be shit.

Interpol: Antics is one of my favourite albums but after seeing them being interviewed on Triple J (which you can see here), Carlos seems like a bit of a jerk. Amazing music though.

I'd go check out Peaches, Public Enemy, Hot Hot Heat and possibly Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (only to see if it'd be one of those tragic nostalgia things that's best kept to RSL's and Community Centres).

Those are my picks. If you do manage to get tickets, I'd be interested to hear how it was.

I can't lie, I like to get my two step on

The Cool Kids could kick a kitten and i'd probably still like it.
Check out their track with The Bloody Beetroots - Awesome

With a little bit of gold & a pager.

If you're not an absolute idiot like me and got Parklife tickets, I beg of you to go and check out hip hop duo The Cool Kids. They came out with one of my favourite albums from last year 'The Bake Sale', actually one of my favourite albums of all time. They have booming bass lines and rhymes that reference anything from riding bicycles, cereal, daily dramas, pop culture, gaming systems and typical everyday shenanigans. This is definitely not "gangsta" it's more of a Lupe Fiasco type of thing.



I missed out on seeing them at St Jeromes Laneway Festival a couple of years ago and now I'm going to miss out again. So while I'm kicking myself you must go and see them. While you're doing that, take a mental note of everything that happens and then I can live vicariously through you.



Download one of their mix tapes here for free: The Cool Kids/Don Cannon - Gone Fishing
Or listen to some of their stuff on Myspace- The Cool Kids @ Myspace