Yep, another festival break down. This time I'll give you my picks for The Pyramid Rock Festival, which is held down at Phillip Island (VIC) about an hour or so from Melbourne, held from December 30th - January 1st. I suppose this is your alternative festival for NYE if you're not into Falls or if you've recovered from the Merideth Music Festival. Or you could just come hang out with me, I'm sure I'll be being trashy at some apartment in the city again.
Enough babbling. Here are my incoherent suggestions.
1. Born Ruffians.
Aw, they're so adorable. I wrote about them previously- here & Pix has as well - here. Plus they write ace songs and call them things like Kurt Vonnegut. I have a Kurt Vonnegut tattoo so I guess they feed into my annoying pretentious hipster side. Actually that probably turned you off. Just have a listen.
2. Mystery Jets
Everyone knows that Young Love song, but even though that was a very sweet song I liked them a lot better when one of their Dads was in the band (2005-06-ish).
3. N*E*R*D
I haven't seen them live before, but this will be AMAZING when you've ingested one too many substances. I'm sure they'll have the best time slot, right before the clock strikes 12. It wouldn't let me embed my favvidLapdance with all the hot chicks with their boobs out, but you can see the edited version (lame) - here.
Others on the initial line up are:
The Temper Trap | Little Red | Xavier Rudd | Arrested Development | Chromeo | Gyroscope | Trentemoller | Miami Horror | Lightspeed Champion | Shout Out Louds | Jebediah | Oh Mercy
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.
