Hot Barbeque merges with Summadayze

Future Entertainment has just announced that New Years Day event, The Hot Barbeque, will move to neighbouring event, Summadayze, hosted at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne.

A scaled down Hot BBQ will utilize a large fence line extension area at the venue - offering 2 new stages to the Summadayze festival.

Future Entertainment has said that the current economic climate has hit people hard and rather than push two events on the same day this year, it's in everyone's best interest to consolidate.

The addition of this area is great news for Summadayze ticket holders who will get access to additional stages and another 8 international DJ's at no extra cost. Added to Summerdayze will be Boys Noize, Busy P, Carl Craig, DJ Mehdi, Radioslave, Oliver Huntermann, Steve Aoki and more. Hot BBQ ticket holders will also benefit by getting access to the previously sold out event with an amazing line up.

Hot BBQ ticket holders will have the option of a full refund or an upgraded ticket to Summadayze. This ticket upgrade also includes a VIP pass. It will cost BBQ ticket holders an additional $50 to upgrade and has to be done by 6pm Wednesday December 17th. All can be arranged through ticketmaster.

Let's hope that Mos Def still appears (we doubt it though). DJ Nu Mark (Jurassic 5), The Galvatrons and The Herd are some of the other notable names that might not make the cut for Summadayze. Shame.

Nevertheless, Hot Barbeque ticket holders can now see Underworld, Armin Van Buuren, Eric Prydz, Calvin Harris, Digitalism and Adam Freeland to name a few. Sweet.

www.futureentertainment.com.au

Dizzee Rascal pays respect to Alex Turner

Dizzee Rascal has spoken on the great inspiration he takes from Arctic Monkeys’ work ethic.

Dizzee, real-name Dylan Mills, says that he is following in frontman Alex Turner’s footsteps by "getting it all out while he’s young".

He told the Daily Star: "I haven’t seen much of Alex recently because he’s so busy. He’s got his hands full doing Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets and loads of other stuff." He said: "I admire that, it’s cool. He’s getting it all out while he’s young. You’ve got to. It’s inspiring and I totally relate to it. I’m following the same path."

Dizzee also revealed that he loves that his music has become more popular, because now mums like him! He explained: "It’s great being an artist today. You feel like you can do what you want. What I’m doing with mash-ups and collaborations has become mainstream. People’s mums are into me these days and everything

Dizzee Rascal will be performing on stage at this year's Parklife Festival.

http://www.dizzeerascal.co.uk/

Calvin Harris tours Australia

Calvin Harris is another one of those artists to have been found on the internet (myspace) ie. Arctic Monkeys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, etc. His first album 'I Created Disco' was released on 18 June 2007. The album contained uptempo electrotrash songs that were influenced by music from the 1980s. To promote I Created Disco, Harris embarked on a tour of the UK, supporting Faithless and Groove Armada. His first single off the album 'Acceptable In The 80's' reached the top 10 on the UK singles chart, remaining there for 15 weeks. He has worked with Kylie Minogue and Sophie Ellis-Baxtor. Catch him live during the Good Vibrations festival or at one of his sideshows.

Dates:

Feb 8 Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne VIC
Feb 9 Good Vibrations Fest, Melbourne VIC
Feb 10 Good Vibrations Fest, Gold Coast QLD
Feb 14 The Forum, Sydney NSW
Feb 15 Good Vibrations Fest, Sydney NSW
Feb 16 Good Vibrations Fest, Pert WA