One of the best, if not the best, festival in Victoria is back. Thousands of festival goers will converge on the tiny town of Meredith this December for the annual Meredith Music Festival.
Performing for the special crowd at the 19th Meredith will be one of the best frontman's from the last twenty years. Jarvis Cocker, pom frontman of the now defunct Pulp, will be making his way downunder to treat fans to some of his new material from his latest album 'Further Complications'. Joining him will be experimental indie rockers Animal Collective. The band released one of the best albums of 2009, their 8th release, 'Merriweather Post Pavillion'(sure to make the Music Universe list at the end of the year). Pitchfork Media gave the album a 9.6 out of 10 rating, their highest score for a new release since Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' five years before.
Others of note to be making their way over to Meredith are folky-electronic, singer songwriter, Patrick Wolf (just about to release new album 'The Bachelor'), everyone's fave Paul Kelly, the delightful Sia and hard nuts Eddy Current Supression Ring.
For those wishing to see the full lineup, look below: Animal Collective Jarvis Cocker Paul Kelly City Of Ballarat Eddy Current Supression Ring Municipal Brass Band Combo La Revelacion Crocodiles Sia Heavy Trash Kid Sam Kitty Daisy And Lewis Pharoahe Monch, Royal Crown Revue Akron/Family Henrik Schwarz Thee O Sees The Middle East Tumbleweed Why Patrick Wolf Acht Club Djs Bag Raiders
The 19th Meredith Music Festival takes place at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, Meredith, Victoria, Australia on December 11, 12 and 13, 2009.
As for tickets, a ballot for subscribers is underway now which will be followed by store sales on September 8th and online sales September 10th.
This year's Homebake festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary. To mark this amazingly achieved feat, the festival have announced Powderfinger as their biggest drawcard.
Brisbane boys Powderfinger have not played at Homebake since 1999 and haven't released an album since 'Dream Days at The Hotel Existence' (2007), but are apparently working on a new one as we write this. One can only expect a set jam packed with classic hits and a couple of newbies.
Joining The Finger are three other Aussie heavyweights, Jet (new album 'Shaka Rock' out soon), Hilltop Hoods and Eskimo Joe. There will be a special performance from Tim Finn as well as a couple of bands getting back together for a one-off performance including Tumbleweed and The Underground Lovers.
Daniel Merriweather will make the girls scream, Eddy Current Suppression Ring will make the boys mosh and the Midnight Juggernauts will hopefully get them dancing together.
HOMEBAKE 2009 – The Fifteenth Anniversary Saturday December 5th, 2009 The Domain, Royal Botanic Gardens
Here’s how the line-up looks so far. Tickets on sale 9am Monday 17 August.
POWDERFINGER JET HILLTOP HOODS ESKIMO JOE SIA DANIEL MERRIWEATHER MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS SARAH BLASKO A special best of performance by TIM FINN CLOSURE IN MOSCOW TIKI TAANE (NZ) SHORT STACK UNDERGROUND LOVERS (original line-up) PHRASE DECODER RING BUMBLEBEEZ TUMBLEWEED (original line-up) EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING ROWLAND S HOWARD (together with Mick Harvey, JP Shiloh & Lindsay Gravina) THE FUNKOARS THE MIDDLE EAST THE ASTON SHUFFLE SUGAR ARMY RECORD PRODUCER SHOCKONE
Eddy Current Suppression Ring are an honest, no game playing, straight to the point kinda band straight outta the streets of Melbourne. The group rose to prominence in 2008 off the back of their hot album 'Primary Colours'.
The band began playing together in 2003 at a work Christmas party at a vinyl pressing plant. There's four members to the band, Brendan Suppression, Eddy Current, Rob Solid and Danny Current, all obviously aliases. They're not opposed to adding a fifth member either, "we'd possibly add an orangutang as they have opposable thumbs and could probably pull off some guitar parts".
With their intense alternative-punk rock sound, you would think these guys hit the piss or something else very often, however, Eddy explains how he's anti "booze, hallucinogens and Adam Sandler movies". The others though don't seem anti anything, with Rob suggesting how he often sees "walls breathing" and Brendan thinks he sometimes sees "trees dance".
ECSR are a smart ass bunch of guys too (which we at Music Universe are too). They have just released a new EP 'That Time Of Day' and when asked what it referred too, they simply said "lunchtime". When asked what would might happening in a movie scene if their music was being played in the background, they simply answered "the credits". They also know that if one were to shove a knife into an electrical socket to find out what an Eddy Current felt like, that "you would be dead through your foolish and reckless behaviour with electricity".
It was an absolute pleasure interviewing Eddy Current Suppression Ring and everyone should do themsleves a favour and buy 'Primary Colours' and see them live immediately. These boys are definitely electrifying the music scene with their live shows and they will be sending eddy currents through your system as part of the 'Roar Sounds' this Thursday at the Melbourne Zoo.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring + Tame Impala Thursday 19th February Melbourne Zoo
Eddy Current Suppression Ring will join the illustrious line-up for the upcoming 'Roar Sounds' event at Melbourne Zoo.
Eddy Current have just released a new EP, 'That Time of Day' and is limited to only 1000 copies. Considering that their second album 'Primary Colours' made some people's 'best of' lists, the EP will surely sell out in no time.
The Melbourne band have a simple, catchy formula that just seems to ooze energy on the dancefloor. The single is quite simply as raw and crinkle cut as you're going to get these days. Do yourself a favour, listen to their stuff and buy tickets. If you haven't seen them yet, you're an idiot.
Get in early at 5:30pm to check out the Zoo’s residents till 7pm. BYO food and drink (no glass besides wine bottles, please!) or buy it there. This event is all ages.
DON'T FORGET: You can still win tickets to see one of these gigs simply by subscribing to Music Universe now. Enter your email address into the box on the left hand side of the page and you could win a double pass to see lions, tigers and music, oh my!
ROAR SOUNDS AT MELB ZOO: Thursday 5 February - Kate Miller Heidke (QLD) + The Verses Thursday 12 February - Wolf & Cub (SA) + Van She (NSW) Thursday 19 February – Eddy Current Suppression Ring + Support TBA Thursday 26 February - Resin Dogs (QLD) Feat. N’fa (1200 Techniques) + Phrase + Alexx The Kidd
