Loving this track - Blind Faith by Chase & Status

It took me a week to finally find out who sings this amazing song but I'm so glad I persisted. It's a great pump up song for a friday afternoon! Chase & Status are an electronic duo from London and have been around since 2003. Plug your headphones in and crank this track right up!

Splendour In The Grass 2011

Holy Moly this years announced line up is HUGE! And I dont mean huge as in it's full of freaken amazing acts (although the acts are mostly pretty amazing) I mean huge as in there are like 1002 acts announced to be playing on the bill!!
Not sure that I'll be in this year, it's at Woodford QLD again this year which is just a little to far now that it's no longer in Byron but keep your eyes out for side show announcement coming up in the next month or 2. Splendour will be on 29th to the 31st of July and tickets go onsale at 9am on the 5th of May.

Playing this year will be:

COLDPLAY

KANYE WEST

JANE'S ADDICTION

THE HIVES

PULP

THE LIVING END

THE MARS VOLTA

REGINA SPEKTOR

BLISS N ESO

PNAU

MOGWAI

DJ SHADOW

GLASVEGAS

THE GRATES

DEVENDRA BANHARDT AND THE GROGS

MODEST MOUSE

THE MIDDLE EAST

KAISER CHIEFS

JAMES BLAKE

KELE

THE VINES

ELBOW

ESKIMO JOE

NOAH AND THE WHALE

CHILDREN COLLIDE

THIEVERY CORPORATION

CUT COPY

ISOBEL CAMPBELL AND MARK LANEGAN

BLUEJUICE

THE KILLS

BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS (featuring THE RELATIVES)

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

FOSTER THE PEOPLE

THE PANICS

FRIENDLY FIRES

JEBEDIAH

THE VACCINES

GOMEZ

BOY AND BEAR

GOTYE

DOES IT OFFEND YOU YEAH?

CLOUD CONTROL

MONA

SPARKADIA

WARPAINT

MUSCLES (Live)

FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS

THE JEZEBELS

DRAPHT

BRITISH SEA POWER

TIM & JEAN

LEADER CHEETAH

GROUPLOVE

SEEKER LOVER KEEPER

YELLE

KIMBRA

PHRASE

OH MERCY

DANANANANAYKROYD

THE BLACK SEEDS

MARQUES TOLIVER

THE HOLIDAYS

GHOUL

LIAM FINN

THE HERD

YOUNG THE GIANT

GUINEAFOWL

HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY

JINJA SAFARI

WILD BEASTS

ILLY

CUT OFF YOUR HANDS

GARETH LIDDIARD

ALPINE

WORLD'S END PRESS

MOSMAN ALDER

LANIE LANE



Plus DJ sets all weekend from the likes of:



ASTON SHUFFLE

FLIGHT FACILITIES

D-CUP (WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO)

AJAX (MEGA JAM SET)

HOODRAT & DANGEROUS DAN

LIGHT YEAR

HOOPS

CASSIAN

WAX MOTIF

KATO

TONI TONI LEE

CHARLIE CHUX

TRANTER


It's a massive line up with 90 artists set to play over the whole weekend. It should be a great festival! Also, I'm really loving the Lolly theme this year!

Uncorrected and Soapbox Summer

Two young Sydney pop punk bands have joined together to make an extended ep Split Decision and save themselves a few dollars. What we end up with is an 8 track little gem of up beat poppy vocals with good old fashion punk rock riffs. Its been 10 years since my music tastes consisted only of Punk but it's good to see not much has changed in those 10 years.

I think both bands have quite a similar sound and both bands lead singers have similar voices which makes for a nice flow between the 2 sets of tracks on the record. However in saying that, I think I preferred the tracks recorded by Soapbox Summer. Their track Doc Brown is my Homeboy took 2 plays to securely lodge itself inside my head for 2 days straight and somehow I actually woke up singing S.L.U.T the other morning and it took me a few minutes to work out WTF I was singing and where I knew it from.
Uncorrected weren't without some catchy tracks. Kiss Kiss to Bang Bang was probably my fave by them but the opening track Mums Cookies are the Best comes with a hilarious and well done video clip. Check it out below.

Whether there is still a big market for Punk bands I'm not so sure anymore, but I think the heavy pop influence from these 2 bands will help them rapidly gain popularity, and I'm guessing these guys have no huge desire to be played on 2Day FM. For now they seem pretty happy to write play and record nothing but catchy pop punk goodness.


Uncorrected - Mums Cookies Are The Best



Soapbox Summer - Doc Brown is my Homeboy