Playground Weekender - 1st announce (expanded version)

Elbow, The Dears, Sharam (Deep Dish), Laurent Garnier, The Presets, Incognito, Mr Scruff, Ralph Lawson, Tom Middleton, Avalanches DJ Show, Who Made Who, Bugz in the Attic, Mad Professor, Black Grass, Dappled Cities Fly, The Valentinos, Tayo, Tomboy, Future Classic Soundsystem

joining

Calexico, !!!(chk chk chk), Pop Levi, Fat Freddy's Drop & MSTRKRFT

For more info check the Playground Weekender website.

Early Bird Tix are available from In The Mix.

MIPI go for music blogs

I was just having a quick look at some of my favourite oz music blogs, and discovered this message on Get Big Little Kid:

Due to a recent court ruling in Australia, this site will be inactive temporarily, while we figure a few things out.

We expect to resume normal programming by tomorrow.

I have an interest in copyright (as you can probably tell from all my boring wordy posts about the new Copyright Amendments Bill) and I have spent quite a bit of my time researching the legal implications of posting mp3's on blogs.

Still not certain about posting mp3's myself, my enthusiasm for upholding the law has been completely thwarted by the incredible amount of new music I have discovered.

I have bought more CD's in the last couple of months since discovering blog world than I have in the last year. I am hearing tracks that aren't yet played on Triple J and the community radio stations, and I am loving it. I have been in contact with brilliant artists from overseas that are more than appreciative of the bloggers that are getting the music out there and subsequently selling CD's.

For this reason I am quite astounded at the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) desire to go for little music bloggers...

This quote in particular "the court held that simply providing links to the material effectively authorised copyright infringement" from the Sydney Morning Herald article makes me think that surely there are bigger fish to fry?

Playground Weekender - 1st announce

Calexico, !!!, Pop Levi, Fat Freddy's Drop & MSTRKRFT and huge headliners to be announced.

To be held at Wisemans Ferry 9th-11th March

Weekend pass = $150 +bf, day pass = $85 +bf, camping = $35 +bf

This info is from the Summer Festival Guide insert in today's Drum Media. They also have an interview with the Promoters.

No details on the website as yet, but keep an eye on it.

http://www.playgroundweekender.com.au/

Ebay wins over BDO

I thought we would never see the day, but the courts have ruled that legally the Big Day Out organisers are unable to cancel tickets sold on Ebay. Basically ensuring that Ebay has a free for all on scalping.

There is a snippet about it in In The Mix. Read it here.

Official BDO presser here.

Expect things at the BDO to be done very differently next festival I think.

Little Barrie

New stuff from Little Barrie. Watch the podcast here.

Plus from Little Barrie's mailing list:

Check out the links below to view the NEW VIDEO for the band's next single LOVE YOU which is due for release in January.

QUICKTIME - high / medium / low

WINDOWS MEDIA - high / medium / low

REAL PLAYER - high / medium / low

Splendour in the Grass - new dates revealed

After a newsletter to their mailing list earlier this month revealed that the Splendour 2007 dates would be changing from their normal time of late July, it appears that the locals have done some investigative work of their own and uncovered the new dates as the first weekend in August (4-5 August 2007)

It also looks as though there is the possibility of a new site.. with DA's lodged with the council for 2 different venues.

Check out this article from the local newspaper Byron Shire News.

Big Day Out - final announce

The Vines, Snowman, Luciano, Sick Puppies, Digital Primate, Mark Murphy, DJ Sir-Vere, That 1 Guy, P-Money, Foreign Heights, TZU, Macromantics, Heavy Flint Show, DJ Gedo Super Mega Bitch Mrs Flint 4, Dan Kelly & The Aplha Males (Syd/Melb), Gersey (Syd/Melb), Ground Components (Syd/Melb) + Local acts for each city (see BDO press release).

joining:

Tool, Muse, Violent Femmes, The Killers, Peaches, My Chemical Romance, Spank Rock, Jet, Eskimo Joe, Scribe, Evermore, The Sleepy Jackson, The Herd, The Spazzys, The Streets, Kasabian, Crystal Method DJs, Justice, Trivium, John Cooper Clarke, Afra & The Incredible Beatbox Band, Lily Allen, Lupe Fiasco, Diplo, John Butler Trio, Something for Kate, You Am I, Little Birdy, The Presets, Bob Evans, The Drone, The Butterfly Effect, love [tattoo] and Shapeshifter

Playground Weekender - another new festival

To be held just outside Sydney in March 2007 (9th-11th) and put on by Playground Music, who bought you Vibes on a Summers Day & Good Vibrations (04/05), and have toured the likes of Jamiroquai and Lyrics Born.

With line-up announce expected later this week, this is sure to be another one to add to the ever-expanding list of Summer Festivals.

Stay tuned to the Playground Weekender website for details.

Soundwave Festival - 1st Announce

Deftones, +44 (Blink 182 members), Juliette (Lewis) & The Licks, Something With Numbers, Thrice, Unwritten Law, Hatebreed, Flyleaf, 18 Visions, Houston Calls, The Format, Hit The Lights, Parkway Drive.

Early-bird tix are on sale from today (midday Monday 11th December) from the Soundwave website

Great Escape - 2nd Announce

Ooh La La, Operator Please, The Stick Figures, John Butler Trio, Holly Throsby, Gogol Bordello, Deerhoof, The Cops, Little Birdy, Angus & Julia Stone, Bliss N Eso, Darren Hanlon, Flogging Molly, The Temper Trap

joining:

Wolfmother, The Vines, Gomez, The Living End, Ben Kweller, Bob Evans, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Blue King Brown, Missy Higgins, Ziggy Marley, Hilltop Hoods, The Fumes, Fishbone


2nd round of Pre-sale tix on sale from midday Tuesday 12th December: HERE

Ebay v BDO

How this happened I'm not entirely sure, but it surfaced a couple of weeks ago that Ebay is taking the Big Day Out to court over the terms and conditions printed on the back of the festival ticket.

ABC interviewed both sides - transcript here

If Ebay wins what will that mean for ticket scalping? The festivals go back to trying to get the government to change their mind about legislating...

Their day in court is this Wednesday so stay tuned for more.

Cold War Kids - free covers EP

Cold War Kids recently did a Benefit Gig for Breast Cancer, and have put up for free on their website a 6 track EP of covers they played on the night.

Get the EP at the Cold War Kids website.

My favourite is Fiona Apple's Fast As You Can.

And check out Myspace for more info on the Cold War Kids.

The Magic Numbers

I've finally got my hands on a copy of The Magic Numbers new album "Those the Brokes" and by god it's good. It has shot straight to the Top 5 of 2006 list for me.

Check out tracks and info here:

The Magic Numbers Website

The Magic Numbers Myspace

Copyright Amendment Bill 2006

Yesterday (30th November) the Senate debated the proposed Copyright Amendment Bill 2006, that the House of Reps put forward.
The Senate's Legal & Constitutional Affairs Committee had a month to go through the bill and the 74 submissions received, including those from ARIA and APRA/AMCOS. See a list of all the submissions HERE. They then produced a report for the Senate to go through.

The Senate reviewed this report and the explanatory memos and subsequently proposed 80 amendments to the Bill. Most of these were trivial wording and subsection changes, but it was interesting to see that they attempted to make it easier for individuals to copy music for domestic use.

Senator Andrew Bartlett tried to implement changes that would protect community broadcasters, but unfortunately this was vetoed by the majority of the Senate.

Previous post on the topic (including a link to the entire Bill) HERE

V Festival Pre-sale tix

If you want to get your hands on pre-sale tickets for Australia's V Festival before the general public sale date of Monday 4th December, then visit this link NOW.

Ticketmaster pre-sales available from 9am 1st December to 11pm 3rd December (AEST).

Password = VIRGIN

V Festival first announce: Pixies, Pet Shop Boys, Groove Armada, Gnarls Barkley, Soulwax-Nite Versions, 2manjdjs, The Rapture, Phoenix, Softlightes, Bumblebeez, The Temper Trap, Mercy Arms

More info: V Festival