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More Aussie acts added to Stone Music Festival Ballarat Courier They join already announced Australian acts The Living End, The Baby Animals and The Superjesus, and international acts Buckcherry, Lifehouse, Richie Ramons and Kings of Chaos. Stone Music Festival is at ANZ Stadium on Saturday, April 20 and Sunday ... See all stories on this topic »

Future Music Festival announces local artists and foam parties inthemix Next week, Future Music Festival kicks off its giant 2013 tour. Starting in Brisbane next Saturday, FMF will be taking one of their biggest lineups yet through the country: of course, there's the inimitable The Prodigy at the top of the bill, bringing ... See all stories on this topic »

Chill Side of Stage With Ellie Goulding At Future Music Festival Pedestrian TV Want to get close to Ellie Goulding? Thanks to our friends at Universal Music Australia, Pedestrian has 2 x Future Music Festival Backstage + VIP Passes to give away in the city of your choice. On top of that, you will also get to the chance to meet ... See all stories on this topic »

Icehouse and Guy Sebastian Join Stone Music Festival Noise11 Sydney's inaugural Stone Music Festival has added Icehouse and Guy Sebastian but subtract Baby Animals. Icehouse, Iva Davies - Photo By Ros O'Gorman noise11.com images. Icehouse, Iva Davies - Photo By Ros O'Gorman. The Stone Music Festival is ... See all stories on this topic » Noise11

The Peach Music Festival 2013 Reveals Initial Lineup Music Festival Junkies (blog) The Allman Brothers Band will headline two nights of their fest, the Peach Music Festival, this August 15-18, 2013. Other names announced in the first phase lineup include The Black Crowes, Bob Weir & Rat Dog, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Jaimoe's ... See all stories on this topic » Music Festival Junkies (blog)

The Latest Music Festival News

Music Maverick Gary Clark Jr To Launch His Own Music Festival Tone Deaf Not to be confused with the Maverick Festival of Easton Farm Park, Suffolk (the country and Americana Festival held in the UK each year), Clark Jr.'s Maverick Musical Festival is a one day event held in Mayor Maury Maverick Plaza, located within the ... Tone Deaf

A weekend of sold-out performances at Stanford's Pan-Asian Music Festival Stanford University News This year's sold-out Pan-Asian Music Festival showcased the China National Orchestra, an ensemble of musicians who perform on Chinese instruments. Their three-day residency at the university included solo and symphonic concerts and instrument ...

Festival organisers are calling Beyonce the 'ultimate Essence woman'... Entertainmentwise Beyonce is having an incredibly busy 2013. She's self-directed her own autobiographical documentary, sang her heart out (sort of) at President Obama's inauguration and performed at the Super Bowl - and now she's about to headline at the 2013 Essence ... Entertainmentwise

Wavefront Music Festival 2013 Returns to Chicago Music Festival Junkies (blog) There's certainly been plenty of EDM news coming out of Chicago over the last few weeks with Electric Daisy Carnival coming to the Windy City and the unveiling of the Spring Awakening 2013 lineup. And now there's the return of the Wavefront Festival ...

Music festival cancelled as bushfires ravage state's east as residents ... A HUGE fire near Victoria's Alpine region has forced the cancellation of a popular music festival.

Karavan! International Gypsy Music Festival - The Thornbury ... Karavan! International Gypsy Music Festival - Exploding with energy and atmosphere, Karavan! is a must-see event for all lovers of the gypsy...

What a disaster of a country music festival | The Northern Daily Leader I have a friend who travels a long way and who has stayed with me for the past five festivals. She had to pay $12,000 for three market stall sites, which is an ...

Karavan! International Gypsy Music Festival Returns | Beat Magazine International Gypsy Music Festival is bringing the sounds of Eastern Europe back to Melbourne this spring. Karavan! 2013 will be headlined by acclaimed ...

Kyneton Music Festival: Bigger encore for musical talent | Macedon ... KYNETON Music Festival will be a celebration of local musicians, organisers say.

Harvest Aftermath

What a festival!

Best festival I have ever been to. Whoever is in Brisbane - make sure you go.. there is absolutely no reason not to!

I saw:

Silversun Pickups: Wasn't a huge fan of their setlist but they were very very good live. Finishing with Lazy Eye was a great move - not one member of the crowd wasn't singing.

Ben Folds Five: Didn't get a chance to watch their entire set but we saw the first 5-6 songs. 2nd song in was 'Jackson Cannery', which had everyone dancing! Would have loved to have seen more, but we all know what festivals are like!

Beck: THE BEST! Honestly amazing. Had the whole crowd dancing like idiots, there was not one person who wasn't smiling. Best part of the day - 'Loser' was probably the best, although 'Devils Haircut' and 'Where Its At' came very close!

Sigur Ros: Incredibly emotional and epic, I wish we could have seen their whole set - we saw about the first 4 songs and was nearly in tears being dragged away :( .

Santigold: Sigur Who?! Santigold was incredible, and was close to the highlight of the day. She is so much fun and she really throws a great show.. had about 50 people from the crowd up at one stage!

I know I missed a few key acts but thats always the case with a festival, and I have no regrets seeing the acts I ended up choosing.

Best festival ever? Prove me wrong, Stereosonic!

Harvest This Week! Poncho Brigade

Get your ponchos ready kiddies.

Harvest is coming to Sydney on Saturday, along with absolute bucketloads of rain.

From my experiences with Harvest it is far edgier than your typical Sydney festival, with the older creating a far more relaxed environment.

However on Saturday I challenge you all to bring along your best wet weather gear. Because yes, in my paralletic state I will still be able to judge you, pending of course that you are at the right stages at the right time (Ben Folds, Silversun Pickups, Sigur Ros, Beck to name a few)

Here's a few you can draw inspiration from:

Radiohead Setlist (Sydney, November 13)

'You're not living, you're just killing time' 

These were the words Thom Yorke sung (pitch-perfect might I add) during the 2nd encore in last night's Radiohead concert in Sydney.

And until I witnessed last night's 2-3 hour set, I'd probably have to agree with him. Quite simply put, that was the best concert I have ever seen. Never have I seen a band been able to convert such atmospheric, unique sounds into such an amazing live ensemble.

Every member of Radiohead is ridiculously talented, to the point where they can go off-beat for bars on end before seamlessly returning. Its unbelievable. There were 3 rhythms in almost every song - 2 drummers playing complimentary beats and a drum machine over the top of this.


It just worked so well.

The band has been changing their setlist each night of their AU tour, with yesterday's setlist having far more Kid A than the Sydney show on Monday, which was very TKOL focused. I've done a bit of work this morning putting together the entire setlist from last night - you can find it here .

Once I get my phone internet working I'll get up a few of the videos from last night. You don't want to miss these!

Here's a sneak preview:

Radiohead Set List: Sydney 13 November

Lotus Flower
Airbag
Bloom
The Daily Mail
Myxomatosis
Bodysnatchers
The Gloaming
Separator
How to Disappear Completely
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Reckoner
There There
The National Anthem
Feral
Paranoid Android

Encore:

Give Up the Ghost
Kid A
Identikit
I Might Be Wrong
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Encore 2:

15 Step
Everything in Its Right Place (True Love Waits intro)

Encore 3:

Idioteque

Infographic on Group Buying

Just for something a little different :) . Source: competitions.com.au
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Harvest Season

Just over a month out from Sydney's Harvest Festival - and I'm hoping to develop a good idea of the artist's set lists to help attendees pre and post-festival . There's nothing more annoying than finishing off a festival and having no idea of the great song that a little-known act has played.. then searching the internet for ages knowing most of the time you're fighting a losing battle.

Setlist.fm isn't really helping me out.. so any ideas regarding the following acts would be great:

* Sigur Ros
* Mike Patton
* Beirut
* Silversun Pickups (my fav. band over the past few weeks)
* Ben Folds Five
* Beck
* The Dandy Warhols

Anybody who could help - my love to you!

TW