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i’m sorry to say that i won’t be able to make it to ROCK 4 ROOTS in nauen, germany tonight, despite being listed at last.fm as part of the line-up:

my apologies also to the german band faux pas, who have to see my face plasted around last.fm while they are trying to promote their own gigs. i love that you can listen to a little playlist at last.fm, sampling the various metal bands playing at rock 4 roots, and in the middle of all that you’ve got “for the trees” wedged in there. if i ever go to nauen, someone in a dark trenchcoat with long hair is gonna recognise my face and bash it in.

but hey, looks like its gonna be a good show. germany’s number one exponents of folk-metal, XIV Dark Centuries, are going to be there:

meanwhile, if you are in melbourne and are looking for somewhere to go tonight, i highly recommend checking out pikelet at the tote in collingwood. also playing are extreme wheeze, charge group, the twerps, and you’ll also see me and dave from to and fro there making between-band song selections.

MP3: Disasteradio – Stairdancer

i saw wellington NZ’s disasteradio at a pretty small venue last night, and it was pretty awesome. if you are in melbourne i recommend you check him out tomorrow – he is defying the laws of time and space by playing two shows in the one day, first at this thing called the applecore backyard festival in thornbury, and then secondly at 2am at roxanne parlour. rock n roll. he’s a one man party. we just did a pretty extended interview with him on our radio show, which you can download here. check his myspace for the playing times tomorrow – or simply catch him when he comes to a town near you.

i gotta say i’m not really a strokes fan but this little clip (taken from camp a low hum 2007) is a pretty good example of the amazing inciting potentiality of the disasteradio performance. i think it might get a little crazy down at roxanne tomorrow night. i think luke is a bit disappointed there hasn’t been some serious stage invading, so if you make it down there tomorrow night then, well, get on that. invade a stage.

speaking of camp a low hum… camp a low hum 2008 took place a few weeks ago over there in new zealand. if you’ve never heard of this (i hadn’t until i read this a week ago) you completely have to check it out:

Camp A Low Hum is pretty small (no more than 700 people), most bands play twice and it’s BYO, but perhaps the key to its success is that it’s not about “what bands are playing”. Blink ensures this by not announcing a line up, but rather pushing the unique vibe of the festival. It’s certainly a difficult thing to sell, and before the first camp in 2007 many people (including myself) felt a bit too sceptical about travelling to a campsite an hour north of Wellington to watch a mystery band line-up. As it turned out, however, Camp 2007 was a total success, with many of my friends coming back raving things like “I can’t explain why it was so good but it was seriously the best weekend of my entire life”. After that I was basically sold on Camp 2008.

the lineup – not officially announced before the camp started – included the brunettes, the phoenix foundation, the ruby suns, liam finn, disasteradio, pikelet, & many many others. i ended up at radio new zealand’s website listening to this great live broadcast that they did from the camp – it opens with a great little candid interview with festival organiser blink and his sister. so choice.

on sunday i’m accidentally going to the laneway festival, melbourne’s “little festival that could”. i’ve not been before and wasn’t really thinking about going until a birdie gave me some tickets. friends who can get you free stuff are the best kind of friends! but seriously… i figured the line-up was just basically not up my alley at all, but it turns out i’ve actually got a lot to look forward to: did you know there’s an electronic stage? i don’t know how much fuss has been made about it, but the schedule for the ‘red bull music academy stage’ includes dan deacon, flying lotus, harmonic 313, plaid, steve spacek, declan kelly, qua..! i know where i’m hanging out all day. though i might have to sneak a peek out to the main stage when a certain belgian gets out there, because from what i hear i’m in for a bit of a thrill…

but yeah this RBMA electronic stage – how is this not news? isn’t it big news to have these kind of dudes all in town at the same time? have i been living under a rock, or is it just that in melbourne people don’t really make a fuss about electronic music? oh hang on, i have been living under a rock. strike that.

i think the RBMA stage is exclusive to melbourne too. so… sucked in, other dudes.

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