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TRACKLIST
The Clown
Be Alright
Get Away
Through The Light
Golden Hour
Carry On
BABITHA EP LAUNCH
Fri 12 Mar – Mary’s Underground, Sydney
Tickets available here.
Stay connected with Babitha:
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Melbourne-via-Wellington four piece Bakers Eddy are set to release an anthemic new single, ‘21’, to be premiered on triple j’s Home & Hosed on Monday night.
The single, produced by Oscar Dawson, will be launched at a clutch of headline shows in Victoria, kicking off on Friday 12 March at Pelly Bar (Frankston), followed by an early and late show at Hotel Westwood (Footscray) on Friday 19 March before finishing with an all-ages show at Northcote Social Club (Melbourne) on Saturday 20 March.
After spending 120 odd days living together in a sharehouse, the band are somehow even more excited to get into a smaller space together (the van) to play a handful of shows across greater Melbourne, in celebration of the brand new track. Garnering a reputation for being one of the most exciting new live acts in the country – don’t miss your chance to catch the band on their 21 single launch tour in Victoria (with other states to be announced).
‘21’ is the first single proper since their March 2020 song ‘T-Shirt’, which followed 2019 singles ‘On My Own’ and ‘Can’t Afford It’. In lieu of live shows in 2020, the band have spent much of the year writing – watch this space, 2021 will be Bakers Eddy’s year.
Friday March 12 – Pelly Bar, Frankston
Friday March 19 – Hotel Westwood, Footscray (early show)
Friday March 19 – Hotel Westwood, Footscray (late show)
Saturday March 20 – Northcote Social Club (ALL AGES)
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
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Where are you currently based?
Vilnius, Lithuania
How did you first start playing music?
I produce since 2002. After some time spent ghost producing and writing music for others, took a part as an artist as Downtown Party Network with my friend Saulty back in 2008. Tracks went viral in a disco scene so there was nothing else to do but start touring and dj’ing around the World.
Then, 2014 was the year when I started my solo career as Gardens of God on Maceo Plex’s Ellum Audio.
What’s been happening recently and how did you first start playing music?
Last year wasn’t good gig wise at all. Pandemic situation locked me as most of the artists in the studio. And that came out quite a good thing after all. Being stuck for such a long time gave opportunity to rethink of what’s important and where to go music wise. Can’t say I made something I don’t like, but since the first track the Idea of Gardens of God was I’m gonna do what I want and how I see it with no compromise. And after some time traveling I got lost a bit in the influences and trends of what happened around the scene. So no gig year took me back to where I should be.
Your 10 track debut is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting?
How did you go about writing the record?
Where and when did you record/produce?
What programs and equipment did you use?
Why did you decide to create and release a record now?
The record is quite different to your last, how did the change in sound/songwriting come about?
As I worked with a lot of pop music and music for movies / tv shows, the melodic part of me was little bit overshadowed. That is bad, because I graduated as a musician and I always loved harmony – rich music, so I think that part of me took over finally and said enough with just only electronic tracks.
What’s the meaning behind the name of the album?
I still work with soundtracks and background music sometimes, so that would be a shame not to do a soundtrack for the movie I live in, for the end I experience.
Who are you listening to at the moment?
What do you like to do away from music?
What’s planned for the remainder of 2021?
Some remixes of the album tracks are already done by the artists I love, so it’s planned them to come out later this year. Also original music from me is already in a schedule so it seems like it’s gonna be a great year release wise.
Favourite food and place to hangout?
Everything is in a lockdown at the moment in Lithuania, so the favourite place to hang out is my home. This winter was amazing, we had so much snow and the nature looked like in a postcard. So we discovered a great activity on the lake make an ice hole and dip inside for few minutes with friends.
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Gray is the alter-ego of Alberta singer-songwriter Taylor Hambly. Although barely out of her teens, she’s already got a decade of experience under her belt. Beginning at age 9, travelling from talent show to community event seemed to be a weekend routine for the young musician and her parents. “There is something special about performing at community events; I would always get little girls dancing in front and it would remind me of how music has shaped my own life,” she says.
Influenced by Dua Lipa, Anne Marie, Carly Rae Jepsen and Mable, she began writing her own songs, releasing singles such as Friend Zone, Always Come Back and Broken beginning in 2016. Having connected with Vancouver producer Ryan Stewart in 2019, Gray began work on her full-length debut. “This album is everything I have inside me,” she says, describing the forthcoming disc as both fun and vulnerable — like going to a party where you end up in the backyard on a swing, pouring your heart out to a stranger. “The main goal is that my music speaks to somebody — even if it’s just one person, it’s enough.”
David M. Western reveals the second instalment from his forthcoming debut album with the wonderfully introspective, ‘Take Your Opportunities’
“David M Western is getting stronger with every release this year. Instant Life has that same kind of magic that Phoebe Bridgers brings to her music. There is an uncanny melancholy that feels so right to sink into, and DMW gently guides you through the feels, even if they make you want to cry.” – Nkechi Anele, triple j
“a meandering beauty.” ★★★★ – Declan Byrne, triple j
Day-dreaming, whimsical and deft, Melbourne artist David M. Western delivers a special new sound with insightful lyricism and powerful, distinct musical arrangements on his new single ‘Take Your Opportunities’. Following from his latest track and LP genesis, ‘Instant Life’, ‘Take Your Opportunities’ delivers David’s distinct reflective poeticism that continues to interrogate and stretch the boundaries of what it means to be a songwriter.
Out today, ‘Take Your Opportunities’ is the second track to be lifted from David’s forthcoming debut album due later in the year and follows two people at the beginning of a new relationship who are each doubting their ability to enter it fully. A somewhat satirical look at the way we often doubt ourselves in relationships and question why another would want to get to know our messy selves, ‘Take Your Opportunities’ reminds us to go with the flow, do things because they feel right, and take every opportunity life throws at us.
STREAM / EMBED ‘TAKE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES’ SINGLE ON BANDCAMP
STREAM ‘TAKE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES’ ON SPOTIFY
“This is the second chapter in this journey that I’m trying to detail through my releases. I wrote it almost tongue in cheek about a relationship between two people entering into a relationship. Kind of like a ‘are you serious? I can barely cross the street or behave like a real person. How can you afford to take a chance on me?’. I wanted to ramble off things about these characters whose lives were a hot mess and were also looking at themselves saying ‘is this possible for someone to actually want this?’. With my single before – ‘Instant Life’ – I was detailing what the listener was getting into, now this song reads as a ‘brace yourself. Get ready. We’re going all the way here.’” – David M. Western
Born and raised in the shadows of The Grampians, Victoria, David honed his performance skills playing the local pubs before even considering becoming this strange, ethereal, ghostly thing – a ‘songwriter’. Now, having been writing songs for a mere five years, David’s profound musicality has already earned him a reputation as a cherished and vital up and coming Australian artist. With only a handful of standalone singles released to his name; ‘Step On My Toes’, ‘Gallery’, and most recently ‘Instant Life’, David’s carefully considered and quietly evocative songwriting has lead him to sharing stages with some of Australia’s finest songwriters such as Julia Jacklin, Spacey Jane, Mimi Gilbert and Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird. David is coming out of isolation and hitting the stage for his first show of 2021 at Some Velvet Morning alongside Annie Rose Maloney on Saturday 13 March.
‘Take Your Opportunities’ is out now via Believe
Spotify / iTunes / Apple Music / Bandcamp
Upcoming Show
Saturday 13 March
Doors 7:30pm
Free entry
Some Velvet Morning, Collingwood VIC
‘Take Your Opportunities’ Credits
David M Western – Acoustic & Vocals
Joe Orton – Electric Guitar, Percussion & Piano
Jess Elwood – Drums
Alex O’Gorman – Bass & Percussion, Backing Vocals
Recorded @ Purple Wayne Studios in Collingwood Melbourne
Produced by Joe Orton
Engineered & Mixed by Alex O’Gorman
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick
‘Take Your Opportunities’ Lyrics
Come one come all,
If you find that as you dress you’re just a silhouette
You wanna be seen just as a man with history
Sometimes it feels so slow it’s like you’re running out of steam
Did you win in a deal?
You know you haven’t won it till it’s real
Don’t give me a call
The nighttime is the right time to be no one at all
Everyone will say it’s like you’re half a day away
In an instant they will show you how to stop a moving train
What’s going on back home are they mad or just insane?
It’s no bargain or steal
Your life is just so unreal
That’s life as a real boy
That’s something I haven’t seen
You take your pictures and leave
You take your opportunities
Yeah go on and keep it in,
As you’re faking to the left with a cheeky grin.
I spoke to your mum she says you’re worrying
I know it’s no fun being told again
I know it’s no fun being told again
You gotta listen to your gut
Before you turn around and say you haven’t had enough
That’s life as a real boy
That’s something I haven’t seen
You take your pictures and leave
You take your opportunities
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Wolf Alice, one of Britain’s most revered bands and winner of the Mercury Prize 2018 for their last album Visions Of A Life, today announce their highly-anticipated third album, Blue Weekend, due for release on 11 June via Liberator Music / Dirty Hit. The first glimpse into this new world, ‘The Last Man On Earth’ was premiered as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1, continuing a tradition started when Annie played ‘Giant Peach’ from the band’s Gold-certified debut LP My Love Is Cool, as her first song when taking over the the weekday evening show in 2015.
Elaborating on who the titular The Last Man on Earth is, singer and guitarist for Wolf Alice Ellie Rowsell says,
“It’s about the arrogance of humans. I’d just read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and I had written the line ‘Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god’ in my notes. But then I thought: ‘Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn’t a dancing lesson from god, it’s just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more?””
Wolf Alice are Ellie Rowsell (vocals, guitar), Joff Oddie (guitar, vocals), Theo Ellis (bass) and Joel Amey (drums, vocals). It has been a decade since the band began as a duo of Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie, then later expanding to a four-piece, with Joel Amey and Theo Ellis joining the group. Since then, the band saw their 2015 debut album My Love Is Cool soar to #2 on the UK charts, their sophomore album Visions Of A Life win the 2018 Hyundai Mercury prize, and a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Performance. The band played a massive 187 shows on the Visions Of A Life world tour – including a sold out Alexandra Palace, 2 sold out dates at Brixton Academy, and a set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
It was no surprise that creating a follow-up to Visions Of A Life was a daunting task. The record was a huge success, which subsequently led to many months spent on tour – with intercontinental flights, hotels and long-bus journeys taking a toll on the band.
The band decamped to an Airbnb in Somerset, and it was here that they reconfigured who they were together, far away from festival stages, tour buses, awards shows, and fans. They cemented their friendship and set to work on some fledgling demos in a converted church. These demos evolved into Blue Weekend, a record produced by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Björk, Brian Eno, Florence + The Machine) who has aided the band in refining their sound to an even sharper point. Rowsell’s personal storytelling is at the core of Blue Weekend, an album that sees Wolf Alice embrace a newfound boldness and vulnerability in equal measure.
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The boundary-pushing, shape-shifting trio has amassed a supersized fanbase that spans generations. Over half of their audience are under the age of 22 and the band has a combined 175 million streams, all whilst remaining self-produced and independent. KKB has seamlessly morphed through alt-pop genres, from creepypasta ‘90s indie to fourth world alt-pop, aligning themselves with enlightened musical influencers such as 100 gecs, Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama, and exaggerated electronic pop music cabal PC Music.
‘The Princess and the Clock‘ is a lively and complex anthem that matches colourful synths with old-time mythology, creating an engaging balance of experimental and pop tendencies. The lyrics see KKB recount a fictional tale of their own devising, telling the story of a princess sailing the world who is kidnapped by a primitive society and held in a glass tower. One day the captors find her gone and the glass smashed; it’s up to the listener to decide how she left. The fable is perfectly illustrated via an animation by Dan W. Jacobs.
Kero Kero Bonito explain; “The Princess and the Clock is the tale of a young explorer who is kidnapped while sailing the world, imprisoned at the top of a tower, and worshipped as royalty by an isolated society. Trapped in her chamber, she spends years dreaming of escaping, until one day she disappears. A legend of our own invention, “The Princess and the Clock” was written before Covid emerged, though the long, lonely hours and escapist dreams its protagonist experiences will be relatable to many right now. It’s a song for anyone who has ever felt trapped, lost, and alone.“
KKB’s Civilisation era was inspired in equal parts by early ambassadors of art-pop such as Kate Bush, David Byrne, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as their modern equivalents Grimes, Caroline Polachek, and Björk, as well as trumpeter Jon Hassell, who developed the concept of ‘fourth world’ music, which unified both primitive and modern sounds. Much like Civilisation I, all three tracks of Civilisation II are produced using only old hardware which both trivialises and exaggerates the ideas that lie within the EP, a thematic fusion of the ancient past, grand present and distant future all at once. Across the EP, Sarah Bonito wrote lyrics as they came to her, is half Japanese, half English, reflecting the multi-dimensional way she thinks and understands language.
The past 18 months have seen the band breaking new ground. Driven by their understanding of the machinations of digital culture, they have encouraged the extrapolation of their music by their fans; in 2019, KKB’s tracks ‘Flamingo‘ and ‘I’d Rather Sleep‘ went viral on Alt-TikTok, exposing their music to legions of new young fans, with both currently garnering over a million streams per month. They found themselves going viral again in 2020 after they composed ‘It’s Bugsnax!‘, the theme to the hit PS5 video game, which led to them being described as “the internet’s new favourite meme ingredient” by GamesRadar. The band also appeared on 100 gecs’ ‘ringtone‘ remix alongside Charli XCX and Rico Nasty. These affiliations and collaborations placed the band squarely in front of an emboldened audience who were willing to dive headfirst into Kero Kero Bonito’s borderless and undefined pop music.
‘The Princess And The Clock’ is out now, buy/stream it here.
Stay connected with Kero Kero Bonito:
Official Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter
For the first time in Arts Centre Melbourne’s history we are thrilled to announce that 3KND, Melbourne’s first and only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio station and digital platform, is the official media partner of Live at the Bowl.
The purpose of this partnership agreement is to identify ways both organisations can work together and create opportunities for collaboration and promotion in relation to the Live at the Bowl season that supports cultural and social impact for the arts community and the community of Victoria.
“This relationship is a strong step forward for both organisations. It shows a real commitment by Arts Centre Melbourne towards indigenous media. The board of First Australians Media Enterprises and Radio 3KND are proud to sign this agreement”, says General Manager of 3KND Gerry “GMan” Lyons.
This is the first time Arts Centre Melbourne has entered into a media partnership agreement that goes beyond the transactional components and establishes 3KND as a strategic advisor and collaborator on cultural safety considerations of our First Nations artists, community and staff.
“We first met 3KND last year when we hosted the Vic NAIDOC 2020 Concert Always Was, Always Will Be. It came as no surprise that we had instant rapport and both our organisations had a genuine desire to continue to work beyond NAIDOC 2020. This media partnership signifies so much more than just a signature on a dotted line; it shows our commitment to including all peoples across the media landscape in our projects. I know this will be an important ongoing relationship for us as an organisation and we cannot wait to see where this takes us next,” says Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer AM.
3KND has been on the airwaves since June 2003 and is proudly an independent and not-for-profit Indigenous radio and media broadcasting service which runs 24 hours, 7 days a week.
We’re excited to be welcoming visitors back to our venues in line with the most recent Victorian Government guidelines on COVID-19. We have opened our outdoor café Protagonist, the Sunday Markets as well as the Australian Music Vault. These openings coincided with the Live at the Bowl season, which officially kicked off on 8 January 2021.
While the ghost lights will stay on a little longer inside our venues, we will continue to offer audiences the chance to experience the wonder of the performing arts via our digital hub – Together With You. For more information including: our opening plans and related health and safety policies; bookings for free and ticketed events; and other digital content and experiences, please visit artscentremelbourne.com.
Melbourne, Australia – Youth music organisation The Push returns with the second-intake for their Electronic Music Accelerator, a free program developed for young aspiring producers and artists who identify as female or gender non-conforming.
Facilitated by one of Australia’s most exciting multifaceted electronic music producers and artists Beatrice Lewis (Haiku Hands, Kardajala Kirridarra) who provides valuable tips and insights from her own creative process, in addition to helping students master a variety of production techniques using Ableton Live.
The eight-week course is aimed at young Victorians aged 16-20 years, and will equip students with tools and knowledge to help find success in careers within the music landscape, bolstered by support in practical areas such as growing their professional abilities, building relationships and mastering a variety of techniques using Ableton products.
Delivered in partnership with Ableton – the world-leading brand of electronic music-making software and hardware – and Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, the Electronic Music Accelerator program launched in late 2020 with a mission to support Australia’s next generation of electronic music-makers and performers.
The program and partnership also seeks to increase diversity within the local electronic music landscape by creating a safe space for young people of different backgrounds and experiences to connect together while building their skills and confidence.
This free training and development program will be delivered from The Push’s new home in Collingwood Yards running for eight weeks from 26 April to 16 June. Apply now!
The Push Electronic Music Accelerator is supported by Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Ableton.
Important Dates
- Term Two applications open: 10am Thursday 25 February 2021
- Term Two applications close: 5pm Wednesday 25 March 2021
- Applicants notified of outcome: Monday 29 March 2021
- Term Two class dates: Monday 26 April – 16 June 2021
- Term Two graduation & presentation: June 2021
ABOUT THE PUSH
The Push is Australia’s leading youth music organisation. At the forefront of emerging trends, delivers a range of programs that are responsive to Australia’s future music industry leaders, artists and audiences. For over three decades, our organisation has engaged more than 700,000 young people. Our program alumni include Courtney Barnett, Alex Lahey, Alice Ivy and Angie McMahon — who have each progressed onto successful, global careers. For more information, visit: thepush.com.au.
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Karnivool have regrettably cancelled all shows outside of Western Australia on their scheduled national tour. The Decade of Sound Awake Tour will be replaced by a ticketed live stream event, with details to be announced soon.
STATEMENT FROM KARNIVOOL:
We are sick to our stomachs to announce all Decade of Sound Awake shows outside of Western Australia have to be cancelled.
When we were forced to move the tour for a second time, we were optimistic that shows would be able to proceed normally, safely and in the way we had envisioned them. With further rounds of border closures, limited capacities and other show restrictions it is clearly, regrettably, no longer viable to put on the events we want and you deserve for holding onto your ticket for all this time!
This album means so much to us and the tour warrants full production, epic visuals and sweaty singalongs, things that just cannot happen in the middle of a pandemic. Believe us, we have looked at more options than an Aldi shopper.
The sold out Fremantle shows can and will happen, albeit in a slightly altered format on March 12 & 13.
In response to cancelling the East Coast shows, we are going to be presenting a live stream event of the Decade of Sound Awake which means folks in the rest of the world will get to see the show as well.
For everyone at the East Coast shows, your ticket agency will be in contact with your refunds.
Live stream tickets will go on sale soon.
Please accept our unreserved and heartfelt apology we could not make this tour possible, we honestly tried everything we could and hope to make it up to everyone in the future
Until then, stay safe and stay well.
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