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Holy shit Phoenix were amazing.

Got it off JB online. Watched the DVD yesterday, it's good... I love watching making of docos cos it inspires me. Off to good vibes today, got a massive hangover so let's see how I fare...

Not enjoying this lack of love for cut copy. I'll balance it with this DELUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXE EDITION!!!!!!!! What a pick up.

I scored half price tix to good vibes in Melb so now I am going tomorrow! Pretty much ONLY going for Phoenix, Ting Tings, Friendly Fires and Miike Snow. Got tix to the Holidays too, really good value!

Not my taste, sadly.

Ah, Laneway yesterday was truly a fun day out. We'd had about 100ml of rain the night before, and somehow the rain completely avoided melbourne and the festival went ahead yesterday afternoon (the weather was a far cry from the 38 degrees it was last year). BUCHANAN were the local Triple J Unearthed band, decent music, nothing surprising. I missed them play songs I was familiar with, so I was disappointed about that. THE HOLIDAYS really impress me every time I see them live. The songs are transformed live and you really get dancing to the extensive percussion from each track. They certainly brightened up what was a muggy day. STORNOWAY exceeded my expectations. Their songs sounded more upbeat played live than on the album, and they put on a great show to a surprisingly larger-than-expected crowd for a band a lot of people don't know about. Really delivered. CLOUD CONTROL were the first MASSIVE crowd of the day. This is my fourth time seeing them live, and I am getting the feeling that they're arrogant now. Their set was a but lackluster, they don't seem to be putting in like they used to when they had to get crowds, which was a bit sad. Half the crowd still lapped it up, the other half realised it was poor. BEACH HOUSE were, to put it straight, boring. I'm not a fan. We just had a gap in our timetable so we checked it out, to get a great spot for two door. It was nice background music while we chatted amongst ourselves. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB were always going to be my highlight of the day. Their set was delayed because the freight with their gear was still on it's way. 20mins later and the crowd was going mental to their indie disco-rock tunes. Biggest mosh of the day and craziest audience. Seeing them at their sideshow on Wed, very excited for that. These guys are putting on one of the most energetic live shows going around at the moment. YEASAYER were playing while we had dinner, and I had never been a fan initially but I quite liked a couple of their tunes. Might have to check them out further. FOALS were all class. They played the most detailed and well-delivered performances of the night, and got a huge crowd rocking and jumping along to new tunes as well as some of the favourites from their debut. Oh, how Spanish Sahara and Cassius WENT OFF! CUT COPY were great closers for the night. All my other friends went off to watch Gotye and I was having none of that. I squeezed my way from the middle to the front, and was so glad I did. I was really excited to hear some of the new songs live, and we got 'Take Me Over', 'Pharaohs & Pyramids', 'Corner of the Sky', and yes, they played the 15-min epic tune 'Sun God'. All the singles from In Ghost Colours Were played and were moshed extensively hard to. The fact about Cut Copy closing just meant there was a massive dance party putting the icing on the cake that was Laneway 2011. Great stuff.

Wombats sideshows and drums sideshows methinks. Sad to hear the white stripes officially split. At least they leave some sort of a legacy. LANEWAY TOMORROW! SO EXCITED I'm working full time atm so I'm on the forum less sorry!

Q MAGAZINE REVIEW: Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding **** Liam Gallagher strikes first blow as post Oasis years begin....... Be honest. If you were the gambling type, whose chances did you favour following the bitter dissolution of Oasis in August 2009? Was it Noel, band gaffer with the anthemic Midas touch now facing what seemed an inevitable transition to Weller-esque solo Britpop godhead? Or was it Liam, voted the greatest frontman of all time by Q, yet potentially one now fronting thin air if severed from his big brother's masterplan? The safe wager seemed to be Noel, even if 18 months on we're still waiting for him to fulfil those expectations and make the crucial next move. Whereas to back Liam's bid for Noel-less glory felt at best blindly optimistic, at worst laughably imprudent. Consider the odds. Liam has the "The Voice", but while his sporadic songwriting has matured considerably since 2000's much-derided Little James, his ability to pen a whole album is ominously unproven. The same applies to his faithful ex-Oasis right-hand men Gem Archer and Andy Bell, both of whom have borne due critical flak for supplying the band's weakest album filler since 2002's Heathen Chemistry. Not great omens, and that is before they handicap themselves with the preposterous real ale-worthy name of Beady Eye, exacerbated by Liam's typically outrageous hyperbole that they were "going to be bigger" than Oasis and Noel "will come crawling back". On paper, the story was already writing itself, all elements in place for what promised to be the most embarrassing rock folly this side of Tin Machine. So by virtue of circumstance, his post-Oasis moment of truth, Beady Eye's Different Gear, Still Speeding was always going to be one of the most important records Liam Gallagher would ever make. The gobsmacking reality is that it's also among the best. Which isn't to say that Oasis-loathing cynics won't find fish in its barrel to keep themselves trigger happy. No surprise that, yes, a lot of it sounds like The Beatles, the lyrics are no threat to Morrissey and, as in Oasis, musically speaking nobody here is reinventing the wheel. But such mean-spirited nit-picking evaporates in the face of an album which awes in its consistency, melody, determination and, perhaps most surprisingly, positivity; as was never the case with every Oasis album after 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, making this, however unlikely it sounds, the strongest record Liam's made since. This do-or-die sense of purpose is evident from the first wah-wah smack of Four Letter Word, akin to Spencer Davis Group's I'm A Man as played by The Stooges yet still familiarly Oasis-esque not to scare the horses. It's an opposite setting for Liam's opening war cry, "Sleepwalk your life away if that turns you on," followed by the first of the album's many allusions to the Gallagher sibling soap opera; "the battle's on and the song is the prize", or its snarling moral "nothing ever lasts FOREVER!" A necessarily cathartic overture, perhaps, it's rock'n'roll gusto sets the bar for at least half of Different Gear.....: from Bring the Light, a romping Jerry Lee Lewis homage manic enough to overcome its banal "baby, c'mon" vocal to the free blues rock chug of Three Ring Circus and the Plastic Ono jam Standing On The Edge Of The Noise. Most ravishingly raucous is Beatles and Stones, Gallagher's mission statement that he's "gonna stand the test of time" like its titular icons over a garage rock stomp twitching between The Who's My Generation and Failure by The La's. If Beady Eye were merely a balls-to-the-wall one-trick pony this would be a passable debut. That it's above and beyond so is thanks to the majority which chooses melodic beauty over sonic boisterousness, much credit due to the clarity of producer Steve Lillywhite's touch extracting Liam's brightest vocals in aeons. Both Millionaire, a gem of '70s slide-guitar glam, and the deliriously romantic For Anyone show a sublime pop sensibility. But the big guns here are all epic ballads, lighters first rising aloft on Kill For A Dream, the wistful alternative to Four Letter Word's post-split autopsy, which just might reduce grown Oasis fans to tears. "Life's too short not to forgive," sings Liam, "I'm here if you wanna call." Its scarf-waving outro is soon eclipsed by the soulful Wigwam climaxing after six minutes in a gospel chorus with Liam "coming up" from the depths of despair. The best, however, is saved till last. The Beat Goes On is an ELO fairytale of a tune, Liam pondering his own death and his heavenly reception by an angel's choir in Beady Eye's equivalent to Don't Look Back in Anger. "It's not the end of the world/It's not even the end of the day." It seems unsurpassable until The Morning Son ripples in on the tide of Champagne Supernova, just Liam, acoustic guitar and a tsunami of poignancy: "I stand alone/Nobody knows/ The morning son has rose." It's a shudder-inducing stroke of genius, Gallagher effectively serenading his own rebirth as the music softly explodes towards a frantic finale again reminiscent of Lillywhite's La's debit and its comparable closer Looking Glass. Breathtaking, in fact. If the Liam Gallagher of Oasis was the greatest frontman of all time the Different Gear.... is evidence enough that with Beady Eye he's created another great British guitar band to justify that honour. And if the battle really is on, then, much to the bookmaker's horror, this decimates all negative preconceptions. The half-score an effortless one-nil to our kid. Now over to you, big brother. Simon Goddard. Download: The Beat Goes On (Q50)//Four Letter Word//Millionaire//The Morning Son//For Anyone

Like all the other cool kids, I'm blaming Washington.

Yeah doncamatic is just so pop though

More two door please!!

I have a feeling 'Plans' is going to win. In that event, I'll throw up.

opera shmopera

Oh, and by the way, Melbourne FTW. Not going to any BDO sideshows which is odd considering my January month is crazy busy with gigs. Not this year though! Thank freaking god for Laneway.

I'm a ting tings fan. Thought they had some great pop tunes on that album, and they were a top show when I saw them perform live at the 2009 big day out. If it wasn't for the shithouse dance acts comprising 99% of good vibes I would probably go for phoenix, ff, and tt.

I'm finding too many of these tracks sound like Midnight Juggernauts. NOT A GOOD THING.

Losers. If was going to BDO, they would have been one of the only acts I was interested in. In other news, laneway times are up. Here's my plan.

AWESOME

Apparently the organisation is shocking at this festival, so you've been warned!

Tomorrow (17th). Not long to go.

^ you're technically Australian.........

I honestly have no idea why four letter word was put out so early. It makes no sense.

Just started listening to it. WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THE OPENING TRACK. Sounds like it's from Richard Ashcroft's latest..... hmm...... I loved their debut, let's see how I go with the rest of Ritual

Unfortunately not: only digital download and vinyl. The paid digital download makes it an official single.

It means it's not a "promotional" single. Official releases are made available to download in a range of formats, whereas the other songs released weren't. "Bring the light" charted, but only on the sales of promo 7" records.