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It's way too expensive.

I completely 101% agree with NO COMMERCIAL RADIO discussions. As for the Australian Music in my itunes library: Bernard Fanning Birds of Tokyo Bluejuice Children Collide Crowded House (I will argue that they are a NZ band :P) Cut Copy Decoder Ring The Dissociatives The Dowlings Empire Of The Sun End of Fashion Eskimo Joe Evermore Faker Foxx On Fire Gotye Hoodoo Gurus JET John Butler Trio Kisschasy Little Red Midnight Juggernauts The Model School Pete Murray Plug In City Powderfinger The Presets Red Riders Silverchair Sneaky Sound System Sparkadia Tame Impala The Temper Trap Thirsty Merc Wolfmother Youth Group Yves Klein Blue Wow, quite a few. My favourite Aussie artists are in bold.

Elbow are to be the subject of a South Bank Show, focusing on the band's career. On the show Guy Garvey and co will look back over the 18 years it has taken the group to achieve massive mainstream success, which they did with their most recent album, the Barclaycard Mercury Prize-winning 'The Seldom Seen Kid'. The episode will include never-before-seen archive home video footage of Elbow as teenagers, as well as exclusive live footage from last month's Manchester MEN Arena show. The show will be broadcast on November 15. Meanwhile, Elbow will be re-releasing a deluxe edition of their debut album 'Asleep In The Back' later this month.

lol looks like anyone wanting to go is going to have to fly to Auckland!

Easily bigger. I wish BDO would hurry up and announce round 2 already.

Don't you people have things to do in your days? Just curious!

Anyone else heard the new track 'No Sound But The Wind' yet? I think its pretty average, a slow, simple piano ballad with Tom's lyrics shining yet again.

Holy shit, Soundwave just announced Placebo in their 2nd round. And we thought they were a possible BDO 2nd announcement addition! Damn Soundwave have really put in this year.

NME Review. I think the comments are justified, but I wouldn't have given it a 5. Album review: Editors - 'In This Light And On This Evening' Neither Tesco angst fish nor dark art fowl Can it really be this bad living with Edith Bowman? A dispute over nappy-changing: “You’ll get old and die here… you’ll choke, choke on the air you try to breathe”. Edith shaves her legs and doesn’t rinse the bath: “If there really was a God here/He’d have raised a hand by now”. Edith comes home spannered after a night on the lash with George Lamb: “You ran with the dead today/With the moles from the CIA/They say more than you ever say”. Searching for authenticity in gloom is an irresponsible occupation: after all, the expectation that artists should live up to their angst was surely a factor in both Richey Manic’s ‘4 Real’ carve-up and Kurt Cobain’s demise. So, are Editors, on their third album, doing more than wallowing in mawkish bombast and “living out our secondhand clichés”, as they put it on ‘Like Treasure’? Well, yes and no. While a band that operates in their arena-sized realm is never going to take a Throbbing Gristle-style experimental leap, there’s no doubt that, in their own way, they’ve pushed the boat out far beyond the shallow emoting of ‘An End Has A Start’. That much is clear from the opening title track, heavily if deliberately dystopian through Smith’s bottom-end vocals and the electronic flicker of a panicked Morse transmission. Despite its guffawsome Radiohead-aping title, ‘Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool’ also surprises with android duck calls, Kraftwerk synths and the kind of mysterious chorus Bono long ago forgot how to write. Single ‘Papillon’ is adequate Gahan-near-death-period Depeche Mode. Editors get it entirely right on ‘The Big Exit’, which features awkwardly slowed no-wave guitar and martial drums that dream of being produced by Martin Hannett, a noise like waking up to a circular saw bearing down on your sleepy eyes. The bass keeps up a decent rumble underneath, while a refrain of “They took what once was ours” passes final judgment. ‘Bricks And Mortar’ builds a house not far from where The Horrors sited ‘Primary Colours’ in the Neu! World, even if it ultimately typifies Editors’ malaise. Instead of just making do with a motorik intent and the occasional slicing synth to sharpen the edge of its stadium-bothering chorus, they throw in multi-tracked choral vocals, warm keyboards and a bothersome amount of guitar tracks. The effect is akin to being in three different indie clubs at once. Those who’ve perfected epic gloom – The Cure, Joy Division, ‘Holy Bible’-era Manics – have ground the atmosphere out of minimalism, stripping everything back and hitting you hard between the eyes. ‘In This Light…’ suggests that Editors could yet push their trolley out of Ikea existentialism into a ditch of twisted metal, weeds and wires with the potential of finding something beneath. Indeed, they’ve possibly succeeded in alienating the casual fan with the brief moments of nastiness that are here. And with those people diverted back to Keane’s mooning lullabies, perhaps next time Editors might look to their dark forebears, discover the power of concision and hone what they have. For, as any good editor knows, less is more. Luke Turner 5 out of 10

Yeah, feb next yr....

Maybe the reason the 2nd syd show sold out so quickly is because ppl in Melb and GC who missed out are choosing to make the trip to Sydney.

Holy shit sold out. I would be going twice if I was in sydney, so I don't blame them.

According to their website, they are playing: (nothing is mentioned between December 21 and 12 march) which means they may play sideshows pre-FutureMusicFestival. Friday, 12th March 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina Saturday, 13th March 2010 Santiago, Chile Tuesday, 16th March 2010 Asunción, Paraguay Thursday, 18th March 2010 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil PORTO ALEGRE Venue: PEPSI ON STAGE Ticket sales begins in Oct 19th (printed tickets, not online system) Ticket prices: R$ 80 X 1.000 tickets R$ 100 X 3.000 tickets R$ 120 X 2.000 tickets Friday, 19th March 2010 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO Venue: FUNDICAO PROGRESSO Ticket sales begins on Oct 19th (online system) Ticket prices: R$ 140 (full) / R$ 70 (half - for students) Sunday, 21st March 2010 BRASILIA, Brazil BRASILIA venue: TBC Ticket prices: TBC Tuesday, 23rd March 2010 SAO PAULO, Brazil Venue: VIA FUNCHAL Ticket sales begins on Oct 19th (online system) Ticket prices: from R$ 90 (pista - half) to R$ 300 (camarote - full) Thursday, 25th March 2010 Lima, Peru Saturday, 27th March 2010 Bogotá, Colombia

Do most of the acts have minimal equipment? ie. DJ sets? They are making it hard for themselves cramming the dates together. My bet is, there will be sideshows.

Yeah, deaths_friend made a good point last day or so to me that the dates are really close together so they may not do sideshows... they were here last in January. I saw them then, but it was a bit odd because they toured 2 weeks before the release of Tonight. So I think a proper return is due!

Thank god. Can't have me shelling out 100s of $$$ just in one month

It's part of future music festival, annie89 so don't get your hopes up.

Well you've been away for a while! News sounds good. My sis is moving there nxt yr too!

Wicked new tune!

BUMP, because papillon just went to #1 in Belgium. Holy shit.

MK Ultra = fave. I watched the dvd making of, jeez Bellamy can play that song well.

What I mean is pick the ones you have liked the most, not the ones you think the public believes are 'best of the decade'.... otherwise everyone will be writing Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' as #1... so your faves. Don't be influenced by any1.

There is a lot of consistency so far.

Yeah, Parachutes didn't have heaps so I added everything "around" that era. Isnt the trouble single a couple of reworked versions of tracks?

Ewe, sir, are hilarious.