WEDNESDAY 7TH AND THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

BIGSOUND Live is nearly a week away! Here's some essential information so that you can start planning:

>>HOW TO REDEEM YOUR TICKET FOR A WRISTBAND

BIGSOUND Live is a wristbanded event. Wearing a BIGSOUND Live wristband gives you access to all the venues involved (depending on venue capacity). For up to the minute venue and show information check out www.bigsound.org

To obtain your wristband/s please take your paper ticket/s to:

OzTix Shopfront, 692 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley (very close to Bakery Lane)

During the following times:
Wednesday, 7th September - between 4pm - 11pm
Thursday, 8th September – between 4pm – 10pm

Additional tickets can also be purchased on the night unless sold out prior.

BOX OFFICE TICKET PRICE : $60 for both nights; $38 for one night. HERE

Tickets will be sold only by EFTPOS on the day. (Debit Card, Visa and Mastercard)

Please Note:
Venue and performance times are subject to change, so keep your eye on www.bigsound.org for the latest program information.
Due to capacity issues with smaller venues we can not guarantee entry to every venue, so please ensure you arrive early for your favourite artists.
All BIGSOUND Live shows are strictly 18+
Please have your ID available when collecting wristbands
Enquiries: info@qmusic.com.au or 07 3257 0013

>>BIGSOUND LIVE TIMETABLE:
You can create your own schedule and view the online timetable HERE
View on your mobile at bigsound2011.sched.org/mobile
Download a print PDF version HERE.

>>BIGSOUND LIVE MAP
BIGSOUND Live is held over 8 different venues throughout Fortitude Valley.
Download a PDF map HERE.

Friday 9th September
+The Otchkies
+Running Gun Sound
Blank Realm DJ's
Doors 9pm $12+bf

TICKETS HERE

TEENAGE WOLVES PERFORMING THEIR ECCENTRIC STRAIN OF SPAGHETTI WESTERN SWAMP GOTH BLUES AFTER A FOUR MONTH HIATUS.


DJ CHECKERS (THE MAJORS / LEMONAIDS)

FIVE DOLLARS ON THEE DOOR
B-GRADE FILMS ALL NITE LONG

http://timesnewviking.net/


TICKETS HERE


"If you think that indie rock preens too much these days, Times New Viking probably sport bruises and scraped knees, and if you think it was all over for Pavement after "Forklift", TNV's lo-fi skree and bounce will certainly shake your love shack." - Pitchfork
Ohio's noise-pop upstarts Times New Viking are easily one of the best of today's lo-fi revival scene, winning fans from the ground-up and praise galore for beautifully their brash, creative, loud lo-fi indie pop punk.
Their recent album, Dancer Enquired, out now on Popfrenzy records, was recorded with the help of help of Adam Smith and Dustin White and represents all that is Times New Viking: it is loud and brash, with mammoth guitars, all throughout nurturing both beauty and authenticity.
Times New Viking are Adam Elliott, Beth Murphy, and Jared Phillips and theyre touring Australia for the first time this August.

Velociraptor "Drunken Knife Fights Ensue" East Coast Tour

This September, Brisbane 12 piece garage pop revivalists Velociraptor will draw straws for the middle seat of the tour van, and hit the road for an epic lineup of east coast shows.

More vintage street gang than band, Velociraptor are known largely for their inability to contain their onstage antics to the actual stage, and their incredibly catchy garage pop gems they deliver on the back of an orchestra of guitars and gang vocals.

Since the release of their debut 7", highlight tracks Hey Suzanne and Sleep with the Fishes have both received heavy airplay on national radio as did latest single In the Springtime when it made high rotation on Triple J.

Live, the band has played alongside the likes of You Am I, Little Red, Regurgitator, Shout Out Louds, Neon Indian, John Steel Singers, Violent Soho, Die Die Die at some of Queensland's best events, and most recently performed main support on the QLD leg of Ghostwood's national tour.

With a brand new EP in the works, this will be Velociraptor’s one and only tour this year, and your last chance to catch them before festival season begins.

Saturday 3rd September - Velociraptor @ Woodland
$10

Pretty excited about this one!

MOON DUO
plus guests (tbc)


Saturday, 1st October

Presale $20 plus booking fee
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?event=22596


FACEBOOK EVENT -HERE-

MOON DUO
Formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Wooden Shijps guitarist Ripley Johnson and his partner, Sanae Yamada, Moon Duo’s first two critically acclaimed EPs, Killing Time (2009) and Escape (2010), fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of American rock ‘n’ roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock. Now their debut album Mazes, recorded in San Francisco and mixed in Berlin during 2010 as the band prepared to move to the mountains of Colorado, explores a far broader, lighter, sound.

That’s most clear on the dreamy organ and skipping riff of the title track, which recalls the Velvet Underground, or the handclaps and swinging organ bloops over the potent shredding and guttural riff delivered by Johnson in When You Cut: “He is an incredible guitar player,” enthuses Yamada, “He is one of those musicians who has the ability to elicit a guttural, corporeal response in the listener.” Throughout, Mazes is the sound of Moon Duo carving out their own identity, looking to the horizon, and moving forward.

Ripley says that, as a guitarist and songwriter, delineating between Moon Duo and Wooden Shijps “happens naturally. I focus on one project at a time, and the way the two bands operate is very different. And there are certain limitations that Moon Duo is forced to accept, not having a drummer for example, and I really like that. I like the creative challenge of working with limitations. Having done so much home recording cultivates that. Working with one other person is much different from working with four.”


“We wanted to do something in a more ‘rock 'n' roll band’ style, something a bit fuller than our previous recordings.” In terms of recording this meant that Moon Duo “used more tracks on this record, in order to get a denser, layered sound to make this our ‘rock band’ record. I grew up a huge Stones fan, so I've always liked that dense sound, with multiple guitar tracks, percussion, piano, organ - anything you can squeeze into the mix.”

This meant a vastly different recording process to Moon Duo’s first two EPs, which were recorded fast and at home. Mazes was a more drawn-out process, involving proper recording studios for the first time including the trip to Berlin to mix and re-record certain parts and the track ‘Run Around’. “The working title was Die Blumen [the flowers], so going into the mix sessions we kind of felt like it was becoming our ‘Berlin record’, but in the end it retained the stamp of San Francisco and we liked Mazes title better anyway.” And ultimately, Mazes is a definably American record, recorded against the backdrop of the Johnson and Yamada’s move from the Californian coast to the heights of Colorado. “I think a lot of our music has something to do with the mythology of the road,” muses Moon Duo’s Sanae Yamada. And if Mazes is a quest, a journey through American landscape and music, Johnson concludes that its key is “finding one's place in the world; moving forward, and the different paths one takes moving through life, trying to reach various goals, literally moving; love; pain; change. Or just getting by, and making sense of things”.

Wear your finest mod threads for a $50 Box Vintage voucher.

BATRIDER
Piles of Lies Album Launch Tour
Thursday 18 August - WOODLAND - Brisbane QLD
Friday 19 August - Emma Soup - Newcastle NSW *new show
Saturday 20 August - Goodgod Small Club - Sydney NSW
Sunday 21 August - Phoenix - Canberra ACT
Saturday 3 September - Format - Adelaide SA
Friday 9 September - Grand Poohbah - Hobart TAS
(double album launch with The Native Cats)
Saturday 10 September - Skinny Geans - Launceston TAS
Friday 16 September - The Bakery - Perth WA
Friday 30 September - The Tote - Melbourne VIC *change to date
(double album launch with Native Cats)

"Stripped down to the three-piece they were always meant to
be...Batrider crystallises that bipolar emotional pressure that
distinguished them as a band unafraid of expressing the worst parts of
being alive..Piles of Lies gives you a full 16 tracks in all their chaotic,
loose-ended brilliance"
Mess+Noise
"This album is further proof that Batrider has found its place in Adelaide
landscape. You get the feeling that both albums will be remembered as
landmarks in Adelaide grunge/punk"
The Thousands
"As brutal as they are melodic, and as abhorrent as they are beautiful,
Batrider presents wonderfully destructive images, backed by guitars
that will slice at your heart,
then turn around and pummel the fuck out of it"
Drum Media Sydney
Batrider - Piles of Lies is out Friday 15 July 2011 via Two
Bright Lakes / Remote Control

BATRIDER (ALBUM LAUNCH)

w/ special guests

PER PURPOSE

MARTYR PRIVATES

NITE FIELDS

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Thursday 18 August
Woodland Bar
Coniston Lane, Fortitude Valley

8pm / $10

Here, lathering one another with sun tan oil and fish guts are two of the most exciting bands in the world right now, Love Connection and Pets With Pets. 'Home on the Wave' is a collaborative effort, and is nothing short of a psychedelic pop gem; featuring the blurred jewel-like magic of 'Pets with Pets' and Love Connection's uber-psychedelic pop sensibilities to create a little salty oasis of happiness.

Happy Endings, Bats & Woodland present

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Love Connection (Melb)
Tiger Beams
Tiny Migrants

Saturday 13th August
$12 door / $10 with Student I.D.
Doors 9pm

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Email: guestlist@happyhappyending​s.com for $8 guestlist.

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http://www.happyhappyendin​gs.com/
http://www.batsmagazine.co​m/
http://www.woodlandbar.com​/




As the harsh winter is drawing to an end and the restless youth of Brisbane are stirring from hibernation in search of casual sex, and surplus alcohol to replenish their weakened bodies, Happy Endings is there to nurse them back to health. Starting in August, Happy Endings will be hosting a monthly party at Woodland Bar to celebrate the changing of the seasons by showcasing the best local and interstate bands the country has to offer. The first of the series kicks off on August 13 with a Jungle-themed soiree/fundraiser for Melbourne outfit Love Connection who will be showcasing at CMJ in New York in November and supported by local favourites Tiny Migrants and Tiger Beams. September will be huge with garage pop revivalists Velociraptor launching their ‘Drunken Knife Fights Ensue’ east coast tour supported by the all-girl rock quintet, the Madisons and Gold Coast garage rockers Dolphins on September 3rd, followed by another huge night on the 24th which sees Sydneysiders Megastick Fanfare and local experimental poppers Oh Ye Denver Birds come together for a huge double header. With cheap entry, rotating themes, and drink specials put these dates in your diary. Happy Endings all round!

Love Connection (Melb)
Tiger Beams
Tiny Migrants

$12 door / $10 with Student I.D.
Doors 9pm