Well this is becoming a nice little tradition isn’t it? The Australia Day celebration that contribute proceeds to the Refugee Council of Australia (as a nifty way of combating shitful, uber patriotic douchefests) has risen its lovely head again. Next year it will be held over at The Reverence and feature bands like Headaches, Nuclear Summer, The Gun Runners, Milestones, Lincoln LeFevre and more. Shows will run throughout the entire weekend too. Hooray!
Short Fast Loud counted up their annual end of year listener poll live to air last week and the results were far from surprising. Parkway Drive’s Atlas was voted the best album of the year, followed by The Amity Affliction, The Ghost Inside, The Smith Street Band and In Heart’s Wake. Sixteen Aussie acts made it into the Top 40.
Deftones have announced their long awaited return to our shores. They’ll bring excellent live act (and one of the highlights of this year’s Soundwave) Letlive with them when they head our way next May. They’ll play at The Palace in Melbourne on Friday May 17. Tickets go on sale this Thursday December 13 and I reckon they might sell out pretty quickly. Get on it.
Birds Of Tokyo have been off our radar for a while but they’ll return in triumphant form when they release their fourth album and hit the road to support it this March. March Fires cops an official release on Friday March 1 and the ‘Birds will hit Melbourne on Saturday March 2 at The Forum. They’ll also play at Pier Live on Thursday February 28 and Kay Street on Friday March 1.
