Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Playing Big Day Out and doing shots with Lily Allen while she sun-bathed beside our portacom.
Favourite Artist you’ve seen at a Music Festival? Neil Young – a true masterclass.
What’s your ideal Festival line-up? In no particular order: Radiohead, Oasis, Elbow, Ryan Adams, The Verve, Wilco, The Killers, Coldplay, Blur, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, The Strokes, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Ben Harper, The Black Keys, BRMC, Dave Matthews Band, Doves, Paul Simon, The Stone Roses.
What are your tips for attending Music Festivals? Take the best of friends, because the greatest things are best when shared with the greatest of people.
John Mayer
Posted
on October 13 2009
John Mayer heads to Australia for promotional tour!
John Mayer's Battle Studies will be released on November 13. The seven-time Grammy Award winner's fourth studio album was co-produced by John Mayer and Steve Jordan and debuts three years after his critically acclaimed 2006 album, Continuum.
Incorporating the warmth, melodies and simplicity of 70's and 80's California rock/pop, Battle Studies is a confessional, relaxed and liberated album recorded in a private home in California where Mayer lived and worked over the course of six months before wrapping at the famed Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.
The album's first single, "Who Says" challenges conventional standards of what one can accomplish or undertake - despite society's constraints. Battle Studies also showcases universal themes on "Heartbreak Warfare," "Assassin," and "War of My Life," while flexing guitar chops on "Rock Song," and a reinterpretation of "Crossroads." The famously collaborative guitar player also invited one of music's brightest new talents, Taylor Swift, to appear on "Half of My Heart." "I approach music like a director doing a period piece," says Mayer. "Where Continuum was R&B and Soul, Battle Studies was written with the timelessness of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young in mind. The melodies and message are concise and from-the-gut with the efficiency of simplicity."
The consistency with which John Mayer combines wordcraft and melody has earned him rarefied status in popular culture as a genuine and respected songwriter and musician. Since his acclaimed debut in 2001 with Room For Squares, each release has earned John Mayer additional accolades. Through 2003's Heavier Things, his work with John Mayer Trio in 2005, CONTINUUM's 2006 release and now, Battle Studies, John Mayer has established himself as a musician and collaborator who exceeds genre boundaries. The guitarist, vocalist and songwriter has earned seven Grammy Awards and sold nearly 12.5 million albums worldwide.
Mayer will visit Australia in early November as part of a promotional tour.
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Torch Le Monde
Posted 14/03/2010
If we were hanging with you and your band backstage, what would we be getting up to?
Turbo stretching! Haha. There’s a lot of loud music, posing in front of mirrors, pushups..basically preparing for war. Beer and Red Bull are very welcome, but you aren’t, so I’ll see you at the bar, post gig.
If you could request anything on your rider what would it be?
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Beef carpaccio, Red Bull and a few virgins
Give one of your personal favourite bands a plug.
Thin Lizzy. Twin guitars, cool lyrics, memorable melodies and a very charismatic deceased front man. It’s all good
What's your most essential item to take on tour?
My song book. Inspiration could hit at any time. A melody, a lyric, a song title. The coolest songs are the ones you bring home from tour. You know they’ve been inspired by a time and place that not everyone gets to experience. Oh, and lube.
What's your secret talent?
Charm. We may look like rat-bags, but behind the brazen exterior are four pretty well bred, articulate gentleman. (Is that a talent?)
AND... Where are we best to stalk you: MySpace, Facebook or Twitter? Which one's updated the most?
Our myspace page has links to all other pages. So from there, you can connect on whichever medium you prefer. Twitter and Facebook pages will also keep you constantly updated and very much connected with the band.
New Empire
Since their formation, the Sydney four-piece have constantly been experimenting and fusing different styles to create their original and powerful brand of music. New Empire's high energy and powerful live show combined with their heartfelt and honest music makes them one of Sydney's most popular new bands. Awoe magazine has described New Empire as "the essentials of the rock pop culture", and this is clearly echoed by thousands of music lovers across the country.
Forming in the late Summer of 2003, Euphoria Audio are a Rock/Popular band from Wakefield, UK. They have worked closely with producers Stuart Epps (Oasis, Robbie Williams, Jimmy Page) and Steve Levine (Culture Club, The Beach Boys), and most recently have recorded in Trondheim, Norway with Universals D-sign Music (Kylie Minogue, Joe Cocker).
In 2010 the band showcased at the Musexpo music conference in Los Angeles in front of world-wide delegates as well as a performance at the legendary Viper Room.
