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.
Bob Evans
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on June 2 2009
Bob Evans to support Eskimo Joe on national dates
Following the release of his third album ‘Goodnight, Bull Creek!’ and his own national headline tour, Bob Evans has decided to help out his fellow West Australian friends Eskimo Joe and support them on the ‘Inshalla Australian Tour’ from July to September.
Bob has just finished the clip for his latest single ‘Pasha Bulker (Where Did I Go Wrong?)’. The narrative video clip was filmed in Sydney Harbour and can be viewed here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRm8UMNdLGk
Of the song ‘Pasha Bulker’ Bob says, “It’s referring to the massive ship that ran aground during a storm in Newcastle. I remember seeing photos of it on Nobbys Beach and being blown away by this image of a giant ship washed up on a little surf beach. I used it as a very vague metaphor for writing a song about feeling a bit lost at sea.”
Bob will be taking his full band on the road and tickets for the tour are on sale now for the following dates:
Wednesday July 29: Wollongong University, Wollongong NSW Thursday July 30: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney NSW – ALL AGES Friday July 31: Newcastle Panthers NSW Saturday August 1: ANU, Canberra ACT Thursday August 13: Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide SA Saturday August 15: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA ***SOLD OUT Sunday August 16: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA Saturday August 22: Riverstage, Brisbane QLD Monday August 24: Moncrief Theatre, Bundaberg QLD – ALL AGES Tuesday August 25: Gladstone PCYC, Gladstone QLD - ALL AGES Wednesday Aug 26: Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton QLD - ALL AGES Thursday August 27: Mackay Entertainment Centre, Mackay QLD - ALL AGES Friday August 28: Brothers Leagues Club, Cairns QLD – 15+ Saturday August 29: Townsville Entertainment Centre, Townsville QLD ALL AGES Wed September 2: Hobart City Hall, Hobart TAS - ALL AGES Thurs September 3: Albert Hall, Launceston TAS - ALL AGES
In addition to the ‘Inshalla Australian Tour’, Bob Evans will also be entertaining the crowds at this year’s Splendour in the Grass.
Tickets from www.eskimojoe.net.
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The Fray
Posted 29/12/2009
If we were hanging with you and your band backstage, what would we be getting up to?
We do this stupid… I don’t know what it is. It’s where you put your hands in the middle and do this little cheer on three. (laughs) It’ll change every night. Usually it will be nerdy and dorky. We’ll see what’s happening in that moment. We’ll do a call out and then we’ll yell… we’ll all do it. We do really nerdy stuff.
If you could request anything on your rider what would it be?
Usually there would be chocolate. I’m addicted to chocolate. I’d be eating that. There’d be red wine.
Give one of your personal favourite bands a plug.
Woo. Actually there’s a new band called Vedera. They’ve got a female singer, kind of 90s inspired. I just find it refreshing. Nowadays it’s all about the pop female singer with crazy stuff going on. That’s a good, melodic rock n roll band.
What's your most essential item to take on tour?
I’ve got to take an extra cell phone charger. I always leave my cell phone chargers in the hotel room. I usually have about three or four in my bag. And extra socks. You get dirty socks and there’s nothing like putting on a dirty sock. You look in your bad and there’s this old pair from last week and you have nothing left. (laughs)
What's your secret talent?
I’m a mad ping-pong player. I’ve got to say I’m a self-proclaimed ping-pong warrior and I typically will have tournaments at my house. I have a machine that serves me balls…like a baseball thrower, a ping-pong thrower and I just hit it. I’m kind of a geek when it comes to ping-pong.
AND... Where are we best to stalk you: MySpace, Facebook or Twitter? Which one's updated the most?
I think twitter is probably the best right now. That’s a unique way of connecting with people. I’d pick twitter.
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.
