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| | Your most memorable Festival moment or experience?
Our stage manager once fixed things so that I could stand on a podium on the side of the stage and pretend to set my keyboards up while Roky Erickson played a packed tent at Hultsfred in Sweden. He’s very aloof and doesn’t like to have people too close while he plays, so I made myself small and was quiet as a mouse but it was such a treat to get to watch him that closely, he’s just great.
Favourite Artist you’ve seen at a Music Festival?
Leonard Cohen’s performance at Coachella last year was about as magical as it gets.
What’s your ideal Festival line-up?
Us, PB&J, Jay-Z, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, The Essex Green, Cass McCombs, Joni Mitchell, The Brunettes, Magic Numbers, and Florence Foster Jenkins but she’s dead unfortunately. I can already see this wouldn’t fly with Jay-Z, but I’d settle for just one or two of the above.
What are your tips for attending Music Festivals?
Dress to avoid getting cold, wet or sunburned, and take off on your own. In my experience committing to meeting up with too many people always ends up ruining the whole damn thing. |
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| | The Vasco Era Take Lucille On The Road |
| It’s been a long time between drinks but the time has finally come for The Vasco Era to release their long awaited second album Lucille. Being known for their blistering, brutally energetic live sets it seems fitting that The Vasco Era should mark such a momentous occasion with a National tour showing Australian music fans exactly just what they have been up to since they released their cracking debut album Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside in 2007.
The band - vocalist and guitarist Sid O'Neil, brother and bassist Ted, and drummer Michael Fitzgerald - had a year or so to write the songs that would eventually form their second album's innards, though it was no working holiday. After an extended period of determined demoing, the band prepared to start recording the album.
Working closely with producer Scott Horscroft (Silverchair, The Presets, Sleepy Jackson), the band entered an intensive three-week recording session that would prove to test their collective mettle and expand their musical horizons.
The result is a record that is rich in atmosphere and depth of feeling that takes the listener on thrilling aural journey from beginning to end. There are moments of rolling thunder, memories of standing on the corner with a suitcase in your hand; of Chelsea girls and sweet slow sliders and even the occasional moonlight sonata. But throughout it all beats the heart of a band not content to take the easy route.
The Vasco Era’s new album Lucille is out on March 12th through Universal. Pre-orders available at a special tour price with tickets from oztix.com.au
Tour dates are:
Wed 7 Apr – Karova Lounge (Ballarat)
Thu 8 Apr – Barwon Club (Geelong)
Fri 9 Apr – Fowlers Live (Adelaide) ALL AGES
Sat 10 Apr – Corner Hotel (Melbourne)
Wed 14 Apr – ANU Union Bar (Canberra)
Thu 15 Apr – Harp Hotel (Wollongong)
Fri 16 Apr – Cambridge Hotel (Newcastle)
Sat 17 Apr – Oxford Art Factory (Sydney)
Thu 22 Apr – Neverland Bar (Gold Coast)
Fri 23 Apr – the Zoo (Brisbane)
Sat 24 Apr – The Great Northern Hotel (Byron Bay)
Thu 29 Apr – Prince of Wales (Bunbury)
Fri 30 Apr – Amplifier Bar (Perth)
Sat 01 May – Mojo’s (Fremantle)
Fri 07 May – Republic Bar (Hobart) | |
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| If we were hanging with you and your band backstage, what would we be getting up to? |
A lot of last-minute set-list scrawling and debating.
If you could request anything on your rider what would it be? |
Real food - day after day of being offered piles of potato chips and candy and other junk food feels like there's a conspiracy to slowly kill you!
Give one of your personal favourite bands a plug. |
Dufus, been seeing their shows for years, just a sort of an underground/cult band but some of the best shows I've ever seen.
What's your most essential item to take on tour? |
My same old guitar obviously. And some extra tape to keep taping the guitar back together every time it splits apart.
What's your secret talent? |
Gently catching frogs and letting them go.
AND... Where are we best to stalk you: MySpace, Facebook or Twitter? Which one's updated the most? |
I don't personally use any of them, but my bandmates probably update my Myspace page more than the other ones.
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| Down With Webster a 7-member, genre-bending, musical juggernaut draws on disparate influences to create a wholly original musical feast. Their chaotic live shows are the stuff of local legend, selling 1000+ tickets as headliners in their hometown of Toronto as an indie band before ever releasing a single or video.
The band writes, produces and performs all of their music, garnering attention from industry veterans as varied as Timbaland and KISS front man Gene Simmons, both of whom wanted to sign the band to their respective labels. DWW won the Rogers Mobile/Universal Music best unsigned artist in Canada contest in 2008. | |
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