STACK #123 Jan 2015

MUSIC

FEATURE

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Stack’s

Why would anyone LEAVE Australia in summer? If you love music, it’s heaven on a stick, simple as that. Check STACK ’s summer festival picks here!

sugarmountainfestival.com

Expect: The cognoscenti. This event is billed as a summit of music and art, and it’s eclectic and left-field bill certainly speak volumes to support that idea. Kim Gordon is bringing her post-Sonic Youth ‘Body Head’ concept with Bill Nace for its Australian debut, and any event containing Ariel Pink’s post-post-‘post pop’ pop is shaking the edges of culture to see what falls off first. Oh, and NAS is playing all of Illmatic. The whole thing: go see that.

cartellmusic.com.au/sfsc

Expect: Well-dressed families and groups of relaxed friends

Brisbane

drinking champagne in the January sun, dancing the evening away to the very best of contemporary French and French-related music, including Emilie Simon, The Dø, Francois and the Atlas Mountains and more! Go: Melbourne Jan 11, Werribee Mansion

Byron Bay

Perth

Go: Jan 24, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Adelaide

Sydney

Fremantle

Melbourne

You simply must see! Ariel Pink, NAS.

Lorne

Sydney Jan 17, St. John’s College in Camperdown.

www.lanewayfestival.com

Marion Bay

Expect: Music lovers! While St Jerome’s Laneway (these days held neither anywhere near a venue called St Jerome’s, or indeed near a laneway) attracts those out for the best day in the sun possible. The line-up has, is, and always will be the drawcard. It’s eclectic, it’s edgy and it draws on a love of music felt equally by the festival programmers and the punters. Banks, Benjamin Booker, St Vincent, FKA Twigs and Perfect Pussy all on the same bill? It’s going to be a good day. It’s inevitable. Go: Saturday, 31st January 2015, Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills, Brisbane Sunday, 1st February 2015, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), Rozelle, Sydney Friday, 6th February 2015, Harts Mill, Port Adelaide, Adelaide Saturday, 7th February 2015, Footscray Community Arts Centre/ River’s Edge, Melbourne Sunday, 8th February 2015, Esplanade Reserve And West End, Fremantle

You simply must see! The Dø

www.soundwavefestival.com

Expect: A gathering of the heavy music faithful. Whether it’s metal, hardcore, classic punk, stoner- rock,industrial or just balls-out-hit-you- hard-in-the-face HEAVY, heavy music will represent, or be represented. Go: Saturday 21 February & Sunday 22 February, Bonython Park, Adelaide Saturday 21 February & Sunday 22 February, Melbourne Showgrounds Saturday 28 February & Sunday 1 March, Olympic Park, Sydney Saturday 28 February & Sunday 1 March, Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane

www.fallsfestival.com.au

Expect: New Year’s revellers, most likely of the younger persuasion, celebrating the following....

1) The end of the year 2) All the brilliant music on offer 3) The sun and the sea 4) Being alive 5) One another You getting the general idea?

Go: New Year’s at Lorne and Byron Bay are sold out, but tickets for Marion Bay Tasmania are still available.

You simply must see! Faith No More, Slipknot, Lamb of God.

You simply must see! Benjamin Booker, Courtney Barnett, Flying Lotus.

You simply must see! Dan Sultan, CW Stoneking, Alt-J

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JANUARY 2015 JB Hi-Fi www.jbhifi.com.au/music