You would be forgiven for thinking that New Navy were The Holidays. With similar minimal summer sounds and lyricalstructure, the two Sydney bands would fit very nicely on a bill together.
New Navy’s new track Zimbabwe is taken from their forthcoming EP, Uluwatu, is mixed by Lost Valentinos’ Jono Ma.
Check it out here, and if you dig it, download it for free here.
The shortlist for The 6th Australian Music Prize (The Amp) was announced this morning with nine standout local artists chosen by a panel of media, artists and retail staff.
The winner of the AMP, which will be announced March 3rd will receive $30,000 prize money courtesy of principal partner PPCA.
The Shortlist for the 6th AMP:
Cloud Control
The Holidays
Dan Kelly
Sally Seltmann
Gareth Liddiard
Pikelet
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Tame Impala
Richard In Your Mind
The Holidays have already been awarded the Redbull Award for Best Debut Album of the year for their record Post Paradise. They received $15,000 worth of flights and accommodation to record in the Red Bull Studio in LA.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring won the AMP in 2008 for their release Primary Colours.
Making Country cool since 2005, Groovin’ The Moo is back for its 6th year and is set to rock out paddocks nationally in April and May 2011.
Jumping among the cow pats in Bendigo, Townsville, Maitland, Canberra & Bunbury, the festival will tour from 30 April till14 May 2011 and will feature some of the best local and international acts.
Locals like Art Vs Science, Birds of Tokyo & The Holidays will share stages with international sensations The Wombats, Darwin Deez and The Drums creating a mixed bag of musical delights!
Groovin’ The Moo 2011 line up:
AC Slater
Architecture In Helsinki
Art Vs Science
The Aston Shuffle
Birds of Tokyo
Bliss n Eso
Cut Copy
Darwin Deez (USA),
Datarock (NOR),
Drapht,
The Drums (USA)
The Go! Team (UK)
Gotye
Gyroscope
The Holidays
Horrorshow
House Of Pain (USA)
The Jezabels*
Nina Las Vegas (triple j)
Sampology (AV/ DJ Set)
Tim & Jean
UNKLE Live (UK)
Washington
The Wombats (UK)
With more local and triple j unearthed artists to be announced!
*East Coast Only, + Bunbury only
Saturday 30 April 2011 – Bendigo VIC
Bendigo’s Prince of Wales Showground 42 – 72 Holmes Rd, Bendigo VIC 3550
Sunday 1 May 2011 – Townsville QLD
Murray Sports Complex – Townsville Cricket Grounds Mervyn Crossman Dr & Murray Lyons Cres Idalia QLD 4811
Saturday 7 May 2011 – Maitland NSW
Maitland Showground Blomfield St, Maitland NSW 2320
Sunday 8 May 2011 – Canberra ACT
The Meadows, University of Canberra Kirinari St Bruce ACT 2617
Saturday 14 May 2011 – Bunbury WA
Hay Park (off) Parade Rd Bunbury WA 6230
GATES OPEN AT 10.30AM\\
TICKETS: $99.90+ B/F
ON SALE DATE: Tickets go on sale nationally TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2011
After the huge disappointment that was the Big Day Out line-up (notice I didn’t even post it because it made me so sad), the announcement of 2011 Laneway Festival couldn’t be a bigger upper.
The MASSIVE lineup which includes 20 international acts is right here, in alphabetical order, for your perusal:
!!! (Chk Chk Chk)
The Antlers
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Beach House
Bear In Heaven
Blonde Redhead
Cloud Control
Cut Copy (closing main stage with a “multimedia party”)
Deerhunter
Foals
Gotye
The Holidays
Holy Fuck
Jenny & Johnny
Les Savy Fav
Local Natives
Menomena
Pvt
Rat Vs Possum (Excluding Perth)
Stornoway
Two Door Cinema Club
Violent Soho
Warpaint
World’s End Press
Yeasayer
The Laneway Festival this year will partner with Young Care, an organisation which works to provide choice in care and accommodation options for over 700,000 young Australians who need it. All gold coin donations made at the festival will go directly towards Young Care.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday October 20, 9am through lanewayfestival.com.au with a limited amount of Melbourne tickets available from Polyester Records.
Tour dates:
Monday January 31 – Aotea Square, Auckland
Friday February 4 – Alexandria St off Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Saturday February 5 – Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Sunday February 6 – Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle
Friday February 11 – Fowler’s Live, Adelaide
Saturday 12 February – Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge
Sydney boys The Holidays have dropped their debut album Post Parade and are hitting the road this October to share their rad new album with Australia.
Because we are so darn excited about this album and this band, we want to give YOU the chance to win a double pass to ANY of the Post Parade shows!
Simply email win@lostinsuburbia.com.au with your name and which show you want to go to and you’ll go into the draw to win two tickets to what is set to be an insanely good night!
The Holidays Post Parade tour 2010
Sep 29
Beach Road Hotel Bondi, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Oct 1
Elsewhere Bar Gold Coast, QLD, AUSTRALIA
Oct 2
The Troubadour Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA
Oct 14
Transit Bar Canberra, ACT, AUSTRALIA
Oct 15
Grand Hotel Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Oct 16
The Gaelic Theatre Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Oct 21
The National Hotel Geelong, VIC, AUSTRALIA
Oct 22
East Brunswick Club East Brunswick, VIC, AUSTRALIA
Oct 23
Jive Bar Adelaide, SA, AUSTRALIA
But, of course, make sure you’re over 18, or you won’t get in! Hurry up! Get emailing!
Will Magnus Guitar and Keys extraordinaire of Sydney band The Holidays took some time out of his (probably) busy day to talk to Lost In Suburbia about the Friday release of their long awaited debut album Post Paradise, changing their sound and wetting the bed on tour.
Lost In Suburbia: Congratulations on the release of your debut album Post Paradise. It’s been a long time coming. What’s taken so darn long to get an LP out?
Will Magnus: Thank you! It’s taken us a while to get the LP to where we wanted it, we really wanted to release something that we’re proud of, not just a bunch of old songs. We ended up recording, engineering and producing the album ourselves, which also added to the time its taken, as we didn’t have the constraints of time and money that you face in a studio!
LIS: How would you describe the mood of the album?
WM: We’d like to think the mood reflects the four of us. We were going for a kind of carefree & nonchalant, yet also direct and strongly determined feel. I think we’ve captured what we’re about, and personally I can see the four of us in the album, our four very different yet also very similar personalities and tastes! But in one sentence, the mood is like night time on the island.
LIS: You guys have shifted your sound since your last EP release, what caused you to move away from indie pop to the layered sound found on your new album?
WM: The first EP we released was probably the first 5 songs we ever wrote. We owned 2 guitars, a bass guitar and a drum kit between us, the indie set-up! Things happened very fast for us at first, and even by the time we had finished our second EP, we still didn’t have any real idea what we were doing in this game. Before we recorded the album, we really thought about what we wanted to portray as The Holidays, what our real influences are and what is really important to us. On another level, I guess it has been 2 years since our 2nd EP came out, and we’re not a band to sit still and keep churning out the same music over and over again, we like to push ourselves and our abilities and the way we work, so in the same way, I can’t imagine our next album sounding too similar to this one!
LIS: You’re heading out on tour to launch the new album, what kind of shenanigans are you hoping to get up to?
WM: Fortunately we’re a band that loves playing our songs to everyone as much as we love writing them! In the past our tours have been kind of X rated, and I can’t imagine this one being much different. The usual male-male nudity, bed wetting, and fast food diets will hopefully be supplemented with some great gigs!
LIS: For anyone who hasn’t been to one of your gigs yet, describe your live show.
WM: We all appreciate when bands try and add to their album tracks live, not just playing them as they were recorded. It would be virtually impossible for us to play our songs as they were recorded (unless we managed to bring steel drums, timpani’s, flutes, an orchestra and a choir on the road with us), but we feel like we have an energy live that adds to the songs. We’ve added a classically trained percussionist to the mix who wails on timbales and congas, and we’re all kept busy mixing it up between guitars and synths and miniature keyboards and whatever else we can lay our hands on.
LIS: Apart from releasing your Debut album, what has been 2010’s highlight?
WM: There is not much that can beat the satisfaction and excitement we feel releasing this album, it’s kind of been our life’s work. For the last 3 years anyway!
LIS: Where is the best place you have ever been on Holiday?
WM: I went to Japan last year which I absolutely loved! Really interesting people, unusual food and a great culture and atmosphere in all the cities! Hopefully we get a chance to go there with the band soon.
LIS: What’s the best piece of advice you have ever been given?
WM: Don’t fall through the trapdoor of thinking you have something to lose!
Post Paradise is out Friday 24th October through Liberation.
Sydney lads The Holidays have decided to head out on tour in support of the soon-to-be release of their debut album Post Paradise on September 24th.
Joining the Holidays on tour will be the oh-so-lovely Papa Vs. Pretty who are fresh from releasing their debut EP Heavy Harm and supporting Surfer Blood at their Splendour sideshows.
Tickets on sale Friday 20th August through Moshtix & Oztix (check here for details).
Check out both bands at the following shows:
Sat 25 Sept – Coaster Festival, Gosford
Wed 29 Sept – Beach Rd Hotel, Bondi – Free Entry
Fri 1 Oct – Elsewhere, Gold Coast
Sat 2 Oct – The Troubadour, Brisbane
Sat 9 Oct – One Movement Festival, WA
Thu 14 Oct – Transit Bar, Canberra
Fri 15 Oct- Grand Hotel, Wollongong
Sat 16 Oct – The Gaelic Hotel, Sydney
Thu 21 Oct – The National Hotel, Geelong
Fri 22 Oct – East Brunswick Club, Melbourne
Sat 23 Oct – Jive, Adelaide
It’s tour announcements galore today! Another in a string of rad announcement is that of The Holidays hitting the road at the end of May in support of their new single Golden Sky.
A sun-drenched tune which channels warm nights and cloudless skies, Golden Sky blends wild percussion, sing-a-long chant choruses, falsetto vocals and squawking guitars into an action packed, yet equally sublime journey.
Golden Sky will sit comfortably alongside its predecessor, Moonlight Hours, on The Holiday’s long-awaited, forthcoming debut album, which is nearing completion and has been self produced by the band and mixed by Tony Espie (Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, Avalanches).
Catch The Holidays at the Following Shows:
THUR 27 MAY – OXFORD ART FACTORY,SYDNEY
FRI 4 JUNE – CUBBYHOLE,BRISBANE
SAT 12 JUNE – THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL,MELBOURNE
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