Congrats to the Stone siblings!

Congratulatons!


Last night the softly-spoken, feather-in-hair, Angus and Julia Stone took out the ARIA award for 2010's Album of The Year for their dreamy album titled 'Down The Way'...other nominees were Sia, Birds of Tokyo, Tame Impala and Washington.

While last night's ARIA awards were a bit of a shambles (with awkward small talk inbetween awards, badly timed jokes, drunken slurring presenters, and time delays) the Stone siblings accepting their award was a lovely little moment in time. The siblings accepted shyly with a beautiful little speech thanking all the people, and pets in their lives and stressing the importance of love (all without seeming too conceited which is hard for most people!)
Their little speech and gorgeous Washington's performance of her hit 'Sunday Best' were definitely the stand out moments from an otherwise dragged-out mess of a night!

Washington's performance:

Today

I put on my black dress,
and my cowboy boots you liked.
I listen to Patti Smith
and prepare to say goodbye,
to remember,
to hold tight to our times together,
and to say 'I love you man'
and to whisper goodbye.

This week....

this little selection of songs go out to an amazing friend, a beautiful man, a true music-lover and one of my most favourite people-
Brook...Love you man! I can honestly say thay the world is a better place for having you be part of it!

This is just a little selection of some bands he loved-

The Rolling Stones


The Black Keys


Monsters of Folk



The Beatles


and ofcourse, The Clash



Peace and Love!

More good news!

The sun is finally gracing us with its presence in Melbourne this week, and there is more good news- the lineup for the 2011 St.Jerome's Laneway Festival!
Oh my! The indie goodness is astounding!
The 6th run of the festival offers yet another amazing lineup, including:

Washington's ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI



One of my favourite duets to come out of America, ideal for chilling out and/or Sunday morning come downs, BEACH HOUSE



The very cool four-piece DEERHUNTER




Brooklyn's dreamy trio, BEAR IN HEAVEN (you may know their brilliant recent hit 'Lovesick Teenagers, and if you don't then get onto it!)



Also, CLOUD CONTROL, THE ANTLERS, TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, YEASAYER, CUT COPY, and the list goes on & on!




Melbourne's will be Sat 5th of Feb at the Footscray Community Arts Centre!
It will also hit up Sydney, Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane and Perth!
See http://www.lanewayfestival.com.au/

Big Day Out 2011 set to be Huge!

The lineup for next year's Big Day Out shows has just been announced!
The headliners will be Tool, my favourite man Iggy (and the Stooges), and Rammstein! The Black Keys and Grinderman (Nick Cave's latest project) will also be in attendance!
If these guys are abit heavy for your liking never fear- there will also be MIA, LCD Soundsystem will return having only been here a couple of months ago, Lupe Fiasco, the fab CSS and Crystal Castles.
Plenty of Aussies will be there also including Wolfmother, Birds of Tokyo, Little Red and Children Collide!


As Iggy would sing, "All aboard for fun times!"
Melbourne's Big Day Out will be Sunday 30th of Jan at Flemington Racecourse.
To see the full lineup and details head to: http://www.bigdayout.com/

This week....

Ok, so I will admit I have been a bit slow off the mark with these guys, but LOVING their stuff this week!
Why has there not been more talk of them here in Aus??
I am talking about HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR! Nice upbeat nu-disco tunes coming out of Brooklyn, masterminded by DJ Andy Butler.....
check out http://www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair



Will be playing this all Summer I predict! The track in the above 'Blind' and is rather awesome in my opinion, on the album vocals are done by Antony from Antony and the Johnsons, that version is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpX4fJsiS1U (no embedding allowed)...

Also loving Best Coast out of California, and their track 'Boyfriend', but who isnt!?


see http://www.myspace.com/bestcoast

This week...

As Father's Day is this Sunday coming I thought I would provide you with an insight to the music I grew up on thanks to my dear Dad, Leigh... He has rather fab taste in music, so I was lucky to be listening to the likes of


The Stranglers



John Lennon




The Who



The Police


Roxy Music (who can resist a bit of Bryan Ferry every now and then!?)