They wowed them in 2008 as part of the travelling circus that is the Big Day Out and then again in 2009 for the inauguarl Sydney Luminous (now Vivid) Festival, and now Battles are set to return – courtesy again of the Big Day Out – for only their 2nd ever full Australian tour. Here’s the dates thus far…
DEAN WAREHAM plays GALAXIE 500
Following the re-release of Galaxie 500’s three classic albums on Domino Records last year, former G-500 frontman and guitarist, Dean Wareham, set out on tour playing a set of all-Galaxie 500 material with a three-piece band featuring his wife Britta Phillips (Luna, Belltower) on bass and drummer Anthony Lamarca.
And now Dean Wareham and his three piece band are bringing the music of Galaxie 500 to Australia for the very first time performing shows in Sydney and Melbourne before embarking on a three show run in his native New Zealand.
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ON THE STREET: THE LIVE SERIES
The Hummingbirds, feedtime, Ups & Downs, The Moffs & Lighthouse Keepers.
There’s been a lot said and written about Sydney’s inner-city music scene of the eighties and early nineties – and rightly so. For many it represented the city’s most fertile period of musical activity and produced an amazing array of talent. Feel Presents has long been a supporter of this era having released two volumes of the 2CD collection Tales From the Australian Underground: 1976 – 1990 as well as promoting tours for Radio Birdman, The (original) Saints, Died Pretty, Laughing Clowns and others.
UPS & DOWNS – OUT OF THE DARKNESS: SLEEPLESS, SINGLES & OTHER STORIES
Feel is proud to present the first ever CD (and digital) career overview of Sydney-via-Brisbane act Ups & Downs: Out of the Darkness – Sleepless, Singles & Other Stories
Often compared to The Church, R.E.M and the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene of the early eighties (The Dream Syndicate, The Long Ryders, The Rain Parade et al), Ups & Downs would undeniably produce some of the finest pop-rock songs of Australia’s original alternative era (1976 – 1989). Continue reading
ODE TO NOTHING – THE BEST OF THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
Feel is proud to present Ode to Nothing – The Best of The Lighthouse Keepers, a sixteen track, sixteen page career overview & memoir compiled by the band and Feel inhouse archivist Tim Pittman.
Contemporaries of The Triffids, Wet Taxis, The Particles and the Laughing Clowns, The Lighthouse Keepers released their first single, the classic Gargoyle, in March 1983 and followed that with a further two singles (including Ocean Liner), a mini-album and a full length album before finally pulling up stumps with a sold out farewell show at Sydney’s Graphic Arts Club in March 1986. Noted Australian music scribe noted of the Lighthouse Keepers…
FEEL PRESENTS – ON THE STREET
ON THE STREET!
The Hummingbirds, feedtime, Ups & Downs, The Moffs & Lighthouse Keepers.
There’s been a lot said and written about Sydney’s inner-city music scene of the eighties and early nineties – and rightly so. For many it represented the city’s most fertile period of musical activity and produced an amazing array of talent. Feel Presents has long been a supporter of this era having released two volumes of the 2CD collection Tales From the Australian Underground: 1976 – 1990 as well as promoting tours for Radio Birdman, The (original) Saints, Died Pretty, Laughing Clowns and others.
This time around Feel are showing their support for the era via a series of live shows entitled On the Street (a term familiar to all discerning gig goers of the time) and together with the Sydney Fringe will present a month of gig-going activity that recalls those heady times. Got your highlighter out? Here’s the gig guide.