Polaroids of Androids - News This is the latest from the News section http://polaroidsofandroids.com/news/ <![CDATA[Vampire Weekend 'big city' tour]]> A little birdy (not Ms Steele) recently told me that this band called The Vampy Weekenders were kind of on-track to become the biggest, most rad hipster band on the planet.

This led me to believe that some people might be interesting in knowing the Paul Simon Yacht Band have just announced the details of a bunch of shows for when they are here in May galavanting around the countryside.

Thursday, April 29: Town Hall, Auckland
Tuesday, May 4: Palace Theatre, Melbourne
Thuesday, May 6: Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide (ALL AGES)
Tuesday, May 11: The Tivoli, Brisbane (ALL AGES)
Wednesday, May 12: Enmore Theatre, Sydney (ALL AGES)
Sunday, May 16: Metro City, Perth

General public tickets go on sale Monday, February 22 at 9am. There is also a special pre-sale for Frontier members that starts at noon on Thursday, February 18.

]]> <![CDATA[Eddy Current Suppression Ring national tour]]> Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Last week we let it slip that Eddy Current Suppression Ring would be playing two Sydney shows in early May.

We now have confirmation that the shows will actually be happening in early April AND be part of a national tour (yep, WA and Tassie finally get some loving).

Friday, March 19: The Amplifier Bar, Perth
Saturday, March 20: Margaret River Masters Festival, Margaret River
Saturday, March 27: Brisbane Hotel, Hobart
Thursday, April 8: The Zoo, Brisbane
Friday, April 9: Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Saturday, April 10: Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Friday, April 16: The Palace, Melbourne

Tickets for all shows are on sale now at Love Police and the venues.

The release date for the band's new album, Rush To Relax, has also been pushed back to February 19.

]]> <![CDATA[Jay Reatard cause of death revealed]]> The Commercial Appeal reports that the official cause of Jay Reatard's untimely demise was "cocaine toxicity". The Shelby County Medical Examiner, Dr. Karen E. Chancellor, also cited alcohol as "a contributing factor".

Jay's manager, Adam Shore, has also announced that there are some possible posthumous releases in the works, including a new solo record for Matador and a re-issue of some of Jay's early stuff with The Reatards on Goner Records.

]]> <![CDATA[The Go Roll Your Bones kick off residency this Friday]]> Pleasurably wild Sydney lads Go Roll Your Bones are starting a month-long residency at Kings Cross' World Bar this week, tackling the 'sloppy drunk' 2am slot every Friday in February.

They'll be joined each week by a host of party-starting bands, helping carry you through the regular 10pm to 2am drinking hours...

February 5: DZ, The Joysticks, Brainslaves
February 12: Howl, Sideways Hitchhiker, Step-Panther
February 19: The Small Hours, Wandering Bear, The Good China
February 26: Ernest Ellis, The Preachers, The Salvadors

]]> <![CDATA[Groovin' The Moo line-up 'announced']]> Thanks to a good ol' fashioned media screw-up (premature street press advert-ulation) the line-up for this year's Groovin' The Moo has dropped a day ahead of schedule.

Besides the foxy Tegan (and, yeah, Sara too) and Jonathan 'the skate rate' Boulet, the line-up is pretty damn terrible. I mean, Silverchair, Grinners, Empire Of The Luke Steele and Kisschasy on the one bill? Holy cuntballs.

  • Vampire Weekend
  • Tegan & Sara
  • Spoon
  • Silverchair
  • Grinspoon
  • Empire Of The Sun
  • British India
  • Lisa Mitchell
  • Kisschasy
  • Miami Horror
  • Bag Raiders
  • Kid Koala presents The Slew live
  • Muph and Plutonic
  • Funkoars
  • Illy
  • Ajax
  • Jonathan Boulet
  • Yacht Club DJs

This year the festival will be hitting up 'regional hotspots' Bendigo, Townsville, Maitland, Canberra and Bunbury in May (exact dates not yet available).

Tickets on sale Tuesday, February 16.

]]> <![CDATA[Tours tours tours: The Mess Hall, The Drones, The Kill Devil Hills]]> What do The Mess Hall, The Drones and The Kill Devil Hills have in common? If you answered "ROCK" you would be half right. If you said "they are all bad ass duos with elaborate hair styles" you would be completely incorrect.

BUT... if you said they are all touring around Oz-tralia over the next couple of months then you would be crack-smack BANG on the dollars.

The Mess Hall (w/ Bridezilla and Cabins)
Thursday, March 4: University of Wollongong, Wollongong
Friday, March 5: Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Saturday, March 6: Manning Bar, Sydney
Thursday, March 11: Neverland Bar, Gold Coast
Friday, March 12: Joe's Waterhole, Eumundi
Saturday, March 13: The Zoo, Brisbane
Thursday, March 18: Republic Bar, Hobart
Friday, March 19: Hotel New York, Launceston
Saturday, March 20: Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Sunday, March 21: Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Thursday, March 25: Mojo's, Fremantle
Friday, March 26: Rosemount, Perth
Saturday, March 27: Jive Bar, Adelaide

The Drones
Saturday, February 20: East Brunswick Club, Melbourne (w/ Teeth & Tongue)
Sunday, February 21: East Brunswick Club, Melbourne (w/ Super Wild Horses)
Thursday, March 4: Annandale Hotel, Sydney
(w/ Jack Ladder)
Friday, March 5: Annandale Hotel, Sydney (w/ The Holy Soul)
Saturday, March 6: The Lost Weekend Festival, QLD

The Kill Devil Hills
Friday, February 5: The Zoo, Brisbane
Saturday, February 6: Bon Amici, Toowoomba
Sunday, February 7: Great Northern, Byron Bay
Wednesday, February 10 Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour
Thursday, February 11: Northern Star, Newcastle
Friday, February 12 The Annandale, Sydney
Saturday, February 13: Heritage Hotel, Wollongong
Sunday, February 14: Clarendon Guesthouse, Blue Mountains
Wednesday, February 17: The Republic Bar, Hobart
Thursday, February 18: Hotel New York, Launceston
Friday, February 19: Rocket Bar, Adelaide
Saturday, February 20 Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Those attending the Sydney and/or Wollongong Kill Devil Hills dates will also get a special treat with the 'one and only' Tucker B's opening at proceedings at both shows.

]]> <![CDATA[Sydney Laneway Festival is happening this Sunday]]> There are couple of amazing things about the playing times (as below) for this year's Laneway Festival.

a) Daniel Johnston is opening for Dappled Cities. That's right, the man that gave birth to Kurt Cobain, Yo La Tengo and The Beatles is opening for eh.. those guys.

b) It's gonna be pretty empty at "headline o'clock" at the Clock Tower Stage, right?

c) Really nice too see they are accommodating oldies like me that enjoy an afternoon snooze, with The Middle East conveniently scheduled right before 3pm nap time.

Car Park Stage
12:00 - Black Gold
12:50 - Oh Mercy
13:50 - Kid Sam
14:50 - The Middle East
15:45 - Bridezilla
16:55 - Mumford & Sons
18:10 - Sarah Blasko
19:30 - Echo & The Bunnymen
20:50 - Florence & The Machine

Clock Tower Stage
11:30 - The White Goods
12:20 - Seekae
13:20 - Hockey
14:25 - Frightened Rabbit
15:30 - Philadelphia Grand Jury
16:45 - The Very Best
18:15 - Black Lips
19:25 - Radioclit
20:55 - N.A.S.A.

Inner Sanctum Stage
11:45 - Fergus Brown
12:45 - Danimals
13:40 - Jonathan Boulet
14:25 - Whitley
15:50 - Wild Beasts
17:00 - The xx
18:15 - Daniel Johnston
19:30 - Dappled Cities Fly
20:50 - Eddy Current Suppression Ring

]]> <![CDATA[We are interviewing Frightened Rabbit via Twitter on Monday]]> Frightened Rabbit

Everyone's favourite Scottish lovers/musicians Frightened Rabbit are currently in the country playing at the national Laneway Festival, supporting Echo & the Bunnymen and topping up their highland tans.

We'll be chatting to the lovely lads via Twitter on Monday from 12.20pm AEST, hitting them with questions about their upcoming new album The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, their ambitions to race kangeroos and everything in between.

To be part of the action (LIVE!) you'll just need to 'follow' (tech term) the Frightened Rabbit Twitter, as well as the 'world in-famous' Polaroids Of Twitteroids bot.

Feel free to drop any questions you might have for the band into the comments below or just jump into the action as it unfolds. It'll be all interactive 'n shit.

]]> <![CDATA[Eddy Current to play two Annandale Hotel shows in May]]> UPDATE: (04/02) these shows are actually happening in April. Full details here.


Photo by Alicia.

Although not 'official' just yet, we have received word that soon-to-be-internationally-massive Melbourne garage rockers Eddy Current Suppression Ring will be playing a pair of shows at the Annandale Hotel in early May, presumably as part of a national album tour for their new LP Rush To Relax.

Sunday, May 9: Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Monday, May 10: Annandale Hotel, Sydney

Friday, April 9: Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Saturday, April 10: Annandale Hotel, Sydney

The band's latest single, Anxiety, which is getting a bit of a solid run in radioland at the moment, is up and streaming on the band's MySpaz.

Rush To Relax is out on February 15 via Shock.

]]> <![CDATA[Tucker B's are supporting The Kill Devil Hills, updating their website, maybe playing some shows]]> It's been a fair gap between 'drinks' (or more precisly 'shows') for Perth/Sydney fighting blokes the Tucker B's. While the gang don't have any headline shows of their own planned at the moment, you can catch them supporting fellow WA lads The Kill Devil Hills on Friday, February 12 at the Annandale Hotel and Saturday, February 13 at the Heritage Hotel in Bulli.

They have also assured us that they'll be playing some more shows sometime around April or May, the details of which are possibly hidden somewhere in the group's Australia Day website 'news' update:

Understanding how your fat breasts make or milk don’t can help you to overcome some of the problems that have come to be all over your number one sensation: ALL Tucker members can help your introverted nipples turn huge, fat, red, extremely stinky and black and you can actually use them as textas to describe the nipples that now seem to be growing on the endz your nipples. Barbeque, nipples, cheddar, pizza, nipple flavoured juices and nipples in general. Cheddar.

Nipples.

]]> <![CDATA[Win a double pass to Hockey tomorrow night]]> Wayne Gretzky

Hey trendsetters, how would you like to get your filthy mits on a double pass to Hockey's show at Oxford Art Factory tomorrow night? Yeah, that sounds like something you'd really be into.

To win the tickets simply tell us in 4000 words or less why you think legendary Canadian ice hockey champ Wayne Gretzky is the greatest player of all time and/or the greatest man to ever walk the earth. Bonus points for detailed descriptions of his man-like conquests and fictional heroic acts.

Send your entries to us@polaroidsofandroids.com. The winner will be notified via email sometime around midday tomorrow and, because this is an 18+ event, make you sure you aren't a minor before entering. Mining peeps are allowed.

]]> <![CDATA[Change of date and venue for Echo & The Bunnymen show]]> We have just received an email from an 'industry insider' letting us know that this Wednesday's Echo & The Bunnymen show, which was scheduled to take place at the Enmore Theatre, has now been moved to the Metro. The date has also been changed to Tuesday, February 2.

Both the Metro and Enmore Theatre websites haven't yet been updated with the change of details, but hopefully Frightened Rabbit are still on board as the main support.

UPDATE (28/01): the Metro Theatre website confirms that Frightened Rabbit will still be the opening act.

Playing times:
Doors Open: 7.15pm.
Black Gold: 8.00pm.
Frightened Rabbit: 8.45pm.
Echo & The Bunnymen: 9.45pm.

]]> <![CDATA[LOOK OUT! 2010 playing times]]> LOOK OUT! 2010 is a lovely little (FREE!) mini-festival/showcase that is happening tomorrow night at Oxford Art Factory, featuring performances from some of Sydney's best, brightest and most huggable bands.

Playing times:

Live Art Space
20:30 - Joysticks
21:20 - Bearhug
22:10 - Cabins
23:00 - The Laurels
23:50 - Parades

Gallery
21:00 - Sticky Fingers
21:50 - Georgia Fair

]]> <![CDATA[Massive Attack announce Australian tour]]> Although it has been jogging around the rumour mill for a little while that pioneering Bristol trip-hoppers Massive Attack would be returning to our shores, it was only confirmed this morning that they'll in fact be here in March for a six-date national tour.

Friday, March 12: Kings Park, Perth
Monday, March 15: Opera House Forecourt, Sydney
Friday, March 19: Royal Theatre, Canberra
Saturday, March 20: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
Sunday, March 21: Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
Tuesday, March 23: Riverstage, Brisbane

They'll be joined on the tour by Martina Topley-Bird. Tickets for all shows go on sale February 5 at 9am.

]]> <![CDATA[Stream: Four Tet - There Is Love In You]]> Four Tet's new album There Is Love In You over at his official site.]]>