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Gotye scores US #1

Posted in Australian Artists, News with tags , on April 19, 2012 by keelykov

Gotye – aka Wally De Backer – has reached the unreachable this week, becoming the first Australian artist this century to have a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart .

The Melbournian is in pretty good company, with the only other Aussies to have reached number 1 in the USA int he past 3 decades being Men At Work, INXS and Savage Garden.

The big number 1 was hit with his track Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)‘. The single recently featured on a n episode of Glee which significantly bolstered sales (those darn GLEEKS!)

Gotye’s single has now accrued over 5 million sales worldwide with over 500,000 copies sold in the U.S. last week alone. In fact “Somebody That I Used To Know” is only the sixth song in American chart history to sell more than half a million downloads in just one week.

The song has now been #1 on iTunes in 33 countries – MENTAL!

APRA Song of the Year nominees announced

Posted in Australian Artists, News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 24, 2011 by keelykov

Tame Impala

Nominees for the highly coveted APRA Song Of The Year Award have been announced, pitting new generation artists against Australian music staples.

Including an Idol winner, APRA winners and Hottest 100 winners, the competition for the Song Of The Year gong is tougher than ever, however, a novelty remix still managed to find its way into the list – Pendulum’s ‘ABC TV News Theme (remix)’ .

While we admit the remix is a bangin’ tune and one of our favourite tracks from last year, it still seems like an odd inclusion alongside the likes of the late Rowland S Howard and Kasey Chambers.

One other issue with the announced nominees is that no Urban artists have made the cut this year – even though huge tracks were released from Aussie favourites Bliss N Eso and Drapht.

Along with the APRA Song Of The Year, this years’ awards will also include categories for Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year, Most Played Australian Work, Most Played Australian Work Overseas, International Work of the Year, Country Work of the Year, Blues & Roots Work of the Year, Urban Work of the Year, Dance Work of the Year and Rock Work of the Year.

The winners will be announced at the APRA Awards on Tuesday June 21 at Sydney’s Carriageworks complex.

And the Nominees are:
Pendulum – ABC TV News theme (remix) (Writers:Peter Wall P/ Anthony Ansell)
Graeme Connors – All The Money’s Gone (Writer: Graeme Connors)
Guy Sebastian – All To Myself (Writers: Guy Sebastian / Carl Dimataga)
Guy Sebastian Featuring Eve – Who’s That Girl (Writer: Guy Sebastian)
Gyroscope – Baby I’m Gettin Better (Writers:Daniel Sanders / Robert Nassif / Brad Campbell /Zoran Trivic)
Angus & Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane (Writers: Angus Stone / Julia Stone)
Sia – Clap Your Hands (Writers: Writers Sia Furler / Samuel Dixon)
Hoodoo Gurus – Crackin’ Up (Writer: Dave Faulkner)
Gotye – Eyes Wide Open (Writer: Wally De Backer)
Rowland S Howard – Golden Age of Bloodshed (Writer: Rowland Howard)
Kasey Chambers – Little Bird (Writer: Kasey Chambers)
The Temper Trap – Love Lost (Writers: Dougy Mandagi /Lorenzo Sillito/ Toby Dundas / Jonothan Aherne)
Thirsty Merc – Mousetrap Heart (Writer: Rai Thistlethwayte)
Thirsty Merc – All My Life (Writer: Rai Thistlethwayte)
Birds of Toyko – Plans (Writers: Anthony Jackson /Ian Kenny / Adam Spark/ Adam Weston)
Birds of Tokyo – Wild at Heart (Writer: Anthony Jackson /Ian Kenny / Adam Spark/ Adam Weston)
John Butler Trio – Revolution (Writer: John Butler)
Little Red – Rock It (Writer: Dominic Byrne)
Tame Impala – Solitude is Bliss (Writer: Kevin Parker)
Brooke Fraser – Something in the Water (Writers: Brooke Fraser/ Scott Ligertwood)

Sydney Festival 2011 program announced

Posted in Festivals, Gigs with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2010 by keelykov

Emmylou Harris

Sydney Festival 2011 is shaping up to be a month long music marathon. Running from the  9th – 29th January 2011, the festival will see some of the world’s best musicians gather to rock the socks the Harbour city.

The highly anticipated Festival First Night (which is free, and everyone knows that’s a good price!) will this year see the great Emmylou Harris headline the Domain stage while across the city The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, Arrested Development, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Hanggai & cabaret crusaders Smoke & Mirrors will be performing.

The rest of the festival will take place across the city at Beck’s Festival Bar, Spiegeltent, Opera House, City Recital Hall & Enmore theatre:

Beck’s Festival Bar:

January 9th – The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, I Like It Like That Orchestra & Russ Dewbury
January 10th – Arrested Development & The Last Kinection
January 12th – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion & Super Wild Horses
January 13th – Future Classic: Henrik Schwarz
January 14th – FBi Night: Djanimals and Kyü
January 15th – PICNIC: DJ Harvey & DJ Garth
January 19th – Scribe, Ru C.L. & Radical Son
January 20th – Wire, HEALTH & Popfrenzy DJs
January 21st – Matt and Kim & TheDeathSet
January 22nd – Cobblestone Jazz, Mathew Jonson & Murat Kilic (Reckless Republic)
January 26th – Beach House & Parades
January 27th – FBi Night: Holy Fuck & My Disco
January 28th – Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme, Benji B, Waajeed & Africa Hitech
January 29th Mad Racket: Octave One (Live)

Spiegeltent:

Smoke & Mirrors – January 6th – February 6th
Misanthropology – January 9th-30th
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – January 9th, 11th, 12th
Ólöf Arnalds’ – January 22nd-23rd
Villagers – January 25th – 27th
Mountain Man January 13th-14th
Owen Pallett – January 19th -21st
Hanggai – January 9th
Colm Mac Con Iomaire, January 25th -27th

Opera House:

Sufjan Stevens – Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, January 27-28

City Recital Hall:

Tomasz Stanko Quintet – City Recital Hall Angel Place, January 28
Paul Kelly A-Z shows – City Recital Hall Angel Place, January 20-23
Beach House – City Recital Hall Angel Place on January 27
Gotye – City Recital Hall Angel Place on January 27

Enmore Theatre:

Los Lobos – Enmore Theatre, January 14

Nice one Sydney. Nice one.

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