Eno Handpicks 7 For Fest
News posted Tuesday, May 12 2009 at 12:00 AM.
Related: The Necks, Pivot, Palace Of Fire, Luminous.
Brian Eno has handpicked seven more Australian acts for the inaugural Luminous music festival at Sydney Opera House. Palace of Fire, Pivot, Sine, Lolo Lavina, Alister Spence Trio, Watussi and Jess Randall will join The Necks at the inaugural event, which takes place in and around the Opera House precinct from May 26-June 14.
The new outfit for Charge Group’s Matt Blackman and Myles Heskett and Chris Ross (ex-Wolfmother), Palace of Fire will open for New York’s Battles on May 30 and 31. The band made its live debut at Sydney’s Hopetoun Hotel in April.
Sydney’s Pivot, who are currently touring the world for Warp Records, will be special guests for Ladytron on June 3, while Melbourne dub collective Sine will open for Lee “Scratch” Perry on June 11 after Eno discovered a clip of the reggae collective on YouTube.
With members from Romania, Hungary and Brazil, Sydney’s Lolo Lovina will support French-Algerian musician Rachid Taha on June 1. The group’s violinist Jess Randall will also play solo, supporting Irish singer-songwiter Damien Dempsey at his Opera Theatre gig on June 5.
Fresh from recent shows with the Ed Kuepper-fronted Laughing Clowns, Alister Spence and his trio will open for Jon Hassell’s Maarifa St on June 6, while Bondi’s Watussi will share the "party" bill with Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 on June 12.
Finally, The Necks will perform in Back to Back Theatre’s production Food Court and alongside Eno in the festival finale Pure Scenius on June 14.
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Goddamn this is gonna be awesome. For once I wish I lived in Sydney.
And apparently ''moonmilk / ghoul / holy balm are also playing as apart of this, 11th of june, MCA.'' That will rule
think the mca things are part of creative sydney, on at the same time, lots of good stuff there too.
yeah that mca gig sounds amazing, visuals by greedy hen too.
HOLY BLAM
was this influenced by redlips seeing palace of fire at the hoey?
yeah i think he was behind the bar.
in all seriousness, i think he was influenced by the quality of my photos. aha ha.
goddamn
Fucken sydey! Melbourne sideshows?
for who?
think ladytron and rachid taha have melb shows, battles is syd exclusive, and so is a a good chunk of the others.
none of the supports will be similar though.
yeah GA, nony speaks the truth... if you want to see any of these acts (except ladytron and rachid taha), you'll have to come to Sydney.
And why not? points at cheap airfares
a bunch of melbournites are already flying up for it!
and maybe jon hopkins, but he'll be playing somewhere naff in melbourne anyhow.
jon hopkins is also performing as part of the finale concert - Pure Scenius
wtf
ftw!
article on sine here
picked from a youtube!
uploads last weeks karaoke session
Seen what Eno's ol' mucker is up to?
Arghh I want to see John Hassel! Anyone know anything about sideshows? His website hasn't been updated in two years.
That Moonmilk/Ghoul/Holy Balm thing is going to be totally amazing. They're all treats!
Try Jon Hassell's myspaz perhaps?
Ah no - not updated since January
Does have all the links though
Hmmmm...
How could Brian Eno 'handpick' Palace of Fire?
They haven't released anything yet. He wouldn't know about them over in the UK and I would be very, very surprised if he was a Wolfmother fan.
Hand-pick, my arse. The promoter or booking agent organised these supports.
(I'm not saying anything negative about Palace of Fire, I like them)
Y'think maaaaaaaybe he had local bands presented to him and he chose between them? You really think he'd actually know any of these bands before coming here? Or maybe he's been here for 6 months going to the Tote & the Hopetoun every weekend scouring for the best bands... End point, what does it matter? Good line up!
some of them literally WERE handpicked (that Sine article is the absolute truth... trust me). Sure, some of them were presented to him but we're talking LONG list of 60+ artists... he listened to all of them and then chose.
as for hassell... NO SIDESHOWS!
gotta get yo' ass to sydney!
i really wish i could make it along to some of these shows.
Occasionally it pays to work at the Opera House...
has anyone seen a loud rock show in that space at the opera house before? someone told me it had shit acoustics and was really made for.... opera. duh. i wonder how precision rock will go down in reverb central...
i have a ticket anyway... just making conversation
JBR can probably answer that question better but I think you may be mixing up venues... the concert hall has the rep for sub-par acoustics for amplified music but... but this is getting better and better all the time with changes to the rig.
The opera theatre is a different beast.
Palace of Fire were handpicked by Eno - its the good old send in your demo tape and we might pick you. They are awesome and so he picked them.
As far as I know they don't have a promoter or booking agent yet.
Good on them I say! Can't wait to see the show.
Re the opera theatre - the concert hall was actually made for opera. The venues were swapped in the fifties. The opera theatre was the original concert hall. We'll see hey?
Tickets through Mess and Noise for this?!
http://shop.messandnoise.com/search/cat/360/undefined/Luminous/
watch the lighting of the sales tonight live on the web
oh look, its the sydney opera house!
Palace On Fire sound interesting... would LOVE to see Blackman in action with those guys.. that bassist/keyboardist is brilliant!
Palace Of Fire are indeed awesome, and I really can't wait for the shows. Though I have rehearsals to attend to make sure I know what the fuck is going on!
damn jon hassell and his no sideshows