In Brief: Jet, Powderfinger, ARIA
News posted Friday, September 25 2009 at 03:00 PM.
Related: Aria, Jet, Powderfinger.
Despite overtures by frontman Nic Cester that Jet are no longer beholden to the “evil” music industry machine, it seems the lure of filthy lucre has won out. The band will embark on a co-headline tour of the US with Papa Roach in late October. For those of you who don’t recall Papa Roach, click this and cast your mind back to a time when Crazy Town, Staind, Puddle of Mudd and other blights on humanity were providing the soundtrack to frat-boy Roofy parties across the US. The band will return to Australia in December for a tour in support of third album Shaka Rock. Dates here … Not to be outdone, Powderfinger will have to fend off the Bundy-fuelled bogans ala No Through Road when they perform at the Deni Ute Muster on October 3. The band will also release their seventh album The Golden Rule on November 13. In a recent interview with news.com.au, frontman Bernard Fanning said the band approached the album from a different angle. "It gave the songs an entirely new energy that we have never really tapped into before,” he said … ARIA has released its half-yearly wholesale sales figures for 2009 – and it’s bad news for the humble CD, good news for its digital counterpart. While physical sales dropped off by eight percent, digital sales were up 30 percent; a figure that pleases ARIA chairman Ed St John. “What we’re seeing is the first tentative evidence of a return to growth,” he said.
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''It gave the songs an entirely new energy that we have never really tapped into before,”
Wow Bernard. That's amazing.
Also...don't Jet actually have the same manager as Papa Roach? Maybe Jet can play a Limp Bizkit cover especially for the tour.
The Deni ute muster has a fantastic ad, complete with acoustic theme tune about sticking some cold ones in the back and rounding up your mates.
I'd rather see whoever sings it than Powderfinger.
glad to see us mentioned in an article with the big names.
does this mean we is a big names too?
telling us the album was approached ''from a different angle'' really doesn't tell us much at all. what angle? how is it different? didn't the old approach work anymore? why the change?
i get so frustrated as things being presented as news when they really don't tell us anything new.
as much as i dont like these bands, this is such a badly written article
It's a in brief news item, hardly an article.
Oh, and this is such an amaaaaaazing opportunity for Jet.
Ute musters and B&S balls are funny. Who wants to go with me one day? We can raped and spewed on.
get raped. anyway, sarcasm should be noted above. :/
yes, funny. id have worded it differently.