The lineup for next year’s Laneway Festival was announced today, I think it looks like a good one, as usual (and unlike the BDO) they’ve come up with a selection of bands who have mostly not been here before (well, Adelaide at least, if not Australia)  and who might well not tour here otherwise. The only international acts I’ve seen before are Les Savy Fav (who’ve been to Adelaide twice, but those who saw them – particularly the insane show with Pretty Girls Makes Graves in a basement on Hindley St – will be eager to see them again) and Holy Fuck who I saw in Wellington, NZ, and who I’m happy to see again. There are a couple of others who’ve been to Adelaide before (!!! and Ariel Pink) but I missed them. Tickets go on sale next Wednesday (20th), last year it sold out, largely I think because of Mumford & Sons, not sure if there’s any drawcard like that this time, I have no idea how popular these bands are.

UPDATE – just got details of a gig this Thursday

Thursday October 14 at Pharaoh Musicians Centre, 66 North Tce. Kent Town

Mondo Phase Band (synth guitar drums punkpsych trio)
Dane Hirsinger (ambient guitar and electronics)
Tim and Jim Natural Band from the Suburbs (piano and drums freeform bogan mysticism) later joined by members of Mondo Phase and Dane for a weird jam

Music from 9pm
Free Entry, fully licensed
enter via back alley
New independent venue run by local artists for local artists

OCTOBER

• 14th Mondo Phase Band, Dane Hirsinger, Tim and Jim Natural Band from the Suburbs at The Pharaoh
• 15th Steering By Stars, Box Elder, Our Husband at the Ed Castle.
• 16th The Scrapes at Feltspace.
• 16th Institut Polaire at the Grace Emily
• 17th Dead Meadow at Fowlers.
• 21st Mulatu Astatke with the Black Jesus Experience at the Festival Centre Piano Bar.
• 21st Lachlan & Rory from Steering By Stars at the Metro.
• 22nd Sea Bellies, Fire! Santa Rosa Fire!, Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 22nd Bodies, Friends, The Losers, Dudd Pills at the Metro.
• 23rd The Holy Sea at the Wheatsheaf.
• 24th Le Rayon Vert presents Wolfpanther DJ Set at the Metro.
• 31st Sea Thieves, Steering By Stars at the Grace Emily.

NOVEMBER

• 3rd Brian Wilson at the Entertainment Centre.
• 5th Matt Banham at the Jade Monkey.
• 14th New Pornographers at Fowlers.
• 18th Batrider, The Postures at the Metro.
• 18th Leonard Cohen at the Entertainment Centre.
• 19th Hoodoo Gurus at the Gov.
• 19th My Disco at Fowlers Live.
• 25th Kaki King at Jive.
• 28th Le Rayon Vert presents Wolfpanther DJ Set at the Metro.

DECEMBER

• 4th Stereosonic Festival lineup includes Wiley, Ricardo Villalobos, Jeff Mills, Caspa.
• 16th The Church at the Gov.

JANUARY

• 6th – Born Ruffians at Fowlers.

FEBRUARY

• 4th – Big Day Out including Iggy & the Stooges, Primal Scream, Grinderman, MIA and LCD Soundsystem
• 11th – Laneway Festival with !!! (Chk Chk Chk) -THE ANTLERS – ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI  – BEACH HOUSE  – BEAR IN HEAVEN – BLONDE REDHEAD  – CLOUD CONTROL – CUT COPY  – DEERHUNTER  –  FOALS  –  GOTYE  –  THE HOLIDAYS – HOLY FUCK – JENNY & JOHNNY  –  LES SAVY FAV  – LOCAL NATIVES – MENOMENA – PVT –  RAT vs POSSUM – STORNOWAY – TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB – VIOLENT SOHO – WARPAINT  –  WORLD’S END PRESS – YEASAYER

MARCH

• 5th- Soundwave with Gang of Four, The Melvins and lots more.

APRIL

• 4-7th – Paul Kelly‘s A-Z shows at the Space Theatre.

On the Stereo

• Omar Souleyman – Jazeera Nights cd (Sublime Frequencies)
• Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture 2cd (Soul Jazz)
• Pluramon – The Monstrous Surplus cd (Karaoke Kalk)
• Marcus Schmickler with Hayden Chisholm – Amazing Daze cd (Häpna)
• Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio – The Creation of the Universe 2cd (Sister Ray)
• Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky 2cd (Young God)
• James Chance – Twist Your Soul – the Definitive Collection 2cd (History)
• Pram – The Moving Frontier cd (Domino)
• Pram – Dark Island cd (Domino)
• Pram – Somniloquy cd (Domino)