sound Relief Set Times & Map

0 comments Posted by TwoBears at 11:48 PM

The set times and map are all available now, a little late sure, but hey here none the less check them out and be sure to bring the noise, have fun and smile


Set Times and Map - Sydney & Melbourne- Ticketek.com.au

VB & CB

 

Sound Relief 2009

0 comments Posted by TwoBears at 11:40 PM

Coming up this weekend in Sydney  & Melbourne are the joint Sound Relief concert series in aid and memory of the horrendous and devastating fires and floods in Victoria and Queensland.

To donate to these please contact

The Red Cross Victorian Bush Fire Appeal (https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp )

The Premiers Disastier Relief Appeal (http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/initiatives/disaster_recovery/relief_appeal.aspx )

Artists playing on the day include:

Sydney

·      Coldplay

·      Taylor Swift

·      The Presets

·      Wolfmother

·      Icehouse

·      Jet

·      Eskimo Joe

·      Architecture in Helsinki

·      Hoodoo Gurus

·      You Am I

·      Josh Pyke

·      Little Birdy

·      + more acts to be announced

Melbourne

·      Augie March

·      Bliss N Eso with Paris

·      Wells

·      Gabriella Cilmi

·      Hunters & Collectors

·      Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson with

·      Troy Cassar-Daley

·      Jack Johnson

·      Jet

·      Kings Of Leon

·      Liam Finn

·      Midnight Oil

·      Paul Kelly

·      Split Enz

·      Wolfmother

There are limited tickets available for each show, but please if you cant make the show its being broadcast live on Foxtel, and donate generously.

Music is about emotion and feeling, it goes beyond borders, race, religion and can unite us all, get along to this event and support Australians in need.

  VB & CB

 

 

Record Day Australia 2009

0 comments Posted by TwoBears at 1:44 PM


Hey everyone,

Just wanted to quickly let you know about Record Day Australia 2009.

“On April 18 2009 the only place to be is your local record store.

In these high-tech days of ipods and downloads, there’s still nothing to beat the thrill of immersing yourself in the atmosphere of a real CD and record shop, browsing the racks, talking to the staff and taking home an album that will become part of your personal history.

So why bother to have Record Store Day Australia?

Hear what the giants of the Australian music industry say about the importance of supporting your specialist music stores.

Daryl Braithwaite loves the excitement of big record store promotions and remembers the huge impact they had on him.

“I had the thrill of being around in The Beatles period, and I remember specifically Sgt Pepper and being able to walk into a store, seeing the big promotion with people queued up – it was great! You connected with the music. Then it was a thrill seeing my own stuff in the stores both in my Sherbert days and also with The Edge. People would look at the cover, then look at me and recognise me – you don’t get this shopping experience online,” Daryl reminisced.

Kram from Spiderbait is another passionate believer in record stores.

“I still like having things on vinyl and I love record stores. The whole experience of searching is probably more important than getting the stuff. I really dig record stores – I always will.”

And it’s not just the artists who are convinced of the value of Record Store Day Australia. Record store owners from Perth to Traralgon to Wollongong, and everywhere in between, love the fact that this is a chance to really celebrate the value of music in Australian stores and support the artists that create it.

Events like Record Store Day Australia don’t just happen by magic, and Australia is fortunate to have a strong Australian Music Retailers Association (AMRA) to represent the specialist recorded music stores of Australia.

Thanks to AMRA members, there is still a huge amount of music sold through specialist record stores:

·      More than $9 of every $10 paid for music in Australia is spent on physical product

·      Physical product remains the format of choice for music lovers and collectors.  Albums are 65 times more popular on CD or DVD than as a download.

So many Australian independent record stores are involved in Record Store Day Australia that we can’t list them here, but you can check them out at www.recordstoreday.com.au

And for the latest news about Record Store Day Australia and interviews with artists, log on to www.undercover.com.au

A quick shout out to our mate and follower Barto for giving us a head’s up on this too!

Please get behind your local record store, even if it is a global mega chain, the artists and bands need our support to keep making music, get to gigs and keep buying their product cause that’s the only way the artist will ever get paid.

VB

 

Expired or Inspired ?

0 comments Posted by TwoBears at 1:19 PM



With U2 having released their latest album last week, VB and I were talking the other day about how little hype this album has gotten (in comparison to the hype surrounding other bands such as Coldplay or Kings of Leon). While I might put it down to economic times putting a strain on the marketing budget for "the biggest band in the world," VB had a very different take - that old bands are losing their relevance.

Rather than dismiss this idea offhand, I thought about it a bit more, and decided to put down some arguments both for and against those old fellows still traipsing the world on tour, or hitting the recording studio.

Can a band that sung political songs in the 70s or 80s still hold relevance for anyone except the baby boomer and generation xers who grew up listening to them? Can a song such as My Generation by The Who still be relevant to the most important demographic - young people with high disposable income? The answer for the most part is no. But more to the point, did anyone care that The Rolling Stones made a new album only 4 years ago? I was lucky enough to see this epic band only a few years ago, and I would have been bitterly diappointed to see them play anything but the hits from their back catalogue. 

I think that a lot of hype is still given to the great rock and rollers of old for their past deeds, with some music critics gushing about anything new they have done without really listening to its musical worth. Considering how much new music there is coming out in this digital age, there is a strong argument for looking for the new talent rather than relying upon the old.

On the flip side there is a reason that these old timers keep going, however. People still want to see them, hell, I still want to see them. And for the truly genius ones amongst them, there is still very good reasons to listen to the new music being made. Bob Dylan has made some of his  most critically acclaimed music in recent years, and has been touring almost non stop. Ropert Plant has reinvented himself on his album 'Raising Sand' with Allison Kraus. And, as a result of some accounting misfortunes, Leonard Cohen has just finished a sold out tour of Australia. In Leonard's case, the majority of tickets were bought by the baby boomers, but it suggests that there is still room for these guys in a crowded musical market.

I think the most important thing when thinking about this is to identify the bands that you would truly miss if they were to stop touring and making music. I still was hanging out to hear U2's new music. I couldn't care less if Guns and Roses ever make a new song again. For me, the difference is as simple as that.

As usual send us your thoughts or send us an email at 2bearsrs@gmail.com.

CB

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