LANEWAY FESTIVAL SINGAPORE 2011
St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival
Since its inception in Melbourne, Australia in 2004, the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival has become synonymous with hot summer days, picturesque locations and diverse, forward thinking line-ups full of vital, surprising bands. Favoring cutting edge talent over mainstream success, Laneway has consistently delivered compelling, boundary-pushing acts to discerning punters, who have responded overwhelmingly and become integral in propelling many of these acts to even greater heights. Laneway has become Australia and New Zealand’s most well regarded boutique Festival, with tickets for the festivals consistently selling out each year. In 2011, Laneway returns with an outstanding line-up and its debut festival in Singapore!
St. Jerome Laneway Festival Event Details
Date: January 29, 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 2pm
Venue: Fort Canning Park
Ticket Price: $109.50 (Exclude Booking Fee)
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Artist Bios
!!! (CHK CHK CHK)
Look, look, look, it’s !!! (Chk Chk Chk)! We’re really looking forward to hosting these brooding, dancefloor filling disco punks. With hookier hooks and solider grooves that are more instantly accessible than their critically acclaimed back catalogue, the Warp Records-endorsed collective’s longawaited fourth LP, Strange Weather, Isn’t It? seems poised to find them a wider audience. The venerable live act are an absolute riot on stage so discard your inhibitions and we’ll see you down the front.
http://www.myspace.com/chkchkchk
BEACH HOUSE
A BEACH HOUSE primer for you. FACT: Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally are not a couple. FACT: They are utterly brilliant. FACT: Their third release (and first for Sub Pop), Teen Dream, is classic, dreamy, timeless pop. At once exultant and melancholic, Teen Dream sets Legrand’s breathy vocals atop a rich, sparkling sonic bed of organ and guitar, the result that rare kind of music for which the word magical truly applies. Live, the duo weaves a spell that you have to see to believe. Have a look at these photos of the band on stage recently at Radio City Hall.
http://www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic
DEERHUNTER
Mixing woozy ambience, hypnotic Krautrock, art-damagedsquall and classic, 60s-inspired pop into one wholly arresting package, Athens, Georgia four-piece DEERHUNTER have quickly cemented themselves as one of the most compelling and combustible bands of their era. Led by the magnetic presence of frontman Bradford Cox, Deerhunter’s live show has become the stuff of legend – an utterly immersive, noisy, gauzy, ecstatic, propulsive thing that the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O describes as “a religious experience”. Deerhunter return to the stage on the back of their fourth LP, the selfproduced Halcyon Digest, an album of lush, elegant, nostalgic neo-psychedelia that manages to keep pushing forward even as it’s looking back.
http://www.myspace.com/deerhunter
FOALS
FOALS’ new record – the impressive follow-up to Antidotes – Total Life Forever proves a bunch of things. 1) You can produce a perfectly danceable collection of songs without forsaking emotional depth. 2) Frontman Yannis Philippakis can sing. Really. (See: TLF centrepiece ‘Spanish Sahara’). 3) It’s possible to listen to an album approx. 1 million times without tiring of it. As punters of their recent sold-out Australian tour will attest, the Mercury-nominated band are a powerhouse on stage too: if they're not careful, they could end up on a similar trajectory as their Oxford neighbours, Radiohead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ90LRaEIt0
HOLY F***
Holy F***, it’s HOLY F***! Sorry Mum, there is no other way to convey the chaotic sonic muscle of the Ontario instrumental quartet’s particular take on intricate dance-y math-rock. Utterly compelling and completely unique, the band’s live performances have become the stuff of legend over the period of their six-year career. The new album, Latin, is at once raw and disciplined and as visceral as anything we’ve heard recently. Apparently Thom Yorke and the terminally unimpressed Lou Reed are fans. This is vital stuff.
http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck
LADYHAWKE
LADYHAWKE describes herself as a lady who loves guitars, synths, making noise and pressing buttons. The Mastertonborn, UK-based singer carried off NZ Music Tui awards for Single of the Year, Album of the Year, International Achievement, Best Female Solo Artist, Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Best Dance/Electronica Album last year after the release of her debut album. The album had huge success internationally, being certified gold in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and reaching number 16 on the UK album chart. This year Pip Brown aka LADYHAWKE has been based in New Zealand writing, but has continued to wow audiences and critics alike, picking up a nomination for International Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards in May this year.
http://www.myspace.com/ladyhawkerock
THE TEMPER TRAP
Having taken out two coveted ARIA awards last week for their critically acclaimed breakthrough album Conditions, Australia's most successful export of the past five years, THE TEMPER TRAP, will close out Laneway Festival Singapore. If any band typifies the spirit of Laneway, it is The Temper Trap. Laneway was the first festival the band ever played, and each of the band’s four members worked at the event in its early years, serving drinks, moving bins or checking in coats. “I asked the guys to play at Laneway without having seen them because I had a gut feeling they might be good,” co-founder and promoter Danny Rogers says of his coming across the band in 2005. “All of them had a spirit that resounded with us, and when I went to check them out they completely blew to smithereens any band I had seen live for a very long time. From the start, their live show belied their years as a band and the freshness and the energy of the songs convinced me that they would become one of the most important bands to come out of Australia.” Since then the band has gone on to become an indie success story, traveling the world to promote their debut album, putting on stunning performances at festivals including Summer Sonic, Glastonbury, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, while clocking up over 600,000 album sales along the way. With hit songs such as Sweet Disposition, Fader and Love Lost, expect this performance in Singapore – The Temper Trap’s last on their massive Conditions world tour – to be one epic party. We are as proud as can be to have The Temper Trap cap off an incredible twelve months at our inaugural event.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTemperTraptv
http://www.myspace.com/thetempertrap
WARPAINT
WARPAINT were our pick of SXSW 2010. We saw them, like, 5 times. Three Californians and an Australian, Stella Mozgawa, on the sticks. Four immeasurably talented girls, all droning guitars and pulsing bass lines. Don’t be deceived by the heaven-high harmonies of songs like ‘Billie Holiday’; these girls can kick the wind out of you. Their Rough Trade /Remote Control released debut album, The Fool, weaves between psychedelic jams and hazy moments so intimate you can practically feel the breath in your ear. Ones to Watch.
http://www.myspace.com/worldwartour
YEASAYER
Everyone in favour of a good time say ‘YEA…SAYER’. Our favourite prog-pop proponents return to get the party started with wares from the remarkable Odd Blood and its equally inventive predecessor All Hour Cymbals. If tracks like ‘Ambling Alp’ and ‘O.N.E.’ don’t make you all kinds of happy, then we can’t be your friend. Having quickly sold out all the shows on their recent tours, YEASAYER are A-Listed.
http://www.myspace.com/yeasaye
