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EVENT: CIRCÓ Festival
EVENT: CIRCÓ Festival. Through the combined powers of Metric & ICSSC, the 25-act strong CIRCO Festival was born. Featuring the most exciting Australian acts doing the rounds today, and more future-leaning internationals than you can count on both hands, from every corner of the globe. A celebration of everything that FEELS & SOUNDS good, a Perth-Only event that had, for a change, the East coast hella' jealous of US. If you didn't get to witness Ta-ku take the main stage in the palm of his hands, or the dizzying LA bounce of Ground Is Lava, or the bone crunching intensity of Evian Christ & New York Transit Authority, or 4000 people singing along to Chet's amazing 'No Diggity' rendition, or Sydneys new super hero Waveracer, or the unfuckwithable energy of our main dudes The Dune Rats, or the fire twirlers, or the gazebo stage, or those projections, the mud, the hugs, or the love…then you'll find a sneak peak of the day we had below For the rest of you, a thousand thank-yous for making th
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EXCLUSIVE: Oceano Tour Blog #1
US heavy-hitters Oceano kicked off their Australian tour last week. Having played Adelaide and Melbourne over the weekend, the band is documenting their first time down under through a series of official tour blogs. Killyourstereo.com hosts the first entry, which can be read below: Needless to say we were all very excited and anxious to get to Australia as soon as possible. With well over 30 hours of transit from Chicago to Hong Kong and following a three-hour lay over before the flight to Adelaide was extremely taxing to say the very least. From the second we arrived in Australia, our tour manager Ian, who with out a doubt set the pace for a very comfortable and memorable first day in country, greeted us as soon as we walked out of our gate. Before the first show with Aversions Crown and Feed Her to the Sharks at Black Market, who by the way are very talented musicians and more importantly some of the nicest group of guys you would ever want to meet, we were able to briefly exp...