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slides. What album should we be listening to in preparation for Big Day Out? Star Wars soundtrack in reverse. What's the weirdest Big Day Out experience you've ever ... little more about your band. When did you guys come together? We were all born at various times during the '80s. Your sound is clearly informed by a '90s rock

could get to do it” – then pouring water on the former-child-star's current state: “He's a heroin addict and he looks like shit.” Bogart gave birth ... party-pop band Gravy Train!!!! as a 'gay back-up dancer' to a band born as an all-girl outfit. When Gravy Train!!!! went on hiatus in 2008, Bogart founded

confound some people, though a cover of the Woody Guthrie/Wilco/Billy Bragg tune California Stars seems to win a few over. The weirdly sweet I Miss My Boyfriend is rather clever ... wide array of the group's finest tunes - Natural Born Lover , The Game Gets Old , She Ain't A Child No More - before the mammoth closer 100 Days, 100 Nights

with channel ORANGE there's no denying that now, Ocean is a legitimate star in his own right. An Awesome Wave ALT-J Considering their name is built from ... emotionally invested in the happenings of the Caped Crusader, a rarity for someone born from a sketch. And even though we didn't grab every word that Bane was saying

unfairly) suggests a certain lack of originality within their music. Frankly, such suspicions are borne out – but also ultimately irrelevant. The Gold Coast-via-Melbourne ensemble offer a sound that ... This is an approach of varying outcomes. Bobby Gillespie is a bona fide rock star and performs as such – his emaciated frame and unintelligible lyrics cascading charismatically over cuts like

electronic act – and there were 909s not even plugged [in] electronically!” Kalkbrenner was born in Leipzig, East Germany. The muso was fortunate that the Berlin Wall fell before ... initially contacted Kalkbrenner to compose the soundtrack, but then persuaded him to accept the starring role. Kalkbrenner enjoyed a record-breaking pop hit from the OST in Sky And Sand

history, music forum trolls went off on patriotic rants. Bryget Chrisfield asks our cover stars where they stand on the subject. “To be honest I didn't actually realise ... Australian artist-oriented thing, I just thought, 'This is cool',” New Zealand-born Lance Ferguson of The Bamboos confesses. “Now the [festival] name explains everything. Knowing that now though, obviously

today's performances have obviously been thrown together last minute. The Bellarine Peninsula All-Stars (local talent recruited from years nine through 12) kick off proceedings with You Should ... keys? It is, but in understated mode! Closing with Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind) is an emotive choice and as Michael Hohnen navigates his friend into the line

born Melbournite over the past year or so. Having broken through by being the female vocal on that Gotye song, she has gone on to become a big star

Outspoken and impossible to ignore, electronic and alternative hip hop trailblazer M.I.A has announced a one-off headline show in

Empire, The Herd and Tallest Man On Earth) is African star Salif Keita – who was born into royal Malian lineage but dumped because he was an albino – as well