Second Big Day Out 2009 Announcement
The second round of announcements has been made for The Big Day Out 2009 and it's a bumper harvest of local artists. New to the bill are:
Late 08 has seen P-MONEY crash back onto the airwaves with the number one single Everything featuring Vince Harder, an instant dancefloor classic showing that the producer behind massive hits for hip-hoppers Scribe and the Deceptikonz continues to evolve and deliver the big tunes - as he always has since his 2001 platinum debut, Big Things. Money's world famous DJ sets are known to include a good lashing of 90's dance, 80's pop and a steady undertow of timeless hip-hop... all influences that have been making an impact on his latest productions.
A healthy dose of conscious reggae is a foundation of every BIG DAY OUT and this year, Whaingaroa seven-piece CORNERSTONE ROOTS are there to ensure that the tree-blazing vibe is complete and the skank quota maintained. With two albums and literally hundreds of shows around all corners of the Western Pacific under their belt since forming in 2001, these guys show a masterful touch across all elements of the reggae spectrum from dub-heavy excursions to lovers rock anthems.
Led by the four distinctive voices that make up the Deceptikonz, NZ's leading hip-hop group, and showcasing the captivating new talents of Frum Tha Stablez, Axeman, MZRE, Lyric, John Matrix, othr ppl hoo txt alot and producers DJ Montana, DJ Shady-1 & DJ Blaze, THE HORSEMEN FAMILY is a trailblazing collective that has been around in a loose form since 2000 but has coalesced in the form of My Shout: The Album, a 2007 release that has brought the good time grooves of hip-hop, reggae and r'n'b. The top ten hit "Feels Like Magic" set the pace for a true summer party vibe that is sure to set the BIG DAY OUT alight when the Horsemen bounce onstage.
Having destroyed as much of their surrounding NZ music environment as was deemed acceptable (at last count, one Big Day Out stage with a chainsaw, one Victorian plaster theatre ceiling shaken loose with high volume, sundry limbs, instruments and a bass player) the three remaining MINT CHICKS decamped in early 2008 to the relative safety of Portland, Oregon. Their second album, the award-snatching Crazy?Yes!Dumb?No!, has just been released Stateside on Milan Records and the trio have been releasing a steady stream of incredible new tunes from their Portland home studio onto itunes and the internet in recent months. If you thought the last lot of art-damaged spazz pop was brilliant, the forthcoming Screens album will lift-off like Saturn Five.
He's best known to folks back home as the creative force and one of the voices behind multi-platinum downbeat act, Breaks Co-Op, but it's an altogether different vibe when London-based Kiwi ZANE LOWE gets behind the decks. Now established as the UK's premier new music DJ with his award-winning BBC Radio One and MTV Gonzo shows, Zane has parlayed that success into a burgeoning live DJ career that now sees his Home Taping live DJ tours sell-out around the UK. 2008 has exploded for Zane's DJ career, headlining his own tent at Gatecrasher with Mark Ronson plus Ibiza residencies and numerous festival appearances as well as smashing it up on the mainstage before the Foo Fighters at Wembley, Killers at Royal Albert Hall, Prodigy and Pedulum at the Brixton Academy and the Arctic Monkeys at the Lanchashire Cricket Ground. He's hitting the brits for six and bringing the bangers to the Boiler Room.
As soon as the BIG DAY OUT's mums told us that gossip columnist Bridget Saunders had snarled in the Sunday Star Times that THE DHDFD's were "the worst", forcing fashionistas to leave some lame gig "with their hands over their ears", we penciled these Point Chevalier teens in for a 2009 slot at our show. Of course we already had our finger on the jerky pulse of the quartet's hyperactive sound, one minute like Primus gone hardcore, another like angel-dust fuelled indie, since hearing their brilliantly-titled debut EP, Pastor of Muppets, and latest offering, Fromage Du Pouvoir. DHDFDS. What does it even mean? Denim-jumpsuited glam rock shenanagins are guaranteed from these kids, who are fresh off the plane from a tour of Japan at the invitation of the King Brothers. We say it takes a crazy band to know one, and the King Bros are reputedly the most dangerous musical nutters in Nippon so the DHDFD's might just be the oddball pick of the whole BIG DAY OUT.
This fresh Auckland cerebro-pop four piece's songs bubble with the energy and excitement of an attention-seeking four year-old armed with a pot and a wooden spoon. BRAND NEW MATH's sound has been described as "the Magnetic Fields with balls" and "glorious messed-up pop". Multiply the fact that first single "Weapon of Parnell" and "Idiot Savant" from their debut EP The Moustache Party have already scored highly on the alternative airwaves, add on the number of Auckland house parties these youthful veterans have played, subtract a couple of fashion week shows, and you've got something to work out on a big blackboard... and it might just be the formula for the length of a circle!
Quiet is the new loud. Royalty is the new bohemia. Auckland is the new Dunedin. And prolific young people have taken over from the wasteronauts who once in while plied music on these fair shores. Case in point for all the above, GEORGE & QUEEN, an indie band from Sky City city who have recorded two albums and done lots more like touring heaps and collecting great reviews and probably drinking lots of cups of tea and flagons of cheap wine and who sound a bit like the love children of Look Blue Go Purple and Robyn Hitchcock. And whose songs charm the pants off us because they're packed with classy boy-girl daydream moments and honest to goodness.... sweetness. They've evolved from a good-old fashioned matrimonial duo to a fully fledged live-in four-piece.
SIDEKICKNICK is a character who has been moonlighting on the edge of music town for too long and his appropriately titled Miscellaneous Adventures album has been nine years in the making. But now that it is here, the thing is a goddamn revelation with its nods to the likes of the 3Ds, Flaming Lips, Brian Wilson and Beck. Critical chaps have been falling all over it.
While it is true that metal is a genre that has been around for thousands of years, invented by cavemen in the years before Adam and Eve, SUBTRACT have only been around for about the last quarter of metal's existence, or about 16million metal-years and it is also true that Subtract do DOMINATE righteously in the field of post-millennial Newzildmetal. Punishing, passionate and as heavy as a good bloody hangover, Subtract are as intense a prospect as one will witness in any metal band. They soldier on into 2009 with a new album (scheduled for release on New Years day) as both a true leader in New Zealand heavy metal and an uncompromising carbon footprint on your face.
Straight-talking rapper of integrity ETHICAL has been hustling his rhymes on the battle circuit since coming out of the Naki on his way to support slots for big names Dizzee Rascal, Sage Francis, De La Soul, Mobb Deep, Ying Yang Twins and Busta Rhymes to name just a few. Not to mention a whirlwind tour of Asia with the legendary Grandmaster Roc Raida in 07. This year he has been spitting what his label Move The Crowd call "verbal napalm" on nationwide tours in support of his album Ages Turn with labelmates Young Sid and Neesh. His latest single "Tied Up part 2" features Aussie Daniel Merriweather, the blue-eyed soul boy who Mark Ronson made a superstar.
The following non-New Zealand acts have also been added to the bill.
SERJ TANKIAN The System of a Down front man has gone solo with the multi-layered album Elect the Dead. Backed by his band the FCC,
DROPKICK MURPHYS. This loud, raucous and chaotic seven-piece Celtic punk combo hits the stage with one goal: to play music that creates an all-for-one, one-for-all environment where everyone is encouraged to participate, sing along, and have a good time.
LUPE FIASCO. Once protégé to Kanye, Jay-Z and Pharrell, LUPE's second album, The Cool, whose first single "Superstar" (featuring Matthew Santos) has shot him into the big leagues in his own right.
BLACK KIDS. They won't teach your boyfriend how to dance, but this feel-good Florida five-piece will help you put your best foot forward.
HOT CHIP. "The most effortlessly cool band in Ravesville" (thanks, NME) are set to scintillate and shake up the summer with tunes from their third album, Made in the Dark.
HOLY GHOST! Part of the DFA stable, HOLY GHOST! is Brooklyn duo Nicholas Millhiser and Alexander Frankel.
Z*TRIP. The LA DJ once regarded the originator and king of the mash up movement, Z*TRIP is now mixing things up differently - classics, soul, up-tempo and b-boy jams, rock riffs, old school hip hop, all feeding into something new, something totally Z*TRIP.
PEE WEE FERRIS returns to the BIG DAY OUT in 2009. One of Australia's most influential DJs and producers, PEE WEE FERRIS is a trailblazer of the dance music movement world wide.
New additions to Big Day Out 09: SERJ TANKIAN, BLACK KIDS, THE MINT CHICKS, LUPE FIASCO, HOT CHIP, DROPKICK MURPHYS, HOLY GHOST!, ZANE LOWE, Z*TRIP, P-MONEY, CORNERSTONE ROOTS, HORSEMEN FAMILY, PEE WEE FERRIS, ETHICAL, THE DHDFD'S, BRAND NEW MATH, GEORGE & QUEEN, THE SIDEKICKNICK, SUBTRACT
These acts join the already announced: NEIL YOUNG, THE PRODIGY, ARCTIC MONKEYS, THE TING TINGS, TV ON THE RADIO, TIKI LIVE, MY MORNING JACKET, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, HEADLESS CHICKENS, THE BLACK SEEDS, THE DATSUNS, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, ELEMENO P, NESIAN MYSTIK, PENDULUM, THE LIVING END, SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM, LUGER BOA, COBRA KHAN, LADI 6, THE NAKED AND FAMOUS
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FRIDAY JANUARY 16th AUCKLAND MT SMART STADIUM
Maurice Rd Penrose. Gates open 11am
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