Paramore's energy especially from Hayley WIlliams and her ability to command the stage like a dance floor still with mic in hand shows their ability to become the newest pop-rockers of the world.
Opening with Josh and the distorted electric guitar oppf the opening song of their 40 minute set - Ignorance really encapsulated the crowd - until Hayley takes the stage. Paramore's ability to write short, fast and loud songs for the popular culture of the Western World sees them take the crowd by storm with their 4th disc - Brand New Eyes. Anger and happiness cross in Hayley's voice and image with the iconic lyric from the new record - 'Ignorance is your new best friend.'
Following in a 35 degree day out at Eastern Creek in Sydney, it doesn't bother them although Hayley still has to ask the crowd if they are ok in the blistering heat, and they following with other classics from Riot which all fans were hoping for - and they weren't disappointed. Crushcrushcrush and That's What You Get were some older singles from their breakthrough record, and this following with the inevitable popular tracks from Brand New Eyes, which made No. 1 in Oz, and even Hayley doesn't know how it happened.
After a break and the introduction as well as the short but sweet banter from Hayley WIlliams - 'This is gonna be a fun set, it already is... So let me ask you a question, and there is no right answer, 'No' is acceptable... Who has our new record?' (screaming, yelling). They continue with Careful and Let The Flames Begin and set the crowd on fire with Pressure - the classic track from their first record, All We Know Is Falling.
Is there another track to top the already fantabulous set? You fucking better believe it. for those rare Twilight fans out there, Paramore's Decode deom the soundtrack set fans wild and with limited time left, we all knew what tracks were remaining. Misery Business followed and the crowd all joined in with Hayley's true dancing 'moves' coming out when Josh started banging the guitar solo.
With energy at a peak in the pit, what could be left? Brick by Boring Brick, the radio hit on Triple J and a crowd favourite with full participation for the whole song. Fans couldn't wait for the final 30 seconds of the set as we all chanted - 'Pa da pa pa da pa pa da!'
The Flaming Lips - From Spin
Why the Flaming Lips: "Back in 1983 when we were approaching our first gig," recalls frontman Wayne Coyne, "we really didn't know what we were gonna be called. It was still sort of the punk era back then, but we didn't want to be called something too political like the Dead Kennedys. I'd read somewhere about a group called the Flaming Hands, which was a name I'd liked and that led to the Flaming Lips. But I've had a lot of people come up to me and tell me that they really know where the name comes from. Some folks have told me that I got the name from an old Fred Astaire musical that it supposedly shows up in. Others said we took it from a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nope, it happened like I said it did. I even remember making a flyer for the show where I cut out a picture of a woman with her legs spread and put a mouth over her, uh, parts -- so there was this idea of a throbbing orifice. It just proves that if a man is completely left to his own devices, he'll always go straight for vaginas."
Previously Rejected Names: "Oh, we had a bunch of ridiculous ideas. We had considered things like the Tijuana Toads; the Corporation; the Firm. Silly names like that."
Best Band Names Ever: "Echo and the Bunnymen and Sonic Youth are both good ones. So is the Teardrop Explodes."
Worst Band Name Ever: "The first time I heard the Boredoms, I thought, 'What is that?' And the first time I heard Husker Du, I thought 'What the ****?' Another one that I never thought was amazing was Dinosaur Jr. Even the Beatles -- it's just a spin-off from Buddy Holly and the Crickets."
Previously Rejected Names: "Oh, we had a bunch of ridiculous ideas. We had considered things like the Tijuana Toads; the Corporation; the Firm. Silly names like that."
Best Band Names Ever: "Echo and the Bunnymen and Sonic Youth are both good ones. So is the Teardrop Explodes."
Worst Band Name Ever: "The first time I heard the Boredoms, I thought, 'What is that?' And the first time I heard Husker Du, I thought 'What the ****?' Another one that I never thought was amazing was Dinosaur Jr. Even the Beatles -- it's just a spin-off from Buddy Holly and the Crickets."
Soundwave 2010 - Motion City Soundtrack
Fans have been waiting for Justin Pierre and his Motion City Soundtrack to come back to Australia for a long time and their Soundwave performance did not disappoint. Showing the world that they are truly the band to beat after their success of their first three albums, I Am The Movie, Even If It Kills Me and Commit This To Memory. In 2010, after 4 years of waiting, Motion City Soundtrack release a fourth disc and with that a new and anger-filled record to excite and entice old fans as well as capture new fans with tracks from with new record – My Dinosaur Life. Also being their first record on a mainstream recording label – Columbia we see the band branch out and encourage a wider range of music for the mainstream listeners around the world with new popular favourites like Disappear and Her Words Destroyed My Planet.
At Eastern Creek Raceway, they looked good and their energy was excellent producing a solid outing and for me a great start to Soundwave. Although outnamed by so many other acts this year, they only received a short 30-40 minute set but that was sufficient for Justin to promote the new album as well as play some old favourites that fans came to hear.
1.Disappear
2.The Future Freaks Me Out
3.My Favourite Accident
4.Broken Heart
5.When You're Around
6.Delerium
7.This Is For Real
8.A Lifeless Ordinary
9.Attractive Today
10.Her Words Destroyed My Planet
11.Everything Is Alright
At Eastern Creek Raceway, they looked good and their energy was excellent producing a solid outing and for me a great start to Soundwave. Although outnamed by so many other acts this year, they only received a short 30-40 minute set but that was sufficient for Justin to promote the new album as well as play some old favourites that fans came to hear.
1.Disappear
2.The Future Freaks Me Out
3.My Favourite Accident
4.Broken Heart
5.When You're Around
6.Delerium
7.This Is For Real
8.A Lifeless Ordinary
9.Attractive Today
10.Her Words Destroyed My Planet
11.Everything Is Alright
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Labels: Eastern Creek Raceway, Motion City Soundtrack, My Dinosaur Life, Soundwave 2010, sydney
Soundwave Review - Overall
Soundwave at Eastern Creek Raceway like past years gone by produces a large array of rock, metal, emo and punk rock acts to come around to Australia and blast away with noise. This year we say a multitude of international acts appear from all over the world. What brings tear to mine and I'm sure many fan's eyes is the rebirth and reformation of several acts including minor favourite band - The Get Up Kids, who have molded the path of modern Emo-Pop for the generation of listeners around the world over the last decade.
Interestingly, not only the reforming of bands occurred but Soundwave Festival 2010 was a chance for international acts to show what they have done for popular and rock music around the world including Paramore, Motion City Soundtrack and Jimmy Eat World. But who really stole the stage away this year? Eagles of Death Metal and Reel Big Fish produced solid live outings as hoped but nothing can be taken away from the main stage acts that were brought in for those old fans; and encapsulated young listeners out there as well - Jane's Addiction and Faith No More. With Perry Farrell and Mike Patten's stage presence mixed with their deep and influential alternative rock/metal music over the 80s and 90s they were quite simply FAST and LOUD and brought fans together as one, although hardcore Anti-Flag or H.I.M. fans just couldn't miss those acts on alternate stages.
Stay tuned - Individual reviews coming soon...
Interestingly, not only the reforming of bands occurred but Soundwave Festival 2010 was a chance for international acts to show what they have done for popular and rock music around the world including Paramore, Motion City Soundtrack and Jimmy Eat World. But who really stole the stage away this year? Eagles of Death Metal and Reel Big Fish produced solid live outings as hoped but nothing can be taken away from the main stage acts that were brought in for those old fans; and encapsulated young listeners out there as well - Jane's Addiction and Faith No More. With Perry Farrell and Mike Patten's stage presence mixed with their deep and influential alternative rock/metal music over the 80s and 90s they were quite simply FAST and LOUD and brought fans together as one, although hardcore Anti-Flag or H.I.M. fans just couldn't miss those acts on alternate stages.
Stay tuned - Individual reviews coming soon...
28 February 2010
Comments: (0)Labels: faith no more, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Eat World, Motion City Soundtrack, paramore, Soundwave 2010
Herbie Hancock News
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple.
The pianist, who turns 70 on April 12, will be joined by comedian Bill Cosby, saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Hancock's bandmate in Miles Davis' famed 1960s quintet, with more guests to be announced. The June 24 concert, "Herbie Hancock, Seven Decades: The Birthday Celebration," will benefit The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
"That will be a very exciting night - perhaps one of the unique nights in the history of the festival with a lot of people coming just to salute Herbie," the festival's producer, George Wein, said Friday.
The concert will be followed by a festival first - an old-time midnight jam session paying tribute to Hancock - at the City Winery nightclub.
After lining up new sponsorship from medical technology company, CareFusion Corp., Wein has resurrected New York's flagship summer jazz festival, which he first launched in 1972. The festival was canceled last year after Japanese electronics firm JVC withdrew its sponsorship.
Wein, who founded the first outdoor jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1954, had envisioned retiring when he sold his company, Festival Productions, in 2007. But the new owners ran into financial difficulties, and Wein formed a new company last year to save the Newport and New York festivals.
The CareFusion Jazz Festival will make its debut from June 17 to 26 with some 45 concerts at 20 venues, including concert halls, parks, museums and libraries in four boroughs.
Carnegie Hall will be the site of three other high-profile concerts featuring trumpeter Chris Botti, Brazilian bossa nova maestro Joao Gilberto, and the trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
There will also be several free outdoor concerts, with Latin jazz star Eddie Palmieri performing in a Bronx park and pianist McCoy Tyner's quartet and the Stanley Clarke Band with Japanese pianist Hiromi playing at Central Park's SummerStage.
But otherwise, Wein says that this year's festival will take a new youth-friendly approach highlighting up-and-coming musicians like Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, the quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and the jazz-hip-hop collective Revive da Live, including rapper Talib Kweli.
"We feel the future of jazz relates to the young people that are playing now," said the 84-year-old Wein. "Jazz is not a dying situation - it's more alive than ever because there are more people playing the music than ever before."
To that end, Wein has teamed with a new generation of music presenters at venues in downtown Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn. The festival is paying the musicians and letting the clubs collect the gate, asking only that ticket prices be kept at a recession-friendly $15 for most events.
"It's helping the clubs and the musicians," said Wein. "Its our own stimulus program."
The pianist, who turns 70 on April 12, will be joined by comedian Bill Cosby, saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Hancock's bandmate in Miles Davis' famed 1960s quintet, with more guests to be announced. The June 24 concert, "Herbie Hancock, Seven Decades: The Birthday Celebration," will benefit The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
"That will be a very exciting night - perhaps one of the unique nights in the history of the festival with a lot of people coming just to salute Herbie," the festival's producer, George Wein, said Friday.
The concert will be followed by a festival first - an old-time midnight jam session paying tribute to Hancock - at the City Winery nightclub.
After lining up new sponsorship from medical technology company, CareFusion Corp., Wein has resurrected New York's flagship summer jazz festival, which he first launched in 1972. The festival was canceled last year after Japanese electronics firm JVC withdrew its sponsorship.
Wein, who founded the first outdoor jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1954, had envisioned retiring when he sold his company, Festival Productions, in 2007. But the new owners ran into financial difficulties, and Wein formed a new company last year to save the Newport and New York festivals.
The CareFusion Jazz Festival will make its debut from June 17 to 26 with some 45 concerts at 20 venues, including concert halls, parks, museums and libraries in four boroughs.
Carnegie Hall will be the site of three other high-profile concerts featuring trumpeter Chris Botti, Brazilian bossa nova maestro Joao Gilberto, and the trio of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
There will also be several free outdoor concerts, with Latin jazz star Eddie Palmieri performing in a Bronx park and pianist McCoy Tyner's quartet and the Stanley Clarke Band with Japanese pianist Hiromi playing at Central Park's SummerStage.
But otherwise, Wein says that this year's festival will take a new youth-friendly approach highlighting up-and-coming musicians like Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, the quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and the jazz-hip-hop collective Revive da Live, including rapper Talib Kweli.
"We feel the future of jazz relates to the young people that are playing now," said the 84-year-old Wein. "Jazz is not a dying situation - it's more alive than ever because there are more people playing the music than ever before."
To that end, Wein has teamed with a new generation of music presenters at venues in downtown Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn. The festival is paying the musicians and letting the clubs collect the gate, asking only that ticket prices be kept at a recession-friendly $15 for most events.
"It's helping the clubs and the musicians," said Wein. "Its our own stimulus program."
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