Golden Plains Sixxx line-up announced
The Six-Sensory Sonic Smorgasbord that is The LineUp for Golden Plains Sixxx is contained herein. More than just continuing the long tradition of high quality magical parties in The Sup, this one is a Show – with a beginning, a middle and a finale.
The hallmarks? Quality, quality, quality. Fun fun fun fun. Legendary legends. Kingpins. Giants. Dreamweavers, Tour Guides, Partystarters. Islands. Pirates. Lifers. Special Ones. Hit-makers. Fun-makers. All lovingly hand-picked and bespookenly programmed into just the right time of day or nite with collective mood in mind across an Epic Long Weekend for your absolute enjoyment.
GOLDEN RULE
Golden Plains is BYO with no commercial sponsors, a No Dickhead Policy, world’s-best-practice facilities and the lush, spacious purpose-built, relentlessly-refined Wonderland that is the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre. Ticket price stays no more than last year: $289 plus booking fee.
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Best way to get tickets is to enter the second round of the Ballot at www.goldenplains.com.au before it closes at 10pm Sunday 23 October, now welcome to all comers new and old.
WHO’S PLAYING?
Bon Iver
He’s one of Planet Earth’s natural musical resources; he flows, he soars, he taps into It: yes, the giant Bon Iver will be playing a special extended Sunset set with his nine-piece band in amongst the Ghost Gums and couches of the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre at Golden Plains Sixxx. “BON IVER” means “GOOD WINTER”; more like “ASTONISHING AUTUMN” I’d say. This will be a once in a lifetime experience, seeing the musical man mountain and his band play in, well, as sweet a natural environment as you could wish to see him in, out there amongst the giant trees in the Bush Brigadoon as the day turns into night and he winds his way through an extended set of soulful, emotional, uplifting, cathartic music, sweet music. Lots and lots of people have lots of deep, deep love for Bon Iver. Little wonder. If Planet Earth had to send one singer-songwriter to represent Human Beings at some crucial Intergalactic Expo, he’d be a good choice.
Learn: http://boniver.org/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/boniver
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfAS6nwYc9g
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDj44n5bjWU
CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers
Good Times! Dance, Dance, Dance! Still can’t believe this is happening. This show comes with a reputation as being one of the best things you could wish to experience and Golden Plains will witness it as a ninety-minute funk disco r’n’b soul rolled gold extravaganza. Chic is the ultimate disco band – disco before it got hijacked. Their massive, enduring, global hits are the building blocks of disco’s DNA: Le Freak, Good Times, I Want Your Love, Dance Dance Dance and stacks more. The iconic Nile Rodgers was in the engine room of Chic and he will be leading the big crack band through a bunch of bona fide blockbusters that he wrote or produced including all of the above plus We Are Family, Upside Down, I’m Coming Out, and many more. He produced some of the world’s biggest ever hits, like Let’s Dance for David Bowie, Like A Virgin for Madonna and this show reprises some of that canon. Nile Rodgers’ own story is incredible and it comes out in his music. A big funky finale to GP Sixxx. Not to be missed.
Learn: http://www.nilerodgers.com/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/nilerodgers
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WB42LA-oOo
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsKPPL-j6kE
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQr_oCmQGuw
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlJr6eCc-w
Roky Erickson
Hazy Sunday Afternoon! Triumphantly, The Godfather of Psychedelic Rock Mr. Roky Erickson will land on these shores for the first time ever to unwind minds at Golden Plains Sixxx. AAAAAAAAHHHRRRYYEAAH! Roky Erickson’s music makes your body tingle, makes you come alive. For the first time ever, the legendary legend of psychedelic rock will be Here playing songs from throughout his rock-n-rollercoaster lifetimes. If the popular history and the secret history of music were flipped Roky Erickson would be The Beatles. He hit big cult fame in the 60s with 13th Floor Elevators and the classic You’re Gonna Miss Me (which he wrote aged 15); that he is here forty years later is a total triumph of spirit. A drug arrest and sentence to a State Hospital saw him subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic and end up destitute. At one point he believed he was an alien. But he never stopped making amazing music and his legion of fans consider him a demi-god. Roky Erickson in the Supernatural constitutes a full-sensory luxury of the highest order; the rarest of four-dimensional treats. HOLY SMOKES.
Learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roky_Erickson
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/rokyerickson
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFLqzJB6qw
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy featuring The Cairo Gang
Whoever said “no man is an island” hadn’t heard of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy aka Will Oldham aka Palace Brothers/Music/Songs. We ask each artist on Golden Plains for a photo and some bio info. Here’s an edit of what came through for the great man:
“Bonny’s parents performed intercourse merely once, but it was deeply tantric, lasting so long they conceived and birthed 3 children during the single act. Bonny was born Siamese twins, conjoined at every part of the body–overlapped perfectly on top of one another so he looked like just one guy. During puberty, Bonny’s Other began to itch, so he underwent a procedure to be surgically separated from himself, cell by cell. When doctors attempted to reassemble the extracted Boniface, they wound up with just two frogs, a jaybird, and a monkey holding a banjo.
Determined to forge his own scrappy sonic path, Billy invented a brand new musical note out of just a bottle cap, a sack of raisins and a lawnmower engine, all held together with dried duck sauce and twine.”
“They say the great ones are misunderstood in their time? Bonny Prince Billy can’t even tell time.” -KY Daily.
“He has beehive pubic hair.” -Vanity Fair
One of his songs was covered by no less than Johnny Cash. Apparently he now tours the world based on places he’d like to camp, and his band is chosen primarily on whom he’d like to hang out with. Island continent.
Learn: http://www.dragcity.com/artists/bonnie-prince-billy
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/bonnieprincebilly
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St7uDJG0vSc
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBVAfvRpps
Black Lips
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” -Charles Mingus
Leaders of their scene, Black Lips make gloriously simple rock’n’roll. The spirit of the stuff before Sgt Pepper made all the rockers into arghtistes. Black Lips don’t get down other than to get down; the party doesn’t stop for anything. Sure, they’ve been run out of India & Tijuana but they are welcome anytime in The Sup.
Learn: http://www.black-lips.com/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/theblacklips
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dff1zxQdrQg
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzmsgXz5GM
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Ariel Pink is a Special One. He’s an Outsider, a visionary. Did you know his monster hit Round & Round is actually from his eleventh record? Did he singlehandedly revive the cassette? Did the LA Tourism Board thank him for making LA the cool place to live again after his classic Life In LA? Who cares: his real gift is knowing what makes the best music of the past fifty years tick, and rather than just ape it, he draws on that vast internal music library to create irresistible neuvo-classics by the earful. Ariel Pink is sublime, a Master, and just so thoroughly enjoyable to listen to.
Learn: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ariel-Pinks-Haunted-Graffiti/53610951290
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/arielpink
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcS0oJwlz_Q
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG-wO1Tbrjg
Charles Bradley
A Daptone Records founder stumbled upon Bradley’s show one night. Blown away by his show he offered him the chance to record some original music with the all-star Menahan Street Band. Discovered at the ripe age of 62, Bradley takes us to the music of his childhood. The sounds of the civil rights movement, Apollo Theatre, the sound of America changing forever, when James Brown was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. It’s that raw, rugged soul that if ya don’t dig, one must ask, “do you have one”?
Email came thru a few months ago: “Charles Bradley can play your festival with a crack band of Menahan/Budos providence, do you want him?” No-brainer! Another five-star rolled gold total entertainment package from the Daptone roster. Raw, rugged soul, a surefire Amphihit.
Learn: http://thecharlesbradley.com/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/charlesbradleymusic
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBdTVmSVq14
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_37kdxtw8wY
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moiUyFQQE-0
Roots Manuva
For the first time in The Sup! Witness the Fitness! Roots Manuva is an Originator. A game-changer. He was that first guy, before Dizzee, before MIA, to bring a truly individual non-American flavour to hip-hop, and blazed the trail for the last ten years of UK bass music. His new album 4EVEREVOLUTION is considered by many to be his best. He’ll be evolving Sunday evening. Again and Again.
Learn: http://www.rootsmanuva.co.uk/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/rootsmanuva
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWgtB_MD24
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxYNTH-5Go
Urge Overkill
Golden Plains, You’ll Be A Woman Soon. Among the myriad wonders of the modern musical world, Urge Overkill is a breath of fresh air. Old school Rockstars with a cartoony aesthetic but fantastic rock chops and ballsy songs with crunch and pzazz. Nash Kato – and his gold voice – commands the stage like the rockstar son of Christopher Walken while buddy King Roeser delivers the most mercurial of counterpunches. They approached Saturation by supporting Nirvana on the Nevermind tour across the US, then likewise the Pearl Jam Vs tour, then Tarantino chose Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon for Pulp Fiction. So many fully-realised killer tunes: Sister Havana, Positive Bleeding, Dropout, Stull, Emmaline, etc etc. Resistance is futile.
Learn: http://urgeoverkill.com/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/urgeoverkill69
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHnIDB_0lps
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5ddl3KjW8
Wild Flag
Sleater Kinney weren’t just a band; they were almost a ‘movement’ in themselves. They didn’t sound like anyone else and their demise left a great hole in the musical landscape. The return of Carrie Brownstein & Janet Weiss is a very welcome one. Shifting their respective focus from ‘Portlandia’ and The Jicks to join their friends Mary Timony & Rebecca Cole in their new group WILD FLAG. They still don’t sound like anyone but themselves. Let it fly.
Learn: http://www.facebook.com/WILDFLAG
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/wildflag
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8n9R8rnB8
First Aid Kit
Our introduction to Swedish teenagers First Aid Kit came via their (two)million-streaming YouTube of a Fleet Foxes song. It was a brilliant version; they filmed it in ‘the woods’ and wore some cool lumberjack outfits. But what followed, their own original tunes, floored us. The Knife signed them to their label and they starting releasing some of the sweetest, country folk since Gram & Emmylou. Musically beguiling. They move Patti Smith to tears.
Learn: http://thisisfirstaidkit.com/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JAti6pN2xY
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrqBldlqzA
Seekae
Seekae have achieved success on their own terms without large-scale media championing. Their large cult following is made up of passionate, passionate fans, because what Seekae do is as good as you’d hear anywhere. Some call it thinking person’s electronic music…it satisfies your head as well as your rump.
Learn: http://www.facebook.com/seekaemusic
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/seekaemusic
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEcv3YeK68c
Low
There’ll be plenty of excited people ’bout this. A true band; there is always time for things of natural wonder at Golden Plains. The weight of Al Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s voice is heavy. I say ‘voice’ not ‘voices’ cos they blend so nicely – not dueling but dualing, straight from the heart (being married and all). A testament to the power of the human voice, LOW have nineteen years of awe-inspiring music behind them…two decades crafting a precise, deliberate, uplifting brand of music. Listening to Low feels like flying.
Learn: http://chairkickers.com/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/low
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1K0nTR_iqo
Kisstroyer
Rock And Roll All Nite, and Party Every Day.
Learn: http://www.kisstroyer.com/
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktoaw0vyqvY
The Celibate Rifles
I don’t surf but listening to the Rifles gives me the feeling that I imagine surfing gives surfers. Getting on board their live show is like riding giant energy. Their intensely natural songs are sometimes taken higher by Damien Lovelock’s acerbic blowouts, and sometimes eased back by his laconic enlightenment. But there’s enough there to floor you before he evens starts. Simply one of the best rock bands the planet has produced – and distinctly Australian. At risk of being a grumpy old woman, it’s a national disgrace that the Rifles aren’t on an even higher pedestal! A phenomenal band! Bill Bonney Regrets, Johnny, Tick Tock, Electravision Mantra, Killing Time. It’s Such a Wonderful Life. It’s no turgid miasma.
Learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celibate_Rifles
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETFodgh0FU
Naysayer and Gilsun
Finding a good party DJ these days is a little bit like finding a simple, no-frills sandwich in the inner city. Y’know when you just want a cheese & tomato sandwich and all they offer is celeriac & fennel pide? Naysayer and Gilsun isn’t whitebread though – it’s a whole(meal) lotta fun. Hits the spot and much, much more.
Learn: http://naysayerandgilsun.com/
Listen: http://soundcloud.com/naysayer-and-gilsun
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fLIctb7RI
Harmony
Harmony grabbed us on very first listen. The band commenced, in legally binding terms, on November 7th 2009, when Tom (from The Nation Blue) and Alex were married. Jon (McLusky) then joined, as did Amanda (Ukeladies), Quinn and Maria. Their songs coast through verse, chorus and coda like a tropical cyclone, their sound a mongrel concoction of gallows blues and balladry offset by…. a gospel vocal ensemble OF COURSE. Bitter, sweet.
Listen: http://harmony.bandcamp.com/
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zvSIKle1s
Dexter
Dexter began his DJ career as teenager, dragging his mobile system in his parents’ car to house parties across the western suburbs. Became DMC champ, Avalancher, Amphitheatre master and Sup’ legend. Those who have witnessed a seminal set at Meredith, GP or the Prince might be hoping for a reprise…and they’re luck is in. It’s rare that The Champ plays a Classic Set, it only Happens on special occasions. But he accepted our invitation to do just that at Sixxx and will Reclaim the Night.
Learn: http://www.djdexter.com/
Lanie Lane
Pronounced “Lannie”. Sassy, sultry, stylish, with a bluesy sexual swagger. Imbued with the spirit of Muddy Waters and channeling the grit of Billie Holiday. Earthy, with the elbow grease to get the job done, but tied up with a colourful ribbon and handed over with grace and charm. Jack White produced two tracks and they’re great: Ain’t Hungry and My Man.
Learn: http://lanielane.net/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/lanielanemusic
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDAKk3GfXxo
Endless Boogie
Does exactly what it says on the pack.
Learn: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Endless-Boogie/31128877690
Listen: http://www.last.fm/music/Endless+Boogie
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmLodWlSXc8
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFFvfvWmAI
Lost Animal
Some punx grow up wrong. Jarrod Quarrell did just right. It’s a tropical fruit, coconut dub and gravel smOothie. Can’t keep it in stock. Record of the year. From St Helens & new season, a lifer. Great songwriter. His songs cut deep. Band so strange & funky we assume he found them on the streets of Japan or Brazil. Or Drumcondra. Lort Smith.
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/lostanimal76
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lLhHiqefj4
DJ /rupture
The eternal globetrotter, Rupture is whole-wide-world music. He went off the beaten path with his groundbreaking Gold Teeth Thief and Minesweeper Suite records and never returned. So danceable you won’t debate whether it’s “mash up” or “sound collage”. He’s a pre-eminent bootlegger/mindboggler, who never resorts to cheap tricks. Come apart.
Learn: http://www.negrophonic.com/rupture/
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/deejayrupture
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkBjU4yndo
Canyons
They came to us as a tropical dream and just kept on evolving. Peaks and valleys. Feelgood and fascinating. Longterm collaborators WA pals Tame Impala appear on the album (which DFA released, no less). Canyons at Golden Plains will be an all-new live band experience, not seen before. Grand. Chasmic.
Learn: http://www.modularpeople.com/artists/canyons/50.html
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/thecanyonsinfo
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61Q8p_l91w
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ibEUjajoJM
This Thing
What is a Wooshie? An Electric Sea Spider? Do they play Pink Notes on the Dream Kit? We could Rambl on but we won’t. We wanted late night beats; we asked the selectors for the State Team and got This Thing.
Learn: http://www.thisthing.us/
Learn: http://www.facebook.com/thisthing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXb1bGcUBs
Hunting Grounds
The Sup’ has a long history with bands from the ’Rat. It’s where Aunty and Uncle Doug do the grocery shopping after all. Ballarat High band. Always was plenty to admire about Hunting Grounds, from Howl to now. Very happy to have them. Something pretty cool going on here.
Learn: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunting-Grounds/129087147157083
Listen: http://soundcloud.com/redcat-sounds/hunting-grounds-in-colour
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdj87cTYijI
Two Bright Lakes DJs
Tig & Blake hoist the TBL flag in The Sup yet again. World-Record-holding Speed Painters, purveyors of late night delicacies. Yummy.
Learn: http://twobrightlakes.com/
PREMIUM MODE
The Supernatural Amphitheatre and Campgrounds will be set up so you can sprawl out pretty much however you like. Bring tents, caravans, motorhomes, igloos, couches, chairs, side tables, whatever. There’s a whole new campground for ultra-luxurious sprawling, there’s Eric’s Terrace Wine Bar, there’s everything, I think. If you think of anything you’d like there, let Aunty know.
GOLDEN PLAINS SIXXX
Presented by Triple R
Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre
10-12 March 2012
Ballot Open Now until 10pm Monday 24 October.
BON IVER at Sunset * Disco legends CHIC feat NILE RODGERS * Psychedelic Godfather ROKY ERICKSON * BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY feat The Cairo Gang * BLACK LIPS * ROOTS MANUVA * ARIEL PINK‘s Haunted Graffiti * URGE OVERKILL * CHARLES BRADLEY * WILD FLAG * LOW * ENDLESS BOOGIE * FIRST AID KIT * DEXTER * LANIE LANE * KISSTROYER * SEEKAE * THE CELIBATE RIFLES * CANYONS * NAYSAYER AND GILSUN * HARMONY * LOST ANIMAL * HUNTING GROUNDS * THIS THING * TWO BRIGHT LAKES DJs * DJ /RUPTURE * couple more.
