Posts By Matt Hickey

Splendour In The Grass 2010 line-up

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Don’t say we’re not fast on our news uptake.

Was pondering whether this was worth posting after 10am given that this probably isn’t news to anyone by now, but I decided it would remiss not to.

In case you just woke up, or your whole Internet is broken and the only site you can access is whothehell.net, below is the line-up of unknown, up-and-coming acts for a new boutique festival called Splendour In The Grass.

Splendour happens Fri 30th of July – Sun 1st of Aug at Woodford, just outside Brisbane. Tickets go on sale 9am Thurs 6th of May, but you probs just buy them at the gate anyway.

Acts after the jump.

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Guerre – ‘Light Between Everyone’ + footage

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Guerre – ‘Light Between Everyone’ (mp3)

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I posted about Guerre only a few weeks back and already he’s supplied a sweet new track, ‘Light Between Everyone.’ This one is a short, tender folk song draped in reverb and layers of fragile vocals and shifts into a dreamy organ coda after only two verses. Really beautiful.

Guerre is also doing Monday night performances at the Excelsior, which is basically him, a mic, some effects and a loop pedal. The footage I’ve seen is really good, and you can check out some of it below.

Video Contact 001 from Spiritif Records on Vimeo.

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Embodiment Project

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Queer life in America? What does that have to do with Australian culture?

Well, Embodiment is a project by our friend Amelia Tovey from Shoot The Player, whose videos we’ve featured on whothehell.net before. Embodiment will be both an interactive website and a series of 25 short films that Amelia shot last year that interrogate and ruminate on contemporary queer life. She’s also started a Kickstarter project, where she’s hoping to raise $10, 000 in 90 days to fund the completion of the project (the editing and the website). You can access that site and donate here.

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Carry Nation – ‘Phil Spector’

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Carry Nation – ‘Phil Spector’

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Carry Nation is the stage name of Brisbane folk singer Jesse Warren, whose debut album Like A River Does is released on April 3rd through El Nino El Nino (home to fellow Brisbane folk singer McKisko). ‘Phil Spector’ is a highlight and is fittingly one of the best produced efforts on there thanks to the string turns that flesh out the arrangement and compliment Warren’s breathy vocals.

Carry Nation’s album is being launched Wed 7th of April at Raval, 42 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills with support from George Byrne, Sui Zhen and Caitlin Park.

www.myspace.com/carrynationmusic

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