In lieu of the sadly canceled Lost Weekend festival in Brisbane, the Fans group (ie. the guys behind a bunch of Brisbane club nights and Useless Art Records) have decided to put on their own scaled down version of it. It’ll be held in Rosie’s in Brisbane’s city where the group hold host ‘The Cubby Hole’ club nights on weekends.

The line-up is below and it’s pretty killer for such a small venue, including a bunch of international and interstate acts. The Fans group, it must be pointed out, aren’t making any money off this night – they’re just filling the gap for the bands (and, um, fans) that were left hanging after Lost Weekend canceled. Tickets are only $35, but I hear there are 2-4-1 deals floating about the place.

If you’re in Brisbane then get along to it. Line-up after the jump:

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Guineafowl – ‘In Our Circles’ (mp3)

So General Pants Co. are launching a monthly singles club record label starting with entries for Guineafowl, Circle Pit and High Highs in March. This shouldn’t seem like too much of a surprise to anyone who’s shopped in General Pants over summer and has likely been greeted with the line, “hey, you going to [insert next music festival] this weekend?” from the floor staff and pumping indie remixes over the speakers. I don’t know whether it’s actually written in their staff manual to try and connect with customers via music, but it’s certainly something that they’ve been successfully pushing of late.

But moving past the oversized singlets and undersized jeans, GP have actually collected some cool tracks up first. Circle Pit have been getting some mad props elsewhere on the internets, and we’ve already featured Guineafowl on whothehell.net before. While I think his previous track ‘Botanist’ was slightly better, ‘In Our Cirlces’ is still a nifty pop song with the same quirky edge to his electro-acoustic workouts.

www.myspace.com/guineafowl

www.generalpants.com.au/majorlabel

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Romy – ‘Sleep’ (mp3)

I’ve seen the new Romy Hoffman project live last year at Bigsound conference but it is still quite a surprise to hear this from the woman better known to us as Macromantics. “Sleep” is the first single from Romy and it features cool remixes from Juan Maclean and Brain Children.

www.myspace.com/rahromyruckus

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