Splendour Sideshow Madness
Bummed you didn't get a Splendour ticket? Angry you bought dozens of Splendour tickets so you could scalp them, and now find yourself holding hundreds of dollars' worth of paper after organisers shut down the re-sale facility over the weekend? Decided not to go this year, thinking you could totally see all the bands you wanted to see when they did their sideshows?
Well whoever you are, it's time to whip out those diaries and start making plans — we found the mother of all emails in our inboxes this morning, bursting with sideshow goodness.
Listed below are all the details you need for nine bands — electronica wunderkind James Blake, old Splendour favourites Cold War Kids, so-hot-right-now sister act HAIM, MS MR (described to me as "Florence + the Machine, plus Lana Del Rey, with some Kavinsky thrown in"), the R&B-ish indie of Mancunians Everything Everything, Next Big Thing Jake Bugg, LA noise merchants FIDLAR, fast-rising Poms Palma Violets and kings of Florida chill Surfer Blood.
And those are just nine of the eleventy-billion bands (we counted!) announced on the full Splendour lineup just a couple of weeks ago. More shows will be announced for the other bands as we get closer to the date. (Though sadly not for The National, Mumford & Sons or TV on the Radio, who are playing their only Australian shows at the festival.)
Full ticketing information is on the Secret Sounds website.
JAMES BLAKE
Fri 26 July – Astor Theatre, Perth
Tues 30 July – Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Wed 31 July – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
Fri 2 Aug – Town Hall, Auckland
COLD WAR KIDS
Monday 29 July – Metro Theatre, Sydney
Tuesday 30 July – The HiFi, Melbourne
Thursday 1 August – The Gov, Adelaide
Friday 2 August – Capitol, Perth
HAIM
Wed 24 July – The Hi-Fi, Sydney
Thu 25 July – The Hi-Fi, Melbourne
MS MR
Fri 26 July – The Metro, Sydney
Mon 29 July – The Hi-Fi, Melbourne
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
Fri 26 July – The Corner, Melbourne
Sat 27 July – The Metro, Sydney
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JAKE BUGG
Thurs 25 July – Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney
Sun 28 July – The Corner, Melbourne
FIDLAR
Mon 29 July – The Corner, Melbourne
Wed 31 July – Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney
Fri 2 August – Spinoff Festival, Adelaide
Sat 3 August – The Bakery, Perth
PALMA VIOLETS
Mon 29 July – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
Tues 30 July – Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney
SURFER BLOOD
Wed 24 July – The Corner, Melbourne
Fri 26 July – Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney
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