Splendour Sideshow Madness - Concrete Playground

Overview

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

www.jamesblakemusic.com

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