Festival news in brief - Good Vibrations, Stereosonic, Future Music, Parklife, Peats Ridge

The team behind Good Vibrations have announced that their will be NO sideshows for any of the artists appearing on their festival line-up. Nuts. No Janelle Monae in a club? No Phoenix in one's face? No Friendly Fires getting sweaty?

Here's the line-up announced so far:


In today's official statement from Jam Music, the promoters of Good Vibes, they break the news:

Jam Music confirms it will be staging no artist sideshows as part of the 2011 Good Vibrations Festival tour. The only opportunity to catch these amazing acts anywhere in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland or Western Australia will be at the festival shows, as detailed below.

Jam Music also says that the final line-up announcement will add local acts to the bill, and is set to happen next week.

GOOD VIBRATIONS - 2011

Sydney, Centennial Park – Saturday 12 February
Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse – Sunday 13 February
Gold Coast, Parklands – Saturday 19 February
Perth, Claremont Showground – Sunday 20 February

Tickets are on sale now for $144.00 + BF from:
www.gvf.com.au (All shows)
www.moshtix.com.au 1300 GET TIX (438 849) and Moshtix outlets (All shows)
www.ticketmaster.com.au 136100 and Ticketmaster outlets (VIC)
www.oztix.com 1300 762 545 and OzTix outlets (QLD)

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Tickets for the Future Music Festival, featuring:

The Chemical Brothers
Pendulum
Dizzie Rascal
MGMT
Mark Ronson and the Business International
Ke$ha
Art vs Science
The Presets
Leftfield
Richie Hawtin Presents Plastikman
Sven Vath
Sander Van Doorn
Steve Aoki
Loco Dice
Zane Lowe
Cosmic Gate
James Holroyd
Steve Angelo (Swedish House Mafia)
Don Diablo
Etienne De Crecy
The Subs
Sound Of Stereo
James Holroyd
and more...

...went on sale at 9am this morning. Go Ticketmaster Ph. 136 100 www.ticketmaster.com.au

FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL - 2011

Brisbane - Saturday March 5, 2010
Perth – Sunday March 6, 2010
Sydney – Saturday March 12, 2010
Melbourne – Sunday March 13, 2010
Adelaide – Monday March 14, 2010

futuremusicfestival.com.au

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The recent spate of Parklife festivities (see our reviews and pics from Melbourne and Brisbane) managed to raise just under $43,000 for Heaps Decent, the charity Fuzzy supports.
 
Industry guests were invited to donate $20 upon entry to Parklife to raise funds for Heaps Decent: an initiative committed to finding and nurturing the creativity of underprivileged and Indigenous young people and emerging artists. Sydney was the top earner, raising nearly $15,000. Parklife artists got involved in all the feel-good stuff too, with Sinden, Brodinski, DJ Mehdi, Jesse Rose and AC Slater participating in workshops with Heaps Decent outside of the festival.

Here's a clip of Jesse Rose and AC Slater in the studio with RJ from Stunna Set.

Jesse Rose and AC Slater recording at Gadigal Studios with RJ from Stunna Set from Heaps Decent on Vimeo.

More on Heaps Decent and the awesome work they with their workshops, guest artists and local acts over at heapsdecent.com

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The Peats Ridge Festival in Glenworth Valley NSW has added a handful of acts to their already huge line-up. Dan Kelly's Dream Band, kyü, Love In The Circus (USA), Know-U and Muscletone now join the likes of Trentemoller (Live), Built to Spill, Freestylers, Angus & Julia Stone, Shout Out Louds, Lightspeed Champion and Born Ruffians.

Tickets are on sale now from: peatsridgefestival.com.au

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Excellent Swede Robyn has had to pull out of the Stereosonic Festival due to an "unforseen commitment clash". In a statement she says:

"It is with deep regret that I have to cancel my appearance at the wonderful Steresonic festival in Australia this year. Unfortunately I had to make the decision to pull out due to an unforseen commitment clash. I'm really sad to let my fans down, but I am determined to rectify my non appearance with rescheduled dates in 2011 that I am currently working on, more details soon." - Robyn

Crap news. Robyn is great. For anyone with a ticket to her Melbourne sideshow at the Prince of Wales Bandroom, contact them for refund information: www.princebandroom.com.au / 03 9536 1168.

Meanwhile, Stereosonic with forge on with the loss with the likes of TIËSTO, Calvin Harris, Carl Cox, Major Lazer, Sebastian Ingrosso, Benny Benassi and Wiley, kicking off in Sydney on the 27th of this month.

STEREOSONIC 2010

Saturday 27th Nov – SYDNEY – Sydney Showgrounds
Sunday 28th Nov – PERTH* - Claremont Showground
Saturday 4th Dec – ADELAIDE - Bonython Park
Saturday 4th Dec – MELBOURNE - Melbourne Showgrounds
Sunday 5th Dec – BRISBANE – RNA Showgrounds

stereosonic.com.au