HOT Gig List ? April to June

As promised, our ex-Melbourne, currently London-based music guru CC is back with her Melbourne HOT Gig List for the next few months. You can follow CC on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CC_in_London. Thanks CC!

Hey peeps, it’s me again, with your definitive guide to some of the upcoming HOTTEST gigs in Melbourne! In addition to my HOT Gig list, I’m also going to be adding my current HOT Mixtape list to the blog.  This may consist of tracks from the next up and coming new talent, or just some great classics and just whatever I am currently listening to.  Then you boys and girls can download these songs…ahem, i.e. legally, by purchasing them off iTunes (or actually buying their CDs) and see if you like them or not!

CC?s HOT Gig List ? Top 3 HOT gigs for the next 3 months

April 2010

1) Yves Klein Blue – 19th March, The Corner Hotel, Richmond

Four guys from Brisbane, recently supporting Franz Ferdinand on tour.  Debut album ?Ragged & Ecstatic? was recorded in a 2-room flat in North Hollywood with Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids), with influences of Elvis Costello, The Replacements, Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Weezer.  Be interesting to check them out.  With Cloud Control and Last Dinosaurs.

2) Crayon Fields – 14th April, The Corner Hotel, Richmond (with Mountain Goats), 24th April, Northcote Social Club

Indie pop band from Melbourne – sweet songs reminding me of innocent days…think indie geek and glasses.

3) The Jamfest 2010 – 14th April, Melbourne Showgrounds, Flemington

For R&B fans or those just wanting a break for all that indie music, this urban pop tour coming featuring Akon, Kelly Rowland, Pitbull, Keri Hilson, Nino Brown and Chris Sorbello should get you poppin’ and lockin’.

Also check out:

The Fray – 1st April, Festival Hall, West Melbourne

Stereophonics – 15th April, Palace Theatre, Melbourne

Eddy Current Suppresion Ring (I went see this band years ago back in Melbourne!) – 16th April, Palace Theatre, Melbourne



May 2010

1) Vampire Weekend – 4th & 5th May, Palace Theatre, Melbourne

This band is HOT, and their second album Contra is HOT! The direction of the new album is less ‘try hard afro-pop’ (or whatever it was in their first album), and now has a lot more pop with a hint of the 80’s in it.  Favourites are ‘Giving Up The Gun’, ‘Horchata’ and ‘I Think UR a Contra’.

Vampire Weekend has just released the video for ‘Giving Up the Gun’ (which can be seen on their MySpace page) – I’ve been trying to figure out the meaning of this track…the lyrics are very ‘Japanese Shogun’. But after the watching the video (there’s even a samurai in there!), my take on the meaning of this song is that you are own worst enemy, and no matter how good you are, you often lose sight of this and beat yourself up over things.  But the force is within you, don’t give up and just go on, go on, go on.  Something like that anyway!

The video shows a tennis match, with a variety of different players (including HOT Jake Gyllenhaal, who rips his pants off and gets drunk while playing tennis).  There’s even pyrotechnics and milk involved. HOT video for a HOT song. Check it out.

2) Tegan and Sara – 11th & 12th May, Forum Theatre, Melbourne

These two sisters have been recording music since their high school days. I saw them at Koko here in London, HOT gig (although there were a lot of butch-looking girls in flannel shirts there who kept looking at me in a slightly uncomfortable way…). Great hairstyles, catchy tunes and very apt lyrics over the spectrum of relationship issues. Emo? No, not quite. But they did have Hunter from AFI play with them in The Con.  Favourite songs: Hell (..when you get up, over it, and over them) and The Con (….a million hours left, i think of you, i think of that). Tegan and Sara lyrics, always gets to me.

3) Creamfields 2010 – 8th May, Melbourne Showgrounds, Flemington

Ok dance music fans, this one is for you. Creamfields, an international dance festival, is coming to Australia for the first time. So get your camping gear and don’t forget to bring the glow sticks. Line up so far:

The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 (6 piece band)

Steve Angello

MSTRKRFT

Ferry Corsten

LMFAO (6 piece band)

Dave Clarke

Marco V

Green Velvet

Dirty South

Kid Sister (4 piece band)

Joris Voorn

Lifelike

Riva Starr

Tommie Sunshine

Bingo Players

Zoo Brazil

Filo & Peri

Oh Snap!!



June 2010:

Gig listings are currently a bit sparse for June.  I will provide an update for June gigs once I get more info.  So watch this space…

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CC’s HOT Mixtape

1. Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap

2. Giving Up The Gun – Vampire Weekend

3. Hollywood – Marina and the Diamonds

4. If – Janet Jackson

5. Photographs – Rihanna (featuring Will.i.am)

6. Telephone – Lady GaGa (featuring Beyonce)

7. Walking On A Dream – Empire of the Sun

8. Wide Eyes – Local Natives

9. Hero – Regina Spektor

10. Hopelessly Wasted – Shrag