The Melbourne festival, Flip Out, will be heading to Sydney this August. The festival will take place at Manning Bar with garage rock and indie bands from both Australia and the USA. As well as bands there will also be a record fair, markets and a bbq (nice)!
The first line up announcement featured Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The UV Race, Royal Headache, Pink Reason (USA), James Arthur’s Manhunt (USA), and Slug Guts. Today it was announced that the following bands will be joining the line up: Goodnight Loving (USA), Ooga Boogas, Naked on the Vague, The Stabs, Super Wild Horses, Deaf Wish, and Zond.
But who are half these bands? We like to think we have our fingers on the pulse a bit when it comes to new, up and coming indie bands but even we haven’t heard of half these bands. So we did a bit of research and pulled together some information on each the bands, copy and pasted from various reliable sources like Wikipedia and MySpace.
Bands from the USA…
- Pink Reason consists of Kevin DeBroux and by the sounds of it pretty much anyone else he feels like including. A search on the internet seems to reveal that their music style is hard to pin down – its experimental, lo-fi, post rock, dark and mysterious.
- James Arthur’s Manhunt are influenced by the colour brown and rodeo. Enough said.
- According to their MySpace Goodnight Loving is a “body-length, fleece blanket with built-in sleeves”. So what does a Snuggie sound like? Well a bit like The Black Lips – catchy, indie pop.
Bands from Australia…
- Eddy Current Suppression Ring are an awesome rock band from Melbourne. If you haven’t heard their album Primary Colours you should probably stop reading right now and go get it.
- The UV Race have a song called Lego Man. “I want to be a lego man… drive a lego car, smoke a lego cigar… live in a lego world…” Totally winning us over!
- Royal Headache are the new kids in town bursting into the scene about 6 months ago. They have a lo-fi sound and from their name we are expecting headache causing antics.
- Slug Guts apparently recorded their album Down on the Meat in eight hours and it only cost them $10 (that’s like 83 cents a song). Captivating sounds and guitar rifts are combined with Marilyn Manson style vocals, it’s an interesting mix.
- Oooga Boogas are somewhat of a super group featuring band members from Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Onyas, and the Sailors. They’ve created quite a following in Melbourne and their album Romance & Adventure was rated 7th on Mess + Noise’s 2008 Critics Poll.
- In a recent gig review Polaroids of Androids described Deaf Wish as “frantic, chaotic punk, to more traditional, dark-sided rock that gathered up to climatic, well-executed explosive spurts”. Interesting…
- Naked on the Vague bring to the outside world their own brand of apocalyptic pop and dark psychedelic weirdness with a heavy dose of distortion and delay.
- The Stabs are energetic, dirty and laced with grunge. They bring the ruckus and like to smash shit up.
- Super Wild Horses are two chicks with a murky rock sound, loose rhythms and strong beats.
- According to buffytufnel on Mess+Noise “Zond will tear Sydney a new areshole.” Scary stuff. The band sounds scary too with dark, satanic, gothic rock influences.
Sounds like an interesting blend of bands that should make for a good day / night out. Flip Out kicks off at 2pm on Saturday 29th August at Manning Bar. Tix will cost you about $40.