The Australian String Quartet is Australia's leading string quartet, and presents an annual program of chamber music throughout Australia and internationally. Founded in 1985 the ASQ has received critical acclaim both at home and abroad for performances of a diverse range of repertoire, including world premieres of contemporary Australian works. Overseas tours take the quartet to North America, Europe and Asia.
The UV Race is a fantastic group of mongoloids from Melbourne, Australia that play memorable punk music. Boasting members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Straightjacket Nation
Glass Towers are a four piece indie band from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Members Benjamin Hannam (guitar, vocals), Cameron Holdstock (bass), Sam Speck (guitar) and Daniel Muszynski (drums) formed the group around Hannams solo bedroom recording project in early 2008 during a music class at school. The band opened the mainstage at Splendour In The Grass 2009 at the age of 17 and were finalists in Triple J's Unearthed High Competition for 2010. They released their debut EP "What We Were, When We Were" in 2011 amidst a year of heavy touring activity around Australia.
There is more than one artists by the name of SIR: 1. Formerly a husband/wife duo (divorced during the production of "Trapped in a World of Make Believe") from Melbourne, Australia, Sir specializes in minimal, down-tempo, haunting pop/folk that, at its roots, is certainly more creepy than catchy. The music is cinematic & dreamy with a strong sense of unease. The arrangements generally include church organs, lonesome guitars, and vintage, dusty ambience. 2. Sir is a queercore band from Philadelphia, PA. Sir is fronted by Jesse Adams on vocals and trumpet.
Initially a guitarist working with dub, rock and funk bands, Inner Space's Ian Fletcher began experimenting with samplers, sequencers and analogue keyboards with the aim of incorporating them along with live instruments into his music. Fusing together diverse global influences including Indian, Egyptian, Celtic and African styles, his tunes feature dub and funk rhythms laced together with atmospheric keyboard and guitar work.
Piotr Figiel known as DCM, student at Applied Computer Science and Acoustic Engineering at AGH university is a music passionate, dj and producer from Poland. Developing his musical interests, he appeared to the audience in parallel, records mixing and music production. As a dj he has been playing gigs from 2005 and two years later he debuted as a producer by signing and releasing the "It's Alive!! EP".
name : elva hsiao, (traditional chinese : 蕭亞軒; simplified chinese: 萧亚轩)
real name : 蕭雅之
birthdate : 24th august 1979 (some say 1980)
height : 162cm
weight : 42kg
interests : dancing, sea sports, volleyball, going to the gym, reading books and magazines on arts and designing
strengths and talents : singing, drawing, dancing (well-verse in jazz, street, ballet, folk), speaks fluent english (having lived in vancouver for a few years), musical instruments (piano and flute)
aheadphonehome is a small collective (sometimes of 1) based in Brisbane Australia. Founded by noise maker/producer Phil Laidlaw in 2006, aheadphonehome draws on eclectic loves of experimental, guitar based, electronica, ambient, DIY, folk, psychadelic and pop traditions to create layed, evolving songs. The debut album "in the static" was released in late 2007.
Jack Ladder (b.1983) is the alias of Tim Rogers, a songwriter, musician and artist from Sydney, Australia. His music is characterised by his baritone voice and poignant observations on love and death. His songs often feature a black humour and deeply personal revelations.
He has released three albums "Not Worth Waiting For" (2006), "Love is Gone" (2008) and "Hurtsville" (2011) . An alternative version of songs from Love Is Gone "Counterfeits" was self released in 2009. Love is Gone was short listed for the Australian Music Prize and won the Red Bull Music Award. It was also selected Album of the Year by Who Weekly magazine.
His live shows are a constant reinvention, involving improvisation and deconstruction of his own material. Early shows were strictly acoustic featuring cello and upright bass. This was followed by a long period of electric trio and full band shows. He is currently performing with vintage drum machines, delays and the guitar sonics of Kirin J Callinan (Mercy Arms). His live band, The Dreamlanders, regularly features Laurence Pike (PVT, Triosk) on drums. Though evolving and experimental his performances are always passionate.
Ladder has toured and opened for artists as diverse as John Cale, Wolfmother, Feist, Bill Callahan and Okkervill River for whom he contributed to The Stand Ins (2008). He features on the live Bill Callahan record "Rough Travel For A Rare Thing" (2010) playing bass guitar.
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