Nevereverland Sydney photos
Last Saturday saw Modular‘s Nevereverland tour kick off in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion. The show was a bit of a showcase for Modular acts like The Presets, Klaxons, Cut Copy, Ladyhawke, Bumblebeez and Van She. Invited international guests were geek Berliners The Whitest Boy Alive and disco queens Hercules and the Love Affair. The [...]
New Rave comes home
Is it my imagination or did the whole ‘New Rave’ movement start in Sydney? Bang Gang, Modular Records, The Presets and Tsubi (now Ksubi) are all Sydney institutions that were doing ‘New Rave’ well before NME hopped on the wagon and made the term popular. But New Rave is really just another name for post-punk [...]
Modular Party in Bondi
I braved the road blocks and bad beach vibes to head to Bondi on Sunday arvo for a Modular records party. It featured their major acts: Wolfmother, Cut Copy, The Presets, Van She and the Avalanches (still in DJ mode). In a fashion i’ve come to expect Wolfmother were head-bangingly brilliant and Cut Copy were [...]