OCTOBER 2007 AU $5.99 / NZ $6.99 MSTRKRFT PARKLIFE SYDNEY ‘07 NOISE NOISE DIGITALISM EDITOR’S PARKLIFE SYDNEY ‘07 NOTE can remember my very first festival experience, and let me tell you it wasn’t the best. It was Big Day Out in 000 when I was only 1, and I had no idea what to do, what to take, or what to wear. Turns out everything that I chose was extremely uncomfortable, annoying and just idiotic. NOISE this month Ihopes that my unfortunate festival experience will not happen to you! We bring you festival do’s and don’ts that will hopefully tell you all you need to know about festival behaviour, and our Summer festival preview will let you decide where you can put your knowledge to the test. My favourite festival in Australia is definitely Splendour In The Grass and this year was no different as NOISE continues it’s coverage of the gloriousness that is Splendour with an in depth review of many of the bands that appeared. On a serious note, I have not seen more people on drugs as what I have at festivals in the past year. I don’t know if it’s just me or if people are becoming increasingly more reckless with their health and wellbeing. NOISE this month looks at this phenomenon and tries to make sense or a solution to this problem. The Festival Special is here to help with any of your queries about Australian festivals, and hopefully you will learn from my various festival mistakes and not make any of your own! Let NOISE be your guide and show you the festival light! The Editor xxx P.S. Hover over titles for links & more info NOISE NOISE “That’s the good thing about travelling. You can go somewhere and not even know how you’re going to be received but still manage to have a good time.” Thanks to their relatively LIVING IN hectic touring schedule however, the band won’t have much time to see the sights. “It’s quite annoying because all our shows are close together, almost back to back so we won’t have much time to do anything THE 90S else but play and travel to the next place,” he said. “But hopefully we’ll get a couple of free hours just to have a look They enjoy drinking, partying and write around.” music that makes people do both. Rebecca Their music has been Ware talks to 1990s about festivals, described as tunes perfect for parties, drinking and causing inspiration and Alex Kapranos. ruckus, but Jackie insists that the live shows aren’t as chaotic as “I’ve always hated watching man Alex Kapranos. you might think. heir music is undeniably festivals. I just don’t like seeing “There isn’t much similarity “They’re really happy more catchy, with brilliant bands in that atmosphere, along between Yummy Fur and 1990s. I than anything. Everyone’s just Tlyrics and guitar riffs that with all the problems having to mean they’re two totally different smiling and having a good time, get stuck in your head for days. camp and everything,” Jackie ventures into music,” Jackie said. enjoying the music. But where does the inspiration confessed. He has only nice words for his “Everyone thinks that it’s going come from to write such awesome “But I don’t know, my opinion Yummy Fur band mate, Kapranos to be this crazy time with people songs? According to front man has kind of changed after playing and the amount of success that his jumping all over the joint and all Jackie, at parties. Where else? a festival. I think I’d be more open band has seen. this crazy stuff happening but it’s “Most of the songs were written at to going, maybe.” “It was really good to see Franz not! We just like having a good parties when we came home from So other than attending more get so big and just blow up. And time when we play,” he asserted. clubs,” Jackie said. festivals, Jackie said that their then it was like all these bands One particular concert that After jotting down things they main concentration at the moment out of Glasgow were becoming they recently played made them saw at parties and collecting their is touring and getting the new CD popular, and 1990s just came see just how happy they were thoughts, the 1990s release their out there. Oh, and writing the next about at the right time in the right making people and also, how first LP in 00 titled “Cookies”. CD as well of course. place,” Jackie said. popular they’d become. The album won them critical “I find that when we’re on So other than making people “We’ve just done the Carling acclaim across the UK and now tour, it’s the best time to write happy and travelling around the Festival in Leeds and Reading, in Australia, they are starting to music. You see a hell of a lot world, what is the best thing about and they were brilliant. The crowd make waves. when you’re on the road and it’s being in the 1990s? was really into our music which Their first single, See You At really good inspiration,” he said. “Umm, I like the fact that we was really exciting,” he said. The Lights gathered momentum “I mean I’ve even found only have to play for 0 minutes “Everyone just seemed really down under thanks to Triple J, and inspiration for the next CD in the a night. It’s a pretty easy job!” he happy and it was weird to their next hit You Made Me Like It pub! It’s everywhere.” said laughing. see this sea of people not only looks to do the same. nspiration is something that “But other than it being a bobbing along to our tunes, but Thanks to this popularity, hasn’t been hard to come by brilliant job, just the fact that also singing along. It was a really Australia will be able to witness for the 1990s trio, as they’ve we’re making this chaotic, yet the band live for the first time. positive experience.” I all been involved in music for melodic music is awesome. We’re But his opinion on playing “We’ve never been to Australia over 10 years, including being in a doing what we love and there’s festivals is different to his opinion so we don’t really know what to band with Franz Ferdinand front nothing better than that.” expect,” Jackie said. on attending festivals, as a punter. NOISE NOISE oing to an Airbourne “It’s always a lot of fun, “We painted the town with concert can only especially meeting the bands posters for every gig we were Gbe described as an from all around the world,” Ryan doing. If they were getting ‘experience’. When you arrive, said about touring with some of ripped down we’d go back and you can tell from the crowd the world’s biggest rock groups. put them up. We had to walk that you are in for just that. You Not bad from four guys though, ‘cos we couldn’t afford a are surrounded by bogans, and from rural Victorian town car.” I mean that in the nicest way Warrnambool, where the main 00 has seen the hotly possible. However, as soon as town activities were playing anticipated release of their Airbourne emerge onstage, it is footy and getting blind drunk, first LP, Runnin’ Wild, which obvious this band has tapped the latter of which is still an includes everything a great into a void in Australian music important part of their live Aussie pub rock CD should since the 0’s. show. have. “0 years ago the Aussie The group was formed Airbourne’s sound has been pub rock scene was well and when brothers Ryan and Joel likened to Australian rock gods truly alive giving bands such as turned their love for Aussie pub AC/DC, with Runnin’ Wild only AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, The Angels, rock into a dream, and started emphasising this similarity Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs and jamming at their house, much further. So what’s it like to be compared to such an influential rock band? “Considering every band is compared to another artist before them, it’s an honour to be compared to the world’s best rock act,” Ryan said. Like AC/DC, Airbourne’s live shows are incredibly energetic and a raucous to say the least, and according to Ryan, there are only two things needed to keep that energy alive. “Drink a lot of piss on the road, and when show day comes Cold Chisel a chance to play in to the annoyance of the local let passion for rock’n’roll take the same street as another, and police. over,” he explained. also tour together,” Airbourne’s “It got to the point where the And passion seems like frenetic drummer, Ryan O’Keeffe cops would just end up saying, something that Airbourne has a explained. ‘Look, come on, guys, we’ve lot of. “We differ because we’re alone gotta stop coming around here Judging by a description of when it comes to Aussie pub cos we’ve got other people to their music on their MySpace rock bands in today’s world.” arrest,” laughs Joel. page, passion is something that Their music has seen them Joel was then introduced will be with them for quite some play Big Day Out and Splendour to guitarist David Roads when time.