Anyone here who likes the Arctic Monkeys? I have seen them live for a wicked price of 8 quid! They are playing up at Sydney in July i think. Anyone intrested in going?

Tom

Oooooo sounds good. We move over in May and we would probably go. How do you find out about it??

Cheers

I found out on this website! http://www.musichead.com.au/site/ Im wanting to go to the Sydney one but want to go with people and not on my own! I cant find any aussies that like the Arctic Monkeys! They are still into the the spice girls over here!!

Tom

No Aussies that like Arctic Monkeys???!!! How is it possible? Fantastic band. Just got tickets to the Reading festival in August here in UK (I'm assuming I will still be in the UK at that point!). Lineup looks fantastic, including Arctic Monkeys.



Graham

Music is a whole different scene down here. I have just come bk to australia from England i have spent 5 months there cathcing up with family and friends and whilst there i went to so many gigs!! Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Editors, Coldplay and Franz Ferdinand! The list goes on!! Over here its different!

Ha, well, that's what the scene's like in my part of Australia.

Oasis were here last year I think.
Franz Ferdinand at the BDO?

Coldplay is coming to Perth in July (we're going!)

Arctic Monkeys are great, get played on Triple J all the time!

My goodness, I don't think the Spice Girls have ever been as big in Australia as any other country.
It's always been more rock over here(or maybe that's just Perth, or maybe just my 'crowd'. Actually, no, popular radio plays way more rock.

Oh, I am comparing with the Netherlands though.....

How on earth did you get Reading tickets! I tried for hours

wow i wish the music scene was like that in Canberra! Plus all my mates who like the same sort of music as me are bk in England!

Whatever people say I am, thats what I'm not = my mantra

Great band.

Two computers being refreshed constantly on about 4 different websites and a total of 4 phones re-dialling continuously for about an hour! Bloody hard work! It's a joke that it's so hard to get them, and they were on ebay immediately after they sold out for up to £250 each!!!

Scum bag touts....

HMV are selling a few today apparently, you might still get lucky...

Graham

We like all sorts of music, so there's plenty here for us!
We're going to the West Coast blues and roots on Saturday:
Bernard Fanning (from PowderFinger)
Pete Murray
Jamie Callum
Michael Franti
The Beautiful Girls
Mia Dyson
Ash Grunwald
Carus
Jackson Browne
Damian Marley (son of)
Public Enemy - cancelled their tour



Here, here's the ACT gig guide for rock music, I got it on http://triplej.yourevents.com.au/guide/
Seems plenty of good stuff inbetween all that...

I see the Grates, Panda Band, End of Fashion (gosh, that's 2 perth bands, ha ha

Wednesday 5 April
Jimmi Carr
12pm, Canberra University, Belconnen, ACT, free


Jimmi Carr
8pm, The Phoenix, Canberra, ACT, free


Thursday 6 April

Little Smoke
Super Best Friends
7.30pm, Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, $7


Saturday 8 April

BucketJuice '06
O'Hooligans
Using Three Words, Switch 3, Australian Kingswood Factory, Alien Digit, Paper Moon, Looking Glass, Lamexcuse, Weapons of Fashion, Ghetto Pimp
3pm, Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, $10

The Red Eyes
8.30pm, Toast, Canberra City, ACT, $10



Variodivers
Lout, Spoil, Mosaic
Green Room, Phillip, ACT, $8


Sunday 9 April

Tonk
Variodivers, Quagmire
1pm, Green Room, Phillip, ACT, free
all ages


Monday 10 April

Phoenix Bootleg Sessions
The Ashburys
8.30pm, The Phoenix, Canberra, ACT, free


Wednesday 12 April

Pete Murray
Donavon Frankenreiter (USA), Tristan Prettyman (USA)
Royal Theatre, Canberra City, ACT, $39.95 (+ bf) - $49.95 (+ bf)
Tickets on sale: 17 February
all ages


Friday 14 April

Ave Crazy
Sinema, The Corgi Crisis, Breathing New Life
Green Room, Phillip, ACT, free


Saturday 15 April

Misty Water
The Ashburys
8.30pm, The Phoenix, Canberra, ACT, free


Wednesday 19 April

CKY
UCU Bar, Canberra University, Belconnen, ACT


Thursday 20 April

Josh Pyke, Bob Evans
Laura Imbruglia
Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, $15


Friday 21 April

The Dawn Collective
The Fumes, From the South
8.30pm, Green Room, Phillip, ACT, $10 (over 18 yrs)
under 18s


Saturday 22 April

Adrian Belew
8pm, Southern Cross Club, Phillip, ACT

Sunday 23 April

Darren Hanlon
Tilley's Devine Cafe Gallery, Lyneham, ACT, $25 (+ bf)


Monday 24 April

Birds of Tokyo
Sleep Parade, Calerway, Deflekt
8pm, Green Room, Phillip, ACT, $8


Wednesday 26 April

Augie March
Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males
Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, $15 (+ bf) - $18 (at door)


Thursday 27 April

Carus & the True Believers
The Dan Banks Band
Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, $15


Friday 28 April

Hugh Cornwall
Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT


Saturday 29 April

Moments
No Quarter, Nothing Days, Waterview
8pm, Pete's Bar & Tavern, Belconnen, ACT, $8


Wednesday 3 May

The Grates
The Panda Band, I Heart Hiroshima
Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT


Thursday 4 May

The Exploders
Uni Bar, Australian National University, Acton, ACT


Sunday 7 May

Jackie Marshall
Lucie Thorne, Sime Nugent
7pm, Polish Australian White Eagle Club, Turner, ACT, $18


Wednesday 10 May

End Of Fashion
The Cloud Room (USA), Van She
Refectory, Canberra University, Belconnen, ACT


Friday 12 May

Lior
Fruit
Hellenic Club of Canberra, Phillip, ACT


Sunday 14 May

Deep Purple (UK)
Status Quo (UK), Mandrake
AIS Athletic Arena, Bruce, ACT
Tickets on sale: 20 March


Friday 19 May

Beauties & Bogans
Wishful Thinking
For What it's Worth, Strong Like Sam
7pm, Viking Park, Wanniassa, ACT, $10 (presale) - $15 (at door)
all ages


Saturday 3 June

The Red Paintings
2pm, Green Room, Phillip, ACT
under 18s

The Red Paintings
8pm, Green Room, Phillip, ACT


Friday 16 June

The Whitlams
Hellenic Club of Canberra, Phillip, ACT


Saturday 8 July

Centralise
Irrelevant
Grand Fatal, Brisk, Zero Degrees And Falling, Stolen Exit, Wings Of The Fallen
Sound Underground, Belconnen, ACT
all ages

It's all getting a nightmare now - I've never been to Reading, I'm more a Glasto Girl No Glasto this year though so had thought of Reading, I've got tickets for V and for T in the Park - mind you I've realised today that I'm going to see Rolling Stones on 26th August so good job I didn't get any :scared:

Oh, and for the OP - Arctic Monkeys are ace live, I had a thread on them a while ago on here. If I was in Sydney I'd come to see them

Good job you missed out then! Haven't been to Glasto myself, get the impression it's too big and too full of wierdos! (Not suggesting you're a wierdo in any way lol) - been to Reading loads though. First year we went (1999!) we got tickets no problem in about June - it's got worse and worse since then.

Oh well, I guess we were lucky to get tickets in a way - seems like there are lots of people who have missed out this year, largely to do with the fact that Glasto's not on....

Graham

I've certainly noticed that Aussies tend to be very much into their rock music. I'd be surprised if the Monkeys weren't big there.

One thing I will miss in Aus will be the music scene: I remember talking about Glastonbury and the other festivals to Aussies I worked with near Emerald. It seems that they just don't have anything on that scale there, though quite a few bands do visit Aus on tour, so check for who's playing in your neck of the woods.

Oh, and try and discover local bands, as I heard a few that I'd never heard of before arriving in Aus whom I thought were rather good!

Lol, Glasto is a very special place, you do get weirdos but they make it all the more interesting and different. I cannot even begin to explain the atmosphere, it's electric. It's a huge place, but not at all scary.

We first went to Glasto in 1998, there were still tickets available I think at the time of the festival - mainly because people just used to jump over the fence! Since the super fence was created tickets have sold out in record time - year before last I spent 24 hours solid sitting at the computer with two mobile phones just constantly trying :scared: I was like a Zombie! Ended up getting some in a resale after they took them off the touts

Lot of gigs are going that way now - touts must have some kind of software that blocks us all getting our tickets I reckon!