UMFM 101.5 FM Music Logs Wednesday 9:00 - 10:00 pm
Show Name: downunder upover
Host Name: eugenius
Date: 21-January-2004

ARTIST - TRACK:

scared weird little guys - when love was new
jet jaguar - loose circuits
the cat empire - days like these
the beautifuil few - this kiss
the underminers - little blue cars
nesian mystick - brothaz
straitjacket fits - down in spendor (live)
hooster - lucy
butterfingers - I love work
blueline medic - sleepyhead
for amusement only - set the story straight
kisschasy - captain obvious
blind - long walk home

NEWS:

* Plans for the In2Wishing Music Festival in Victoria over the Easter weekend are moving along. One act that was meant to play, Superheist, have reportedly have split up. Brisbane's Butterfingers are on the bill and will headline with Bodyjar and Blueline Medic. The roster of acts set to play includes: Roostar, The Spazzys, The Day After, The Gents, Rob Sawyer, Spagjet, Fire Underground, the Fallouts, Harmful If Swallowed, Decrepit Sun, the Harlocks, Adam Cole & The Pollen Choir, 4ARM, Firing Line, Gates Of Dawn, Redefine, Heaven Scent, Brad Blake, and Jo Kelly Stephenson.

* Summertime Grooves is a series of six free outdoor concerts every Sunday from January 25 to February 29 at the Victorian Arts Centre Lawn Stage. Kicking off the programme this coming Sunday from 2:30pm onwards will be the Scared Weird Little Guys, Man Bites God, Hardrive Bluegrass Band, and The Six Foot Four - Barber's Shop Quartet. Other weeks include Dave Graney, Telford Scully of Downtown Brown, Vika and Linda Bull, Chris Wilson, Sally Ford and Patrick Cronin with the Pachuco Playboys and Mark Seymour.

* The Annual East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival is held on the weekend of April 8 to 12 at Red Devil Park, Byron Bay. On the roster to play are: John Bulter Trio, The Waifs and The Cat Empire plus a plethora of international guests.

* Gyroscope will headline an exclusive two-stage all-ages punk extravaganza on Friday January 30 at TLC - 265 Canterbury Road, Bayswater, Melbourne. Joining them on the main stage are Sounds Like Chicken, Kiss Chasy, The Tall Poppies and Pixelated. Appearing on the second stage are Codger, Silence Means Eveything, One Odd Reason, Off By Heart and Sound Gauge. Doors will be open between 6 and 11pm, admission is $10. Note: this is an all-ages, drug-and-alcohol-free event.

* Jim Pinckney (New Zealand Listener) included Jet Jaguar in his best of 2003 list. Coming into the list at number 8, Pinckney described the Melbourne-based, former Wellington producer Michael Upton's music as containing "plenty of melody by subterfuge, and layers of gentle activity sitting on top of the lazy funk beds" ... Jet Jaguar's newest release is called "Think About It Later".

* NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark is being offered the opportunity to participate in an alternative Waitangi Day celebration. Nesian Mystik and an estimated 20,000 people are to gather in Palmerston North for a Waitangi Day event that they claim will not be marred by protests or the foreshore controversy. Also performing will be Te Au Ki Te Tonga, the kapa haka group representing the region in the National Polynesian festival to be held in Palmerston North next year.
FYI, Waitangi Day is the New Zealand national day celebrated each year on February 6. New Zealand’s national day commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6, 1840 and marks the coming together in friendship of the Maori people and the Pakeha or white European settlers.

* The first two Big Day Out shows were sell-outs. The Auckland show went without a hitch. Opening up the festival in Aukland were Hooster who played from 10.30 - 11.00am. Other NZ acts that played and went off were the Datsuns, Salmonella Dub, death metallists 8 Foot Sativa, hip hopper Lucia and drum & bass acts Concord Dawn and Shapeshifter.

* NZ rock act Evermore are have recorded a cover of the legendary band Straitjacket Fits' song, Down in Splendour. The song can be requested on Triple J's Super Request and the Net 50.
FYI, Straitjacket Fits version of Down in Splendour snuck into the Hottest 100 at #66 back in 1991.
Down In Splendour will appear on Evermore's third EP which is out in Australia on April 5.

Eugenius4Lynne

Thanks to Matt Atlee, Whammo, NZ On Air and Christie Eliezer at themusic.com.au for providing news on the show this week.

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