Corker Radio: Plastic Palace Alice Interview

Angus Paterson chats to Huw Murdoch from Melbourne band Plastic Palace Alice about their debut album The Great Depression. Listen to the exclusive Corker Radio interview here.

The second coming of Cut Copy

Along with just a small handful of bands who’ve been most successful in bringing rock together with dance music, Australia’s Cut Copy are your quintessential indie/electro band. But don’t mistake that for saying they’re your ‘average’ indie/electro band. Instead, they’ve been responsible for creating the blueprint everyone else has tried to follow. It’s been a while between drinks, but in 2008 the ‘Cutters’ are back with a national tour to show the wannabes how it’s done.

By Angus Paterson

“We’re actually in Texas at the moment,” Tim Hoey says down the phone line. Hoey plays guitar with Cut Copy, and was largely responsible for bringing such an authentic indie rock sound to the group when he hooked up with vocalist, dance music producer and founding member Dan Whitford in Melbourne back in 2003 (drummer Mitchell Scott joined shortly after). But it’s where Hoey is located that throws me off just a little as we begin our conversation, because at the time of speaking, Cut Copy’s sophomore album In Ghost Colours is on the cusp of its Australian release. You’d expect that they’d be locked and loaded back home for local promotional duties. Not so. But this demonstrates just how international the band’s appeal is. [Read more]

Midnight Juggernauts bridge the great divide

If you’re an old school rock fan who doesn’t rate dance music, chances are you’ve been finding it increasingly difficult staying on your side of the divide, thanks to crossover acts such as Midnight Juggernauts.

By Angus Paterson

The summer of 2008 was always set to be at least partly owned by Midnight Juggernauts. Given a brief moment last year to exhale after an extensive tour of North America and Europe, they were flung headfirst into headline slots at the Meredith and Falls festivals in Victoria, Sydney’s Field Day and then, in January, a place on the travelling circus that is the Big Day Out, Australia’s biggest and most enduring music event. In March, they say goodbye to our country and the summer with the Farewell Australia Tour. [Read more]