Electro-pop duo Walter Meego has just announced they are heading to Oz for a run of summer festivals in January! The Chicago outfit have toured previously with the likes of The Presets and VHS or Beta and their whirlwind three day tour is sure to impress. Listen out for their current single Forever off their new album Voyager currently in high-rotation on Triple J or head to their website www.waltermeego.com

Details of their tour are as follows:

1 Jan Field Day, Sydney, The Domain
1 Jan BBq Beats, Brisbane, The Riverstage
3 Jan Solar Festival, Mornington Racecourse

If you are desperate for some new gear and the thought of waiting for the post-Xmas sales sounds utterly bleak then get excited because the team behind THE BIG FASHION SALE are doing it again!

Samples, seconds and one-offs from a heap of exclusive Australian labels like Fredrich Gray, Gary Bigeni, Romance Was Born and Elke Kramer with prices starting at $10!
             

                                

This week SBS is putting on their full metal jackets and hosting Kubrick Week. Every night this week they will be screening one of the master filmmaker’s classics. For those of you who love a quest for infinity sadly 2001: A Space Odyssey was screened last night – but don’t fret tonight the doco Dark Side of the Moon, which reveals unknown facts about the filmmaker's involvement with theatrical elements of the US Space Program, airs at 10:55pm. Kubrick’s timeless interpretation of Nabakov’s Lolita will of course be a part of the fun, tomorrow night at 11:40pm. The timeslots are painfully late but at least we know they’ll be aired uncensored in their original eccentricity.

Head to www.sbs.com.au/schedule to check the Kubrick calendar.

                             
     

Maybe I’m being an eager beaver in writing up my Christmas list in November, but now I’ve seen this there is no way I can go possibly go without it. Thanks to artist Chris Dimino breakfast just got dorkier and being that ‘le geek c’est chic’ the market for these little babies is going to be huge – or perhaps I’m overestimating our love of recycled goods. In any case it looks a lot tastier than the crumbs stuck in my keyboard right now!

   

The release date for the much awaited film Hippie Hippie Shake is still yet to be confirmed and I can’t wait much longer. I was shaking with excitement when I heard rumour that the film will finally be released in min-January in the States so hopefully it will hit our shores soon after.

The Brit flick follows the ‘obscenity’ trials of the Oz magazine crew whose notoriety sent them from Sydney to London in the late 1960’s. The magazine became the ‘voice of dissent’ for its controversial figureheads who tackled contentious issues like homosexuality, police brutality and abortion. The movie is based on the memoirs of editor Richard Neville (played by Cillian Murphy) and follows the Oz crew of Louise Ferrier (Sienna Miller), Germain Greer (who told her counterpart Emma Booth to ‘get an honest job’) and Martin Sharpe (Max Minghella) through the psychedelia and nudity of Oz’s London years. Here’s hoping “its in the bag” for 2009.

Halloween may be over but I’ve decided to preemptively give everyone the heads-up for next year. I suspect that for those of you who were out on freaky Friday the night was filled with endless ghouls, skeletons and vampires spouting fake blood over their black attire – YAWN! A legion of my facebook ‘friends’ have updated their profile pictures with their Halloween shots; most of the gals look like victims out of some E-grade Hollywood horror-flick and as for the guys well, ‘joujing’ your hair Horrors style just doesn’t cut it.

I’m hoping for some better scare tactics next year so here are a few truely creepy suggestions:

 Genie in a Lamp                                                The Breathalyser

And for the kids...

The Car Freshener
      
                             
          

                    
         
The legendary Leonard Cohen is coming to Aus for the first time in 24 years to perform at wineries around Australia in January and February. A Day on the Green promises to be a truly poetic day out combining wine, grass (no pun intended) and the sad rousing lyrics of one of the most significant balladists ever. At 74 years of age Cohen is still exciting young audiences and still having a profound influence on artists today.

For tickets and to check out the rest of the lineup head to http://www.adayonthegreen.com.au