Songs from the City, Stories from the Sea.
Big Day Out’s tireless efforts to secure Harvey for her debut Australian tour were detailed last year in a Double J retrospective piece. It was touch and go for a while, but PJ rose to the occasion. As the festival’s longtime coordinator Sahara Herald put it to Double J: “She brought this incredible element to the Big Day Out which at times could be really bloody blokey.”
Special acknowledgement: Big Day Out moved swiftly to book Coldplay following their 2000 debut album,
Parachutes, and the bet paid off in heartfelt sets featuring ‘Yellow’, ‘Sparks’, ‘Shiver’ and ‘Trouble’. “I feel like Freddie Mercury with all these people,” Chris Martin quipped sweetly while looking out at the huge Sydney crowd. Oh, what innocent times.
Noise11.com Top Music News Stories April to June 2020
As Covid increases and isolation locked us down the music world faces challenges with cancellations globally but new music kept on coming. Here are Noise11.com’s top music news headlines from April to June 2020.
Something for Kate release their first new music in 8 years while Jimmy and Jane Barnes start isolating from home by performing for the world.
The Beatles give kids something to do in isolation and The Rolling Stones debut a brand new song.
The Badloves reactivate with new music and Stevie Nicks is making a Rhiannon movie.
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Albums of the year: How ten Australian artists created their 2020 releases
Words by August Billy
With our liberties curtailed, our listening choices took on extra weight in 2020.
Not only did we turn to music for entertainment and intrigue, but we also wanted it to transport us and provide much-needed company.
For musicians, it was an often uncomfortable and disorienting year. Live performance was prohibited and live streams could very easily become an alienating experience – it’s difficult to adapt to playing to an invisible crowd accentuated by flickering thumbs-up and heart emojis.
Releasing music also brought about novel challenges. After all, the act of self-promotion began to feel entirely incongruous in the midst of a global pandemic, a growing movement for Black rights and against the intensifying spectre of climate change.