Motor Ace were everywhere.
The Melbourne band were getting thrashed on triple j, their song ‘Death Defy’ was the opening theme to new TV show The Secret Life of Us, they were on the road and in the charts.
This week is the 20th anniversary of the release of their beloved debut album
Five Star Laundry, which went on to score them 3 Hottest 100 spots and an ARIA nomination for best rock album.
The week of release, the band played this special show to a crowd of lucky punters on the rooftop terrace of the ABC in Sydney.
Let those 2001 memories come flooding back with tunes like Death Defy , American Shoes , Hey Driver and more.
It was January 1998, and only one half of Daft Punk had made it to Australia for their first visit. Reportedly struck with a fear of flying, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo never made it on the plane. Left carrying the record cases for their first DJ’ing appearances here was his secondary school friend and the other half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter. The duo’s debut album Homework had been out for exactly a year. Excitement had built steadily everywhere across the previous 12 months, thanks to the album’s standout singles ‘Da Funk’ and ‘Around The World’, the innovative videos that accompanied both tracks, and for their live shows that Europe and the United States had enjoyed across the majority of 1997. In Daft Punk’s first triple j interview (they only ever did three with us), Richard Kingsmill speaks to Bangalter to find out their thoughts on dance music at the time, why he thought their album was succeeding, and how anonymity was what they craved then and forever.
wet dreams.
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Looking back at the Bachelor experience, Hing couldn t help but Carry Bradshaw/wonder if they had given him more notice he could have just buckled down and really learnt how to strip to add a level of believability to his Magic Mike-themed shoot.
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When creating
Gorillaz in the late-90s, both artists were likely aware it could easily be dismissed as a gimmick. To transcend doubtful preconceptions, quality would be paramount.
Their debut album left no room for doubt: Albarn s effortless collage of dub, hip hop, psych and indie rock was seamless, and a couple of indie hits in Clint Eastwood and 19-2000 meant Gorillaz became stars before doubters had much chance to question the concept.
Two decades on from that debut album, we look at Gorillaz brilliant career and the many different musical moods they ve concocted over their seven albums so far.
When you think about it,
Daft Punk were kind of an unlikely success story.
Who’d have thought that two French guys dressed up as robots, playing a retro-futuristic style of electro funk, would become one of the biggest acts in the world. But it happened.
Grammy-winning electronic music duo Daft Punk announced they are breaking up after 28 years.
Across four incredible albums, a handful of unforgettable tour spectaculars and amongst a whole lot of intrigue, Daft Punk became true icons of modern music.
They married the worlds of house, funk, rock, hip hop and pop in weird and wonderful ways, and their songs still get a dancefloor pumping like nothing else.