The Medics have had a massive year since their last BIGSOUND showcase, well and truly earning their touring chops around Australia and further honing the performance that was so highly praised for its pure energy and stagecraft by local and foreign industry members alike at BIGSOUND 2009.

The Cairns four-piece will play The Zoo on Thursday September 9 for their official BIGSOUND Live showcase, whilst also performing at the Home2 Contemporary Indigenous Artists CD Launch at The Artisan Gallery Outdoor Venue on Wednesday September 8.

Wednesday Sept 8
Home2 Contemporary Indigenous Artists CD Launch
The Artisan Gallery Outdoor Venue, 6pm with Dubmarine and Stiff Gins

Thursday Sept 9
Official BIGSOUND Live showcase
The Zoo, 8.10-8.40pm

And now the band are about to put another EP release where their rock-chops are with the approaching launch of Conquer The Town, Easy As Cake – a five-track servicing of pop deliciousness that covers the musical spectrum. Bookended by the opening radio-bliss, naughtiness of ‘iFly’ (you’ll see) and the simply sublime strum of ‘Western Whirl’, the EP also features the clap-tastic ‘The Ghost I Saw When I Was Dreaming’, recent single ‘Sea Strangers (I Don’t Even Know You)’ and the four minute masterpiece ‘Hello Anais’, with a climax and brass solo bound to catch Tarantino attention.

Having produced their debut EP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Ourselves To Sleep themselves, the band opted to work with Tristan Hoogland at Brisbane’s Psi-Fi Studios this time around, cutting over 15 songs. Partnering three of the resulting songs with brand new productions from frontman Sam Cromack, the EP shows the sextet’s impressive diversity, songwriting prowess and clever musicality.

Still a band in their infancy, Ball Park Music have quickly formed a strong fanbase around Brisbane, finally taking their crowd-pleasing affair to Sydney recently, opening for Hungry Kids of Hungary’s sell-out show at Oxford Arts Factory with Boy & Bear and Ernest Ellis. Previous single ‘Sea Strangers (I Don’t Really Know You)’ featured a voodoo-fest that quickly became a Home & Hosed blog feature as well as snaring Indie Of The Week title with Rage.

See what all the fuss is about when Ball Park Music launch Conquer The Town, Easy As Cake at the Zoo Friday May 21 with the able assistance of Blame Ringo and Tin Can Radio.

Friday May 21 | The Zoo, Brisbane
with Tin Can Radio and Blame Ringo
Tix: pre-sales $12 / door $14 www.zoo.oztix.com.au/

In January 2010, a band was born: full of energy, bursting with love and spilling over with songs to sing and stories to tell. This band is Charlie Mayfair.

The first part of this year has seen the band racing around their hometown writing songs, making friends, and letting people experience their unique style of folk-fired pop. They hollered their gigs from the rooftops and Brisbane heeded their call.

And so their three-part-harmonised hollering led them to play at many lovely venues like The Powerhouse, The Troubadour, The Zoo and The Sound Lounge, sharing the stage with the talented likes of Montpelier, Tin Can Radio, Skipping Girl Vinegar, Loren and Iceland’s Svavar Knutur, amongst others.

And now with hearts on their sleeves, the quintet have made an offering that they can share with the world -  recorded in Brisbane’s 180 studio with producer Matt Whitehouse the result is their debut EP Watch My Hands.

Their first single – ‘Run’ – released into the wild in February, has been gaining some fine feedback from listeners, especially after being featured on triple j Unearthed, where presenter Zan Rowe called it “a really sweet folk-pop song; lovely harmonies going on.”

With the finishing touches lovingly placed, Charlie Mayfair will launch Watch My Hands at The Zoo in Brisbane on Friday, April 30. Special guests for the evening will be geetar-sliding roots rumblers The Deckchairs and 60s-rockin’ band-on-a-mission Blame Ringo.

CHARLIE MAYFAIR
WATCH MY HANDS EP LAUNCH

SAT MAY 1 – CLUB ENVY, SUNSHINE COAST
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: THE FLOATING BRIDGES & THE GOLDEN VIRTUES
$10 door sale