The Aussie Invasion!!!

As promised, Soundwave returns in ’09, and to paraphrase Southpark, it is bigger, longer and uncut!

Never one to rest on our laurels, we are tickled pink to announce the second round of artists for Soundwave 09!

So without further ado... joining the already massive cast will be the powerful live force that is the Dillinger Escape Plan, Florida Metalcore titans Underoath, the sky-high hooks of Forever The Sickest Kids, pop rock balladeers Jack’s Mannequin and the unrelenting rhythms of All That Remains.

As always, there is also plenty to offer the fans of punk, metal and the heavier end of the alternative spectrum, as well as signing tents giving artists the opportunity to meet fans, market stalls and the odd bit of crappy installation art for you to laugh at.


NINE INCH NAILS
ALICE IN CHAINS, BLOODHOUND GANG
LAMB OF GOD, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ALKALINE TRIO, BILLY TALENT, THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, FACE TO FACE, IN FLAMES, RIVAL SCHOOLS, ANBERLIN, UNDEROATH, THE SUBWAYS, EVERY TIME I DIE DEVILDRIVER, FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS, FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, LESS THAN JAKE, POISON THE WELL, MADINA LAKE, NEW FOUND GLORY, FROM FIRST TO LAST, BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH, JACK'S MANNEQUIN,  HELLOGOODBYE, FINCH, GOLDFINGER, SAY ANYTHING, CHIODOS, SILVERSTEIN, SAVES THE DAY, LACUNA COIL, 36 CRAZYFISTS, STRAYLIGHT RUN, EVERGREEN TERRACE, MINUS THE BEAR, MONEEN, ACE ENDERS (THE EARLY NOVEMBER), I AM THE AVALANCHE, JAGUAR LOVE, UNEARTH, BAYSIDE, EMERY, HOUSTON CALLS, THE AUDITION, ATTACK IN BLACK, INNERPARTYSYSTEM, ALL THAT REMAINS, VALENCIA, IN THIS MOMENT, ALESANA, THE RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS, HORSE THE BAND, MAYLENE & THE SONS OF DISASTER

TICKETS

Soundwave Festival website (www.soundwavefestival.com)

General Public tickets go on sale Thursday 13 November through soundwavefestival, ticketek.com.au & 132 849.

VENUES AND DATES

Saturday 21 February – RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane
Sunday 22 February – TBC, Sydney
Friday 27 February – Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne
Saturday 28 February – Bonython Park, Adelaide
Monday 2 March - Steel Blue Oval, Bassendean, Perth

* Venues, lineup and date may be subject to change

Licensed All Ages Event Photo ID Required

SOUNDWAVE – IT’S NOT FOR EVERYONE


For more info and media enquiries contact publicity@soundwavefestival.com

www.soundwavefestival.com

Are you a Giant Gyroscope Fan?
Have you have ever wanted to ask the band a question? Here is your opportunity!
Simply send us your question for Gyroscope by posting it on our guestbook page at http://www.teamharlequin.com/
The top 7 questions will be sent to the band and replied personally by Gyroscope! Plus, the 7 chosen winners will be featured on our site and myspace and will recieve a Gyroscope prize pack, including the brand new album Breed Obsession!

Be the first to send in your questions and win the exclusive prize pack. Competition Ends Midnight AEST 29/3/2008 (Australian Eastern Standard Time) 

Also, make sure to keep an eye out for new interviews coming up including Gallows, Tegan and Sara, The Wombats and Simple Plan!

New Panic At The Disco album reviews for Pretty. Odd. up on the features page at http://www.teamharlequin.com/

This is a short version of an article from the AP and was featured on the El Nuevo Día a newspaper of Puerto Rico on February, 3 2008. Also you can read it on http://www.elnuevodia.com/XStatic/endi/template/content.aspx?se=nota&id=356665

In Higüey, Santo Domingo a virus H5N2, the cause of Influenza Virus on animals, was detected on a bird farm on December 2007 and due to the circumstances Ramón Quiñones a spokesperson for the Ministry of Cattle and Animal Health informed on the actions they took to eradicate the virus.

PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO READ THIS BLOG. IT WON'T HURT YOU A BIT UNLIKE THOSE FRIENDLY ANIMALS THAT WON'T HAVE THE SAME LUCK.

Many people who know pigs compare them to dogs because they are friendly, loyal, and intelligent. Pigs are naturally very clean and avoid, if at all possible, soiling their living areas. When given the chance to live away from factory farms, pigs will spend hours playing, lying in the sun, and exploring their surroundings with their powerful sense of smell. Considered smarter than 3-year-old human children, pigs are very clever animals.

Most people rarely have the opportunity to interact with these outgoing, sensitive animals because 97 percent of pigs in United States today are raised on factory farms. These pigs spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy warehouses, under constant stress from the intense confinement and denied everything that is natural to them.

As piglets, they are taken away from their mothers when they are less than 1 month old; their tails are cut off, some of their teeth are cut off, and the males have their testicles ripped out of their scrotums (castration), all without any pain relief. They spend their entire lives in overcrowded pens on a tiny slab of filthy concrete.

Breeding sows spend their entire miserable lives in tiny metal crates where they can't even turn around. Shortly after giving birth, they are once again forcibly impregnated. This cycle continues for years until their bodies finally give out and they are sent to be killed. When the time comes for slaughter, these smart and sensitive animals are forced onto transport trucks that travel for many miles through all weather extremes—many die of heat exhaustion in the summer and arrive frozen to the inside of the truck in the winter.

According to industry reports, more than 1 million pigs die in transport each year, and an additional 420,000 are crippled by the time they arrive at the slaughterhouse. Many are still fully conscious when they are immersed in scalding water for hair removal.

Many people think of Charlotte’s Web and Babe when they imagine how pigs are raised for meat. Unfortunately, these Hollywood tales do not depict reality. Almost all of the 100 million pigs killed for food in the United States every year endure horrific conditions in controlled animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the meat industry’s euphemism for factory farms. Smarter than dogs, these social, sensitive animals spend their lives in overcrowded, filthy warehouses, often seeing direct sunlight for the first time as they are crammed onto a truck bound for the slaughterhouse.

A mother pig, or sow, spends her adult life confined to a tiny metal crate. She will never feel the warmth of a nest or the affectionate nuzzle of her mate—she will spend her life surrounded by thick, cold metal bars, living on wet, feces-caked concrete floors. When she is old enough to give birth, she will be artificially impregnated and then imprisoned again for the entire length of her pregnancy in a “gestation crate,” a cage only 2 feet wide—too small for her even to turn around or lie down in comfortably.

After giving birth, a mother pig is moved to a “farrowing crate,” a contraption even worse and smaller than a gestation crate, with only a tiny additional concrete area on which the piglets can nurse. Workers will sometimes tie the mother’s legs apart so she cannot get a break from the suckling piglets. She may develop open “bed sores” on her body from the lack of movement. This practice is so barbaric that gestation crates have been banned in Florida, the U.K., and Sweden and will be banned in the European Union in 2013.

When pregnant sows are ready to give birth, they are moved from a gestation crate to a farrowing crate. One worker describes the process: “They beat the shit out of them [the mother pigs] to get them inside the crates because they don’t want to go. This is their only chance to walk around, get a little exercise, and they don’t want to go [back into a crate].”

The piglets are taken away from their mother after less than a month—in nature, they would stay with their mother for several months. She is impregnated again, and the cycle of forced breeding and imprisonment continues. For such an intelligent animal, this intensive confinement causes debilitating stress and boredom. With nothing to do but stare at the bars in front of her, a mother pig may go insane. This is often exhibited by neurotic chewing on the cage bars or obsessive pressing on her water bottle. After three or four years, when her body is exhausted and her mind pushed to or even past the brink of insanity, she is shipped off to slaughter.

Meanwhile, the sow’s piglets have their testicles cut out of their scrotums, their tails cut off, many of their teeth clipped in half, and their ears mutilated, all without any pain relief. Terrified and in extreme pain, the piglets are often put alone into tiny metal wire cages (called “battery cages” by the farmers). These cages are stacked on top of each other, and urine and excrement constantly fall on the piglets in the lower cages. After the piglets have grown too big for the cages, they are placed into small, cramped pens crowded with many other piglets, where they are kept until they are large enough for slaughter. The animals are given almost no room to move because, as one pork-industry journal put it, “[O]vercrowding pigs pays.” Impeccably clean by nature, pigs on factory farms are forced to live in their own feces, vomit, and even amid the corpses of other pigs.

Overcrowding, poor ventilation, and filth cause rampant disease. Respiratory problems are common because of high levels of humidity and toxic gases from the manure pits—in fact, 70 percent of pigs on factory farms have pneumonia by the time they’re sent to the slaughterhouse. Many pigs die from infections caused by the noxious fumes and filth of their enclosures. Pigs are fed massive doses of antibiotics to keep them alive in these conditions. Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer from mange.

Because of illness, lack of space to exercise, and genetic manipulation that forces them to grow too big too fast, pigs often develop arthritis and other joint problems. Many pigs on factory farms live on slatted floors above giant manure pits. Smaller pigs often suffer severe leg injuries when their legs get caught between the slats.

Always concerned with their bottom line, some farmers kill sick animals instead of giving them medicine or veterinary care. A PETA investigation found that a manager at an Oklahoma farm was killing pigs by beating them with metal gate rods, and others were left to die without food or water. Unwanted “runts” were killed, as they are on most farms, by “thumping,” which involves slamming the animals’ heads against the floor.

I posted a video, but you can find more visuals on You Tube, just in case you might need more insight in what these animals go through.

After enduring months in these hellish conditions, pigs are forced onto trucks, bound for a horrific and agonizing death at the slaughterhouse.

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF PETA  http://www.peta.org/ and GO VEG http://www.goveg.com/

* PLEASE FIND MORE INFORMATION AND LEARN HOW YOU CAN MAKE A BETTER DAY FOR THESE ANIMALS. DON'T FORGET THAT THEY HAVE FEELINGS TOO.

Underground Aussie Bands to Check Out:

  Avalon Drive:

• www.avalondrive.net
• www.myspce.com/avalondrive

Avalon Drive released their brand new single 'Make Your Move' nationally on May 21 2007… this single is just a taste of the debut album that's to come!

2006 was undoubtedly a big year for Brisbane rockers, Avalon Drive, who toured the country several times over with The Veronicas, INXS, All American Rejects, Yellowcard, Houston Calls and Matchbook Romance, and that's not to mention three of their own headlining tours, a performance on Rove Live and the release of the band's second EP 'The City Of Burnt Out Lights'.

Move to 2007, and things haven't slowed down for the five-piece having started the year Playnig with Hoobastank and joined “Fall out Boy” on their Australian Tour. With their new single 'Make Your Move' at radio nationally now and released commercially as a digital single on May 21, 2007 singer Damion Page is citing the track as "a very small taste of what is to come."

'Make Your Move' is "an energetic rock song full of mood lifting spirit," says Drummer Shane Holmes who notes the latest [March 2007] arena shows with Fall Out Boy as the highlight of his musical career to date. "Musically it's a bit of a journey," adds Damion. "Lyrically it's about decision-making, it is about change and procrastination."

'Make Your Move' was produced by Melbourne producer, Forrester Savell, best known for his production on The Butterfly Effect's 'Imago' (ARIA 2), Human Nature's 'Reach Out' and 'Dancing In The Streets' (both ARIA 1), Karnivool's 'Themata”. "We all have very different ideas when it comes to writing so working with Forester really helped bring all that together," Said Damion.

Forming in 2005 under the guise of Avalon Drive

Band Members are:

- Damion Page (vocals), Wil Morris (guitar/backing vocals), Ryan Kennedy (bass), Shane Holmes (drums) and BJ Dillewaard (keyboards)

- the band released their debut self-titled EP independently which spawned two singles including 'This Simple Life' and fan favorite 'Outside Alone', receiving high rotation on both Channel V and Nova FM.

In 2006, the band's rise was immanent when they released follow up EP 'The City Of Burnt Out Lights' which again spawned two singles including radio favourite, 'Get Up' which the band went on to perform nationally as Rove Live's house band and guest performance on Toasted TV both on Network Ten.

As we approach the end of 2007 there has been no rest for the boys as they have been tucked away writing for their highly anticipated debut album. “We don’t care how long this process takes” says vocalist Damion Page. “We are all very different and all want individual things inside our music so putting a time limit on that is not something we are wanting to do. We have had to get over some pretty huge obstacles this year and the future is looking so good for us. So, until then”.

Repeat Offender:

• www.myspace.com/repeatoffendermusic
• triplejunearthed.com/repeatoffender

 HEY HEY!
Our name is Repeat Offender and we're a band! We're pretty much just good buddies that write songs, record them and then play them live for people.
We're live in Brisbane, Australia and sometimes we're lucky enough to travel right across Australia, playing music and meeting heaps of rad new people.
Repeat Offender is just our name and generally we are fairly well behaved. (Except when we get rowdy and stuff and get in trouble for singing nude karoake and not remembering where we are or how we got there... stuff like this only happens 6 or 7 times a month though...)

We've so far had the good fortune to play with some of our favourite bands, including THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, THE USED, STORY OF THE YEAR, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, THE VERONICAS, FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, COG and heaps more. If you want to see some of the shows we've played then check out our gig-ography blog. Ahhh... the memories...

We try to answer all of your emails, but seeing as we aren't super famous yet and we all still have to work shitty day jobs (like being roofers and signmakers and debt collectors and bugs bunny and stuff) we might occasionally forget to respond. Don't give up though! We'd love to have a chat to you all when we can!

Here's some nice stuff people have said about us:
"This Brisbane five piece are destined for bigger things. and from the time they exploded onto the stage they decimated the crowd with a tight, energetic set that whet the appetite perfectly.
With a two pronged vocal attack the music was loud, aggressive and infectious, with the bands enthusiasm and vibe spilling off stage and winning the ears and respect of the crowd.
These guys knew what they were here to do and they delivered. "
- Gig review by Fasterlouder.com.au

We also have a cd available in cd stores right across Australia and through I-tunes INTERNATIONALLY (la dee dah!!!!!). It's called "To a modern love..." and if they've sold out at your local cd shop, then you can order one by quoting the catalogue number, which is mm0032

Here's some nice stuff about the cd:
"So far, these boys seem to have recieved nothing but praise - and this release will do nothing to taint that reputation. 'To A Modern Love...' is an excellent testimony to a fantastic band that mix the rock with melodic vocal lines, making it accessible and really cool all at once."
- Rave Magazine, May 23, 2006

We've just finished recording our first album, set to be released sooooooon. We're really excited about it, so check back regularly and don't forget to tell your buddies about us if you like what you hear :)

See you at a show soon...

Band Members are as follows:

Ryan Wilson - Vocals
Steven Childs - Guitar / Vocals
Matt Newton - Bass
Dane Karolak - Drums

 RuinGloria:

 (They are Right Here on Buzznet) - Take a look =D

• ww.myspace.com/ruingloria
• http://ruingloria.buzznet.com/user/

-RuinGloria
Service with a smile :-)

* Four kids from Sydney's 'burbs'

* Been on the scene less than a year

* Thoroughly enjoy calling themselves RuinGloria

* From dancing & showcasing their beautifully crafted tunes around Sydney, were able to fund & record their debut EP with acclaimed producer Daniel Leffler (metallica, cold chisel, decoder ring)

* Having graced the stages of some fabulous establshments such as Gaelic Club, Spectrum, Mandarin Club, Aggincourt Hotel, Caringbah Bizzo's & Lewisham Hotel

* With their very modest & good looking appeal they have managed to establish a strong following of fans and myspace friends

* Original blend of RockingPop & a handful of awful demos was what led them to score many pats on their backs, thumbs ups & ''good effort'' from fans

* Drawing influences from all 4 members different stylistic approach to writing (rock,pop,indie,metal & dance)

* These young up & comers have managed to create something thats heavy & hard rocking yet still full of an eccentric pop appeal

* With these boys producing some of the catchiest lyrical hooks don't be surprised if you find yourself calm & collected on the way to a sunday arvo brunch merrily humming one of their boisterously charismatic tunes which ever way you like your music served, have a listen & make up your own mind, what ever you do....

...just keep on rocking & keep on smilin :-)
-rg-

Band Members are as follows:

Dean Jaggar - Bass
Matt Rud - Guitar
Tim Vec - Drums
Adam Hollywood - Vocals

Angela’s Dish:

• www.myspace.com/angelasdish
• angelasdish.com

Band Members:

·          Michael Harris – Lead Vocals, Guitar

·          Joshua Harris – Guitar, Backing Vocals

·          Peter Clarke – Bass

·          Scott Mitchell – Drums