Here is my favs of 2009…
TOP RECORDS [Mondo]
//in no particular order //
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Crayon Fields – All the pleasures of the world
3. Dark Was The Night – Compilation
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Urthboy – Spitshine
6. The Tongue is dead mix Tape
7. Sherlock’s Daughter EP
8. Black Roc
9. Horrowshow – inside Story
TOP GIGS [Mondo]
//in no particular order //
1. Neil Young, Sydney Entertainment Centre/Big Day Out Sydney
2. The Church – Factory Theatre (supported by Belles Will Ring & The Kicks)
3. Peter Fox Ampitheatre Berlin
4. Urthboy/Horrowshow/Polo Club @ The Metro
5. Elefant Traks 10th Birthday Melb Hi-Fi Bar
6. Dan Mangan – Great Escape (UK)
7. Cloud Control & Leader Cheetah – East Brunswick Club, Melbourne
8. Seekae – FBI SMAC Awards, Helm Bar, Sydney
9. Megastick Fanfare – Monster Mash, The Annandale Hotel, Sydney
10. FBI fundraiser events
11. Falls festival 30th/31st Dec (Grizzly Bear, Temper Trap, Emiliano Torini, Urthboy)
Favourite Tracks 2009: [Mondo]
//in no particular order //
1. Home- Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
2. Johnathon Boulet – Community Service Announcement
3. Brother Ali – The Preacher
4. My Girls – Animal Collective
5. Impossible Story – Urthboy
6. Where You at? – Astonomy Class
7. Gold Canary – Cloud Control
8. Seekae – Void
9. Lone Wolf – Radio National
10. Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns
11. Thought Crime – Horrorshow
12. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
13. Dan Mandan – Robots
14. le kingste – The Way The World Turns
Yo doods,
We are taking a little trip down memory lane to dwell on a great year at Umbrella…
Jan: Belles Will Ring play Sydney Theatre Company.
Feb: Belles Will Ring’s Broader then Broadway Tour. Cloud Control support Josh Pyke on National Tour.
March: Broader then Broadway Tour. Le Kingste will NSW Garage To V Festival
Apr: Essential Festival (Cloudies / Belles) + Easter Show (Urthboy/Cloud Control)
May: Cloud control play at Great Escape, Brighton UK
June:
July: Mondo heads to China to unearth some underground Chinese punk bands. For real. Le Kingste release The Way The World Turns.
August: Urthboy Spitshine album released
September: Spitshine Tour commences. Cloud Control & Belles Will Ring play at Big Sound. Cloud Control EP out on Humming Records (Germany)
Oct: Cloud Control release new single, Gold Canary
Nov: Spitshine Tour wraps up. Cloud Control’s East Coast Smack Down tour with Leader Cheetah
Dec: Urthboy plays – Festival of The Sun / Hardwire Festival / Falls Festival
Greg has decided to branch out in to ghetto rap. The following beat was dropped during Urthboy’s Spitshine tour and is sure to shake up the ghetto scene. Production by the good kids from Polo Club. Rhymz by the man himself.
Spitshine Tour Rap Up
Cloud Control are currently in the ‘most blogged about’ artists on Hype Machine.
Joel will be at Big Sound over the next 3 days. Follow his Twitter updates on @joelconnolly
Cloud Control are both showcasing at this years conference tomorrow night at The Artisan Gallery Venue. Of you’re in town come on down!
- post submited on an iPhone via the WordPress app :) technology rules
Good day and welcome to the (re)launch of Umbrella’s website. It’s a busy time for us so we’ll be posting lots of news updates here. Also, you will be able to download full band bios, press shots etc. Soon there will be more media available (streaming music, video content) but for now you can amuse yourself with the brand new Umbrella Flickr stream, which is on our front page and at http://www.flickr.com/photos/fordrizzle/.
We’re still ironing things out so if you see anything that looks a bit off (Joel is a notoriously bad speller) feel free to drop us a line and complain.
Until next time! Best fun amigos!
