Having recently moved from Byron to the mystical Woodfordia grounds in Queensland – this Aussie Festival is proving its all the better for it. Last year’s headliners were The Strokes and Pixies, and for 2011 they scored impressive exclusivity to Coldplay and Kanye, all the while supporting local acts excellently.

http://splendourinthegrass.com/tix.html

Bummed for missing out? Channel V’s Danny Clayton made a well-cut summative video series here:

Splendour in the Grass is an annual music festival renowned for its ability to attract the most talented local and international artists year after year. 

This year the festival boasts international acts such as the Mumford and Sons, Florence and the Machine, Goldfrapp, Kate Nash, and headliners the Ting Ting’s. 

Celebrated for their unique indie-pop-electro sound and catchy tunes, Katie White and Jules De Martino have played at music festivals around the world, including the infamous Glastonbury music festival in England. With a top selling debut album We Started Nothing under their belt and a new album Massage Kunst set for release in the not too distant future, the Ting Ting’s are an act not to be missed at this year’s Splendour! 

Cost: From $350 + $10.20 booking fee 

When: Friday July 30 through to Sunday August 1st 

Where: Woodfordia, about 70km north of Brisbane

Combine the likes of former Ima Robot front man Alex Ebert with a group of nine amazingly talented musicians and vocalists; add some 1960’s musical influence, along with a poncho and possibly a Kombi, and you find yourself listening to the nu-wave folk tunes of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s. 

With critically acclaimed singles such as “Home” and “Desert Song”, the Los Angeles based ensemble is renowned for their mellow, albeit upbeat tunes. Their debut album, Up From Below is available at all good record stores now.

www.edwardsharpeandthemagneticzeros.com

The XX, just another indie new wave pop band from the UK?! I think not. With influences ranging from  “Aaliyah to CocoRosie, Rihanna to The Cure, Missy Elliot to Chromatics, The Kills to Ginuwine, Pixies to Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake  to Tracy + The Plastics” this talented threesome are destined for big things.

Released in August 2009, the band’s debut album “xx” is comprised of eleven artfully written and produced songs as the amazing vocals of Romy Madley and Oliver Sim combine with lyrics of loss and love and are accompanied by superbly crafted musical compositions.

Having already toured Australia with the Laneway Festival earlier this year, it is unlikely that the band will return in the near future, but we can always dream! For now their debut album is available at all good music stores.

For more information on this amazing band, visit http://www.thexx.info/

If you haven’t already heard of French indie rock/pop band Phoenix, then prepare to! Since the release of their fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, in May 2009 the band has gone from strength to strength, celebrated for their catchy, easygoing tunes. Favourites include the upbeat “Lisztomania” and the more rock orientated “1901,” while my personal favourite is the more chilled out (and possibly a little more depressing..!) “Lasso.”

 Phoenix are touring nationally at the start of March. With most venues already sold out, tickets are limited, so hurry, Phoenix are genuinely a band not to be missed!

For more information contact http://www.tickettek.com.au/  or call 132 849

For more information about the talented Parisian boys otherwise known as Phoenix visit their website http://www.wearephoenix.com/

Here at the BFS HQ, we love music and we love fashion, so when this flame haired beauty marries the two with complete and utter wonder we fall double hard.
Florence and the Machine has a songbird voice and dresses like a gypsy who has run 
away with the circus. we love!

Florence & The Machine Video – Dog Days

http://florenceandthemachine.net/