Since 2013, the guys at Spin The Bottle have been turning heads of Sydney’s music industry, and we’re not talking about the fact that you physically have to crank your neck to read their posters. Built on the ethos of uncovering the coolest new bands, songwriters and sonic experimenters regardless of genre or creed, the idea of Spin The Bottle is something we can get behind. After all, Happy started off in much the same boat.
We’re giving away a double pass to catch the grand finale of Sydney’s Spin The Bottle micro-festival! To enter, simply email your full name to [email protected] – winners announced Monday June 2nd.
18 massive shows, ~100 bands and thousands of entertained music lovers later, Saturday June 7th will see the finale in the installment of festivals, hosted at the micro-festival’s home-base Spectrum on Oxford St. It’s location marking the start of one of Sydney’s most iconic strips of nightlife, Spectrum has made a name for itself as prime real estate for EP launches and interstate tours for a huge variety of local acts, only this month featuring shows from Cull, Closure in Moscow, Lusinth, Prints and many more.
Headlining the bill are Shadows At Play, who will be taking the opportunity to launch their foot stomping, high tempo acoustic EP. Check out their latest single, Grand Plains which seems to only be available on Triple J Unearthed, which means we can’t embed it. Dang. Filling out the rest of the folk component lower down the bill are the very similar stylings of Sydney psych-jazz-folk trio The Rider, whose corker of an EP we reviewed last year.
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As with a surprising number of local lineups, you’ve got your token third wave ska band just chilling down in the lower order, their puntastic names standing out among the singer songwriters and solo artists. They’re hilariously called Ska’d For Life, they sing self-deprecative songs about how nobody listens to ska and their Facebook photo is simply… fedorable. I like em.
If you wanna head along on us, simply email [email protected] with your full name for your chance to win! Winners for the June 7th gig will be announced on Monday afternoon (2nd June).
FULL LINEUP
Shadows At Play – EP Launch
Crossing Red Lines
The Rider
Ackers
Ska’d 4 Life
J-L Rathbone
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