New stage and 9 new acts for Sunset Sounds

The globally infectious grooves of Blue King Brown; sunshine & merriments of the banjo-toting Skipping Girl Vinegar; the stunning vocals from TinPan Orange; the stunningly crafted dense, rich, dramatic folk of Kat Frankie; a 7 piece mash up of traditional Eastern European, Latin, rockabilly and tango sounds from The Barons of Tang; the undeniably brilliant, rich and honest pop sounds from The Boat People; unique musical collective The Gin Club;  raw and reliable riffage compliments of Violent Soho and The Rocketsmiths unique mash up of indie rock, rockabilly and carnivalesque pop!

Sunset Sounds now looks, feels, smell and sounds a little like this:

WED 7th: THE HIVES (Sweden); THE CAT EMPIRE; THE KOOKS (UK); TEGAN AND SARA (Canada); SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (USA); FAKER; GOMEZ (UK); SOKO (France); YVES KLEIN BLUE; VIOLENT SOHO; THE GIN CLUB; THE ROCKETSMITHS and TINPAN ORANGE

THU 8th: FRANZ FERDINAND (UK); THE GRATES; SANTOGOLD (USA);  BLUE KING BROWN; DONAVON FRANKENREITER (USA); ASH GRUNWALD; CW STONEKING; I HEART HIROSHIMA; THE BOAT PEOPLE; KAT FRANKIE; SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR and THE BARONS OF TANG

Dates: Wed 7th & Thu 8th January
Venue: Sunset Sounds combining The Garden Stage and The Hibiscus Stage in the Botanic Gardens and the Riverstage in the City Gardens, Brisbane QLD
Tickets: Selling fast! www.ticketmaster.com.au 18+ event.

About these new acts:

Having shared the global stage with the likes of Damien ‘Jr gong’ Marley, Santana, The John Butler Trio and Michael Franti, favourites Blue King Brown, come to stir a colourful groove with their socially conscious sound. The infectious energy and passion from lead singer, guitarist and part-time percussionist Natalie Pa'apa'a is the driving musical force. Her politically and socially motivated lyrics are provocative and impassioned and central to the band's message of peace, equality and respect. BKB will again deliver a power packed live show featuring their home-grown, universally spoken language delivered as hard hitting Urban roots music that is delightfully tinged with dub, hip hop, afro beat, Latin and soul hues. www.bluekingbrown.com 

Skipping Girl Vinegar have packed their suitcases full of their happy charms, to bring their hi-fi swagger meets lo-fi sway music, complete with banjo perfection and resolute horns to Sunset Sounds. The hand-clapping, ridiculously infectious goodness of first single 'One Chance' is both rambling and uplifting; their harmonies haunting in your head like the first day of autumn. SGV’s music is a warm blend of folk-pop, riddled with soft drums, banjo and soothing vocals. Rootsy saturating perfection. www.skippinggirlvinegar.com 

TinPan Orange, headed by brother-and-sister duo Jesse and Emily Lubitz, are a unique sounding vessel that chugs through the calm waters of melodic virtue. Their perfect recipe incorporates acoustic guitars, violin, and mandolin lead by quirky lyrics delivered from a voice that has been likened to ‘pure, unpolished silver’. The popular trio has been travelling the country performing their blend of profound perceptions and musical insights of the poetics of the everyday and uncanny and have been picked up with gusto by radio stations across the great divide. www.tinpanorange.com  

Much of Kat Frankie’s song writing lies within the contrast between ugliness and beauty. Sydneysider via Berlin and heart-ache, Frankie is becoming well-known cross-continentally, for her passionate and dynamic live shows. Her stunningly crafted dense, rich, dramatic folk songs tend to draw you into a vortex of raw emotion and oft intimidating yet fragile audio-landscapes of reality. Frankie’s music covers a large spectrum and an incredibly versatile voice that aptly and precisely portrays all her rage, suffering and love via sparse melancholic and dramatic, soaring aggression. www.katfrankie.com 

The Barons Of Tang are a bunch of gypsy deathcore pirates looting the high seas of Melbourne's sweet underbelly. You'll likely find them beneath bridges burning violins and causing jelly wrestling mayhem. The Barons have been gigging mercilessly in and around the Australian underground since their immaculate conception at the Adelaide Fringe Fest of 2007. This Melbourne based 7 piece ensemble are the pioneers of what has been dubbed “gypsy deathcore”, a mash up of traditional Eastern European, Latin, rockabilly and tango sounds, outrageously bastardized by hard hitting guitar riffs, double kick blast beats and massive horn arrangements. www.myspace.com/thebaronsoftang 

Having once been described as the "masters of perfectly unconventional pop" ( Inpress ), The Boat People’s recently released Chandeliers is an undeniably brilliant, rich and honest pop record. As their album attests, these lads are brilliant songwriters. Every inch of their live gig showcases their cunning catchiness which is matched and even occasionally exceeded by a clever lyric or a fitting guitar riff. www.theboaties.com 

The Gin Club are a musical collective who perform an eclectic mix of rock, pop, folk, blues, country, psych, prog, slow core, and everything in between. Since their formation in 2003 they have toured Australia, Canada and New Zealand, played with acts as diverse as Paul Kelly, Iron & Wine and The Drones and released three albums to critical acclaim. The Gin Club effectively harness their collective creative energy and ambition to form an inexorable force of charming and unique rock. 

The riffs are so raging, the melodies so engaging and the sentiment so pure that it is near impossible to resist the raw and reliable sentiments of this most excellent Brissy guitar rock four piece. Violent Soho’s music is so full of battering-ram guitars, vocals obscured by haze and distortion, and a rhythm section so powerful it threatens to flatten buildings. There are heavy, and indeed very welcome, doses of abandon rock that is oft long forgotten in this electro nu-age of music. It harks back to an era of superb, unadulterated, 2.5 min power in your pocket pure Rawk, replete with ear-grabbing hooks that is full of integrity. It’s a beautiful thing. www.myspace.com/violentsoho

Brisbane’s Rocketsmiths are one of the best up-and-coming bands in the Australian music scene; playing a style of music that has been dubbed everything from ‘Carnie Rock’ to ‘Vaudevillian Indie Rock Popabilly’. Rocketsmiths sound (and play) like no other band in the Australian music scene via a unique mash up of indie rock, rockabilly and carnivalesque pop.  This energetic, exciting and extremely unique band are certainly worth a geez at, at Sunset Sounds, with their style of music that is energetic yet restrained, quirky yet mature and hip yet totally uncool. www.rocketsmiths.com