...aaaah, another Homebake (outdoor music festival) has been and gone.
http://www.homebake.com.au/2006/index.htmlHOMEBAKE is a festival of all Australian bands - no OS performers. January's Big Day Out festival has a mix of both and OS headliner bands.
The event has 4 main concert areas - for me, this year's highlight were Midnight Juggernauts & Fusion (dance muzik) and Wolf & Cub for a touch of heavy metal with some VERY NICE guitar. What a treat to hear good guitar-playing these days!
And of course The Models, as good the 'second time around' playing their old hits from the days dancing to pub bands back in my teen Aussie days lol.
Didn't get to see Hilltop Hoods who are a popular local hip hop band here.
Didn't stay around for SilverChair who I find a tad
Not a fan of You Am I either.
Butterfly Effect and Youth Group are really popular with the 20-something set.
And yes, the rain poured down in BUCKETS - almost hail LOL - but nothing stops a keen Aussie audience from dancing right through it - me included - LOL !!
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THE MODELS
What would a HOMEBAKE be without a seriously cool ‘blast from the past’ (as they say)? Thus, with great pleasure and extreme excitement, HOMEBAKE 06 presents the reformation of one of Australia’s most successful and pioneering electronic bands who topped the charts throughout the 80’s.
The Models first gained notoriety in the early 80’s with ground breaking mini album ‘Cut Lunch’ but it was their first long player ‘The Pleasure Of Your Company’ featuring the hit ‘I Hear A Motion’ which cracked it commercially for the band and scored them the opening slot for David Bowie’s ‘Serious Moonlight’ Tour.
In 1984 they hit the charts with the single 'Barbados' from the highly acclaimed 'Out Of Mind Out Of Sight' album. The title track from this album was released as a follow up single and it shot into the national charts at number one achieving a huge 120,000 sales for the album, needless to say this success opened up international markets.
The Models next album, 'Media', spawned the singles 'Evolution', 'Let's Kiss' and 'Hold On' and the band embarked on a massive Australian tour. In 1988, The Models called it a day and have only ever reformed once in 2000 for a couple of shows in Sydney and Melbourne.
Triple J’s Music Director Richard Kingsmill put together a brilliant J File on the band which can be downloaded at JJJ.
For hardcore MODELS fans this HOMEBAKE appearance is perhaps the ultimate line-up, combining the edgy pop arrangements and experimental synth stylings of their earlier releases with the big beat of of their later chart topping hits.
The band dips into its repertoire from such seminal albums as Cut Lunch, Local and/or General and The Pleasure of Your Company to remind us that the 80s music scene in Australia was more about the excitement of expanding musical barriers and forging new styles than big hair and shoulder pads.
This year's MODELS (Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Mark Ferrie and Barton Price) celebrate the musical adventurousness, sly humour and pioneering nature of the early Australian alternative music scene with a sound that is as fresh now as it was then.
We are honoured and excited to have The Models reform to play a special set at this year’s HOMEBAKE Festival.
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