ANNOUNCED FOR BIG DAY OUT 2011
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EDWARD SHARPE
& THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
(featuring the songs XXXO, Born Free and It Takes A Muscle ) M.I.A arrives in New Zealand for the first time with power. Inciting conversation and demanding attention, M.I.A is “ambitious, contradictory, unrepentant, unafraid to charge in head first and worry about the consequences later” (The Vine). Her new material has attracted an abundance of attention and provoked overwhelming opinion with new album /\/\ /\ Y /\, which has been described as “a towering work that makes a mockery of rivals and genres” (Clash Magazine).
M.I.A is an outstanding performer in an echelon all of her own. She is an artist not to be missed, so make sure you catch M.I.A in 2011 as she plays at the Big Day Out.
Joining M.I.A will be fellow label mates and regular visitors to our shores Ratatat. New York duo Mike Stroud and Evan Mast have been mixing electronics with guitars for the past decade, combining the power of noise and dance. RATATAT have collaborated with Kid Cudi, remixed Bjork, dropped four albums. On the back of their latest release LP4, the duo will be making a return visit to NZ in 2011 for the Big Day Out festival. While songs like Lex, Wild Cats and Seventeen Years have made them completely hip, it’s when you see RATATAT live on stage – an aural, visual and physical assault of synths, guitar, hypnotic video and boundless energy – that you understand this is a rock act of massive proportions!
RATATAT LP4 IS OUT NOW on XL RECORDINGS/RHYTHMETHOD
UP FROM BELOW IS OUT NOW THROUGH ROUGH TRADE / RHYTHMETHOD
