Operator Please

...We'll bring the chips
and fizzy drink you bring the
PARTY TIME!...

All of them barely 16 - 18 years old apiece, this band of upstarts mix of raw energy and DIY Punk ethic has attracted a fanatical following down under.
Drawing comparisons across the board to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the B52s, their rise from nowhere is meteoric and global success is merely a formality now.

Brisbane based five piece Operator Please began life as a band in the depths of the Elanora high school music block preparing for the schools annual battle of the bands competition back in 2005. A competition they only entered because they were tired and fed up of watching “the cool kids conducting a popularity contest”

After winning the said competition in front of a phenomenal crowd of 15 and walking away with a box of doughnuts, the band were, in their own words, “made as permanent as a permanent marker”

Earlier this year they posted a few tracks on MySpace and the international
music industry soon came knocking at their gold coast door. The youngsters were immediately flown to New York to showcase in front of a conglomerate of labels, finally signing with EMI for Australia and New Zealand and making a UK deal with uber-cool indie label Brille Records (home of The Knife, Good Shoes and Whirlwind Heat)

A stint of tour blogs on Youtube has boosted interest in them worldwide, but with an official website currently in the making Operator Please have only this to say at present:

“We like lots of things from kitties to cheese but most of all we love each other.

And playing music.

And playing shows.

And you.”

“Operator Please is what would happen if the Pixies and the B-52s had an Australian lovechild” – Attack and Conquer

To sample some more of their music , head over to their MySpace Site…

www.myspace.com/operatorplease
www.operatorpleaseband.com

'Just a Song About Ping Pong' double 7-inch single is out in the UK now through Brille Records.

The 'Cement Cement EP' featuring 'Get What You Want' is out in Australia through Virgin Records on February 24.

MP3: Operator Please - Just a Song About Ping Pong

MP3: Operator Please - Get What You Want

Video: Operator Please - Crash Tragic

St Vincent

...Sleep while
I slip poison in
your ear...

St. Vincent is the solo project of singer-multi-instrumentalist-composer, Annie Clark, described as an 'ethereal marriage of Jeff Buckley and Bjork'

23 year-old Annie has been seen opening for such acclaimed and diverse acts as Television, Jose Gonzalez, and is currently supporting Sufjan Stevens all across Europe.

An inventive and versatile guitarist, Annie has played with avant-garde composer, Glenn Branca, and is a member of symphonic pop spectacle, The Polyphonic Spree.

Songs like “Paris Is Burning” and “Your Lips Are Red” showcase her wonderfully infectious and evocative lyrics, tinged with dark romance and sweeping eerie undertones. ‘Paris is burning’ is a carefully constructed epic that imagines a wartime waltz as the French capital descends into beautiful chaos, swirling and jaunty guitars are punctuated by Annie’s sweet voice as the song descends into a spinning 50’s fairground ride.

Her live shows see her utilising her signature instrument, a miked woodblock beneath her feet that amplifies ever stomp into a driving bass beat. She also alternates her singing between a regular microphone and a Copperphone to achieve a nostalgic and atmospheric air to her vocals.

To sample some of Annie’s music, head on over to her MySpace page below, or read about her adventures on tour with Sufjan Stevens on her blog…

www.myspace.com/stvincent
lovelettersofstvincent.blogspot.com

St. Vincent’s debut album, Marry Me, is due out in early 2007.

MP3: St Vincent - Paris Is burning