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1:47PM Jess McGuire | I worry about our rock stars, I really do. I’m sure they think they’re keeping it real by appearing on stage when deathly ill, but all they’re really doing is putting themselves at risk and spreading disease. So even though I feel sorry for him, I also want to throttle and slap Jet’s Nic Cester for not calling in sick for work while in London. More »
Nic Cester From Jet Has Collapsed On Stage!
1:47PM Jess McGuire | I worry about our rock stars, I really do. I’m sure they think they’re keeping it real by appearing on stage when deathly ill, but all they’re really doing is putting themselves at risk and spreading disease. So even though I feel sorry for him, I also want to throttle and slap Jet’s Nic Cester for not calling in sick for work while in London. More » 
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4:48PM Jess McGuire | I thought you lot might find Patrick Donovan’s article in The Age about the Sound Relief concerts’ conception interesting, especially if you need something to occupy your time while you wait for the world’s most amazing collaboration ever to happen.
Gudinski’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since he announced details of the concerts that will be held simultaneously at the MCG and SCG tomorrow on Channel 9’s Australia Unites telethon last month.
The first person Gudinski spoke to was his former Frontier Touring partner and sometime rival Michael Chugg, who was already planning a concert with ARIA Awards organiser Mark Pope. They decided to run the concerts simultaneously under the one banner in two cities.
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The Story Behind This Weekend’s Sound Relief Concerts
4:48PM Jess McGuire | I thought you lot might find Patrick Donovan’s article in The Age about the Sound Relief concerts’ conception interesting, especially if you need something to occupy your time while you wait for the world’s most amazing collaboration ever to happen.
Gudinski’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since he announced details of the concerts that will be held simultaneously at the MCG and SCG tomorrow on Channel 9’s Australia Unites telethon last month.
The first person Gudinski spoke to was his former Frontier Touring partner and sometime rival Michael Chugg, who was already planning a concert with ARIA Awards organiser Mark Pope. They decided to run the concerts simultaneously under the one banner in two cities.
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1:56PM Jess McGuire | Just as they did for the 2004 tsunami benefit WaveAid, Midnight Oil have agreed to reunite for the Sound Relief concert at the MCG to raise money for victims of the recent Victorian bushfires. Use that spazzy dancing for good, Pete!
Some of the most popular acts in Australia, including Wolfmother, Jet, Paul Kelly, Gabriella Cilmi, Kasey Chambers and internationals Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson will play the Sound Relief bushfire benefit at the MCG on March 14. In a major coup for organisers, Labor MP Peter Garrett has agreed to reunite with iconic Australian rock group Midnight Oil.
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Midnight Oil Happy To Rock Once More For A Good Cause
1:56PM Jess McGuire | Just as they did for the 2004 tsunami benefit WaveAid, Midnight Oil have agreed to reunite for the Sound Relief concert at the MCG to raise money for victims of the recent Victorian bushfires. Use that spazzy dancing for good, Pete!
Some of the most popular acts in Australia, including Wolfmother, Jet, Paul Kelly, Gabriella Cilmi, Kasey Chambers and internationals Kings of Leon and Jack Johnson will play the Sound Relief bushfire benefit at the MCG on March 14. In a major coup for organisers, Labor MP Peter Garrett has agreed to reunite with iconic Australian rock group Midnight Oil.
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8:40AM Jess McGuire | Remember the other week I was going to tell you about the band that had sold a heap of records and were playing a small gig on the QT? I forgot to do it! Ha! We’ll laugh about it later, trust me.
Anyway, the band was Jet and they played a gig to die-hard fans on Wednesday night at The East Brunswick Club in Melbourne. I hosted trivia there on the Tuesday and the band were rehearsing.
THINGS OF NOTE
· They were happily drinking at the bar earlier on in the evening, according to certain trivia punters.
· They looked very fashionable, with lead singer Nic Cester sporting a fetching denim jacket and scarf combination.
· Numerous people assured me the new stuff sounded “really different” and also, “awesome”.
And now, to The Age for a proper review of something even better than sound check – the gig itself!
They are surely the biggest unsigned band in Australia right now. And after more than 15 months’ absence from the stage, on Wednesday night in front of a packed room of die-hard fans, family and friends, Melbourne’s biggest rock exports of the past decade made their return.
The gig at the East Brunswick Club was significant for an act now deemed to be at something of a musical crossroads.
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Lucky Bastard Watch: Nic Cester Edition
10:29AM Clem Bastow | While Australia’s new rock heroes Jet may have gone a bit quiet and come away from the ARIA Awards empty handed, it seems frontman Nic Cester has a little bit of news that is enough to quiet any detractors.
We’d heard on the grapevine some time ago that Cester had bought himself a fly pad in Italy’s Lake Como, but since it hadn’t been ‘confirmed’, we assumed it was just fluff.
Sadly (for us), we were mistaken, as Cester talked up the purchase at the Melbourne Cup.
“I’m moving over there in two weeks,” Cester said from his perch in the Lavazza coffee marquee.
Yup. Nic Cester. Writer of such stirring rock gems as Rollover DJ and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, moving to this place:
Near George Clooney’s place.
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