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Sneaky Sound System’s Connie Collapses On Stage After Nasty Face-Meets-Water Bottle Incident
1:37PM Jess McGuire | A Mount Franklin bottle to the head isn’t fun at the best of times, but when your noggin makes contact with such an object while you’re singing onstage? Bad. And if you stop singing but the vocals keep going regardless? It can look a little Ashlee/Milli Vanilli.
Pity Sneaky Sound System’s Connie Mitchell then, please.
Sneaky Sound System lead singer Connie Mitchell collapsed during her performance at Rollercoaster Music Festival after being hit by a water bottle. The event in Mandurah, which featured artists such as Cut Copy, Gyroscope, The Teenagers and The Living End, was marred by the incident.
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Christmas, The Sneaky Sound System Way
10:02AM Clem Bastow | While you are scrounging in your pockets, while buying Christmas presents and food, for your last $50, spare a thought for those poor bastards in Sneaky Sound System.
The struggling independent musos are having a rough time of it at this most special time of the year, playing gigs where they can and hoping they’ll be able to put some food on the table come December 25th. It’s…
Oh, you’ll just have to read on, we can’t take any more of this tragedy!
The Christmas bonus has come early for Sydney band Sneaky Sound System, who are understood to have stuffed their stockings with profits of up to $200,000 from the corporate functions circuit.
It’s a case of weddings, parties anything for the hot dance act, who have spent the last week reaping the big bucks for adding funky festive cheer to corporate Christmas bashes around the city.
More than 300 clients of financial services firm Goldman Sachs JBWere were treated to a 40 minute set by the ARIA award winning performers at a no-expenses spared bash held at Mrs Macquarie’s chair last Wednesday night.
The band’s manager Amber Zada pulled out the violins when the Confidential team tried to winkle any further corporate coin chasing out of her, saying “we’re an independent act – we don’t have a record company writing out cheques so we do what is necessary to keep funding the band’s future.”
Oh, cry us all a river! ARIA awards and a sack full of used $50 notes? Christmas is cancelled! More »
We Had A Sneaking Suspicion About All This
11:45AM Clem Bastow | We told you recently about Sneaky Sound System’s apparent rampage through the hotel rooms of Albury that left fly-wire screens countrywide fearing for their lives.
However, now it seems it wasn’t “the System” (thanks, Channel Ten ARIA promos) who trashed the joint at all, but a crewmember who’ll now be looking for alternative employment.
Sneaky’s Angus McDonald said: “This is all news to us. We had a great time in Albury so it’s a shame we’ve been dragged into this mess. Trashing a hotel room is a bit passe, isn’t it?
The band’s manager, Amber Zada, has confirmed a crew member was fired over the incident but claimed the band had nothing to do with it.
Zada said: “No member of the band has any knowledge of the incident, but we’re investigating allegations we have read in the press and we’ll take whatever action is needed.
“From our initial investigations, the reports have been grossly exaggerated and we wish the hotel had just talked to us about it first. It has been blown out of proportion.”
Well, you know, there were innocent fly-wire screens’ lives at stake; you can understand the proprietors’ sense of urgency when it came time to alert the people of Australia to such atrocities.
Honestly, some people… The mind boggles. Hopefully Bunnings Warehouse can come up with some sort of charitable drive to deal with this emerging tragedy before it gets any more out of hand. More »
Sneaky Sound System Thank Albury For Its Hospitality The Rockstar Way
11:47AM Clem Bastow | ARIA-winners and clothes-shop-soundtrackers Sneaky Sound System have clearly let their skyrocketing profile go to their heads, trashing a regional hotel room during their seemingly endless tour of duty.
Apparently it wasn’t enough entertainment in Albury for the threesome to, perhaps, “do a Deany” and then throw someone through a shopfront window, and instead they decided to get all Led Zep on one half of the twin cities.
Chifley Hotel general manager Mark Munday told the local newspaper that the band “went overboard” while staying overnight following a music festival.
…Mr Munday told the local press that he had thought bands had grown out of trashing hotel rooms.
“Generally bands are pretty well behaved but they’ve trashed the room pretty much,” he said.
“Flyscreens were broken, one bed was broken, there was graffiti in the room – they really took to town.”
The damage bill was reportedly expected to come to $1000.
Presumably SSS wipe their bums with $1000 notes these days (yes, we know), since they’re like hot new artists and shiz.
Either way, we’re delighted to see that removing flyscreens is the new throwing the television into the pool.
“Man, I’m so fucking rock, I just want to let blowflies come in the window and crawl all over these naked groupies.”
Stellar work, Sneaky Sound System, stellar. More » 