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EMPIRE OF THE ARIAS!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

It was certainly Empire Of The Sun’s night at this year’s ARIA Awards. Four ARIA Award wins and a mind blowing performance of Walking On A Dream can only mean one thing, they are THE Empire Of the 2009 ARIA Awards!

A spectacular set design of blue pillars and an enormous sun surrounded the band and dancers as they performed to a very appreciative crowd. The performance ended in dramatic style with a shower of pyrotechnics.

Empire Of The Sun won the sought after:

  • Awards for Album of the Year
  • Single of the Year (Walking On A Dream)
  • Best Group
  • Best Pop Release

The Empire was represented by Luke Steele who thanked Nick Littlemore who plays a producing role in the band and who is currently overseas, Donnie Sloan who contributed to the creative on some tracks and Peter Mayes who engineered the album. Empire Of The Sun are taking their live show on the road with front man Luke Steele leading the charge surrounded by dancers and band members Anthony Mitolo and Surahn Sidhu.

Best Pop Release Award:

Best Group Award:

Single of the Year Award - Walking On A Dream:

Album of the Year Award - Walking On A Dream:

Check out more ARIA footage and photo galleries below:

Red carpet and awards photo galleries - SMH.com.au | ABC.net.au | News.com.au | Fox.com.au | AAP Images |
Red carpet and awards footage - Sky News | News.com.au (red carpet | backstage) | HeraldSun.com.au

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Deluxe Edition Vinyl Box Set Pre-Order

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Deluxe Edition Vinyl Box Set

AVAILABLE GLOBALLY
ORDER HERE.

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Scooping up Artisan ARIA awards

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Anticipation around the recent live shows saw Empire deliver “one of the most stunning debut live performances ever” (Zan Rowe, Triple J), and as anticipation now grows around Empire’s upcoming ARIA Awards performance and noms they are off to a brilliant start after receiving three awards at the ARIA Artisan & Fine Arts Awards.

Emperor Luke Steele said from his home in Perth, “This record production was like quad chemistry, Mayes with the magic ear, Skittles, Sloan and Steele offering special ingredients. 4 scientists, 1 microscope, 1 formula.”

Also acknowledged were the creative visual team who work tirelessly alongside Empire Of The Sun to create and deliver the unique artwork and video clips that have become a synonymous part of the band’s image. Both Debaser and Mathematics have been part of The Empire family since the beginning and the stunning visuals they have created have taken on a life of their own and become almost as much of a talking point as the music itself.

ARIA Artisan Awards

Empire Of The Sun and those who work creatively with them were awarded in the following categories:

  • Best Cover Art - Aaron Hayward & David Homer – Debaser
  • Best Video - Walking On A Dream: Josh Logue - Mathematics
  • Producer of the Year - Empire Of The Sun and Donnie Sloan with Peter Mayes

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The Sun Sets on CarriageWorks

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Fans who missed out on 2009 Parklife tickets will get another chance to see Empire of the Sun in Sydney, when they play an intimate gig at CarriageWorks on Tuesday 24 November. Tickets to this gig are limited so fans are encouraged to pre-register for an alert before October 29 at www.mastercard.com.au/music. Tickets are priced at $50 (plus booking fee + GST), available to purchase at 9AM AEST on 29 October 2009, and can only be purchased with a Debit MasterCard.

Empire Of The Sun will be the fourth act (following Block Party, Little Birdy and The Veronicas), in a series of intimate concerts that MasterCard is hosting exclusively for Debit MasterCard holders. This is an over 18’s event. To get hold of a Debit MasterCard contact Commonwealth Bank, Westpac or Bankwest and apply for your access to future Priceless Music experiences

Click through to the Mastercard website for some exclusive Empire Of The Sun wallpapers too!

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WALKING ON A DREAM WITH 11 ARIA NOMINATIONS!

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Straight off the back of rave reviews from their first ever live shows headlining the national Parklife music festival comes the news that Empire Of The Sun have received ELEVEN nominations at this year’s Australian ARIA Awards across all key categories – more nominations than any other artist this year!

Nominations include:

  • Album of the Year – Walking On A Dream
  • Single of the Year - Walking On A Dream
  • Best Group
  • Best Pop Release
  • Highest Selling Album - Walking On A Dream
  • Highest Selling Single - Walking On A Dream
  • Producer of the Year - Empire Of The Sun and Donnie Sloan with Peter Mayes
  • Best Video for Walking On A Dream - Josh Logue from Mathematics
  • Best Video for We Are The People - Josh Logue from Mathematics
  • Best Cover Art - Aaron Hayward & David Homer from Debaser
  • Engineer of the Year - Peter Mayes

As ARIA observers reach for the record books it tops off a great 12 months for The Empire whose acclaimed debut Walking On A Dream album has surpassed 100,000 album sales in Australia and is on its way to Double Platinum, propelled by singles Walking On A Dream, We Are The People, Standing On The Shore and Without You.

Of the haul of nominations Emperor Luke Steele said, “This is wild, solid marks of recognition to the music. How can I explain, I’m talking to myself. I’m walking on a dream.”

But there’s more music to come!

On November 20 the Walking On A Dream special edition will be released both digitally and as a 2CD album. It includes the Walking On A Dream album on Disc 1 along with a new song Girl and live favourite Breakdown as part of the 12 bonus tracks on Disc 2. The track listing for Disc 2 is as follows –

1. Breakdown
2. Romance To Me
3. Walking On A Dream – Sam La More 12” Remix
4. Standing On The Shore – Losers Remix
5. We Are The People – Shapeshifters Vocal Mix
6. Without You (New Version)
7. Swordfish Hotkiss Night – Fron Mezza Remix
8. Standing On The Shore – Hey Today! Remix
9. Walking On A Dream – Ben Watt Remix
10. We Are The People – Shazam Remix
11. Girl
12. Etude

If you missed the Empire Of The Sun debut performances as Parklife toured the country with a feature film’s worth of visuals, dancing swordfish, pink guitars and more, fret not as the band has also today been announced as the very first headliner of the Future Music Festivals for 2010. The full Future Music Festival line up will be announced next Monday and tickets are on sale from Wednesday 21st October.

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Empire of the Sun - the first official pics from Parklife!

Monday, September 28th, 2009





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Empire of the Stage

Monday, September 28th, 2009
  • One tonne of costumes
  • A feature film’s worth of visuals
  • 1.21 jigawatts of lighting
  • Dancing swordfish
  • Part-Pantomime / Part-musical
  • Evangelical narration
  • Four pink guitars
  • 28,000 crazed fans
  • … And one Emperor

“Brisbane undoubtedly was where the party was at tonight and Empire Of The Sun played the perfect host. Tonight’s first public hit out was a triumph, with theatre and costume changes that would make Kylie proud.”
Lars Brandle, Billboard Magazine

The sold-out crowd congregated around the main stage to absorb the magic of Empire Of The Sun performing surrounded by dancers (with six costume changes at last count) and a gigantic screen radiating bespoke visuals created by the Empire’s own video director.

Triple J’s Zan Rowe gave the Empire show a big thumbs up in her Parklife blog.

I knew it’d be a fight to get over to the Riverstage to see Empire of the Sun’s debut performance, so I trekked over early and saw them setting up gradually, to the banging beats of Kaskade. Hot pink square guitars and men in full laboratory jumpsuits were what I spotted on stage, and I knew we were in for something special. Sure enough, when Luke Steele hit the stage his world of dreams exploded with him and I witnessed one of the most stunning debut live performances ever. Beautiful lights, otherworldly video projections, and Luke with his spiky headware and flanked by four costumed dancers, taking to the stage. Pitch perfect, he ran through Empire of the Sun’s debut album with costume changes, heavy Parklife friendly beats, and a world of intergalactic colour and light filling the Riverstage.

Banter was limited, each song flowed into the next and when it didn’t there was atmospheric sounds or spacey voiceovers to add to the atmosphere of this dreamy landscape. The dancers changed costumes almost every song. I pondered to a friend if this was the work of a genius art director but no, this is what is inside Luke Steele’s head. Empire of the Sun put so much into their maiden voyage into live performance, and it blew me away.

Larger than life, hyper-colour, pics are coming soon!

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New App for the iPhone now available

Monday, August 24th, 2009

A new spirit of hope is sweeping across the digital divide.
Defy the destined path to embrace Emperor Steele and Lord Littlemore on
a journey to find the being within.
Travel across the silk road, through concrete follies, to uncover the
full wrath of Neptunes fury.
A journey like no other which will uncover secret tunes locked away
since time immemorial.
Coming soon to an iPhone near you.

A new Empire of the Sun game has now been released on the Apple iTunes app store, giving fans the opportunity to challenge themselves on multiple levels before being able to reach the final level and unlock the Secrets of the Empire.

The seven level game will take you on a Journey to the Silver City, The Temple of the Clouds, The Forgotten Desert, The Stars of Truth, The Garden of No Return, The Gate of Neptune’s Fury and The Cave of Endless Echoes before you can reach the end and be rewarded with the free secret track.


You can check out the trailer here:


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