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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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