Australian band "The Presets"
Posted by: blythe on 16 March 2009
I am currently in Sydney and last Saturday was "Sound Relief" in aid of the bush fire and Queensland flood victims.
The Sydney concert was in the Sydney Cricket Ground and was opened by Coldplay who had a surprise guest singer come on at the end - the man himself, John Farnham. I've always been quite impressed by some of this guys work and when Chris Martin introduced him and said he was going to sing "the Australian national anthem" and broke into "The Voice" which nearly IS the national anthem here in Oz, I really enjoyed it !
Anyway, later in the day, a MASSIVE storm brewed, rain fell like stair rods and a mate called me to ask if it was raining as he had dropped off his teenage daughter at the venue earlier for the whole show. He was concerned that she'd be getting wet and cold....
Anyway, I tuned in to cable TV to see what was happening and an electro 80's style with a twist, synth/modern dance music duo but with a real drummer were playing. The singer had a great voice and the music was really rather infectious. So I hit record and wondered who they were.
The crowd, in torrential rain, were having the time of their lives!
They really did go totally wild and sang along with the songs and I couldn't help turning it right up and was grinning like a cheshire cat.
"The Presets" blew me away, I normally like guitar based music but these guys were something else!
Totally awesome and confirmed as the best act all day by my mates teenage daughter who has now pestered me for a copy of the DVD of them that I recorded.
They have been around for a while apparently but I'd never heard of them until now.
BRILLIANT.
The Sydney concert was in the Sydney Cricket Ground and was opened by Coldplay who had a surprise guest singer come on at the end - the man himself, John Farnham. I've always been quite impressed by some of this guys work and when Chris Martin introduced him and said he was going to sing "the Australian national anthem" and broke into "The Voice" which nearly IS the national anthem here in Oz, I really enjoyed it !
Anyway, later in the day, a MASSIVE storm brewed, rain fell like stair rods and a mate called me to ask if it was raining as he had dropped off his teenage daughter at the venue earlier for the whole show. He was concerned that she'd be getting wet and cold....
Anyway, I tuned in to cable TV to see what was happening and an electro 80's style with a twist, synth/modern dance music duo but with a real drummer were playing. The singer had a great voice and the music was really rather infectious. So I hit record and wondered who they were.
The crowd, in torrential rain, were having the time of their lives!
They really did go totally wild and sang along with the songs and I couldn't help turning it right up and was grinning like a cheshire cat.
"The Presets" blew me away, I normally like guitar based music but these guys were something else!
Totally awesome and confirmed as the best act all day by my mates teenage daughter who has now pestered me for a copy of the DVD of them that I recorded.
They have been around for a while apparently but I'd never heard of them until now.
BRILLIANT.