Band: Diary of Dreams
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: LEIPZIG, Germany
Website: www.diaryofdreams.de
Style: Gothic / Electro

Diary of Dreams is a German electronic music group.Their 2004 'Nigredo' (a concept album inspired by a mythology the band designed themselves) saw a move back towards the more subtle, sparse concepts of old, but still featuring bursts of their more recent, dance-oriented sound. Songs from the Nigredo tour were later released on the live CD 'aLive' and the companion DVD 'Nine In Numbers'. The most recent Diary of Dreams album 'Nekrolog 43' was released in 2007, offering a greater variety of moods and concepts than previous works. Adrian Hates claimes to be influenced, both lyric wise and artwork wise, by the German 1909-1935 expressionism and the "beauty of ugliness" in the course of his work.Recently, on the band's official Myspace, a new album was announced for a release date "definitely in 2009."

Band: DESTROID
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: LEIPZIG, Germany
Website:www.myspace.com/destroidmusic
Style: Industrial / Electro / Alternative

Destroid, fronted by Yamazaki and Haujobb-mastermind Daniel Myer, do not give a damn about the conventional approach and will render all attempts on categorizing their style utterly futile. They feel at home in hardfloor, the classic EBM-style, in Synth- and Futurepop, and are not in fear of churning out the odd dark ballad either. The concept of Destroid is about breaking these conventions - they thus manage to create one of the most exciting releases to hit the Electro-scene for a long time.

Band: Tycho Brahe
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/tychobraheaustralia
Style: Electro / Pop / New Wave

Based in Brisbane, Australia, Tycho Brahe produces electronic pop music that harks back to the '80s glory days of electro luminaries such as New Order, Human League, Depeche Mode, and Giorgio Moroder. A regular fixture on their local live music scene, the band uses vintage electronic gadgetry to produce tunes ranging from uptempo classic synthpop, to moody atmospherics, to grinding synthrock, with a blatant disregard for the latest fads and fashions in the FM pop fodder world.

Band: IKON
Performing 5.10.2008 Eletric Moon @ The Gaelic 18+
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/ikonwave
Style: Post punk / Indie / Gothic

The new EP League of Nations (2007) is testament to progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (anticipated release mid-2008). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands.

Band: HorrorWood Mannequins
Performing 24.5.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/horrorwoodmannequins
Style: Metal / Gothic / Industrial

Incubated in the seedy underbelly of a festering suburban sprawl The Horrorwood Mannequins crawled out of the darkness to carve their name into the foreheads of the dark lords of the music industry. With a stage show that borderlines on psychotic and a sound that can only be described as a beast that tears your head off and leaves you wanting more. Enjoy your stay in Horrorwood, we are now your nightmare.

Band: Meat Safe
Performing 24.5.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+ & 13.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/meatsafe
Style: Rock / Blues / Indie

Meat Safe formed in December 2007 due to an open slot on a New Year’s Eve bill and because it popped into JoSh’s head after Nathan wouldn’t put his God damned boots on when they were going to the Enmore Theatre because he’d just swallowed a fine amount of tequila. Featuring members of Sydney bands TRIANGLE, Mutgash Poison and Fodder it is a surprisingly listenable yet threatening Rock and Roll band.

Band: Pink Industrial Whores
Performing 23.8.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+ & 27.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Website:www.myspace.com/pinkindustrialwhores
Style: Industrial / Electronica / Metal

Industrial Whores began as a solo side project of guitarist / vocalist Ziggy Diva in early 2007. Combining elements of fast paced industrial metal with the toxicity of a unique cyber-glam image, Pink Industrial Whores quickly drew the interest and devotion of audiences both locally and overseas.

Band: Empirical
Performing 23.8.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/killjack
Style: Alternative/Glam/Grunge

A brutally aggressive mix of genres and emotions, Empirical is a maelstrom of aural chaos designed to incite both physical and emotional mayhem in the pit. With an Industrial drive helping to tie together the grind of Death metal, the atmosphere of Gothic and Black metal and the blunt aggression of Metalcore, Empirical delivers a mix of contempt,grief and hope given form to play Devil’s Advocate against the filth we call society.

Band: Scarlets Revenge
Performing 13.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/scarletsrevengepunk
Style: Punk / Acoustic

Band: Jack Nasty Face
Performing 26.7.2008 Brisbane VS Sydney @ The Lansdowne Hotel
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/scarletsrevengepunk
Style: Rock / Garage / Punk

I-94 BAR ------ From a different time and place comes JACK NASTY FACE. They live next door to THE WHITE STRIPES down the road from the HIVES and round the corner from THE CRAMPS, oh such a neighborhood! JACK NASTY FACE have twisted the sounds of 60’s garage punk, blues and rock n roll to form a truly dark, funsome sound that is utterly danceable and so very,very cool. Their live show is a spectacle, JACK NASTY enters straight from the time of dickens - top hat and cane, he lives Willy wonker and struts Jack the ripper. The band hold their own stars and are truly smooth by nature not by design........

Band: Call the medic Call the nurse
Performing 26.7.2008 Brisbane VS Sydney @ The Lansdowne Hotel
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/callthemediccallthenurse
Style: Rock / Garage / Punk

Considering that the guys self-funded and self produced this splendid slice of party noise and that the bassist was still learning the songs when the band entered the studio (oh and the fact that the whole thing seems like it may either explode or leap out the window at any given moment) this is a remarkably cohesive recording, bringing together all of the raw abandon of a Call the Medic, Call the Nurse!! live show within the memory aiding confines of a permanent record!"
Layne Kim - Drum Media

Band: Psych Carni
Performing 27.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/psychcarni
Style: Industrial / Gothic / Punk

Since 1991, Melbourne underground noise band Psych Carni have tortured audiences with confrontational gigs of mechano-eroticism. Long before the Burlesque revival and pre the Antichrist Superstar, the bands necro- psychedellic carnival shows assaulted punters at rock, goth and bondage venues . In 2005 the band reformed for the Teknikunst Festival playing at the Ding Dong Lounge with Curse Ov Dialect and David Thrussell. Fetishizing cyberpunk technology and military discipline the band recorded the Blitzgeist EP, soon after the festival.

Band: Strychnine
Performing 27.8.2008 Blue Moon Band Massacre @ The Sando 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/bleaknoise
Style: Industrial / Trance / Gothic

Band: Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows
Performing 28.6.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/brigittehandley
Style: Alternative / Indie / Punk

Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows are a Sydney based 3 piece who's "call to non-conformity" and sound has been described as "indie rock 'n' roll with a dark edge and defiant punk attitude". Brigitte Handley fronts the Dark Shadows on vocals and guitar, along with Carly Chalker on bass, and Nerida Wu on drums, they make no apologies for their fiery assault of their instruments, creating a unique and independent sound and style.

Band: Voltera
Performing 28.6.2008 @ The Lansdowne Hotel 18+
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website: www.myspace.com/volteramusic
Style: Rock / Industrial / Electronica

In an industry dominated by men, the cliché is abandoned with instigator Jess assembling Voltera's diverse talent into a defiant armada against capitalist indulgence. A graduate from the vocally unconventional, Jess' vocal range is rampant and unique, extending from dark and melodic to an ardent guttural bawl, thus delivering a captivating live performance immersed in the avant-garde.