NEWS WRAP

• The wraps are ready to come off the 2012 Big Day Out Festival, with organisers set to reveal the first 17 acts for next year’s festival on Thursday this week via their official FACEBOOK page. On Friday morning, the boys on the Triple J breakfast show will unveil three of the headline performers. Then, over the coming days and weeks, they’ll be unlocking some of the highlights of BDOs past via a special vault.
• Sydney chanteuse Lanie Lane is doing alright for herself, with her upcoming shows in both Sydney and Melbourne selling rather well indeed. So much so that she’s added extra dates in both cities to cope with demand. She’ll now play a second show at Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club on October 19, with the second Sydney show locked in – at The Vanguard on November 05.
• Frankmusik has released his new album ‘Do It In The A.M.’ over in the UK this week and to celebrate, his record company Island is giving fans who’ve purchased the album the chance to get their mitts on more new tracks, the first of which is called ‘Listen To My Heart’. Thankfully, they’re giving others the chance to hear the new tunes, so check out ‘Listen To My Heart’ below;

• Shock Records has announced the upcoming release of the debut album for British outfit Spycatcher. The album – entitled ‘Honesty’ is already garnering great interest in the UK, where the band’s latest single ‘Remember Where You Were When Michael Jackson Died’ was picked up by Radio 1.
• The Fuse Records Group will release a singles and rarities collection from Melbourne outfit Eddy Current Suppression Ring next month. The album is called ‘So Many Things’ and contains 22 rare seven inch tracks and non-album recordings spanning the past seven years. It’s due out October 21.
• Another swag of new tunes out at media this week including ‘Love In Motion’, the third single from French electro artist SebastiAn’s debut album ‘Total’. The producer is currently on Aussie soil, tearing up the stage as part of the 2011 Parklife Festivals.
• Other new tunes out at media this week include the new Justice Crew track ‘Sexy And You Know It’, Shannon Noll’s new single ‘My Place In The Line’, Tom Waits’ track ‘Back In The Crowd’ and Tom Piper’s Riddler Remix of Britney’s latest single ‘Criminal’.
• N-Dubz star Dappy has debuted at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his first official solo offering ‘No Regrets’. Maroon 5 and Christina remain in the No.2 spot, while One Direction leapfrogs them down to No.3. New at No.4 is Jason Derulo’s single ‘It Girl’, with James Morrison’s latest ‘I Won’t Let You Go’ debuting at No.5. Bad news for Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts’ solo career, however, with her latest single ‘Lucky Day’ just scraping into the top 40 – at No.40.
• And on the British album chart, it’s all about Kasabian, whose new album ‘Velociraptor’ makes a big splash at No.1, while Tony Bennett’s new album ‘Duets II’ (featuring the last recording of Amy Winehouse before she died) comes in at No.5. Christina Perri’s album ‘Lovestrong’ gets a belated UK release and debuts at No.9.

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