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FlyingKiwis re-animated

AUCKLAND: Popular Kiwi comedy duo Flight of theConchords has hit the big time, appearing in anepisode of The Simpsons.Wellingtonians Bret McKenzie(pictured) and Jemaine Clementwereimmortalised as yellow cartoonversions of themselves in the premierepisode of season 22 of The Simpsons,whichwent to air in the US onMonday.

Kids cook for 1.5million

SYDNEY: The Junior MasterChef contestantsmay bepint-sized, but there’s nothing small about theprogram’s ratings. More than 1.5million people tunedinto Sunday night’s third episode of the series, inwhich the final 12 contestants were announced.The numbers were down on the September 13launch episode, which attracted 2.2 million, butJunior MasterChef continues to be themost watchedprogram on Sunday nights.

ARIA announces2010nomineesSYDNEY: Angus andJulia Stone, Sia, Birdsof Tokyo, Guy Sebas-tian and Washingtonlead the nominations inthe race for this year’sARIA Awards.

Reflecting a diverseyear in Australian mu-sic, the five artists eachreceived six nods as theshortlist for the annualawards was announcedat Sydney’s Con-servatorium of Musicyesterday.

John Butler Trio,Tame Impala and TheTemper Trap landedright behind them onfive nominations, whilePowderfinger and Dan

Sultan will contest fourawards each.

Kylie Minogue,Vanessa Amorosi,Cloud Control andEddy Current Sup-pression Ring werenominated for threeawards as ARIA’s selec-tion panel voted onwhat they deem to bethe best Australian art-ists of 2010.

Yesterday’s an-nouncement has set theball rolling towards theARIA Awards cere-mony at the SydneyOpera House onNovember 7, when a re-cord 31 awards will bepresented.

Total eclipse of the art

LONDON: Elizabeth Taylor is selling off a number ofprized pieces from her art collection includingworksby famedWelsh painter AugustusJohn, salvaged by her father.The 44 drawings, which includefemale nude studies and portraits,have an estimated value of between$US300 ($A312.13) and $US1200($A1248.5) each.

Heavy headlineacts back in style

Iggy And The Stooges are set to play the Big Day Out

THE LINE UP

International artistsTool, Rammstein, Iggy And TheStooges, Bloody BeetrootsDeath Crew 77, Lupe Fiasco,Grinderman, CSS, Primal ScreamScreamadelica Live, Deftones,The Black Keys, Andrew W.K,The Jim Jones Revue, EdwardSharpe & The Magnetic Zeros,M.I.A, LCD Soundsystem, BookaShade, Die Antwoord, Vitalic,Plan B, Ratatat, Crystal CastlesAntipodean artistsJohn Butler Trio, Wolfmother, Ai-rbourne, Birds of Tokyo, Kids of88, The Naked & Famous, Angus& Julia Stone, Dead Letter Circus,Children Collide, OperatorPlease, Bliss N Eso, Gyroscope,Pnau, Kid Kenobi & MC Shure-shock, Sampology, Blue KingBrown, Will Styles, Little Red,Gypsy and the Cat, Lowrider

By ROSS PURDIE

in Sydney

Rammstein Lupe Fiasco Angus and Julia Stone Pnau

THE Big Day Out has an-nounced its heaviest headlinersin more than a decade as Tool,Rammstein and Iggy And TheStooges prepare to rock nextyear’s festivals.

Monstrous riffs, pyrotechnicsand raw power are likely to de-fine the 2011 summer showswith big hitters Bloody Beet-roots Death Crew 77, Deftonesand The Black Keys also un-veiled for the popular festival.

Primal Scream will performtheir classic 1991 album Screa-

madelica in its entirety for thefirst time on Australian soil,while Lupe Fiasco, Grindermanand Edward Sharp and the Mag-netic Zeroes are set for timelyreturns. The inclusion of M.I.A,LCD Soundsystem, BookaShade, Vitalic and CSS should

appease fans of dance and elec-tro music.

A strong showing of Austral-ian artists includes Wolfmother,Angus & Julia Stone, Birds OfTokyo, Bliss N Eso and Gyro-scope, with new talent arrivingin Little Red, Kids Of 88 andGypsy And The Cat.

Tickets for the six shows inAuckland, Gold Coast, Sydney,Melbourne, Adelaide and Perthgo on sale from October 6.

Not since 1997 — when Sepul-tura, Soundgarden and The Off-spring headlined Big Day Out —has the world-famous music fes-tival offered such a rock-heavytrio of headliners.

Tool, Rammstein and IggyAnd The Stooges have all playedin recent years, but their in-clusion at the top represents areturn to the early days.

Californian art rockers Toolare renowned for their pulveris-

ing live shows and return toAustralia for the first time sinceheadlining in 2007, promising anew album and stunning laser-light display.

Even their set could be over-shadowed by techno-metal mas-ters Rammsteinn, whose pyro-technic displays and theatricalset pieces are the stuff of legend.

Iggy Pop may have mellowedslightly since his heyday but thechief Stooge is well known to in-vite scores of fans up on to thestage with him to dance along.

The festival will play at thefollowing destinations:

Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland- January 21 - Gold Coast Park-lands - January 23 - SydneyShowground - January 26 -Flemington Racecourse, Mel-bourne - January 30 - AdelaideShowground - February 4 -Claremont Showground, Perth -February 5.