Party: BAG RAIDERS || AGS || SUN 2nd AUGUST
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Upcoming: 32
Date: 02.08.2015 20:00
Address: 15 Steel Street, Newcastle, Australia | show on the map »
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Sunday night just got bigger!!!
Bag Raiders will be joining in our Sunday Sesh
Free entry, doors open at 8pm, cheap UDLs and Coronas 8-9pm
If you want to a light read here are some fun facts
https://www.facebook.com/bagraiders
https://twitter.com/bag_raiders
https://soundcloud.com/bagraiders
Bag Raiders are an Australian dance pop duo, comprising Jack Glass and Chris Stacey. They were formed in Sydney in 2006.
The pair met at school in the mid nineties, in decidedly different musical settings to the ones that they’d go on to become part of as Bag Raiders. It was during an orchestra practice, with Stracey playing violin and clarinet and Glass on piano and cello. They struck up a friendship that would rekindle in the mid-noughties, when they reunited and began to create unusual mixes of hip hop and seventies rock. They quickly moved on to making their own music, issuing a couple of EPs in 2007. By 2009, they were placing at number eleven on a poll of Australia’s top DJs, and seeing their track ‘Shooting Stars’ listed at number eighteen on the best tracks of 2009 rundown by respected Australian radio station Triple J.
They went on to enjoy further success, in 2010, with the release of their self-titled debut album; the lead single, ‘Sunlight’, featured Dan Black. To date, ‘Shooting Stars’ remains their best-loved track, re-entering the charts in 2013. Its popularity endures partly thanks to its adoption as an unofficial anthem by A-League team Adelaide United, and partly because of its use in McDonald’s adverts in 2009 and 2010. Its 2013 resurgence was perhaps attributable to an appearance on an episode of Australian Idol.
