I was working in admin to pay the bills in London

It was a promo poster for Splendour in the Grass and down the bottom, underneath Ben Harper, the Strokes and all the rest, he circled a little spot where it said ''Triple J Unearthed winner'' and told himself that would be him. ''When our manager called to say we'd got the spot, it was just so weird,'' says the frontman and multi-instrumentalist from the two-man (but increasingly five-man) group, joking that Glastonbury will be next on the wall. ''We'd only played a couple of shows before the main stage at Splendour. It felt like we were in an old Greek colosseum, looking out at these thousands of people ready to consume you and we were just five skinny white guys dancing badly on stage,'' he says. ''But that's our vibe. We want to create dancing music, as opposed to dance music, where you can kinda just let go of inhibitions and not try to be sexy or cool.'' They call it ''forest rock'' or the more kitsch ''Afro-pop jungle surf rock''. We call it some of the freshest, most carefree music to come out of Sydney. Interestingly, the inspiration comes from the Ugandan town of Jinja, where Azon's grandmother lives. ''I was really interested in the Afro-pop beats and Cam [Knight, the band's other lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist] was interested in Eastern sounds, using a sitar and percussion and stuff,'' he says. ''We just believed that the music we were making was a lot of fun and hoped that something good came out of it.'' GEORGIA FIELDS Genre Quirky pop.Label Popboomerang Records. A line in the song Sinking Relation Ship sums up the music of 27-year-old Georgia Fields. ''We keep up our faces/We wind up our smiles/Mechanical romance alive,'' she sings. Twee pop and experimentation has produced exactly that: a beautiful, mechanical romance. When Fields returned in 2007 from a year in Europe, she met Rosetta Stone German up with a high school friend and cellist Judith Hamann, who loved to play around with the more experimental side of music. This influenced Fields deeply and so, when she made her entrance into the local music scene that year, it was with a fusion of elegant pop and eccentric folk music, using everything from children's toys to classical instruments and power drills. But it could have been a very different story had she not taken a job in a boring office on the other side of the world four years ago. ''I finished high school and was just floating about being an early-20s mess, so I decided to go overseas for a while,'' she says. ''I was working in admin to pay the bills in London. One day, a director forgot my name and asked me to fill up the coffee machine, calling me 'sweetie'. It was like a turning point for me I was like, 'If I don't do something, I'll still be here in 10 years' time.' I booked a ticket home as fast as I could and started pursuing music.'' SPLIT SECONDS Genre Folk pop.From Perth. gigs None. Being a buzz band in the relatively isolated city of Perth has its good and bad points, Sean Pollard is discovering. The bad thing is the distance. When you've just quit your day job to pursue music (which Pollard describes as his ''big leap'') and you're living on a pittance, six airfares to Sydney is a big ask. The good thing is that the music scene is small. So when Pollard gathered five mates from other local bands to perform some tunes he had written outside his other band, New Rules for Boats, it didn't take long to get noticed. ''There's only really a couple of live music venues, so word starts to get around,'' the 25-year-old songsmith says. After just a few months, they were hitting the stages of major festivals on the west coast, such as Big Day Out, Laneway, Southbound and One Movement. And they haven't even released an EP yet. We had a sneak peek at the self-titled debut, released next week, and couldn't get enough of the lead track, a breezy, sun-kissed folk-pop ditty called Bed Down. ''I went travelling for a year and wrote a whole bunch of really different-sounding songs to what I'd been doing previously and they needed that collaborative effort, so I formed a different group to get it across the way I wanted,'' Pollard says. ''

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