Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

37379

news

Pivot join Yellow Magic Orchestra on Meltdown bill
TheBoyDeadly by TheBoyDeadly June 13th, 2008

Just as Fuck Buttons were appended to the Meltdown bill earlier this week, so now Australian beat trio Pivot follow; joining Yellow Magic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall this Sunday (the 15th of June).

All of which is good of course, as it not only allows us to bask in the glory of an old headline but also to talk to people outside of our office coven, simultaneously spreading the love for Japanese electropop with positivity like this:

"We're very excited to be supporting YMO for the Meltdown festival,” exclaim Pivot. “We're honoured to share the stage with the masters of Japanese electropop themselves. Just as YMO's Ryuichi Sakamoto composed a score for the 1992 Olympics, we also hope to share the same feeling of Olympic heights at the Festival Hall on Sunday."

The band will be onstage from 7.45 ‘til 8.20pm, finishing twenty minutes before Yellow Magic Orchestra’s hour and a half long set.

In other Pivot news, Richard and Laurence Pike and Dave Miller have been personally invited by Sigur Ros to join the band in Sydney on the 2nd of August. Big, big times, fo’ sho’. Find the full Massive Attack-curated Meltdown schedule here.

- - -
Pivot – ‘In the Blood’

- - -

Got news? Email us at newsdesk@drownedinsound.com


LATEST


  • Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025


  • Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024


  • Drowned in Sound is back!


  • Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020


  • Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter


  • Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »




LATEST

    news


    Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025

  • 106149
  • news


    Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024

  • 106145

    news


    Drowned in Sound is back!

  • 106143
  • news


    Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Y...

  • 106141

    news


    Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter

  • 106139
  • Playlist


    Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

  • 106138

    Festival Preview


    Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna...

  • 106137
  • Interview


    A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash

  • 106136
MORE


    review


    The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn

  • 3517
  • Interview


    With Nile and I: DiS meets Nile Rodgers

  • 98023

    feature


    Foals: "We're going to get weirder and weirder"

  • 26160
  • Column


    Drowned In Sound's 40 Favourite Songs of 2014

  • 98608

    Discography Reassessed


    Oeuvre Here: An 18 Album Voyage Through Ringo S...

  • 100438
  • Interview


    DiS Meets Tori Amos: "You have to be able to si...

  • 95677

    feature


    Fuck Buttons UK tour diary: U2 previews and Sub...

  • 33686
  • feature


    DiS meets Pretty Girls Make Graves

  • 14541
MORE
Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2026 DROWNED IN SOUND