The Presets to play Grand Final

The FFA have confirmed Bawley favourites The Presets as the official entertainment act for the 2009 A-League Grand Final.

The Presets will play a three song set including A-League anthem My People (Bawley 2007 #33), so far there has been no hints on what other songs they might play but I am hopeful they will cover the New Order football classic World In Motion. (video)

Of course pulling off such a cover would mean recruiting an A-League star to perform the John Barnes rap section, I can see Melbourne hard man Kevin Muscat busting the rhymes, or perhaps Adelaide fans would rather see Cassio take the mic Fo Realz!

Here come the Doves

It’s always good news when Doves come back. The band has just announced their fourth album, ‘Kingdom Of Rust’, which is due out 6^th April.

New track ‘Jetstream’ – available for free download from doves.net – sees Doves ‘going electronic’, as bands very often do when they hit their ‘mid-career crisis’. As comeback singles go, it’s no ‘There Goes The Fear’ or ‘Black and White Town’ but represents an interesting New Order-esque new direction.

Let’s see if they can do what fellow Mancuians Elbow did last last year and break through to a wider audience with their fourth record.