Rock City finds out My Disco are not a band suited to French cafes, Henry Wagons is on fire and Emma Louise returns My Disco. Band. Music group. The latest news in Australia's music scene and gigs on in Melbourne. Their Disco LAST time Rock City experienced My Disco was at The Toff in Town. The gig was about an 11/10 at 11.10pm and everything was turned up to 11 when a frothing friend shouted "Every time I see My Disco it's like watching a completely different band!!" A stunning observation in every sense. "We've changed a lot but in this show we're almost reverting back to 2005 era," says Ben Andrews, one third of the sinewy rock band who celebrate 10 years by playing a retrospective show on Friday night. The decision on which songs to choose from My Disco's pulsing, punishing back catalogue was easier than you'd think. "There's songs on Paradise where I don't know what I was thinking but I did some wack tunings I can't remember," he says. Nothing wack about this Revolver show from 2007. As the group reflects on ten Steve Albini-filled years, which was their most difficult show? We toured Europe in October last year and our second last show was in the South of France and it was this tiny café. In France they have pretty full-on noise restrictions and it was basically set up for an acoustic jazz band. I rang our promoter and said "Why have you booked us this gig, this sucks!!" and then did a few shots of Jager to blur how bad it was going to be. And we still tried to play but it was so awkward people just stood outside. They weren't accustomed to seeing loud live bands in that venue. Another one was in St Petersburg Russia where there was no bass amp. Obviously we need the bass amp so we put the bass through the PA...that was hard, we couldn't hear ourselves. As for those crowning glories though, "A show in Moscow in 2010 was amazing, a couple of 100 people getting drunk, stagediving, having a great time. We played in Kuala Lumpur last year to an energetic, enthusiastic crowd that knew all the words to our songs, that was super fun. And the first time we played Camp A Low Hum had the best energy, it was midnight and 900 people were really into it. We've had some great shows at Corner Hotel too," he says, remembering he'll be at 57 Swan St this Friday night." My Disco have curated quite the bill too: HTRK, New War, Standish/Carlyon, Max Crumbs, Home Travel (replacing Absolute Boys) and Brain Children DJs. Speaking of incredibly credible bills, "I don't think everyone knows just how insane this All Tomorrow's Parties line-up is!" he says. That's the sort of line-up you'd see in a New York or London ATP but at the same time known of these bands have ever been on ATP! I'm excited to just be a punter as well. Playing will be rad but I'm excited to see bands like Swans and Einstürzende Neubauten are my favourite band of all time. My Disco may have AAA passes at ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror event but don't expect Andrews to be approaching his heroes backstage. "I'm too scared of both Michael Gira and Blixa Bargeld," he laughs. Finally, Andrews elucidates on the next chapter in My Disco's adventure. Liam lives overseas now, we literally do this show, then we're recording then we do ATP then he leaves again. This will be it until later in the year. We're recording in Melbourne next week at Cornel Wilczek's studio Electric Dreams. We're putting out a single called Guided on Sub Pop in a couple of months which we did with Cornel and we're continuing with that. It's going to be a no acoustic drums record, it's all electronic. It'll be a five song 25 minute mini-LP on Temporary Residence to see how it goes with programmed drums. To help you, drum this programme into your head and get there early for Brain Children DJs! Set-times, sisters and brothers: 6pm - Brain Children DJs 6.50pm- Home Travel 7.30pm- Crumbs 8.20pm - Standish/Carlyon 9pm - HTRK 10pm - New War 11pm-12.30am - My Disco Corner Hotel, 57 Swan St, Richmond, Fri, 6pm, www.cornerhotel.com; ATP, Westgate Entertainment Centre, Centre, Feb 16-17, www.atpfestival.com Westside WHEN Bon Scott first arrived from WA he headed west...to Sunshine. This weekend the rebooted Yarraville Club Bon Scott band will honour the 33 year anniversary of the AC/DC man's death with a band that features Jamie Coghill, Carl Treasure, Jimi Richardson, Jonny Driver and guests like Eliza and Talei Wolfgramm, Rusty, Dave Larkin, Matt Sonic, Ash Naylor and more. Yarraville Club, 135 Stephen St, Sat, 6.30pm/8.30pm, $45/$25. www.yarravillelive.com Ponder this ANYBODY keeping up with POND knows they've been around just as long as Tame Impala and are capable of doing nearly as much damage to your ears and feet. If you loved hearing them play Giant Tortoise at Laneway Festival on Sunday then you can download it for free at their website. Their fifth album Hobo Rocket will launch via Modular later on in the year. Get on board HENRY Wagons and The Unwelcome Company absolutely killed it at Laneway Festival. He taunted the "hill people" lying horizontal while they watched him and demanded three of them roll down the hill. Three gentlemen promptly did. Finishing his set with A Hangman's Work Is Never Done he pretended to noose himself with three mic cords. If you don't have his Expecting Company? Mini-album yet, have a preview here: Henry Wagons will play SXSW with Unwelcome Company according to their website but first he strings himself up at The Garden Party next to Melbourne Recital Centre next week. All details, dynamic reader: www.wagonsmusic.com Boogie down HENRY Wagons and his Grand Ole Boogvegas Spectacle will raise the bar at Boogie 7 this year and this morning the bill has been bulked up by the addition of Endless Boogie (so meta right now), Tav Falco and The Panther Burns, Money For Rope, Simone Felice, Wang (featuring The Mess Hall and Chris Ross, ex-Wolfmother), Phil Jamieson (solo), Go Deviles, Lowtide, Harmony and Drunk Mums. They join Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Good Heavens and many more ready to make you spend your Boogie Bucks on shots for your fave frontman/frontwoman/Boxwarrior. Bruzzy's Farm, Tallarook. March 29-31. $185+bf. www.boogie.net.au Louise Louise EMMA Louise has dropped the lower case caps (Silverchair did after their first few releases too) and extended her wingspan to include ethereal, whirring fuzz-pop. New song Freedom is like Bat For Lashes produced by Schlomo and sewn together by Dark Star. Wait for the slippery disco guitar to slide in at 1.45. Her album vs Head vs Heart will be out on March 22 through MGM. The release follows what has been a particularly momentous 12 months for Emma Louise, with a swag of national and international festival appearances, sales in excess of 35,000 units (that's the equivalent of 100,000 in the "90s) rewarding her independently released debut EP a coveted Gold sales ranking. The Brisvegas waif has signed to Vertigo Universal and New York's Frenchkiss. Until next week, thrillseekers.