No Longer Sleeping

In other Australian music news, Luke Steele, front man of the group the Sleepy Jackson has been busy of late. But, there is no new Sleepy Jackson record in the works. Luke has been doing a number of solo shows lately in Australia. The tour was called the Luke Steele Roadshow.

In addition, at least two new projects are in the works. The first of those has come to fruition. It is a collaboration he did with the electronic outfit Pnau that is called Empire of the Sun. The album was released last month in Australia and there is also a CD single that was released that has some remixes of the song 'Walking on a Dream' that were done by Van She Tech, Sam La More and Hong Kong Blondes. The artwork of both the single and the album look like something out of the sci-fi movie Dune, even though the name of the group was taken from the 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard. And apparently the video for the song was shot in Shanghai, China.

The other project is a record Luke is doing with Daniel Johns, who is the frontman for the group Silverchair. And if that wasn't enough, apprently there is a new song up on the Sleepy Jackson's MySpace called 'Beat Street' that has not been previously issued on anything.