Archive for September, 2010
There is no doubt that everything Charlie Mayfair do is done with love and care, delivered with an inherent flare that stamps each offering as uniquely their own. While Brisbane folk have come to know and love the charismatic group in the last eight months, the time has come for them to fly the coup and spread the word with their very first tour and the release of their debut video clip.
The If I Fell Down Tour follows the release of their Watch My Hands EP earlier this year and will kick off on Thursday, October 7 on the Gold Coast taking in seven dates in total. The tour will see the newly expanded six piece not only celebrate the video release but will also round out an amazingly productive year for the young band who only formed in January this year.
Shot by Ruwan de Silva, the clip for ‘If I Fell Down’ initiated new band members Dave Christensen, Irena Lysiuk and Tom Abbott and features the band embracing their gypsy spirit. Fans will have to wait one more week before the clips official release but for now can mark the following dates in their diary.
Thurs Oct 7 | The Basement, Gold Coast
w/ Irah + Mattie Barker
Sat Oct 9 | The Club House, Brisbane
w/ Dan Parsons, Bonfire Nights + Montpelier (duo)
Tix: http://www.oztix.com.au/
Sat Oct 16 | The Spotted Cow, Toowoomba
special guests TBA
Wed Oct 20 | Brass Monkey, Cronulla
w/ The Former Love Pirates + Chasing Bailey
Thurs Oct 21 | The Brewery, Wollongong
w/ Young Braves + The Former Love Pirates
Fri Oct 22 | Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst
w/ The Bell Weather Department + Boats of Berlin + The Former Love Pirates
Sun Oct 24 | Pippi’s Pub, Newcastle
special guests TBA
The accolades and industry support keeps stacking up for Cairns via Brisbane band The Medics who took out the prestigious award of Band Of The Year at the 16th annual Deadly Awards at Sydney’s Opera House on Monday night.
In Australia’s biggest celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, The Medics shared the music category award bounty alongside Busby Marou, Dan Sultan and legend Archie Roach.
It’s a fitting credit to the hard-working four-piece who have spent the year touring solidly behind their EP This Boat We Call Love, gaining festival slots at Groovin’ The Moo, The Dreaming and One Movement and being honoured as a subject of Foxtel’s recently aired documentary series Who We Are. The Medics will now spend the remainder of 2010 in preparation of next year’s debut album.
** New track ‘Griffin’ is now available for free download **
www.themedicsmusic.bandcamp.com
This Boat We Call Love EP out now through Starving Kids/Sugarrush Digital
While the term “best kept secret” is often tossed around a little too loosely, this really is the case for My Own Pet Radio. It is the name given to the bedroom recording indulgence of Sam Cromack – frontman, songwriter and vocalist for Ball Park Music – and is astonishing, to say the least – so to see this often-impossible-to-play-live music on the stage is a very rare event. With a new album entitled Unidentified Flying Collection Of Songs under his arm ready for a debut release, Cromack and his crack team of musicians – drummer Ryan Strathie (Hungry Kids of Hungary), best friend and jack of all trades Ben Fahey and ex-Mapletons bassist Carl Roosmale-Cocq – will launch the project live at The Troubadour, Sunday October 3.
With a similar DIY ethic you might find in Apples In Stereo, The Microphones, Neutral Milk Hotel or any Rob Schneider production, these albums are the sound of Cromack alone in his bedroom, playing all the instruments, cutting up drums and pasting sounds and making music for himself like no one else is listening. For years he recorded his noodlings, gathered songs and filled hard drives, only occasionally assembling a collection for friends and family to hear and strictly them alone.
It wasn’t until he distributed his second outing as My Own Pet Radio a little wider than usual that he garnered a response to the material he took notice of and thus, Unidentified Flying Collection of Songs was deemed worthy of artwork, a proper CD pressing and a soft release.
www.myspace.com/musicfromtheballpark
It’s not difficult to get excited when you’re a young band on the brink of something special and an opportunity falls in your lap to indulge your music and spread the word across the nation.
So you can only imagine the excitement for Brisbane’s latest pop heroes Ball Park Music when they were selected to tour nationally with their roster big brothers Hungry Kids of Hungary and the supporting Big Scary on HKoH’s massive album launch tour – the Escapades Tour.
Ball Park Music has experienced somewhat of a formative year in 2010. Having inked a deal with Mucho-Bravado Artist Management in the year’s infancy, the six-headed pop juggernaut has gone from strength to strength, from finding their feet onstage and developing into one of Brisbane’s hottest live bands to recording a critically-embraced sophomore EP Conquer The Town, Easy As Cake.
The EP’s first single ‘iFly’ (“I f*cking love you, I think you’re pretty”) connected quickly on virtually every level and garnered crazy, unexpected radio-play on triple j and community radio, often coming in at number one most requested on Rosie Beaton’s Super Request, knocking out the globe’s biggest stars. Another track – ‘Western Whirl’ – was nominated for both Best Alternative and The Courier Mail People’s Choice Award at this year’s Q Song Awards, it didn’t win but it did prick the ears of a French milk company who were so enamoured with the song they featured it across their entire Fall campaign.
Get in early to see this astonishing band live on stage – they’re opening all shows as below…
BALL PARK MUSIC – OPENING ALL SHOWS
THE ESCAPADES TOURWITH HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY AND BIG SCARY
FRIDAY, OCT 15 | JIVE, ADELAIDE (SA)
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au (1300 GET TIX) or Moshtix Outlets
SATURDAY, OCT 16 | JIVE, ADELAIDE (SA)
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au (1300 GET TIX) or Moshtix Outlets
THURSDAY, OCT 28 | NATIONAL HOTEL, GEELONG (VIC)
Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545
FRIDAY, OCT 29 | CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE (VIC)
Tickets available from www.cornerhotel.com or Corner Box Office (57 Swan St Richmond Mon – Sat 11am – 8pm 03.9427 9198)
SATURDAY, OCT 30 | KAROVA LOUNGE, BALLARAT (VIC)
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545 and New Generation
THURSDAY, NOV 4 | THE SPOTTED COW, TOOWOOMBA (QLD)
Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545
FRIDAY, NOV 5 | GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON BAY (NSW)
Tickets available from Hotel Great Northern Monday – Friday 9.00 – 5.00pm (Jonson St, Byron Bay), on 6685 6454 and Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545.
SATURDAY, NOV 6 | KINGS BEACH TAVERN, CALOUNDRA (QLD)
Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545
WEDNESDAY, NOV 10 | BEACH ROAD HOTEL, BONDI (NSW)
Free Entry
THURSDAY, NOV 11 | GRAND HOTEL, WOLLONGONG (NSW)
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au (1300 GET TIX) or Moshtix Outlets
FRIDAY, NOV 12 | THE FACTORY THEATRE, SYDNEY (NSW) (ALL AGES)
Tickets available from www.factorytheatre.com.au or The Factory Box Office – 02.9550 3666
SATURDAY, NOV 13 | THE MARAM, CANBERRA (ACT)
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au (1300 GET TIX) Moshtix Outlets
SUNDAY, NOV 14 | CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE (NSW)
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au (1300 GET TIX) or Moshtix Outlets and over the bar at Cambridge Hotel.
FRIDAY, NOV 19 | RUNAWAY BAY TAVERN, GOLD COAST (QLD)
(Big Scary not appearing)
Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545 and www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849
CONQUER THE TOWN, EASY AS CAKE OUT NOW ON iTUNES AND PHYSICALLY THROUGH WWW.MUCHO-BRAVADO.COM
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