June 10th, 2008 | By ben
Followers of online music dynamo Edward Guglielmino are about to be rewarded. Following on from the success of his Television Records showcase on the Australia Day long weekend, Edward has decided to take the show on the road. Kicking off in his stomping ground of Brisbane on Friday June 20, the east coast tour – featuring a material from his untitled new release due out in November – will be his eighth independent tour in two years.
The album has been two years in the making and is a full-length effort recorded and produced at Massive Studios in Brisbane by Matthew Redlich. The result is a hot-pot of rock and avant garde pop, a testament to Edward’s eclectic music-making style and delivery.
Guglielmino describes himself an avant-garde sonic experimentalist with a sound falling somewhere between rock, pop, folk and noise and an offbeat style that often finds common ground with the philosophies of Warhol, Keroac and The Velvet Underground. He says his ability to bring his music to the masses stems from the swell of support garnered from his live shows and community radio, not to mention his trail-blazing online presence.
On his upcoming tour, Edward will be joined on the road by ex-Brisbanites Nathan Hollywood and Megan Washington. A folk singer from Melbourne, Nathan describes his music as sounding like: “A man hunting for deer, or a woman cutting her hair.” His debut album, Red Night Falling, was launched last month. Megan Washington, indie jazz vocalist and finalist in the National Jazz Awards (Voice) in 2005 she says she feels like “a bear on a unicycle” and her music is akin to “fishes singing underwater.”
EDWARD GUGLIELMINO – EAST COAST TOUR JUNE/JULY 2008
Sunday, June 29 | Troubadour (Brisbane, QLD)
Television Junk showcase with Mei Lai Swan and Chris Brady (UK)
Thursday, July 3 | The Empress Hotel (Melbourne, VIC)
with Carry Nation and guests Megan Washington & Nathan Hollywood
Saturday, July 5 | The Hub (Launceston, TAS)
with Chris Brady (UK)
Sunday, July 6 | The Alley Cat (Hobart, TAS)
with Chris Brady (UK)
Wednesday, July 9 | The Grace Emily (Adelaide, SA)
with TBA
“… you have to admire Ed’s light-hearted cynicism; a casual and earthy sincerity mixed with a shrewd sense of humour. Ed closes the night with a long high falsetto reminiscent of Muse or Thom Yorke, but with perhaps more nostril involved, yet continuing to surprise his audience with a broken deep husk in the verses. Edward Guglielmino is a chameleon and a comedian, and proved to Melbourne that he’s willing to metamorphosis at will, but he won’t say the word ‘f—k’ because it’s just too rock ‘n’ roll.”
– Jonathan B, Faster Louder
“As his deep baritone alternates with soaring falsetto throughout the set it’s not hard to understand why Guglielmino has already drawn comparisons around town to the likes of Lou Reed and Jeff Buckley.”
– Renee Montgomery, Time Off
