Coming up this Sunday, Callum, Nick and I will be playing at Black Bear Lodge with some great Melbourne bands, have a look. Here. We will be playing a set of unrealised songs that will make up the majority of the next album.
Also a couple of months back I played a solo set at The Bearded Lady and Josh Watson was nice enough to play part of it on his 4zzz Radio show Live Delay. Listen below.
Its about time that I provide an update on the album launch and another show.
Its taken some time to sort out, but we will be launching the Curlew album at the Bearded Lady on Sunday 16 November.
Yes, this is the last day of the G20, yes its probably not the best and easiest date to launch an album. But I must admit I forgot.
I had original booked the launch for November 20. However the Bearded Lady had a request from a Greek band for that date. I wanted to help the venue out, as Cat the booking agent has been lovely to deal with, so I agreed to change our date. As circumstances changed, that band had to pull out and Cat was nice enough to suggest I play a solo show on that date.
Don’t worry to much about the G20, come out and see us play, it might take a touch more time to get there, but you might see Putin or Obama wonder in for a beer, who knows.
So the upcoming shows are as follows.
Nov 16 – Curlew Album Launch w/ Amateur Childbirth & The Scrapes
Thanks heaps for the poster Julien, you’re the best
Nov 20 – Mark Zian w/ Dale Peachey (Dollar Bar) & Greg Charles (Charles Curse)
Thank you to Kellie for this poster.
I am really excited about both shows. The Curlew show will be like old times, just Callum and myself playing some songs from the album. For the solo show I will playing a mixture of I am not a Nihilist songs, some solo guitar stuff and a couple of newer songs that we have been working on for the next Curlew release.
As Nick is going away for a month for work we did some quick demos of the new songs, just in case he forgets his parts. Here is one of them.
As per my last post, we have a new album, we being Callum and I. I put it onto Bandcamp last month, but we are yet to launch it. Callum is off to Japan soon, so it will probably happen in September.
Good news though we have a show coming up this Saturday at Trainspotters with Black Vacation, Ciggie Witch, Blonde Tonues & Pare Ohm. It should be an excellent show.
https://www.facebook.com/events/778303552219830/
In other good news, we got a couple of reviews, have a read.
I have always struggled to get my work reviewed, not a word was uttered about the last album, so its nice to get some feedback. I don’t know if feedback is the right word, but its nice to know that at least a couple of people have listened to it and actually given it some consideration. Art can be communicative and its really hard to talk to people when they don’t talk back. So thanks Brendan and Liza.
My band Curlew has a new album. It took Callum and I, a great deal of time and effort to get this thing done so I you’re keen check it out through the releases page.
aarrgh have a link http://curlewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/animal-urges
I rarely update this blog.
I dislike blogs really. Blogs are masturbation and I need something that at least talks back. I don’t have the ambition to get all literate and try and get a following and a book deal for my bullshit hack of a blog.
The reason I am writing this is because, as I was fixing a Hannah Montana guitar which I picked up from Lifeline, my lovely girlfriend called me to say goodnight, after which she told me through text message to update my blog. Mmmm technology.
So here I am, alone and in front of a computer partaking in some one-sided interaction. Sounds a lot like masturbation to me.
There is news I guess.
Curlew has some more songs, were are trying to record them, we have played shows. Below are some results. A video of Fitness First from the Zoo. Thanks Nick. A studio recording of Cobwebs. Thanks David. A live video of Callus. Thanks Josh.
Now….Back to Hannah
Exeunt
Curlew – Fitness First from Fine Goods Productions on Vimeo.
Curlew – 26.04.2012 from Joshua Watson on Vimeo.
Great news,
Curlew have a 10 hour recording session tomorrow thanks to the amazing David Browne. This should be the start of our first album as a band.
We also have a gig this week at the Waiting Room with Heart Flew.
Im going to bed, I will update very soon.
Today marks a first for adding a date to my event calendar and also using my mailing list.
Music promotion is not really why I got into music, but people coming to shows is very important for the following reasons.
Therefore Alcohol Sales = Success.
Therefore come to my gigs and drink a lot. I personally don’t really drink much and don’t really condone the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol, unless of course it makes me look good.
So long story short the details are:
Curlew play at the Zoo (funny yeah, animals at the Zoo, ha ha ha) Dad Joke, not actually a joke my Dad made but you get it.
Wednesday April 18
Costs $6 presale or $8 on the door. (I have some tickets, but really the cost of contacting me then arrange payment is probably worth just coming on the night and surprising me . Alternatively you could surprise me and buy a ticket and not come)
The address is 711 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley and we play at 8 on the dot. (We will play our best song first so if you miss it, well yeah)
Come and watch Callum and I express ourselves. Or maybe its Callum and I expressing me. I’m not sure how he views it.
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Proof reading is for pussies
Hello everybody
Just a note to say that music now exists on this website. I have uploaded music from my past and present and more importantly my future. Some people know, and I have mentioned here, that I have started a band of sorts with my friend Callum Wheeler (I would love to link to his site but I’m not sure what he is doing with it so i will update this later). David Browne, who was nice enough to master my “I am not a Nihilist” album, also recorded a track for Callum and I. THANK YOU DAVID!!!!. So go to the Curlew page and have a listen. We are hoping to start recording an album in a couple of months. Let me know what you think.
Goodnight
