album update

hey everyone
so weve decided the best days of summer are behind us and its finally time to buckle down and record our debut album.

the first taste is out now in the form of Moonlight Hours, and the rest of the album is now ready to go so over the next few weeks we'll be recording and producing it ourselves at home in our french colonial inspired studio...

we'll be adding lotsa photos and comments over the next few weeks so check back to hear how its going (we might even sneak a new song up on myspace for a day or 2), and in no time at all you'll have our lifes work in your hands!

xo
will

wednesday afternoon listening

we're recording some album tracks soon so you'll be hearing us before long...

Brian Eno - 'Sombre Reptiles' off Another Green World
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - 'It's Not What You Know' off Body Exit Mind
King Sunny Ade - 'Ja Funmi' off Juju Music
King Crimson - 'Discipline' off Discipline
Captain Beefheart - 'Tropical Hotdog Night' off Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Black Grape - 'Shake Your Money' off Its Great When You're Straight... Yeah

Did anyone see

the vids of the surprise set Thom Yorke did at latitude festival UK? the eraser is a great album.

bam bammm chk bam bamm

Been jammin' massively so i wanted to share some love for those of you who would be jammin if you weren't sat here on the internet.

Dr John - 'Black Widow Spider' off Babylon

Neu - 'Hallogallo' off Neu! (jamming or driving)

Can - 'Paperhouse' off Tago Mago

Fela Kuti - 'Water No Get Enemy' off Expensive Shit

Happy Mondays - 'Holiday' off Pills n Thrills

Public Image Ltd. - 'Poptones' off Metal Box

LCD Soundsystem - 'Losing My Edge' off LCD Soundsystem

hello?

Break the silence

Hello there! 

We haven't actually disappeared, we've been very busy writing an album we hope people will like, trying to distill what we're about so you can drink it. Been keeping a low profile for the last few months and haven't done any shows but we shall return soon with lots of new tricks (we have to learn how to perform the tricks first, like swallowing swords or the thing where you keep pulling the never-ending handkerchief out of someone's pocket).
As far as releases go its a bit early still throw dates around since we haven't recorded the album yet but we'll hopefully have a single out this year and the album will follow early next year.

In the mean time we will correspond more, perhaps put up some covers we've done lately or even a few demos, though we don't want to spoil anything...

Check out:

Talking Heads - 'Born Under Punches(The heat goes on)' off Remain in Light

Janet Jackson - 'LUV'  off Discipline

Roxy Music - 'Love is the Drug' off Siren

Junior Boys - 'Bellona' off Last Exit

Happy Mondays - 'Donovan' of Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches 

White Rabbits - 'Midnight and I' off It's Frightening

Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit - 'Tengazako' off 'The Very Best' Mixtape

Friendly Fires - 'Skeleton Boy(Air France Remix)' 

The Horrors - 'Mirror's Image' off Primary Colours

David Bowie - 'Ashes to Ashes' off Scary Monsters... "i'm happy, hope you're happy too...."

Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.

See ya~

The sound of holidays

So right now we're developing a sound for an album next year. I've been in my bedroom with a laptop and some hungry ants gnawing through xylophone bars. Kerridge is holed up on a house boat with an MPC2500 sampler, some Eagles and some Jamaican dub. Will is taking photos of his girlfriend dressed as a baby, holding a giant lollipop and Alex is drinking while making some new songs for the Drones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDAD-lALZFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRyC5B0B-9k
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=94bL91pazq4

Immaculate Confection pt 2

The double header tour is a great idea because when you get your bus bogged at 3am while trying to drive up a sand dune you have at least 8 people to push it out. Its also good because you get two separate groups of music fans at each show, except at one regional show where we had 3 groups - the bikers, the young couple and the dero calling out for AC/DC.

Best shows were probably: Brisbane, where we tried out a rave vibe with glow sticks and a Justice record; Sunshine Coast, where we got really sweaty in a little club then did black magic with some candles on the beach; Melbourne, where we were a vampire, a mummy, a witch and a killer clown - with various results; and of course Sydney, where we made the annandale stage smell really nice and then destroyed it.
We thank you all so much for coming to any of the shows on the tour, its such a nice feeling to play on the other side of the country and see a bunch of people who've gone out of their way and paid money to see some young bands like us, you're way ahead of your time...