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...

Immaculate Confection Tour pt 1

The success of a tour is largely dependent what you eat before the show. After a long discussion with Yves Klein Blue about bulk-buying baked beans, acid reflux incidents and all-day cereal, I settled for a Hot Mona burger at Chickens Plus Mona Vale. Delicately balanced atop a lightly toasted bun were two perfectly marinated spicy chicken fillets, lettuce, cheese, peri peri sauce and yet another well-toasted bun. Earlier experiments with marinated chicken burgers hadn’t turned out so well (when we toured with Dev from Lightspeed Champion a few months ago he proclaimed Oporto to be the worst moment of his life), but Friday night was different.


With chicken coursing through our veins and the broken air-conditioner sending temperatures upwards of 75 degrees centigrade, we took the stage at the Mona Vale Hotel for the opening night of the Immaculate Confection Tour. The crowd was louder than the industrial fans next to the stage and thankfully much larger, I spotted my mum up the back and it nearly put me off. By the time we were playing our last song some rogue dancers had invaded the stage and were taking apart drums and microphones with glazed-over eyes. The song finished and I jumped off the stage, landing squarely on a broken glass in bare feet – whatever man. We hurriedly put everything back together for our team encore with YKB, which is an epic cover of a old favourite (can’t say which one or I’ll spoil the other shows) that we had never practiced and only 2 or 3 of us actually knew the chords to. We only forgot the words in one verse and stuffed the bridge, but the wild singing and laughing of the crowd managed to mask (or highlight) the shambles. I think it went down pretty well because when we left the stage I saw two drunk girls crying.


The after party; kindly hosted by Matt, friend and drummer in support band Chambers, was a similarly glassy event with a girl falling through a plate glass window on the balcony. Alex our bass player helped out by picking all the glass out of the carpet with his hands and completing the pyramid of cutting that was Friday night. We’re looking skinnier with more nervous excitement than ever about the shows ahead… No doubt plenty more intrigue.
Our new EP When The Ship Goes Down is out this weekend so check it out on itunes or jb hifi etc. and come along to the show nearest you for tears of joy and pain!

...and the beat won't stop speeeedo

Firstly, to all of you who stood up the front at a little red show with your bright eyes, clutching an umbrella shirt and clapping when we had nothing to say, thank you!

I'm writing in the few days break we have before the final (and 3rd!) melbourne show of the 'Listen to Little Red' tour, which has been the longest outing we've done so far with 20 odd shows all over the place. It seems we were unknowingly very lucky to have partnered up with our friends Little Red, because despite any initial misgivings anyone may have had about regional audience sizes or the compatibility of music styles, the tour was a great success. This was in no small part due to the ability of Little Red (or petit rouge as the french fans screamed) to pull massive crowds of genuine music lovers to the shows.

Highlights were...

- sticking it to the fascists at the Perth venue by defacing their new wall in the dressing room with our new (unofficial) mascot, the ginger bread soul man.

- sleeping in beds almost half the time.

- Will getting pants off on the dance floor at the Corner and punching another band member in the face with his bizarre moves.

- scaling the wall of our melbourne hotel, smashing the window and ripping the backside out of my jeans when the doorman could have just let me in.

- whatever happened to Adrian from LR in brisbane, he won't talk about it.

- when Benn the andy bull trombone player fell in love with a girl in the front row who we named shaniqua and then found out she was dating anthony mundine.

We're back in melbourne this saturday (Sep 20) for the final Corner Hotel show and then we have a lovely 2 week break before we launch back into it for the Immaculate Confection Tour, where we'll be hitting most of the places on the Little Red tour and then some...

Tickets for the tour have gone on sale so visit

www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=24483609933

to check out the closest one to you and buy a ticket!

We're cooking up something interesting with the Yves Klein Blue guys so that your heads will explode in the final song...