CONSUME/VALVE

REGURGITATOR

After dipping toes in the bubbling grease of contemporary dance for Rockshow in Nov 2009 they dropped the strainer in the chip fryer, frittered away on some new years festival appearances along with a few shows in the past few months. Back in their classic 3 piece mode, after approaching Rockshow in this guise, and with Seja embarking on her own solo career they recently played some stand out performances (including Seja’s last keyboard stand with them) at the Brisbane Powerhouse 10th birthday… and sold out shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Back on the fries… they saturate the wrapper with new recordings, new tourings and a new soundtrack to cult classic Akira.

With Quan and Ben relocating to new home town Melbourne early this year they activated some fresh studio spaces in their recently acquired dwellings and started work on their first new material since the Love and Paranoia sessions in Rio de Janeiro in 2007. Quan has set up a recording blog here and see them use it… the tracks are currently being mixed by Casey Rice after some additional recording at Head Gap.. and will be released through digital outlets and physical forms in September.

On August 8 as part of the Graphic animation conference at the Sydney Opera House Regurgitator have been commissioned to produce a live score to the ground breaking Japanese anime film AKIRA.

Comic books, illustration, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our popular culture, they now define it. Graphic novels and comic art are now a leading source of inspiration for films, television, clothing, designers, musicians and artists the world over. GRAPHIC celebrates this brave new world in a weekend of specially commissioned productions – with musical responses to graphic art & stories, workshops, panels, a film program, a games exhibition and an animation competition. Highlight events include the Anime classic Akira with a live rescore by Regurgitator; Shaun Tan’s The Arrival live scored by Ben Walsh and the Orkestra of the Underground; and the big one – Neil Gaiman in the Concert Hall reading a new unpublished work, with specially commissioned live score by FourPlay and projected illustrations by legendary graphic artist Eddie Campbell.

Akira with live score by Regurgitator Akira is the benchmark film by which all other anime are judged, spawning countless imitators and defining many of the themes, concerns and style of the genre. Set in 2019 in post-World War Three Neo-Tokyo, this animated classic introduced the western world to adult-oriented Japanese animation and has been lauded worldwide as the movie that “started it all”. Akira started life as Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic 2,000+ page manga (Japanese comic book), before being adapted into an animated film in 1988. The film will be shown in the original Japanese language version with English subtitles and rescored live by Regurgitator. As Australia’s most renowned and successful experimental art-rockers, Regurgitator have achieved triple-platinum status – an astonishing feat for such an uncompromising band – who never shy away from the unusual, the untried, or indeed any genre that attracts their creative sensibility.
Tickets available from the Sydney Opera House.

And now following this… Regurgitator embark on the most intensive headline tour since the 6 week long 2007 Amor e Paranoia tour with New Pants from China and I Heart Hiroshima… or the 2008 tour with guiding lights DEVO. For this latest slush in hot fat Regurgitator has invited new sensations from Melbourne RAT VS POSSUM and Brisbane’s bursting with joy LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH along for the fries. Plus for a special one-off show… DJ KRUSH from Japan will be joining Regurgitator for a double headliner in Brisbane on SEPT 18 at The Tivoli
Tickets on sale in the coming days… from JULY 20 or thereabouts.

Faster Louder presents
REGURGITATOR
plus RAT VS POSSUM (expect WA shows)
and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH (except TAS & WA shows)
with co-headliner DJ KRUSH from Japan (Brisbane show only)

WED 15 SEPT Hobart REPUBLIC BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from Ruffcut Records – 6234 8600, Moshtix and The Republic Bar – 6234 6954, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

THUR 16 SEPT Adelaide THE GOV
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849) & Moshtix outlets, www.venuetix.com.au (ph 08 8225 8888) & Venue*Tix outlets & at the venue 11am-9pm Mon-Sat, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

FRI 17 SEPT Melbourne THE HI-FI
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets online from www.thehifi.com.au Phone Tix 1300THEHIFI (1300 843 4434) & Polyester Records – Fitzroy & City, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

SAT 18 SEPT Brisbane THE TIVOLI
with DJ KRUSH (from Japan) plus LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH and RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from Ticketek 132 849, www.ticketek.com.au, Rocking Horse Records (07) 3229 5360 and regurgitator.oztix.com.au Doors at 7.00pm

SUN 19 SEPT Byron GREAT NORTHERN
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from venue, www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), oztix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

WED 22 SEPT Katoomba HOTEL GEARIN
plus RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

THUR 23 SEPT Canberra THE MARAM
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from  www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

FRI 24 SEPT Wgong UNI BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from Redback Music, the venue, Oztix, www.bigtix.com.au, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

SAT 25 SEPT Sydney MANNING BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets: www.manningbar.com (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
An official selection of Sydney Fringe 2010

SUN 26 SEPT Karratha WA WALKINGTON THEATRE
Ph: (08) 9159 6859 for ticketing.

MON 27 SEPT Perth AMPLIFIER BAR
plus BOYS BOYS BOYS! and NAIK
Tickets from Bocs, Moshtix, 78’s, Mills, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au

www.regurgitator.net
www.myspace.com/regurgitators
RECORDING BLOG: http://consume.com.au/regurgitator

RAT VS POSSUM
…play experimental pop music. Layered and looped, billion-part harmonies, tom-heavy percussion, drum samplers, jangly guitars, casio keyboards and loop pedal. They released their debut ‘Daughter of Sunshine’ in April through Sensory Projects. A collection of psychedelic, faux-tribal pop songs written for the Summer, recorded during the Winter of 2009.‘Daughter of Sunshine’ is an album of multi-coloured ecstatical indulgences, chiming guitars, Cash Converters’ keyboards and a bandwidth of beats that documents the band’s first year of music making; capturing their evolution from a glitter-obsessed two-piece, playing to handfuls of barely-amused friends in living rooms,  to the current five-piece, drum-heavy incarnation of the band packing venues ll over the place amid performances with Passion Pit, Jonathan Boulet and the like…
“…joyously experimental, infectious and unique.”- Tom Hawking, Inpress
“Rat Vs Possum seized the stage quite unlike any act we’ve seen at the seasonal Triple R showcases and offered themselves up as one of the acts to catch in 2010.”– Sam McDougall, Triple R
“This is one tribe I am more than happy to be cannibalised by.”Wilfred Brandt, TwoThousand
“…absolutely inspired neo-tribal bliss and shambolic, shouty freak outs.”- Lawson Fletcher, Mess and Noise
“Dan Kelly wished he was 21 and living on acid and baked beans again at the Rat Vs Possum gig.”- Dan Kelly’s rad facebook status
www.myspace.com/ratvspossum

LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Laneous & The Family Yah make Grunty Indie Soul and Croon Punk for your earholes. Together with the all singing, all dancing Bird Fire Choir, Laneous navigates his band through abstract hip hop, punk and old soul. Alternatively cheerful, smooth and demented he cuts through the Family Yah’s at times fiercely syncopated, occasionally bombast and otherwise wobbly grooves with his trademark falsetto croon and charming hip hop murmurs. Bubblin’ up out of the artisan hot bed that is Brisbane’s West End, L&TFY are amongst the hardest working on the East Coast Touring Circuit. Their 2009 Debut LP “St Ill Regal” pushed the band onto the National stage with Triple J spinning Searing Life on High Rotation, a QSong Award and FBI rotation for Bubblegum, a triple j Unearthed ‘Parklife’ Win and critical acclaim around the country. This saw L&TFY spend the best part of a year on the road. Still though they found time to record and release 3 Limited Edition EPs – all now sold out and ascended to the vaults. Having finely tuned a high energy and dynamic live show the old fashioned way – through grueling trips up and down the coast, crashing on floors and fighting for DJ duties in the tour bus, their Sophomore Album “Found Things” is Laneous & The Family Yah at their most direct – a fight between the animal and the evolved, an uncompromised and highly joyous offering of soul, punk and hip hop. It’s release in September 2010 (through Bird Fire Records) cements L&TFY as amongst one of the most prolific acts in Australia.
www.myspace.com/lachlaneous

DJ KRUSH
Known as one of the first hip-hop artists in Japan, DJ Krush (Hideaki Ishi) is a globally renowned producer, remixer and DJ. DJ Krush constantly expands his field – working on film soundtracks, television dramas and commercials, as well as live sessions with other musicians. In 1991, Krush’s remix TVO was a hit in the London club scene. He released his debut self-titled album in 1994 (Shadow Records), and since then has released eight solo records, including releases in Japan, Europe and the Unites States, and numerous singles, remixes and collaborations. With his music ranging from hip-hop to techno and acid jazz, some critics have labelled Krush the ‘Godfather of trip-hop’, referring to the multi-layered psychedelic element of his music.www.sus81.jp/djkrush

The Opera Theatre: Sunday 8th of August
AKIRA THE FILM… LIVE SCORE BY REGURGITATOR.

Akira was the benchmark film by which all other Anime followed. Set in a post World War Three Neo- Tokyo in 2019 this animated classic introduced the western world to Japanese animation and has been lauded worldwide as the movie that “started it all”. The dvd has sold over 41,000 copies in Australia alone.

Regurgitator; Australia’s most renowned experimental art rockers are creating a new live score to play live, alongside Akira. Regurgitator have gone triple platinum in Australia an astonishing feat for a band never to compromise or shy away from the unusual, the untried, or any genre that infects their creative sensibility.

GRAPHIC: AKIRA with live score by Regurgitator
Comic books, illustration, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our popular culture, they now define it. Graphic novels and comic art are now a leading source of inspiration for films, television, clothing, designers, musicians and artists the world over. GRAPHIC celebrates this brave new world in a weekend of specially commissioned productions – with musical responses to graphic art & stories, workshops, panels, a film festival, a games exhibition and an animation competition.

“Hyperviolent. Apocalyptic. Kinetic. Lurid. Akira is the definitive anime classic.” – Empire magazine

Akira is the benchmark film by which all other Anime are judged, spawning countless imitators and defining many of the themes, concerns and style of the genre. Set in 2019 in post-World War Three Neo-Tokyo, this animated classic introduced the western world to adult-oriented Japanese animation and has been lauded worldwide as the movie that “started it all”. The DVD has sold over 41,000 copies in Australia alone. It started life as Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic 2,000+ page manga (Japanese comic book), before being adapted into an animated film in 1988.

The film will be shown in the original Japanese language version with English subtitles.

Regurgitator are Australia’s most renowned and successful experimental art-rockers, who have created a stunning new score to play live alongside Akira. Regurgitator have achieved triple-platinum status in Australia – an astonishing feat for such an uncompromising band – who never shy away from the unusual, the untried, or indeed any genre that attracts their creative sensibility.

Rated M15+- High Level Violence

Akira Trailer http://www.nipponcinema.com/trailers/akira-trailer/

See the rest of the GRAPHIC program here http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/about/program_graphic.aspx

Learn how to be part of the GRAPHIC animation competition here http://www.graphic.sydneyoperahouse.com/

Venue: Opera Theatre
Dates: 8 August
Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes with no interval

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Most bands are too afraid to step up to the bat. They are scared that life is going to
throw them different kinds of curve balls. But for more than fifteen years, Trans Am
has fearlessly stepped up, taken their swings and thrown a few curve balls of their own.
Few bands can say they’ve toured the Canadian mountains with TOOL, and fewer still
can they played their first tour opening for Tortoise. Trans Am a-la 2010 is a band of
veterans unafraid to contradict themselves, confident in their identity even as
confounding as that identity has been for their fans over the years.

Thing is a wreckage of sorts.
The project was originally commissioned as a sci-fi, horror adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. When funding for that project fell apart, Trans Am forged on with their own album. To capture the feeling of exhaustion and paranoia demanded by Thing, Trans Am remained at their recording studio until the early morning, occasionally exiting to run up and down the hills of San Francisco. All vocals were recorded during recovery from these sessions. Thing features songs written entirely by the individual band members, as well as more collaborative efforts. Tracks were composed and/or recorded in Pescara, Italy; Portland, Oregon; Leon, France; San Francisco, California; Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean; London, England; Death Valley, California. The three members of the band currently reside in Portland, San Francisco and Washington, DC. For half of the tracks on Thing, Trans Am utilized a recording/composition strategy known as “Zombification.” Once a song was recorded, each of the band members (as well as anybody else in the studio at the time) would record multiple additional tracks without any reference to the previous ones. The song then forgot itself – and was almost unlistenable. After cellaring the un-dead music for up to a year, Trans Am would begin to peel back the layers of the song, usually arriving at something completely different.Thing was recorded between May 2008 and November of 2009, but the ongoing economic crisis did not affect the album’s lavish production budget.

Thing represents a further attempt by the band to further remove themselves not just from various indie-rock labels, but music itself. One of Thing’s requirements was that each track contain a completely non-musical element, preferably something with a sonic signature that was not even necessarily a sound.

With such history behind them, eight albums and last year’s live double LP and DVD What
Day is it Tonight?, Trans Am’s record speaks for itself. This new album does not
attempt to redefine the band’s image or return to any previous form, but
simply to speak for itself, a single palpable, particular… Thing…
TRANS AM’s THING out now on VALVE/MGM.