REGURGITATOR
While Quan is still based in Hong Kong… and Ben is currently in Berlin.. they have started thinking about the possibility of a new album in 2010. Otherwise in the meantime we have the following announcement regarding digital availability of their Warner catalogue, festival appearances in Japan and China… along with a special collaborative dance event entitled ROCK SHOW in Brisbane (and Toowoomba) for late Nov.
Plus Quan has some more solo shows coming up…
GET DIGITALIZED!!!
For a start Warner Music finally make the Regurgitator catalogue available in digital format… long overdue early this month most of the Warner catalogue… the debut self-titled EP, the NEW EP, albums Tu Plang, Unit, Art & Eduardo & Rodriguez Wage War on T-wrecks… plus even Crush the Losers mini-album and final parting gesture single compilation Jingles (plus the video version Infommercials) come up trumps on all the usual digital outlet suspects include iTunes, Bigpond, Optus… and even mobile and ringtones as well… chase it up
GET JAPAN!!!
Also well overdue Regurgitator return to play some shows in Japan… so finally at the invitation from KEVROCK in the Hibuya Alps on Sept 20 (www.kev-rock.com) Regurgitator make back to one of their favourite tour destinations. In conjunction with this will be a show in TOKYO at Superdeluxe. See details here www.super-deluxe.com/2009/9/18/regurgitator/ Tickets are available from LAWSON. Special guest will be BO PEEP.
FRI 18 SEPT – SUPERDELUXE B1F 3.1.25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku Tokyo 1060031
phone 03 54120517 Tickets on sale from Lawsons & Venue. Plus Bo Peep.
SUN 20 SEPT KEVROCK see www.kev-rock.com for details.
GET CHINA!!!
And not so overdue as we were only there last year playing a bunch of shows with some genuinely great Chinese bands New Pants, Hedgehog… Regurgitator return to play the Modern Sky festival on October 4 -7 this year along with The Buzzcocks, Blonde Redhead, Futureheads, Radio 4, British Sea Power, Shonen Knife, International Noise Conspiracy, Free Energy, Sissy Wish, Housse De Racket, Snake and Jet, The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, HEARTSREVOLUTION and a great bunch of Chinese bands. Keep an eye here for details… www.modernsky.com/festival
MON 5 OCT MODERN SKY FESTIVAL Beijing
GET DANCING!!!
Always ones for experimenting with the formats… Regurgitator will be collaborating with one of Australia’s most progressive and rigorous dance exponents and choreographers Gavin Webber in his live music/dance explosion… ROCK SHOW…
ROCK SHOW: A ground-breaking collaboration between one of Australia’s most exciting creative talents, Gavin Webber, and international rock-electronica band Regurgitator. Rock Show is an assault on the senses—loud, dirty, sexual, and playful—as dance, theatre, and a rock concert merge into a catharsis of explosive movement and thrashing guitars and keyboards. It will showcase the gutsy choreography of Gavin Webber and take the physical vocabulary he developed with Dancenorth to a new level, working with some of the best dancers in the country and for the first time uniting forces with one of Australia’s most important bands…
Rock Show will celebrate its world premiere at the Playhouse, QPAC as part of Q150 – Queensland’s 150th Celebrations 2009…
WED 18 NOV TOOWOOMBA EMPIRE worldwide debut performance 7.30pm
WED 25 NOV BRISBANE QPAC Playhouse opening performance 7.30pm
THUR 26 NOV BRISBANE QPAC Playhouse performance #2 7.30pm
FRI 27 NOV BRISBANE QPAC Playhouse performance #3 7.30pm
SAT 28 NOV BRISBANE QPAC Playhouse performance #4 4.00pm & #5 7.30pm
TICKETS from Qpac outlets www.qpac.com.au/events/RockShow
Gavin Webber – Performer & Choreographer
Worked with Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre from 1993 to 1998, then moved to Brussels and worked with Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez for three years. From 2005 to 2009 he was Artistic Director of Dancenorth and created Nightcafe, gravity feed, underneath, Underground, roadkill and Remember Me and toured extensively in Australia, Asia and Europe. He divides his time between Europe and Australia and has most recently created a new work called Food Chain in collaboration with Grayson Millwood and the Physical Virus Collective in Freiburg and Heidelberg, Germany. Check out his dance performances LAWN, ROADKILL and REMEMBER ME.
Nice piece in SPIN http://www.spin.com/articles/greatest-bands-youve-probably-never-heard?page=0%2C2
QUAN THE AMATEUR shows!!!
And while we are here… QUAN has his new website up and booming… www.quantheamateur.com… go there!!!
And will be back in Australia playing the following shows between Japan and China…
QUAN THE AMATEUR plays…
THUR 24 SEPT – WORKERS CLUB, Fitzroy, Melbourne with Yamma Boy
FRI 25 SEPT – BEACH RD HOTEL, Bondi, Sydney Dust Tones with Dirt Child, Spruce Lee, Mike Who and DJ Ability.
SAT 26 SEPT – SOUNDS OF SPRING FESTIVAL, Brisbane
then back for…
SAT 24 OCT – SPRING BREAK Adelaide with Q-Bert and more