hawnay troof
Evading trends and falling into repetition might be career suicide for most, yet somehow Hawnay Troof, the solo outlet of Vice Cooler, has defied these odds and created a world of his own. Over the past four albums he has mixed drive, impulsiveness, and an ever-evolving vision to create some very dividing and interesting sounds. Avoiding all pigeonholes, Daggers At The Moon is the new album and continues the Hawnay Troof trajectory.

Since the release of Islands Of Ayle in 2008, Vice Cooler (yes, that is his legal name) completed a world tour and watched Hawnay Troof’s profile expand by leaps and bounds. The video for “Connection” was voted the #2 Indie Video of 2008 by MTV2’s Subterranean viewers (beating out heavyweights like Bjork and MGMT), and shortly after ranked as #1 on MTVU. He performed at Australia’s Parklife Festival, along with headliner, Peaches. In 2009 he also was chosen to open for High Places, Matt and Kim, and Vivian Girls, and stole the stage at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest by creating a near riot in the parks dustbowl. In between Hawnay Troof business, Vice remixed music by Ssion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Yacht. He also played drums in Chicks On Speed, Boredoms BOADRUM 88, and The Raincoats while also beginning work on a collaborative art book/ band with Mira Aroyo of Ladytron. All in all, it’s been a busy year.

Emotionally rawer than any previous release, Daggers At The Moon captures the mind of someone troubled yet trying to function in the normal world (Vice has been diagnosed with mental illness). From the epic one chord sadness of the self-questioning “This Is How” to the upbeat happiness celebrated in “Body Armageddon,” the moods run all over the map. The albums closer, the timid “Everything Is,” features another new addition to the HT artillery: a piano. Every song calls on his experience as a “free” drummer, connecting tightly to the pulse that drives the album. Vice Cooler’s output on Daggers is a captivating look into one of the most creative and underrated minds of America’s under- ground. With co-production and mixing from Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, the sound is more pure and crisp than past HT albums, marking an important crossroads for Hawnay. Over the years, Hawnay Troof has known the power of surprise. This is someone who once fell of a stage into a lake during a show, yet somehow went on to win accolades on MTV and play to tens of thousands of screaming kids at rock festivals. He lives by the motto that he chanted on his last album: “Live for no rules”. So if there is anything to expect from Daggers At The Moon, it should be to lose all expectations and enjoy the wonderment.

JUST ANOTHER DAY or TWO of HAWNAY MAYHEM – DAGGERS AT THE MOON TOUR…
WED 3 MAR – MIGHTY MIGHTY Wellington
THUR 4 MAR – GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY Christchurch
FRI 5 MAR – KINGS ARMS Auckland
SAT 6 MAR – LOST WEEKEND Brisbane Riverstage
WED 10 MAR NSC Melbourne
with guests SIMO SOO (Syd), YUKA DISCO BEANS and KT SPIT
FRI 12 MAR SPECTRUM Sydney with THE SCARE

* Album includes Mary Pearson (High Places), David Scott Stone (Melvins, Unwound, Sads), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Ed Rodrigez (Deerhoof, XBXRX), Annie Lewan- dowski (Curtains), Bretzel Goring, Jenny Hoyston, Carla Bozulich (Evangelista), Liz Harris (Grouper), and Iggybaby.
* Held several art shows in 2008- 2009 while also self publishing two books of his art: The Dollar And Deed Tour and NFJM026. Both went out of print on the Internet within one hour of release.
* Toured with High Places, Peaches, The Gossip, Eagles Of Death Metal, Mates Of State, Rogue Wave, Deerhoof, Glass Candy, and Stereo Total.
* Played at Lowlands, Fun Fun Fun, Parklife, Ososphere, and For Noise festivals

新裤子 / New Pants

Formed by four teens – Peng Lei, Pang Kuan, Lo Bo, and Shang Xiao – from the hutongs of Beijing in 1996, New Pants are one of the most revered bands in China’s contemporary music history.

The band’s early sound was influenced heavily by New Wave and early Punk Rock, particularly the Ramones. In recent years their sound and style has tended more towards an 80’s disco/electro/indie-rock collage of sorts.

Band leaders Peng Lei and Pang Kuan studied film and graphic design at Beijing Art University – Peng is an accomplished filmmaker/animator, Pang a renowned graphic designer. Peng’s clay animation film “Beihai Monster” from 2006 was a hit in the Chinese indie-film world, while Pang, a commercial designer, is responsible for some of Modern Sky Records’ best album artwork. New Pants’ flamboyant, theatrical live shows are representative of Peng and Pang’s artistic backgrounds.

New Pants’ self-titled debut album in 1998 ranks among the best-selling rock/pop albums ever in China and was listed second in the “Top Ten 90’s Albums” list compiled recently by prestigious Hong Kong magazine “MCB”. Their follow-up album in 2001, Disco Girl, garnered “Best Music Video” and “Best Rock Single of the Year” awards at the Channel V/ Pepsi Music Awards. She’s Automatic, New Pants’ third album, brought home the “Best Video” award from the 2003 MTV Asia Awards for the single “She’s Automatic”.

In 2006, the band released Dragon Tiger Panacea in China and Australia, which won Feng Yun Music Awards honors for both Best Rock Album and Best Rock Band. The record’s success fueled a sold-out tour of China, as well as a six-week tour of Australia with REGURGITATOR and I HEART HIROSHIMA in late 2007. The following winter, the band was invited back to Australia, this time as the sole Asian performers at the Andy Warhol Retrospective “Up Late” at the Brisbane Modern Art Gallery. The band headed to London soon after to perform at the Victoria and Albert Museum of London’s “China Now” series.

“Equal Love” is New Pants’ latest album, released to high-acclaim in 2009. After touring China in support of the album, New Pants is now gearing up for another tour of Australia and US dates later this year.

NEW PANTS GO EAST Australia tour…

SAT 6 MAR – LOST WEEKEND Riverstage, Brisbane
with Deerhoof, Dinosaur Jr and many more…
Tickets from moshtix.

EQUAL LOVE out now on Valve with bonus music video DVD.

SNEAKERHEAD! Quan has a new toy and Gimme Gimme rmx ep out.

Having just completed an Australia tour with Peaches and Shunda K… Quan has released a RMX ep for Gimme Gimme that he put together before he departed Hong Kong.

He has also finally received his sneakerhead toy he has been working on over the past year. This is a Limited Edition 5″ Vinyl Toy. Sneakerhead was a rapper so addicted to kix his head morphed into one!
ALL proceeds from the sale of this and the CD will go to the MIRABEL Foundation. Mirabel assists children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental illicit drug use and are now in the care of extended family (kinship care). With your help he is hoping to raise $AU25,000 by the end of 2010. http://www.mirabelfoundation.org.au/
QUANs webstore http://quan.bigcartel.com/

In the meantime, now back in Australia, Quan is starting work on a new Regurgitator album and another Quan album destined for release later in 2010… with one more solo show at the GoMA in Brisbane for the Asia Pacific Triennial Up Late series.

FRI 5 MARCH 2010
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
APT Up Late with New Pants (China)
Tickets from the gallery and QTIX www.qtix.com.au/show/APT_UpLate_10.aspx

GIMME GIMME RMX EP
1. Gimme Gimme Lick of Destroy mix
2. Year of the Jerk R3 mix
3. The Script C.O.D. mix
4. The One Ramborghini Montage mix

www.quantheamateur.com

Community announcment:
Quan’s black Fender Telecaster deluxe USA guitar DZ4066928 went missing from the Essential backstage at the Perth BDO where it was sitting with Peaches equipment while she was performing onstage. If you come across this please contactconsume1@ozemail.com.au or the Altered State office on Perth.

TUMBLEWEED
Back From The Grave… and heading this way!
Musical legends in Australia, the ‘stoner rock’ riffs of Wollongong’s Tumbleweed inspired a whole generation of music lovers when they emerged in 1990s from the seeds of the Proton Energy Pills and the Unheard. Tumbleweed burst onto the scene in a huge way by gaining infamy courtesy of a national support slot to the one and only Australian tour by the legendary Nirvana back in 1992.
Originally signed to the revolutionary Australian independent label, Waterfront Records, the band’s debut release was a 7” single, “Captain’s Log”, recorded by Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm and legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino. With their single “Stoned”, an EP titled Weedseed and the single “Acid Rain” making them bigger by the day, the ‘Weed’s self-titled debut album was released to massive praise and chart sales, resulting in a rather quick signing to the American giant Atlantic Records’ subsidiary Seed – although that’s another story!
It didn’t take long for Australia’s major labels to realise that a national treasure existed in the fivepiece, after which Polydor Records became the recording home of Tumbleweed in ‘92. (Incidentally, Polydor/Polygram later came under the umbrella of Universal Music Australia). Tumbleweed released the (in)famous albums Galactaphonic and Return To Earth, all the while undertaking countless tours around the country as well as throughout the UK and USA.
Despite their chequered history with its many ups and downs including several band line-up changes, Tumbleweed have settled their differences and have agreed to perform once again for the first time in way way too long!
The original line up of Richie, Lenny, Paul, Jason and Stephen will be performing at this years 15th anniversary Homebake as well as the mighty Meredith Music Festival in Victoria and a few select shows around the country. Such as….
Saturday 6th March – Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay
Plus guests OX

Tickets available through www.OzTix.com.au, 1300 762 545 and our network of retail outlets : The Northern, Sunflower Music, The Cooly Hotel, Disasterpiece, Rockinghorse Records, Kill The Music, UQ Union Bookshop, Gooble Warming, Butterbeats (City/Valley) & Rockaway Records.

Sunday 7th March – Lost Weekend Festival, Brisbane
Plus Dinosaur Jr and more… ALL AGES!
Tickets from www.thelostweekend.com.au

Back on the weed…
http://www.myspace.com/tumbleweedoz

PEACHES …reburns to whip it hot!

After beating around the bush… ahhh ahhh… its time for much more!
Peaches hot on the back of her recent DJ visit is back scorching the Big Day Out for an all out creamtime… as she unleashes her own headline shows on us!

Since her late 2008 visit to Australia & NZ… Peaches has not stood still for a second in 2009! This year she released her 4th studio album I Feel Cream to wide critical acclaim (Rolling Stone said, “Peaches bawdy pop feels like a refreshing breath of filthy air.”), was given mad props from Perez Hilton, toured the US to sold-out houses, is touring the world and to date has released 5 videos off I Feel Cream. Peaches is not done yet. On Monday October 12, Palms Out (CHECK IT OUT HERE!) premiered an amazing Cory Enemy remix of the title track from I Feel Cream. And in keeping with Peaches plan to release one video for each and every song on the record, the video for “I Feel Cream” also premiered on the website. This is the 6th video to be released so far. On November 11 XL Recordings will release the “I Feel Cream” single via all digital music stores. The single will include the album version (which was co produced by rising electro star Drums of Death) along with 3 remixes of the track by Proxy, Larry T and Cory Enemy. On October 24 Peaches set off on her 2nd US tour in support of I Feel Cream… with an all new show!! The dates kicked off in Las Vegas and wind up in Los Angeles for a show at The Wiltern on November 28. Next on the list is Australia and New Zealand as part of the 2010 Big Day Out tour plus…

Consume presents
PEACHES
with backing band Sweet Machine

THUR 14 JAN – Auckland TRANSMISSION ROOM
Plus special guests…
Tickets from www.undertheradar.co.nz, real groovy stores, fast & loose, www.moshtix.co.nz 0800 moshtix.

MON 18 JAN – Brisbane THE HIFI
Plus special guests…
Tickets from The Hi-Fi, www.thehifi.com.au , ph 1300THEHIFI, Rocking Horse, Butter Beats, Kill The Music, Sunflower Pacific Fair, Disasterpiece, Most Pit Music, Gooble Warming, Rockaway Records
and www.consume.com.au

SUN 24 JAN – Sydney HOME THE VENUE
101 Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour, Sydney www.homesydney.com
Plus special guests…
Tickets from Moshtix (ph 1300 438 849) & all Moshtix outlets

WED 27 JAN – Melbourne THE HIFI
Plus special guests…
Tickets from The Hi-Fi, www.thehifi.com.au , ph 1300THEHIFI, Greville Records, Polyester Records
and www.consume.com.au

MON 1 FEB – Perth ASTOR THEATRE
Plus special guests…
Tickets from BOCS Ticketing, 78 Records, Mill Records and Planet.

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER!

Also touring on the BIG DAY OUT…

FRI 15 JAN Auckland BDO
SUN 17 JAN Gold Coast BDO
FRI 22 JAN Sydney BDO
SAT 23 JAN Sydney BDO
TUES 26 JAN Melbourne BDO
FRI 29 JAN Adelaide BDO
SUN 31 JAN Perth BDO

see www.bigdayout.com for further info

…seems you got a little bit more than you asked for!

New album I FEEL CREAM out now on XL/Remote Control

For more information – and lots of it – visit…
www.peachesrocks.com
www.peachesofficialblog.com/
http://twitter.com/peachesnisker

REGURGITATOR

After the great shows in Japan, and the unfortunate cancellation of the festival in Beijing… Quan and Ben are back in Brisbane working with Gavin Webber’s dance troupe in West End for their special collaborative dance event entitled ROCK SHOW in Brisbane and Toowoomba in late Nov. They will be performing this as a 3 piece and Gavin has selected a collection of songs that suits the theme of this work including early material they have performed for some time… plus some new tunes will enter the fray.

On the back of this they have also just announced a New Year’s eve appearance at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast with Birds of Tokyo, I Heart Hiroshima and more… see poster below.

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 UNDERGROUND and REMEMBER ME.

GET DIGITALIZED!!!
Warner Music finally made the Regurgitator catalogue available in digital format… a few months ago now 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) came up trumps on all the usual digital outlet suspects include iTunes, Bigpond, Optus… and even mobile and ringtones as well… chase it up!

I H E A R T H I R O S H I M A
N e w a l b u m T h e R i p o u t n o w.

Final week of shows on the album release tour…
and some Vietnam dates & New Years dates

Susie managed to get her arm in order and after the first show with Mirko filling in drum duties… she couldn’t resist not playing at her hometown launch so was back on the beat (with a little postshow pain)… and since then has refused to leave. So after this current weekend traipsing around NSW they head back to QLD for shows on the GOLD COAST Thursday 5 NOV at the Never Land Bar with guests Last Dinosaurs; BRISBANE Friday 6 NOV at The HIFI as guests of YOU AM I plus The Cairos, Last Dinosaurs and The Rocksmiths all opening; TOOWOOMBA Saturday 7 NOV Bon Amici Cafe with Polaroid Fame from Sydney; and finally a long overdue show in BYRON BAY Sunday 8 NOV Great Northern with guests Last Dinosaurs. Should be a fun few days.

Soon after this tour concludes IHH have been invited to tour Vietnam and Cambodia at the end of November. They have just been announced on the LORETO FESTIVAL NOV 28 RMIT University, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City along with Ratatat from the USA, Goo from Thailand, Viet Nam’s Pham Anh Khoa, Thao Trang and the Microwave band. More details to come per dates in Hanoi, Nha Trang and Cambodia.
LoretoFest aims to help disadvantaged, disabled children

Also just announced is a New Years eve show at Dreamworld with Birds of Tokyo, Regurgitator, British India, and Inspector Cluzo (from France).

With the latest installment in this trail of construction flooding the driest of lands I Heart Hiroshima have released their much agitated second album THE RIP. Swimming against the incessant currents they recorded the album early this year in the long grass of Runcorn with compatriot Mirko Vogel, before sailing to the distant shores of England to mix it all up back of lanes with Andy Gill (Gang of Four) in the much loved Beauchamp Building. First ship out of the dock Shakeytown has drawn the light of recognition and many a sailor will bless their saviour from the rocks. The Rip was also album of the week last week in DRUM MEDIA.

The video for the first single SHAKEYTOWN (as made by debut videomaker Paul Rankin) check it here… SHAKEYTOWN

I Heart Hiroshima The Zoo, Brisbane October 16th 2009
by Matt Hickey (www.thevine.com.au)

Brisbane has a lot of praise-worthy bands at the moment, but there’s only a few that still considered something of a pride and joy. Powderfinger are no longer one of them, but I Heart Hiroshima are. They were one to spring from a bumper crop of local alternative pop bands mid-decade, they still live here, still work here, and still have an entirely unpretentious air about them. All of this helps, but none of it would matter if they didn’t have the songs and live show to back it up.

They do, and tonight displays the strengths of both.

The lights dim and Tom Waits’ spoken word ‘What’s He Building In There’ creates an oddly eerie atmosphere for a band that don’t necessarily trade on mystery or suspense in their music. I Heart Hiroshima is a band that have never seemed uncomfortable on stage. Tonight, launching their anticipated sophomore effort The Rip, they embrace the crowd’s enthusiasm intermingled with more of that flippant bravado that we’re used to. The set draws mainly from new material, which is a wise move given the ubiquity of so many songs off their debut in these parts. (Could’ve done with ‘Captain to Captain’ but oh well). Had they not continually introduced songs as new ones, an IHH virgin would have struggled to tell them apart – mainly because the audience give as much energy and enthusiasm to songs not heard before as previous singles. Such is the result of instantly digestible (but not disposable) pop music. Yes, The Rip is no significant departure for I Heart Hiroshima, but the more outwardly emotional songs do add an effective dynamic to their house party-like stage show.

Co-guitarist/singer Matt Sommers sounds like he’s having an anxiety attack with every gloriously affected syllable that leaves his lips, while drummer and main vocalist Susie Patten shifts between a suitably softer delivery at times and a similarly manic one. Most reserved member – and cover artist extraordinaire – Cameron Hawes, busies himself with his guitar and keys stage right, providing some ice to the Patten/Somers fire.

Latest single ‘Shakeytown’ appears third and their cover of The Chills’ ‘Pink Frost’ also makes an appearance. The main set is closed by old favourites ‘London in Love,’ ‘Punks,’ and The Rip closer ‘Listen.’ After sixty minutes of a relatively consistent sonic palette, it’s testament to the songs themselves that the audience are still gagging for more, which the band promptly deliver after taking an audience request.

The likes of An Horse and Yves Klein Blue might’ve appeared on Letterman and festival stages respectively this year, but I Heart Hiroshima have again upped the bar for Brisbane pop music.

I HEART HIROSHIMA, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! & The Diamond Sea @ The Northcote Social Club 24/10/09
Chelsea Carter (Ravereview.com.au)

The clock strikes nigh on 11.20pm the lights go down, and the creaking gravelly voice of one Mr Tom Waits comes pounding through the speakers and shakes the Northcote right to its core. ‘What’s he building in there? What the hell is he building in there?’ The room fell dead silent which can be attributed to half of the punters who were completely spooked, and the other half who were genuinely trying to figure out just what I Heart Hiroshima were building in there. The houselights come up as the ever awesome Brisbane trio take to the stage under the direction of anchorSusie Patten. Piece by piece I Heart Hiroshima revealed to their guests that they are sitting on yet another stellar LP (The Rip) that is set to catapult the band to the forefront of many iPods.

Sharing a joke with the crowd Susie launches into a spiel about not being a singles band, it is this same spiel that ends with Patten introducing their latest single! Joke or no-joke you cannot deny Shakeytown for what it is. Hooky, catchy, call it whatever you want it got the notoriously hard to please, black clad Melbourne crowd moving. A really tight all round set here no doubt a result of their recent European jaunt with The Rakes and Maximo Park.

The audience was privy to quite a few new songs, one in particular as described by Susie about ‘A rendezvous with a rather unfortunate member of the opposite sex, which is a rarity in itself’ called Who I Was before inevitably hitting us with some old favs like London in Love and Punks. Honourable mentions have to go to the three slightly older gentlemen of the mullet variety that had to be IHH’s biggest fans. Giving the crowd a display of typical blokey dance moves that involved beer in one hand, bending the knees and raising the other arm and pointing in time to the music these guys knew every word and heckled for a five song encore. In the end in the name of compromise Cam, Matt and Susie went from having no encore planned to a two song offering from the first EP and ended on Neutron Popsong.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK – Time Off Magazine

I HEART HIROSHIMA The Rip (Valve/MGM)
This local trio’s 2007 debut Tuff Teef was a thoroughly enjoyable jaunt that gave indie rock a good name both here and abroad. It’s great to see that I Heart Hiroshima have backed up that debut with another swath of instantly infectious tunes, fully armed with that distinctive twin guitar attack. There is something though, that was apparent but not altogether obvious the first time around, something that is unmistakable from the moment the trio skip out of your speakers – there is no-one, anywhere, making music that sounds quite like this.
Under our noses for so long now, Susie, Matt and Cameron aren’t tossing off pop or wringing the neck of youthful experience. These songs are filled with cryptic but considered lyrics, obviously lived in and delivered in tunes like ‘Old Tree’ by Matt Somers with only a hint of desperation. ‘The Corner’ is another tune strung up by glassy guitars, but not strung out by any thinness in their sound that might have lingered within their debut (thanks here to Andy Gill). Here, it’s not about one person’s presence, a drummer’s exuberance, a guitarist’s static electricity – this is one sound, one creative force, this is music that it definitely takes a band hundreds of shared hours together to even get close to. Heartfelt, if not a little bashful, agitated by its own sense of urgency, gleeful and completely unreserved, these forces don’t make easy hits – they do however make music that lasts and The Rip is an all but faultless musical creation. Usually we think of rock as a visceral affair but quality and craftsmanship, making so much with so little, can’t be denied here. I Heart Hiroshima have overcome the biggest hurdle any guitar-based band anywhere have… they’ve made music that’s imaginative, vibrant, accessible and arresting to one and all. HHHH Alex Gilli

www.myspace.com/ihearthiroshima www.myspace.com/ihearthiroshima

THE RIP out NOW
featuring Shakeytown, Got Out, Old Tree, River and more of your favourite shanties…
and album art entirely handcut from paper by Cameron.

I HEART HIROSHIMA ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR
Album tour – October2009 – final dates

THU NOV 5 – QLD – GOLD COAST, NEVER LAND BAR
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests LAST DINOSAURS
Tickets: Moshtix and the venue.

FRI NOV 7 – QLD – BRISBANE, THE HIFI
Doors: 8.30pm. Plus YOU AM I, THE CAIROS, LAST DINOSAURS & THE ROCKETSMITHS
Tickets: all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, and the venue

SAT NOV 6 – QLD – TOOWOOMBA, BON AMICI CAFÉ
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests POLAROID FAME
Tickets: all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, and the venue

SUN NOV 8 – NSW – BYRON BAY, GREAT NORTHERN
Doors: 9.00pm. Plus guests LAST DINOSAURS
Free Entry.

SAT NOV 28 – VIETNAM – HO CHI MINH CITY, LORETO FEST
Plus RATATAT (USA), GOO (Thailand)
and from Viet Nam’s Pham Anh Khoa, Thao Trang and the Microwave band and more
Tickets usual outlets

NEW YEARS EVE – QLD – AMPED ROCK N RIDES, DREAMWORLD
Doors: 7.00pm. Plus BIRDS OF TOKYO, REGURGITATOR, BRITISH INDIA and more
Tickets from www.dreamworld.com.au

Epic return.

Crescendo of Hymn ascends from the depths… as Japan’s instrumental epic MONO draw forth universal rapture with recent album Hymn to the Immortal Wind. After their mesmerizing monument of a debut visit in 2007, they return to Australia on the back of Hymn… and this time include New Zealand in their sonic blossom.

Screw ‘Music For The People’, this is music for the gods. Japan’s Mono have been tugging the heartstrings of the faithful for almost 10 years with their, y’know, grand post-rock symphonies, and their fifth album is as ambitious as ever, teeming as it is with crashing guitars and cinematic strings. ‘Pure As Snow (Trails Of The Winter Storm)’ soars above a maelstrom of melody and noise, the 13-minute ‘The Battle To Heaven’ conjures angels and demons clashing with flaming swords and ‘Everlasting Light’ burns and builds and dies with staggering grace. Pretentious, yes, but defiantly so. ‘Hymn…’ feels like the imaginary soundtrack to the film inside your head and is an outstanding work of epic beauty. NME 8/10

Hymn to the Immortal Wind 2009 Australia/NZ tour
Tickets on sale now!

PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE IN AUCKLAND!

THURSDAY 3rd DECEMBER
BACCO ROOM
AUCKLAND
plus guests
tickets from usual outlets

FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER
THE HI-FI
MELBOURNE
plus guests LAURA
tickets from The Hi-Fi, www.thehifi.com.au , phone 1300THEHIFI, Greville Records, Polyester Records
and www.consume.com.au

SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER
MANNING BAR
SYDNEY
plus guests LAURA and THE DEAD SEA
tickets from www.manningbar.com (ph 1300 762 545) and www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 GET TIX)
and www.consume.com.au’

SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER
THE HI-FI
BRISBANE
plus guests LAURA and DEL TORO
tickets from The Hi-Fi, www.thehifi.com.au , phone 1300THEHIFI, Rocking Horse, Butter Beats, Kill The Music, Sunflower Pacific Fair, Disasterpiece, Most Pit Music, Gooble Warming, Rockaway Records
and www.consume.com.au

MONO’s Hymn to the immortal Wind out on Valve through MGM/Westbound

Celebrating their 10-year anniversary, MONO returned with their fifth studio album earlier this year, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind. After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, with MONO’s trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up. Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO’s music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO’s strongest virtue – - save for perhaps their uncanny ability to sound every bit like a plane crashing into a Beethoven concert.
FOLLOW THE MAP music video is available here.

http://www.mono-jpn.com/
http://www.myspace.com/monojp
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mono-Japan/12609779342

I HEART HIROSHIMA
New album The Rip out now.
October Album launch tour more shows…
…Songs pull out to be replaced by Fire! Santa Rosa! Fire!

With the latest installment in this trail of construction about to flood the driest of lands I Heart Hiroshima will release their much agitated second album THE RIP on October 2. Swimming against the incessant currents they recorded the album early this year in the long grass of Runcorn with compatriot Mirko Vogel, before sailing to the distant shores of England to mix it all up back of lanes with Andy Gill (Gang of Four) in the much loved Beauchamp Building. First ship out of the dock Shakeytown has drawn the light of recognition and many a sailor will bless their saviour from the rocks.

Jon King from Gang of Four cites I Heart Hiroshima along with Kate Nash, Florence and the Machine, and Black Rebel Motorcyle club as “musicians he thinks are hitting the right note now”.
www.hounslowchronicle.co.uk/west-london-lifestyle

I Heart Hiroshima have also had an amazing past month with a great performances at Big Sound getting great raps from everyone who attended, being selected by Street Press Australia as best current up and coming Australian band and wining a trip to One Movement conference in mid OCT (courtesy of them). They also featured on the covers of all their Australian music magazines early September… Time Off, Drum Media, Inpress, Rip It Up and Drum Media Perth… as well as picking up single of the week on iTunes! They also had great sets at the Brisbane Powerhouse Frankly with Peaches in DJ mode, in Melbourne and Sydney with Shonen Knife and at Brisbane’s Sounds of Spring…

I Heart Hiroshima not only spent the first half of this year recording the new album, they also spent a few months based in London and did 40 shows across Europe playing with The Rakes, Maximo Park as well as performances at The Great Escape (where they got to see Gang of Four play a show before getting together with Andy to mix the album), Liverpool Sound City and the Dot to Dot festival among their own headline shows.

The video for the first single SHAKEYTOWN (as made by debut videomaker Paul Rankin) was also released to the online world this week and has already conjured interest from German and US online tv as well as Vietnam festivals. Recently picked up “Indie Clip of the Week” on RAGE. Check it here… SHAKEYTOWN

www.ihearthiroshima.com
THE RIP out OCT 2
featuring Shakeytown, Got Out, Old Tree, River and more of your favourite shanties…

I HEART HIROSHIMA ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR
Now with special guests FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE! (shows as noted)
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! have spent the past 2 years being the city of churches’ best kept secret, playing enthusiastic and passionate shows supporting some of the best international and national touring acts around. Their brand of monolithic, angular rock evokes former glories of bands such as Pretty Girls Make Graves and Q & Not U, as well as current luminaries My Disco and Minus the Bear. Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! also contains a pop-sensibility often relegated in today’s vapid culture to mobile ringtones and one-hit wonders. Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! (David Williams, Sam Stearne, Josh Flavel & Artyom Zinoviev)’s introduction to the Dot Dash/Remote Control Records stable, is the “War Coward” single/EP- 3 minutes of pitch-shifted, post-millennial tension, led by new singer/chanteuse Caitlin Duff.

Album tour – October2009

THU OCT 15 – NSW – SYDNEY, UNSW OKTOBERFEST
Doors: 4.00pm. Tickets: from the venue

FRI OCT 16 – BRISBANE, THE ZOO
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests WE ALL WANT TO and HEINZ REIGLER (Not From There)
Tickets: all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, online at www.thezoo.com.au ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au & www.consume.com.au

SAT OCT 17 – WA – NORTHBRIDGE, ROCKETROOM
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests BULLET HOLES, OFFBEAT ANTICS and WHEN THE SKY FELL
Tickets: venue and usual outlets

SUN OCT 18 – PERTH, ONE MOVEMENT FESTIVAL
Tickets on sale from Moshtix – details available at www.onemovementmusic.com

FRI OCT 23 – VIC – GEELONG, NATIONAL HOTEL
Doors: 9.00pm. Plus guests FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE!
Tickets: all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au & www.consume.com.au

SAT OCT 24 – VIC – MELBOURNE, NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB
Doors: 8.30pm. Plus guests FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE! and DIAMOND SEA
Tickets: www.northcotesocialclub.com, ph: 03 9486 1677, ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au & www.consume.com.au

SUN OCT 25 – SA – ADELAIDE, ENIGMA BAR
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE!
Tickets: www.venuetix.com.au (ph 8225 8888), ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au,
www.consume.com.au (ph 1300 762 545) & outlets

THU OCT 29 – NSW – GOSFORD, GEE WHIZ
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests
Tickets: all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, online at www.consume.com.au

FRI OCT 30 – NSW – PORT MACQUARIE, LAURIETON HOTEL
Doors: 7.30pm. Plus guests FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE!
Tickets: www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 GET TIX), ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au, www.consume.com.au
(ph: 1300 762 545) & the venue

SAT OCT 31 – NSW – BATEMAN’S BAY – NORTH ST CAFÉ
Doors: 7.30pm. Plus guests
Tickets: all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au, www.consume.com.au & at the venue. Ticket includes food

SUN NOV 1 – NSW – SYDNEY, ANNANDALE HOTEL
Doors: 6.00pm. Plus guests FIRE! SANTA ROSA, FIRE!, SONGS, WHERE’S JEROME
and HEINZ REIGLER (Not From There)
Tickets: www.annandalehotel.com (ph 9550 1078), at the venue, all OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au,
ph: 1300 762 545, ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au & www.consume.com.au

THUR NOV 5 – GOLD COAST, NEVER LAND BAR
Doors: 8.00pm. Plus guests
Tickets: Moshtix and the venue.

SUN NOV 8 – BYRON BAY, GREAT NORTHERN
Doors: 9.00pm. Plus guests
Tickets: venue, OzTix outlets, www.oztix.com.au, ph: 1300 762 545, www.greatnorthern.com.au ihearthiroshima.oztix.com.au & www.consume.com.au

MONO

Epic return.

Crescendo of Hymn ascends from the depths… as Japan’s instrumental epic MONO draw forth universal rapture with recent album Hymn to the Immortal Wind. After their mesmerizing monument of a debut visit in 2007, they return to Australia on the back of Hymn… and this time include New Zealand in their sonic blossom.

Screw ‘Music For The People’, this is music for the gods. Japan’s Mono have been tugging the heartstrings of the faithful for almost 10 years with their, y’know, grand post-rock symphonies, and their fifth album is as ambitious as ever, teeming as it is with crashing guitars and cinematic strings. ‘Pure As Snow (Trails Of The Winter Storm)’ soars above a maelstrom of melody and noise, the 13-minute ‘The Battle To Heaven’ conjures angels and demons clashing with flaming swords and ‘Everlasting Light’ burns and builds and dies with staggering grace. Pretentious, yes, but defiantly so. ‘Hymn…’ feels like the imaginary soundtrack to the film inside your head and is an outstanding work of epic beauty. NME 8/10

Hymn to the Immortal Wind 2009 Australia/NZ tour
Tickets on sale Wednesday 2 September

THURSDAY 3rd DECEMBER
TRANSMISSION ROOM
AUCKLAND
plus guests
tickets Under the Radar, Real Groovy and the venue

FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER
THE HI-FI
MELBOURNE
plus guests LAURA
tickets from The Hi-Fi, www.thehifi.com.au , phone 1300THEHIFI, Greville Records, Polyester Records
and www.consume.com.au

SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER
MANNING BAR
SYDNEY
plus guests LAURA
tickets from www.manningbar.com (ph 1300 762 545) and www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 GET TIX)
and www.consume.com.au’

SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER
THE HI-FI
BRISBANE
plus guests LAURA and DEL TORO
tickets from The Hi-Fi, www.thehifi.com.au , phone 1300THEHIFI, Rocking Horse, Butter Beats, Kill The Music, Sunflower Pacific Fair, Disasterpiece, Most Pit Music, Gooble Warming, Rockaway Records
and www.consume.com.au

MONO’s Hymn to the immortal Wind out on Valve through MGM/Westbound

Celebrating their 10-year anniversary, MONO returned with their fifth studio album earlier this year, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind.

After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, with MONO’s trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.

Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments

While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO’s music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO’s strongest virtue – - save for perhaps their uncanny ability to sound every bit like a plane crashing into a Beethoven concert.
FOLLOW THE MAP music video is available here.
http://www.mono-jpn.com

…something so sublime that this bramble of words can’t possibly convey.
Trust me.