Go figure..whilst trying to fill out an online form for Yet Another Website For Musicians, I was looking for the link to our iTunes page and came across a playlist from February on Triple J. Turns out Sarah Howells 'Roots and All' program played Hollow Tree! OMG! We've been played on Triple J! If I was still 16 I'd be freaking out about it!
Thanks to jplay.com.au for listing the playlists, we found out we're ranked 6900 out of 13000! Woohoo!
Still pretty cool though. Triple J has always been the Hipper end of the Radio Dial, although to be fair, my Indy Tastes pretty much stopped at Interpol (showing my age)...sigh...the station that introduced me to Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes (night of the wolverine), Beck, Bjork...I gotta stop, its making me feel ancient...if you're scratching your head and going either 'who the %^@ are those bands' or 'dude, thats so 2003' then I have made my point.
Then again, I'm, not sure what my point was. If you can figure it out, email me here and let me know.
Nonetheless, Cheers Sarah! We made it all the way to the J's. Our work here is done.
Now that we are officially Hip, I'm going to grow a moustache and a mullet, maybe get a job at Chick Fillet! (to quote Ben Folds Five).
Yay, after a week or so of Sniffles and our local flu variant, I am back to blogging! Hurrah! And so, here's some moments from this weekends gigs.
We started on Friday with a late show at the Penrith Hotel, great to see EJC come down and boogie, and a shout out to Sambo and Garfield. We had some problems with the sound desk to start with, occasioning a lot of replugging (and some feedback) until we got that right, but then we settled in for our first gig at the Penrith Hotel! They do a great lineup of live music there including our mates Jim Finn, Slinky Pete and Paul Surani in the Flaming Beauties, and Spy Vs Spy!
But of course, there are always some exceptions to your fashion choices:
With Penrith playing a home game, things were quiet early on, but one intrepid Lass decided she liked Mr Wixards cowboy hat so much she simply had to borrow it for a moment.
After a solid few sets, we finished up the night and headed out into the wee small hour cold of Penrith to a well earned rest before the next gig at the Bald Rock, which we had reason to believe, would be a big gig.
Duly, Saturday night rolled in and found us back at Rozelle's Premier Roots Haunt, the Bald Rock, where Alan and Kumaya had come down to do a little filming of the band (you'll have to wait for Alan's shots until I get them from his tricky camera, thanks to Miriam for the loan).
We were fortunate to be joined by Stuart 'Albertross' Back for a few songs as a special guest, Stuart is a very tasty guitarist and it was a pleasure to jam with him. We're hoping he will come back and join us again soon.
We had a huge turn out on Saturday - cheer to Pam, John, Wendy, Sue, Robert, Joshua and a very special shout out to The Cousins, Helena, Bindy, Damien and friends who came to spend the night on the boogie. I could describe the vibe, but then again, it's simple easier to post some vids. With luck, later this week, i will get to post the vids from Alan who was off stage (lol) as I have to keep interrupting filming to play harmonica and sing :-)
Here's Ruth getting down during Up the Line
here's a bit of Mike Rix on bass.
Now for some of Mr Wizard during 7 days
And of course, some of Rosie's solo during Swamp Monster
Saturday night was a terrific gig and we all had a thoroughly grand time. Thank you to eveyone who spent the evening with us. Mr Rix is off on tour so we'll be joined by Mick Mallouf on Bass at our next gig in Airds, but Mr Rix will be back soon, we'll miss you Redline.
Over the next week I hope to post more vids from the Southern Fried Big Band and some additional stuff filmed by Alan at the Bald Rock, so stay tuned for more updates. We'll be in Airds next Saturday and then we have a week or so off whilst Mr Wizard visits Japan, then its up to Tamworth and Newcastle.
Howdy folks, as promised, here's the first of the clips. Now bear with me, Greg did some filming for us but the video files are pretty humongous (ie: Big) so they're taking me a while to split and upload.
This is a clip of us doing Can't Tax love, I am offscreen behind the speakers (LOL, suits me fine) but you can see some awesome Keys from Jeremy Craib.
Today marks the first official steps on the road to the next album, at this point, untitled but as it's the 5th one, we're using 'SC5' as a working title.
How long before we start (or finish) the actual production is a Quantum Uncertainty (ooh sci fi talk!) but like all our stuff, it starts with a plan, which we then immediately discard! YAY!
That has worked well for us in the past and we hope our love of Randomness will continue to favour us.
Meanwhile, we're behind schedule on making videoclips for the previous albums (LOL) but what are ya gonna do? The songs keep coming and we might as well get'em on wax. I mean, Plastic. Hard drive. Whatever, you know what I mean.
This does mean that at the gigs over the next few months, new songs will be coming into the set as we keep Darwinianly Evolving'em! Will they live, breed and multiply or become evolutionary dead-ends or throwbacks? Who knows! Thats all part of the fun. I'd say 'stay tuned' but it's just too darn random for me to predict What's Gonna Happen Next.
Maybe we should call this next album Schroedingers Other Cat?