We always love to get behind Aussie filmmakers trying to make their filmmaking dreams come true and yes if you remember correctly we loved Travis Bain’s brilliant film Throwback. So when Dave G heard that Travis is trying to crowdfund his brand new film Landfall he decided that it was time to sit Travis down for a chat to see how you can all be involved.
You can listen to or download our Travis Bain interview right here.
September 13 sees the Pixies’ First Release for Infectious/BMG Worldwide
Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling, welcome to Pixies’ brand-new studio album, “Beneath the Eyrie,” where tales of witches, Daniel Boone, misfits and other characters fit utterly into the band’s inherent weirdness. Boasting 12 new songs, the album will be released globally on Friday, September 13 via the group’s new record label, Infectious/BMG, and available in a wide variety of packages. Those formats include CD, CD Deluxe, Vinyl (Standard) and Vinyl (coloured).
(Pre-orders for these items can be placed starting today at pixiesmusic.com)
Pixies – Black Francis/vocals, guitars; Joey Santiago/guitars; David Lovering/drums, and Paz Lenchantin/bass – offer you this early taste, the album’s debut single. Co-written by Francis and Lenchantin, “On Graveyard Hill” is an in-your-face, classic Pixies tale of imminent, ominous doom. Said Korda Marshall, UK SVP Music, BMG, “There are not many bands that can justifiably claim to have changed the sound of music. The Pixies are one, and they continue to push the boundaries with their brilliant new album. We are honoured and proud to have signed them to Infectious/BMG and really look forward to working with them in the future.”
Beneath the Eyrie, produced by GRAMMY-nominated Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies’ Head Carrier), was written over the course of 2018 and recorded last December at Dreamland Recordings near Woodstock, NY. While taking a break outside the studio – originally St. John’s Church built in 1896 – Lovering spotted an eagles nest – or “eyrie” – right above the studio in a tree. Hence the album’s title, Beneath the Eyrie.
For the recording of the album, Pixies opted to shine a bright – and rare – light on the process, to document every moment of what took place in the studio for a 12-episode podcast titled “It’s a Pixies Podcast.” The podcast welcomes fans to witness the evolution of the album’s tracks, from their earliest stages to completion, in the studio’s control room, the main room, and in a special “video booth” where the band members offered their thoughts and observations throughout recording. Produced by Pixies and hosted and narrated by New York Times best-selling author Tony Fletcher, “It’s a Pixies Podcast” debuts June 27 and will be available globally on Apple, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher, Google, and other podcast platforms.
Pixies will support Beneath the Eyrie with an extensive 2019- 2020 world tour that kicks off Saturday, August 31 at the Daydream Festival in Pasadena, CA. This will mark the first time the band has shared a stage with the festival’s curators The Cure in 30 years, the first time being in 1989 at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium. Pixies will then head to the UK and Europe for extensive tour run that begins September 13th. Further worldwide dates to be announced shortly.
About the Pixies
While Pixies have been acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering band of the late 80s alt/rock movement, having blazed the trail for artists from Nirvana to Radiohead to Pearl Jam, today, a whole new generation of music fans is discovering the band’s iconic “loudquietloud” signature sound. After five genre-defining studio albums — including the now-Platinum-certified Doolittle — Pixies disbanded in 1993, and then launc
ilmmaker Justin Kelly is a guest of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. He has two films screening in the festival – the true life story I Am Michael, which was chosen to open the festival, and King Cobra, a true story of murder set against the backdrop of the gay porn industry, which has been described as “the Boogie Nights of gay porn.” Greg speaks to Justin about what appealed to him about these two true stories, about working with James Franco who stars in both films, and about his responsibility towards the real life characters who are still alive.
You can listen to or download our Justin Kelly interview right here.
Actor James Rolleston stops by to talk to Dave Griifiths about his new film Pork Pie. James talks about what it was like being cast in the re-make of such an iconic film and about the chemistry between the tight cast.
You can listen to or dowload our James Rolleston interview right here.
Them Rumblin’ Bones launch there LP this Saturday at the Spotted Mallard, 314 Sydney Rd Brunswick
Don’t bother trying to label TRB in a genre. They mix hard rock with stadium rock, a bit of funk, a bit of soul and everything else inbetween. Featuring Venom, Michael Stangel and one of St Kildas best landlords Dave Stevens, they avan/t played a city gig yet, but with an LP on the verge look out for em. Dave spoke to me in his St Kilda pad.
Dave: it’s a strange story how we came together. Me and Michael meet in high school and formed our first band at 13 which broke up when we were 14. We had nothing to do with each other for 30 years. Not for an issues, we just went our own ways. When Pure Pop was going under he got in touch with me and he was offered a development deal to do a TV show, and he contacted me and said ive got this idea for a show. We do a mockumentary about a reality show for a record label. I would play this guy that ran this record shop/venues that was shut down cause of noise complaints and now the two of us are running a record label in Geelong. We picked ideas to this production company and they were supportive and he threw them theses ideas and they were like yeah its great keep at it. After a year we released the show wasn/t going to happen so we thought we better earn some money. We had all these situations for this fake record company so we thought lets put it into practice. And we came up with this cover band, doing gigs in reginal Victoria. We had ideas for funny hijinks for the show, so we thought lets do it but for real. So we did classic rock covers for a year, me Michael and Venom. It gets soul sapping for after a while and we thought well we/re good enough players so lets write some tracks. We had access to a studio in Geelong, and we wrote all these songs. The studio is not a commercial studio so we had unlimited time so the meter wasn/t running. We spent four months recording a mixing and now its ready to go. Its funny as sometimes you ave a band that has a member that plays in a cover band, and plays in an original band on the side. But now where all in the same boat (laughs) so we can/t double book ourselves.
Munster: you mentioned before the meter wasn/t running and you belted out the songs in four months, that’s a pretty quick turn round most bands would kill for that.
Dave: Well that’s the things this studio in Geelong is amazing guy Pail. HES a lawyer who works three months a year doing pro bono work in Aboriginal community’s in Norther Territory. He has a studio in his house and he opens it to schools and all kinds of people. Hes one of the good rich people hes an angle and a big supporter of the arts its not a profit thing. Was great to use it and ave attention to detail and get thing right.
Munster: The three of you are big music fans so it must ave been hard to pick a genre to stick to
Dave: Yeah that’s the thing we didn’t ave a vision as what we wanted to do when it came to original music. It wasn/t pre planned like what band do we wanna be. We just went into a room and this is what we came up with. There were times when say Mike would come up with some chords and it sounded Hendrix like, so I would add my own thing, but it wasn/t calculated, its just what we came up with. When I ran Pure Pop I put the bass away for 10 years I don/t know if people at Pop knew I played bass. So this has been great to do, been like therapy. And you know a band is only as strong as its weakest member. With MICAHEL AND Venom ive had to lift my game. Having not played for ten years its great to play with amazing players. Theres that saying if you’re the best muso in your band youre in the wrong band (laughs). That’s not the case with me.
Munster: With the covers band I take it artistically that might not ave been the most fulfilling thing but from learning to play again it must ave been good.
Dave: It was, its like training, in saying we do the cover band we weren/t top 40, just a classic cover band, we weren/t doing songs we didn/t like. That was good just to get the chops up but it comes back quick. I was still playing at home, I just wasn/t in a working band. If one of us didn/t like the song we wouldn/t do it, cause it has to be fun, and playing old rock songs is great.
Munster: you mentioned before how you threw up your own ideas and use different styles in the same song, so it must ave been a pretty egoless environment were you can all do your own thing.
Dave: yeah usually the best idea is the first idea. The songs, like a four minute song if one of us suggested something, it would cost four minutes of our life. Your heard the ideas that worked, the ones that didn/t were shithouse (laughs) you cant be afraid to try something new. If someone says something ave a go. Its obvious if something doesn/t work we don/t need to say it. Its no issue we/ll just try something else. We all ave three pretty crazy egos, but we all trust each other’s tastes and opinions.
Munster: Fred Negro recently drew you wearing a shirt saying cock rock, you think theres a bit of that in here?
Dave: That actually came about as the three of us did Cock Rock Friday in Geelong. It’s the cover band and a guy called Andrew on second guitar, and we do 80s hair metal and cock rock. Gunner and Whitesnake. We made some shirts saying cock rock, and Fred saw that hence the drawing. But we do a lot of big rock riffs, so I can see that influence.
Munster: you mentioned before you can all sing but was there any argument on who was going to do lead vocals?
Dave: No not at all. Michael was always going to be lead singer. I can sing Venom can hold a tune but Michaels a singer. I can hold a tune but not a frontman. We all over 70s rock, and in that hard rock theres backing vocals and harmonies which you don/t hear in todays rock. We all had ideas for harmonies and that gives us more a 70s rock vibe and we all like to sing and makes us sounds bigger. I always loved rock that has great harmonies.
Munster: Michael does ave a very appealing, kinda stadium rock style to him.
Dave: Hes gotta a powerful voice, one of the tracks he come across like a young Doug Parkinson kinda raspy rock style, and he can do it all in one go, never needs a second take.
Munster: Prior to Pure Pop you mentioned you were in a band playing bass, but not quite as rocky as this?
Dave: no I was in a band called Lynch Pin, I don/t wanna say power poppy kinda melodic, Crowded House style. We went overseas a few times. Before that I was in a band called Stickyback Monkey which was round the early 90s we had loops, guitar bass and drums but we were outta place as we were during the grunge era. We made a EP and we made it with Toney Cohen. If you Google us the only mention of Stickyback Monkey its on his disogs page. And I also played with Jeff Lang, he went to high school with me and Michael.
Munster: tell us what some of your favorite gigs at Pure Pop were?
Dave: So many, Glen Hardson was fantastic, Lee Renaldo and Steve Shelly was amazing. Barry Adamson did a fantastic show. But I loved that Courtney Barnette played in front of ten people. And she also played the classic Album series where she did INXS. She was this girl that came from Tassie that made her way. She had something special bout her. She might not ave been the best guitarist but she did it in a special way. Alex Leslie played there 100 times but watching him develop was incredible he asked for his first gig at 16. There was such a great vibe from the stage and the audience, they were there for the music, not to be seen in a cool joint.
Munster: Whats next ?
Dave: the LP launch is in Brunswick in OCTOBER 8 at Spottered Mallard, and we wanna record again, even though this one isn/t out yet. And pretty much just play, and looking forward to peoples reaction to the music.
Munster: And favouirte Fall LP to end this?
Dave: Don/t ave one?
Munster: Ween?
Dave: Sorry
Munster: Pixies.
Dave: Doolittle
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Them Rumblin’ Bones launch there LP this Saturday at the Spotted Mallard, 314 Sydney Rd Brunswick
25 years of being consumed!
Emerging from one of the eddies in the independent undercurrent of Brisbane’s 90s music scene, the past 2.5 decades have been of ceaseless re-inventive spirit, playing with form and flux, the affection of self-parody, ever ambling a rickety bridge of modus vivendi, all bagged up with an effervescent outsider enthusiasm that has never left their skin. And now… to pound the quarter century mark with a fully blown visually rehabilitated retrospective of a show straddling a holographic hyperbole of antiquated technology, trawling the analogue back through the digital.
And when it comes to those ubiquitous lists…
Maybe 11 ALBUMS or so if you count the live, Jingles compilation and latest kids releases; EPS surely must be 7 of these at least… and in their time maybe 16 singles, a few 7inches and 5 or so DVD releases. And MUSIC VIDEOS feels like maybe 47 or so of those… SHIRTS jeez, must have been close to 120 or so designs spread across… approximately 905 PERFORMANCES or thereabouts including maybe 25 national headline tours, 6 Big Day Out tours, so many festivals you could poke a stick at… along with some great times playing with DEVO, Boredoms, The Prodigy, TISM, Audio Active, CIV, The Mint Chicks, Ratatat, Senyawa, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Helmet, The Melvins and more including the odd collaborative excursions into theatre, dance, live soundtracks and generally just bent on allowing an unstable ingenuity… and on that note who could forget 21 days inside a glass BUBBLE!
Whatever the extent of this output means in the greater scheme of things the obvious inconsistencies have always been the open pursuit of creative probity, humour above serious intent, sustainable mentalities above any need for dominance, and about as honest unto themselves as possible – whomever that might be? All in all just playing to the ad-hoc… making it all up as it goes.
Joining us for this head-brush of a warp drive through our times is none other than Japan’s coruscating icons of sugar punk power popsters SHONEN KNIFE, along with erstwhile compadres in the mirthful upending of contemporary culture THE FAUVES. Further info below. This will also be our first tour working in conjunction with the new sustainable energy program FEAT.
As well as featuring the always welcome festival invitations including CALOUNDRA MUSIC FESTIVAL on SUN 6 OCT, and THE LOST LANDS in Werribee on SUN 3 NOV (which also features ever bending kids adventure POGOGO SHOW) we also present 2 special days of extended celebration in hometown BRISBANE as presented by 4ZZZ and also featuring on Saturday from 5.00pm – DICKLORD, TAPE/OFF & FAT. And on Sunday from 3.00pm – KOKO UZI, THE STRESS OF LEISURE & SCREAMFEEDER.
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quarter pounder tour – 25 years of being consumed!
With guest superlatives at selected stores…
SHONEN KNIFE & THE FAUVES
OCT 4 – Clayton MONASH UNI
Plus THE FAUVES
Tickets onsale from JUNE 7 from www.monash.edu
OCT 5 – San Remo WESTERNPORT HOTEL
Plus THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from westernporthotel.oztix.com.au
OCT 6 – Caloundra CALOUNDRA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Info here: www.caloundramusicfestival.com
FRI 11 OCT – Cairns TANKS ARTS CENTRE
Plus THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from www.tanksartscentre.com
SAT 12 OCT – Darwin DARWIN SURF CLUB / DE LA PLAGE
Plus THE FAUVES & DJ MANGOHIG
Tickets on sale now from moshtix.com.au
FRI 18 OCT – Adelaide THE GOV
SAT 19 OCT – Adelaide THE GOV
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from www.thegov.com.au or thegov.oztix.com.au, venue or ph 1300 762 545
SUN 20 OCT – Hobart UNI BAR – doors 5.00pm
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from https://www.oztix.com.au/
THUR 24 OCT – Canberra THE BASEMENT
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from thebasementcanberra.oztix.com.au
FRI 25 OCT – Kingscliff KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from kingscliffbeachhotel.oztix.com.au
And hometown 4ZZZ presents… 2 big days of Brisbane
SAT 26 OCT – Brisbane THE TIVOLI
SUN 27 OCT – Brisbane THE TIVOLI
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Plus on Saturday from 5.00pm – FAT, TAPE/OFF & DICKLORD
And on Sunday from 3.00pm – KOKO UZI, THE STRESS OF LEISURE & SCREAMFEEDER
Tickets onsale JUNE 10 from thetivoli.com.au – special double night tickets also available.
FRI 1 NOV – Melbourne PRINCE BANDROOM
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from princebandroom.oztix.com.au
SAT 2 NOV – Melbourne THE CORNER
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from cornerhotel.com
SUN 3 NOV – Werribee THE LOST LANDS
plus also featuring a midday performance of the kids POGOGO SHOW.
Info here: www.thelostlands.com.au
THUR 7 NOV – Newcastle CAMBRIDGE HOTEL
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from thecambridgehotel.oztix.com.au
FRI 8 NOV – Sydney THE METRO
SAT 9 NOV – Sydney THE METRO
Plus SHONEN KNIFE and THE FAUVES
Tickets on sale now from www.metrotheatre.com.au
Dave G caught up with JD Simo from SIMO to chat about the U.S. rock band’s new album Rise & Shine. JD chats to us about putting the album together and where to next for SIMO.
You can listen to or download our SIMO interview right here.
It’s summer time and that means it’s time for Moonlight Cinema to screen in capital cities across the country. As well as classic films like Back To The Future and Grease, this year’s program includes premier and preview screenings of hot new films like Red Dog: True Blue, La La Land, Allied and Star Wars: Rogue One. Greg spoke to Annabel Weedon, the national marketing manager of Moonlight Cinema, to find out more.
You can listen to or download Greg’s Annabel Weedon interview here.
Over the years Christopher Nolan has made a name for himself as one of the finest directors of the modern era. He has been nominated for three Oscars over the years and has been the man at the helm of critically acclaimed movies such as Memento, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and Interstellar.
Now Nolan’s work returns to the big screen in a way that we haven’t seen before. Dunkirk is a movie that critics are saying is not just a film – it’s an experience unto itself – a work of art if you like. Somehow Nolan has taken veteran actors like Tom Hardy and Mark Rylance and mixed them with newcomers like Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead and the end result is one of the most visually spectacular war films you are ever likely to see.
It doesn’t take long listening to Nolan talk about Dunkirk to realise that this is a film that he was passionate about, due to the subject matter, from the very beginning. “Well as for most British people the story of Dunkirk is something that we grow up with,” he explains. “I can’t even remember the time I was first told about the events of Dunkirk. As a storyteller you are always looking for gaps in the culture or in the cultural record – stories that should have been made into modern films and haven’t been and Dunkirk is certainly one of those. I think it is one of the great stories of human history and it hasn’t been addressed in modern films until now. People of Britain talk about the Dunkirk spirit and I think the residence of the story is different for different people but at the heart is community heroism in the face of adversity. It is not so much a story about individual heroics as it is a story about a community effort. It’s about how as a society, as a group of people we can achieve so much more than we can individually.”
One of the aspects that has wowed critics about Dunkirk is how Nolan has managed to weave the stories of the land, air and sea at Dunkirk together so brilliantly well and he says that he wanted to do that but keep an intensity throughout the film. “I wanted to do that but to have an intensity,” he says. “Dunkirk is a survival story and it is a story about 400,000 men trapped on a beach with the enemy moving in on them from all sides. It is a story about a desperate time, they had to get these guys back home, and I wanted to put the audience on the beach with these guys, and put the audience in the cockpit of a Spitfire battling the enemy in the air and I wanted to put them in a small boat heading over to help these guys. So to do that I decided to tell the story with intensity but with subjectivity and from three different points of view. Over the course of the story they all braid together and you get a more coherent look at the bigger picture of Dunkirk.”
Nolan also goes in depth into how he achieved the feat of shooting this film with very limited CGI. “What we did was try to shoot in camera as much as possible,” he says. “That way we could do as much for real as we could. We want the film to feel tactile and physical and authentic. We want it to play in the present tense so the audience feels like they are there and there is no screen between them and the events of the past. To do that I felt very strongly that we shouldn’t use too much special effects so we tried to do as much in camera as possible by sourcing real planes from the era, real boats and putting the actors into as much closeness of the reality as possible. At least in a way that we could do it that was still safe.”
Part of the idea for making Dunkirk was planted in Nolan’s mind when he made a crossing of the channel himself. “I made the crossing with Emma (Thomas – the producer of Dunkirk) and a friend of mine who owned a small boat,” he explains. “We made the crossing to Dunkirk at about the same time of year that the evacuation had taken place and it was far more difficult than any of us had expected. The channel really did not co-operate, the seas were very rough and it took a very long time, something like nineteen hours, for us to get over there, so the difficulty and the fear of that without people dropping bombs on us, and the feat of that without there being a war zone at the end of the journey, that experience really cemented to me an admiration for the people that took part in the real evacuation. That really was the driving force behind why I wanted to make this film.”
During the filming of Dunkirk there were leaked reports of weather creating havoc for the crew while they filmed at Dunkirk and Nolan was only too happy to tell us all about that. “Filming at the actual location seemed like the best way to get close to the truth,” Nolan says. “When you walk that beach , we walked it a lot, you feel the history there. We had to re-build huge sections of The Mole, which is this big structure that spans out into the sea. There were men essentially trapped on it, and that re-creation of history poses a lot of logistical challenges but ultimately to be able to re-stage these events with historical accuracy felt like an important part of what we were trying to do and gave us a good basis to the making of the film.”
Dunkirk is in Australian cinemas right now.
A Buzz Magazine Initiative to re-examine the years of interviews from the Buzz Mag archives.)
By Wade Bush
Dan Kelly has gone from the windy conditions of North Richmond to a musician who isn’t afraid to let himself shine through the music that has kept him on the map. Born in the Barossa Valley and raised in Brisbane, Dan spent much of his younger years travelling the south of Queensland as a casual labourer and aspiring songwriter before moving to Melbourne in the late 1990’s. It didn’t take long for the Melbourne music scene to find Dan and he has been part of it ever since. After forming the Alpha Maales, Dan’s growing reputation attracted such admirers as Tex Perkins, Even, The Scientists, Ed Kuepper, Ken Stringfellow and Snout. It was no surprise that Dan Kelly was going to be living his dream. His new EP with band, Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males – “Pirate Radio EP” is testiment to the raw edge that forms a great niche between lovers and haters. Dan Kelly doesn’t mind though, he is an individual who does what he does and if you don’t like it – please move along. But his new EP will give fans a sweet taste of the album on the way, and for those people still unawares as to who this Melbournite is, well find his stuff and have a listen. Though I’m sure that if you reside in Melbourne chances are you would have come across him at some stage, especially if your radio surfing has landed you on Triple J.
Personally, I can’t say I would rush out and buy Dan’s stuff, or for that matter track down his touring schedule and then work out the public transport route; but I know he has his cut his own groove in the music market with an upcoming tour destined to feed that groove with the sounds of old and new. As I spoke to Dan they were still preparing some merchandise, but their EP is all very much done; so with that and the tour a hint of what the upcoming album will be about is certainly assured. The Alpha Males are guitarist Tom Carlyon (from The Devastations) and rhythm section Gareth Liddiard and Christian Strybosch (both from The Drones).
“Pirate Radio EP” holds true to Dan Kelly’s musical persona yet he seems to also be morphing into something else, it might be new influences at work, but whatever it is it seems to be working. As soon as I had the chance I jumped in and asked him about the EP, how would he describe it; he retorted by asking me about my favourite track in which I said track 1, Drunk on Election Night. It leans heavily towards politics hence the title, and is a spoof that sends up the whole political way of life in Australia. I thought maybe it was about the Prime Minister getting on the turps in the chamber and then bursting into question time and wrestling the opposition leader, I was glad to find out my assumptions were correct to a degree – politics and alcohol do make up a big part of the premise. If you get offended by swearing then you might have to block out both the lyrics and backing vocals as a few choice words do get thrown about. But that is one of the reasons I told Dan that, Drunk on Election Night, was one of my favourite songs – nothing like a few swear words to hook this musical buff. That’s probably why Kevin Bloody Wilson is a legend as far as I’m concerned.
All of the tracks on “Pirate Radio EP” – Drunk on election night, Shake your mood, Sitting by the riverside, If it’s so hard to be happy try sad but more outgoing, Roots lifestyle superjam and Dear Kyle have a tranquil quality but the underlying meanings and edge to each song is darker than what you would originally think from taking in the harmony at the introduction. Dan Kelly’s individuality and thought pattern is healthy in each of the songs.
It also helps to have a healthy band relationship also, and Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males all get along famously. To Dan friendship is the foremost importance of any band. And their affiliation to each other is also directed towards the audience. During their live gigs they interact with the audience, even though Dan thinks they sometimes get too carried away with that. But because of this aspect of their gigs, and also of some of their studio songs, they hit an intimate note with the punters that a lot of bands these days don’t access. This isn’t just a business to Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, it’s about a connection with fans, about giving the fans what they want and what they have now come to expect. This brings us to flatulance during those very intimate performances, I asked Dan about any of the band members having any embarrasing habits such as farting on stage and you’ll be pleased to not that after he joked about much garlic being eaten before every performance, he confessed that flatulance doesn’t actually occur, and if it does then it wasn’t him.
Another Buzz scoop, and a scoop to make any videogame fan very happy is that Dan Kelly is next writing a song about the game, Grand theft auto. This instantly caused an uplifting on each side of my mouth since I am a massive fan of that game and all the sequals that followed. And if I liked Dan’s song about politics, then I will be rushing out to buy his song about that!
Keep an ear out for their tour by the way, but since you’re eyes are down at present then lock them on these locations: Victoria – Rubys Lounge, Adelaide – Jive Bar, Melbourne – The Tote, Victoria/Hepburn Springs – Palais, Sydney – Spectrum Nightclub, Newcastle – Northern Star Hotel, Woollongong – Oxford Tavern, Victoria – Queensland Festival, Brisbane – The Troubadour, Sunshine Coast – Sol Bar and Byron Bay – Great Northern Hotel. You can catch Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males from mid November to early December at these locations. They will also be touring with Glen Richards of Augie March fame and up and coming Melbourne four piece, Souls on Board. As it has previously been put – ‘A night of Australian music not to be missed by young and old, boys and girls, labour and liberal, the upstanding and the feral’. If you don’t get to see them then don’t worry too much as their studio album, of which “Pirate Radio EP” is a taste will be out soon and there will also be a tour coinciding with that. Perth might even get a visit. To find out any upcoming tours or about anything to do with Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males then log on to the internet and type this in – www.dankelly.com.au .
In person Dan Kelly is a very likable sort, we were both having a joke over many things. But even more importantly he cares about the punter. Just like any other musician he is not only doing it for love, but also to pay next weeks rent; but I get the impression he could even do it for free – he loves entertaining that much. In closing Dan Kelly just wants to put out a big hi to Australia and thank Brisbane for raising him and making him what he is today. He wants people to buy his EP “Pirate Radio EP” and support his band so that they can stick around and continue to entertain.
You can find Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males ‘Pirate Radio EP‘ in stores. The album wont be too far away but if you need a fix before then, well I’m sure this EP will suffice. The single, ‘Drunk On Election Night, is a worthy reason enough to purchase it. And don’t let the political pursuasion put you off, we all know that politics are extremely boring, but not so much when you poke fun in a musical manner, which is what Dan Kelly has done here. On this EP he is having a laugh right beside us as we watch question time on the television and wonder what exactly would happen if the polititions had an open bar which they proceeded to get stuck into as the arguments got over heated and they lost all inhibitions. Ding Ding in your corners now.