Halfway’s BigSound 2010 showcase gig is at The Zoo, Ann St Fortitude Valley. Thur 9 Sept, 9.50-10.20PM

We had so much fun doing it last year with all our international friends in Brisbane for the BIGSOUND Conference, that we thought (again) that we would start the party a day earlier.

The music starts at 8.30, doors are at 8.00 and we hope to see you there.

BANDS PLAYING ON THE NIGHT ARE

THE HONEY MONTH

Their collaboration dates back to seven years ago, when two eleven year old boys with a keyboard, a tape recorder and an affection for punk recorded their first song over the top of a dusty Tom Petty cassette.  After acquiring a set of drums and an electric guitar, a three piece band was formed, playing together until early 2008, when a strange transition fuelled by a mutual love of eclectic music occurred. This is where THE HONEY MONTH begun.

THE GIN CLUB

Over the past five years, THE GIN CLUB have established themselves as one of Australia’s most exciting bands, both through their studio albums as well as their inimitable live performances. Continually evolving from the traditional folk/country of their self-titled debut, The Gin Club’s seven person song writing roster has developed a unique and distinctive style. Whilst they defy easy categorisation, their music contains elements of acoustic folk, wide screen rock’n’roll, psychedelia, country, pop and more – all delivered with a distinctly antipodean flavour. They have been compared to artists such as The Triffids, The Go Betweens and The Band.

WE ALL WANT TO

A band of five people from very different musical backgrounds; indie rock, folk, drone and noisy pop – WE ALL WANT TO present tracks off their debut self titled album. A broad range of sounds, song writing styles and voices feature on this eclectic release. Tim Steward’s (Screamfeeder) latest project spent 6 months not deciding on a band name, then named the band after someone misheard something someone else said in a noisy restaurant one night then spent over a year recording their debut album.

HALFWAY

Halfway was formed by John Busby, Chris Dale and Elwin Hawtin who originally hail from Rockhampton, Central Queensland. Based on a mutual love of Dylan, Springsteen, Big Star and The Replacements, they left Rockhampton and headed south to put together a band with the finishing touches to the line up being added in Brisbane to round the HALFWAY line up off as an 8 piece. In 2008 HALFWAY song writing duo, John Busby and Chris Dale won Queensland’s most prestigious song writing award – The Grant McLennan Fellowship. The selection panel included members of the Go-Betweens, the McLennan family and Queensland Arts. The fellowship allowed John and Chris to travel to London in November 2008.

ROZ PAPPALARDO AND THE WAYWARD GENTLEMEN

Take a soaring and committed slide guitar, smooth upright bass, rocking drums, mad keyboard, a vintage Fender guitar (‘temporarily’ stolen from her Dad), and a sassy front woman who rocks even when she sings a ballad. This is ROZ PAPPALARDO AND THE WAYWARD GENTLEMEN. Roz’s testosterone fuelled alt – country side project to her folky festival favourite counterpart, Women In Docs. Drawing on influences ranging from Lucinda Williams to Ryan Adams, Roz as a solo act melds her effusive stage presence and endearing song writing with some good honest country–style secret herbs and spices. And a cheeky little dash of the T-hormone.

EVENT DETAILS

Plus One Records Showcase 2010
The Troubadour, Tuesday September 7 2010 :: 8pm – late
$20.00 presales (limited), free with a Big Sound pass
Brunswick St Mall, Fortitude Valley

The Honey Month
The Gin Club
We All Want To
Halfway
Roz Pappalardo and the Wayward Gentlemen



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Plus One Records in conjunction with Footstomp Music present WE ALL WANT TO, the self titled debut album for this 5 piece Brisbane band. Latest and most ambitious project for Screamfeeder frontman Tim Steward, the album also features the vocals of Skye Staniford, who penned the first single, the looped extravaganza A La Mode.

The album was recorded over a year and half and was produced by some of the country’s greats: Magoo and Wayne Connolly to name a couple. The sessions were already finished when Skye announced that she “had this song lying around”, which she’d recorded in a garage in Noosa one lazy holiday day.

She’d written the song on the fly – memories of a blissful balmy summer love affair for lyrics – and played everything on it, looping and looping up a storm as the day went on. Tim added a bassline and recorded a couple of minutes of Dan’s drumming on the 4 track at practice, and A La Mode proper was born.

By far the happiest song on the album, it’s an upbeat summertime bliss-out, teasing you with the late introduction of a bassline and slamming beat.

Please request WE ALL WANT TO on the radio!!

• JJJ
• 3RRR
• 4ZZZ
• FBI
• PBS

Website here

Securing signatures from the 5 piece combo the wheels are now in motion to give the world a taste of this diverse and eclectic album.

Latest and most ambitious project for Screamfeeder frontman Tim Steward, the band’s debut self titled album also features the vocals of Skye Staniford, who penned the first single, the looped extravaganza A La Mode.

Plus One are releasing WE ALL WANT TO in conjunction with Footstomp Music. Asho from Footstomp has been wanting to work with Tim Steward for many years and rates WE ALL WANT TO as one of his finest moments. Plus One and Footstomp expect that this will be the first of many shared projects.

This is Tim’s 10th album release in a blistering 20 year songwriting career, representing Brisbane amongst world indie rock heavyweights. We are immensely proud to have the band on our roster and to announce that WE ALL WANT TO is scheduled for release on October 15th.

There’s nothing that warms the cockles of hearts more than when friends come together to save the day. A last minute line-up drop out this week caused a bit of panic but now we’ve ended up with one of the greatest local lineups we could possibly think of.

GIANTS OF SCIENCE, GENTLE BEN & HIS SENSITIVE SIDE and MEXICO CITY all take the stage this very Friday night for a non-Splendour affair that won’t break the bank and has a distinct lack of mud, rain and wankers.

Also, as always, DJ EL NORTO will be spinning the wheels of steel, flipping between the skins for Gentle Ben and the vinyl within the DJ booth. Please get behind this one, it’s a show that will make a difference to all concerned.

UPDATE: Buy a ticket directly from The Blackwater Fever for this coming

Thursday August 5th 2010 show at The Zoo, Brisbane and receive a FREE Abused Blues EP or stubbie cooler.

PURCHASE HERE: http://www.theblackwaterfever.com/tickets.htm

UPDATE: The Blackwater Fever are now a trio! We’re very excited to have Jed Walters join the band handling keys and bass.

Last Saturday we played the Plus One Records ‘Label Parties’ in this format for the first time, unannounced with great results. So this Zoo gig is our official unveiling of the new line up.