GIANTS OF SCIENCE Add Melbourne Date To April Tour

GIANTS OF PRESCIENCE
That's right! Everyone's favourite early noughties throwbacks GIANTS OF SCIENCE are back to strike fear into the hearts of purveyors of false intelligent hard rock everywhere! They are playing the Troubadour, Brisbane on Friday 17th of April and head to Sydney the following day to headline the Annandale Hotel's Tomorrow People mini festival on the 18th of April and then to Melbourne Sunday April 19 for a show at The Tote.

KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET
Giants of Science are one of Australia's best kept musical secrets. Their patented combionation of vicious intelligent hard rock, black humour & questionable fashion sense saw them garner supports for bands such as Radio Birdman, McClusky, MC3DKT, The Bellrays, Black Flag, A Perfect Circle, JSBX, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Powderfinger, Screamfeeder, Tumbleweed, Front End Loader, You Am I, and many others. TThey released two albums and two EPs up till 2007, toured Canada and Vanuatu, played the Big Day Out and Livid festivals, and a good deal of rum was on board throughout.

HI-ATUS VAN
The Giants have have been on extended leave for two years whilst various members travelled to Europe, dossed about and worked as escorts in the Middle East. However the original line up of Ben Salter (vocals/guitar) Steven Lynagh (drums) Benjamin Tuite (guitar) and Matt Tanner (bass) is back, match fit, older, stupider, working on some new songs, and set to play a few shows before commencing work on their third full length album, tentatively entitled The Suburban Durban Bourbon Turban, due for release early 2010.

DATES - April 2009

The Troubadour, Brisbane on the 17th of April with HITS and No Anchor
$15 + bf from www.troubadour.oztix.com.au

The Annandale, Sydney on the 18th of April for the Tomorrow People mini festival
supports TBA - $10 on the door

The Tote, Collingwood on the 19th of April

MEXICO CITY To Release New Album "Brown Bird"

Epic garage rock for fans of The Band, Nick Cave, The Drones, Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young and Wilco.

Roving Cannibals, a fugitive de facto and a sparrow or two. Talk about a rogue's gallery. Not to mention lost ghosts, drunken ship captains and an estranged stock broker.

They're just some of the misfits that inhabit Brown Bird, the new album by Brisbane's best kept secret MEXICO CITY.

Like Dylan's Highway 61,The Stooges' Funhouse or Nick Cave'sAbbattoir Blues, it's packed with freaks and geeks, the supernatural and the supernal. Heck even Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, gets a shout out.

Coming three years after the release of debut album (2006's critically applauded Black Comedy), Brown Birdfinds the four-piece simultaneously refining and expanding on the template set down by the previous record.

No surprise given the changes MEXICO CITY have overcome since their last release.

The band said goodbye to longstanding member Mick Elliot, who was eventually replaced by Matt Tanner (GIANTS OF SCIENCE, MARY TREMBLES). They also big farewell to their first record label, to start anew with Brisbane's Plus One Records (GIN CLUB, BLACKWATER FEVER, TEXAS TEA).

Brown Bird triumphs over these disruptions in thrilling fashion.

From the roaring epic garage rock of openers "Raised an Empire" and "Baby You've Changed" to the start, crystalline shiver of "R U Spiritual", this is a bolder, more confident MEXICO CITY.

The country rock flourished of previous release are, for the most part, relegated to the background as the band instead crank up the amps and deliver a new batch of tunes that crackle with emotion and abandonment. Piano also takes centre stage on a couple of key tracks.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same and Brown Bird is sure to warm the cockles of those who have enjoyed MEXICO CITY's previous releases. But hey, here's hoping this bird takes flight and catches the ears and hearts of the deserved wider audience.

MEXICO CITY "Brown Bird" Tour Dates May 2009

Fri 08 - Grace Emily, Adelaide, SA
Sat 09 - East Brunswick Club, VIC
Thu 14 - Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills, NSW
Fri 15 - Chilli Lounge, Wyong, NSW
Sat 16 - Lass O'Gowrie, Newcastle, NSW
Sat 23 - Troubador, Brisbane, QLD
Fri 29 - Bon Amici, Toowoomba, QLD