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THE GIN CLUB and TEXAS TEA Do Their Bit To Save Record Stores Around The World
April 22, 2009
THE ONLY PLACE IN AUSTRALIA TO BE ON APRIL 18 2009..
..is your local independent music store to celebrate Record Store Day Australia 2009.
In these high-tech days of ipods and downloads, there’s still nothing to beat the thrill of immersing yourself in the atmosphere of a real CD and record shop, browsing the racks, talking to the staff and taking home an album that will become part of your personal history.
Record store owners from Perth to Traralgon to Wollongong, and everywhere in between, love the fact that this is a chance to really celebrate the value of music in Australian stores and support the artists that create it and so we are getting into the act and joining forces with one of Australia’s oldest and respected stores Rocking Horse Records to help celebrate the day.
Rocking Horse Records is Queensland’s oldest and largest independently owned and operated record store. They have been open since 1975 and are proud to be celebrating their 30th year of business and we are going to help in the celebrations with a couple of very intimate performances from The Gin Club and Texas Tea.
MEXICO CITY To Release New Album “Brown Bird”
April 22, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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
GIANTS OF SCIENCE Add Melbourne Date To April Tour
April 22, 2009
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 combination 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
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May 5, 2009