full tour diary is up!
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here you can find my lame attempt at making trivial moments sound interesting.
and interesting moments sound sub-standard.
I’m lucky enough to have been chosen as part of the Freeza Central Mentoring Program for 2010. Freeza Central is a Victorian Government initiative that provides young people with opportunities to further their musical careers. we are each paired up with an established music industry professional and given handy hints about relevant things. Previous years have seen fabulous musicians such as Angie Hart and Jen Cloher mentoring young aspiring artists.
The Mentoring Program is a fantastic program which i am really excited about being a part of. we find out who our mentors are on the 27th of february…
L ove lucy and she will love you back
U nreliable and moderately temperamental
C hoke needed
Y earns for chris isaak in her speakers
Recording has been fun, but it has been limited. I set out to record an EP, but it might turn out to be more of a single. It is better to set goals that you don’t quite reach, than to not set any at all…right?
Whatever it is, and whenever it will be released, get excited, because the tracks we have down already are sounding great and the packaging is to be a home-made, hand-cut stencil wonder. a real treasure made with love.
wearethevan was a fundraiser for our summer tour that happened last week. my day started at 3:30am, awaking to flatmates coming home drunk, cooking hot chips and then having loud drunk sloppy mid-morning passionate times. i continued to feel like vomiting with the most sickening aeroplane journey of my life, i was moments away from the throw-up bag. i arrived in hobart town and was at the alley cat by 10am. the music started at midday, the crowds were slow to roll in, but when they got there they were loud and drank a lot. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everybody who came. we lost count at about 230 through the door. big thanks to people who donated prizes (machine cafe, the island cafe, hobart book shop, hype dc), the alley cat for always being an awesome venue and allowing us to put such a show on, seed for the coolness, vanessa armstrong from Edge Radio, dad for providing fake grass and props, anne mestitz for making t-shirts and providing film art and general other support, alex for sitting on the door all day and being beautiful, oli for being my number one, and of course to all the acts that graced the stage: finch, ox and julz, abbey doggett, marty blackwell, matt sertori, george begbie, zane from kiss whisky, ben lawless, gretel templeton, theo from the baxter stockman, sammy dowson, hayley couper, the boys from NoFoTo, and lance cooper and the tokyo room.
Here is some action from the Melodica Festival. It was such a fun show. Thanks Oli for giving me my birthday present on stage, I’ve always wanted a tin whistle.
We Heart Arts is a non-profit organization that works to raise funds for children’s creative arts programs around the world. Based in Salisbury Wilts England, Southwest, UK, We Heart Arts do heaps of cool stuff that you could only imagine in your wildest dreams.
They asked me if I wanted to be part of their latest project where they get a bunch of bands all over the world to take a photo at a certain time on a certain day. Then all bands swap photos, and then they write a song about the photo they get, record it, and then all songs make their way to a compilation CD that will be available to buy at gigs and over the internet. Easy.
Stay tuned for more details. Around March 2010 the tracks will be available to buy through Itunes and a short-run limited edition number of CDs will be available.
RADAR RADIO is this groovy website that plays really good, new, undiscovered music.
They called yesterday and asked if I’d like my song played on Triple M. For sure, I said.
If you listen to Triple M, listen up loud n clear on:
Monday 30th November 2009
between 8:30 – 9:00pm
When you hear them play “Rules of Attraction”
send a texty to: 1999 1049
sydney 104.9 fm
melbourne 105.1 fm
Pete Uhlenbruch talks about the growth of the Melodica Festival, how it expanded overseas, and how it’s bringing communities together in this interview
