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Karnivool 2012 Australian Tour

Please indulge us a minute for another missive from the “Melodias Frescas” news desk. Over here at Vool HQ we are very happy to announce some additional shows, as the demand for tickets for this tour has been massive. We also have listened to some of the fine folk from Canberra and will add a show in their town, proving that even a bunch of lads from Perth aren’t scared of Canberra’s cool winter. Frescas indeed!

Sydney is also the recipient of a second show at the Hi-Fi with the first show being very close to selling out. The Rosemount in Perth also has a third show added, which makes Team Karnivool very happy, as they don’t play in Perth often enough so it’s nice to get a few under the belt in their home town. All three Melbourne Hi-fi shows are also now sold out, no more to be added.

Karnivool are also very happy to be able to give people a sneak peak at their forthcoming DVD release. Those fans of Karnivool who have been around for the long haul may have heard of this yet to be titled mythical beast, and perhaps had given up hope!

The DVD which has had footage shot for it all over the world for a period of more than 5 years is now well and truly at the editing stage, and you can get a little teaser RIGHT HERE !

The band are editing the video themselves, but never fear all shooting has now stopped so fans will be able to see the fruits of their labours in the not too distant future! Joining Karnivool on the ‘Melodias Frescas’ tour are two of Australia’s most exciting bands. Victorian triple j ‘Next Crop’ rockers Redcoats with their epic single “Dreamshaker” and Sydney’s instrumental post-rock band sleepmakeswaves fresh from playing SXSW and touring both the USA and Europe. Get ‘em while you can people!

Joining Karnviool on the ‘Melodias Frescas’ tour are two of Australia’s most exciting bands. Victorian JJJ ‘Next Crop’ rockers Redcoats with their epic single “Dreamshaker’” and Sydney’s instrumental post-rock band sleepmakeswaves fresh from playing SXSW and touring both the USA and Europe.

FIRST PERTH SHOW HAS NOW SOLD OUT, SECOND SHOW HAS BEEN ADDED SAT JULY 28 !!

Sugar Army

The time has finally come and they couldn’t be more psyched!!! SUGAR ARMY are going back on the road in June 2012 to celebrate the release of ‘Hooks For Hands’, the first single from their forthcoming album Summertime Heavy and the boys will play shows in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. ‘Hooks For Hands’ showcases the strengths of the Perth-based trio with the catchy under-your-skin chorus, Pat McLaughlin’s distinctive vocals, the schizophrenic guitar, unpredictable arrangements and all the other ingredients that perfectly balance the brains, brawn and melody in the Sugar Army brand of rock and roll.

‘Hooks For Hands’ can be heard across Australia on community radio and JJJ and at www.sugararmy.com where you can also see the kick arse video, which was directed and produced by the band This will be the first time SUGAR ARMY have performed on the east coast with their richer and deeper five-piece live show which features Chris Simmons on Bass and Ben Pooley on keys/guitar.

Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes

Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes featuring fierce leading lady Clairy Browne and her harmonising girl group, The Bangin' Rackettes, have been tearing down the house at venues all over the country since 2009.
The nine piece rhythm and blues big band's original songs take you through northern soul, jump blues, doo-wop, ska and gospel and they are getting ready to take their soul train on the road with an Australian tour to celebrate the launch of the 'Love Letter' video and limited edition 7” vinyl.
The new video was filmed in the Old Geelong Gaol, which was transformed into “dance gaol” for a day where the band's sentence was made up of non-stop hair flicks and intensive tambourine weight training. The synopsis of "Prince goes to prison" was bought to life by a large cast of vampy inmates surrounding the delivery of a highly confidential, explicit letter of love. Written by Hannah Fox and directed by Lester Francois.

In typical CBBR fashion, they will be kicking off the tour with a wild club show at the Prince Bandroom in Melbourne consisting of multiple stages, their in-house marching band, a special performance from exotica songstress Stella Angelico, soul kings the Putbacks, DJ’s and the cast of the video busting out some chorrie on the dancefloor.

Bon Iver Australian Tour

We are pleased to announce that all Australian headline shows for BON IVER are now completely sold out.
Support for the shows in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth will be Sally Seltmann; the award-winning Australian songwriter behind intoxicating albums such as ‘Heart That’s Pounding’, ‘Somewhere, anywhere.’ and ‘The Last Beautiful Day’ under both her own name and her previous moniker New Buffalo.
Sally is also a member of the highly successful super-trio/collaboration featuring Holly Throsby and Sarah Blasko called Seeker Lover Keeper and is the co-writer of the Grammy nominated song ‘1234’, performed by Feist.
We are very excited to have Sally on board for these magnificent shows.

Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires Australian Tour

Soul man Charles Bradley is making his way to Australia at the balmy end of summer to lay some Brooklyn soul vibes on music lovers across the country! A member of the Dunham Records family (an offshoot of Daptone Records, home to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings), Charles Bradley has been backed by soul supergroups The Bullets and The Menahan Street Band (whose Make The Road By Walking was famously sampled in Jay Z’s Roc Boys) and now tours Australia in March 2012 with his Extraordinaires, the backing band that owned Europe and the US on his world tour featuring some of New Yorks finest soul musicians.

St Vincent Australian Tour

St. Vincent (a.k.a. Annie Clark) has gone from strength to strength since the release of the internationally-acclaimed Strange Mercy in September. Debuting at #18 in the Billboard Top 200 in the US and being scored 9.0 by Pitchfork, the album has racked up the year-end list accolades: #7 in NME, #8 in Q, #9 in Time, #10 in the Sunday Times and #26 in Rolling Stone (US) among many others. She graced the covers of the September issue of SPIN as well as Under the Radar. Network television appearances have included The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and an upcoming shot on Conan. In February, she will be featured in the wildly popular US television series Gossip Girl.
While Annie has performed in Australia in a solo capacity at Sydney Festival, this will be the Australian debut of her new full-band show which had the Guardian raving in its 4-star review of the London show: “Pure and luscious…(sending) prickles up the spine. Clark extracts maximum fuzziness from her guitar, her plectrum technique so fierce that a woman sitting near me gasps: “She plays like a man!”