3 days to go. If you’re reading this, you’re an Aussie & you haven’t done it yet, enrol to vote for the upcoming federal election. Send our politicians the message you want them to hear. The electoral roll closes Monday at 8pm. Click this link to enrol on line – www.aec.gov.au/enrol/

Have your own personal say. Many of our politicians would gladly prefer you didn’t. Stick it to ’em. The last federal election went down to the wire, and this one looks like being the same – a government decided by a handful of votes. And yours could be one of them.

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This is gold. About 8 years ago we played a year-long residency at the Yak Bar, Hoddle St Abbotsford (now known as IDGAFF). During that time, a guy called Paddy would come on after us & do the Sunday late-night slot as his alter-ego Lulu; a cross-dressing, outrageous solo punk artist, singing to backing tracks he (or she) had created. It was the perfect way to round out a debauched Sunday. Fast forward to now & Paddy’s ‘twin sister’ Lulu just released this single & video. It’s been a few years in the making (I recorded the guitars for this track some time ago)…

Great work Lulu!

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The final song in our set & the final live TV festival footage from Taiwan last month, ‘Without’. A great way to say good-night at Ho Hai Yan festival – we love the song as the last song in our touring set…

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This gets pretty epic in the middle – Sky Caves In, last month at Ho Hai Yan festival… Max on all fours over the keys, channeling some kinda Hendrix voodoo thing.

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New song (a strong contender to be on the next album), Next To You, live at Ho-Hai-Yan festival Taiwan last month…

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We played this song at our house concert last month & I (Marty) mentioned how much hated it, cracked the sh*ts & wanted it dropped from the set. Next day it was back in. A love/hate relationship. Apparently someone told Max I need to “harden the f*ck up” about it. Here it is, 10 days after said house concert, live in Taiwan…

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Taiwan TV footage from Ho Hai Yan festival earlier this month. This is one of our current live favourites. Join The Ride (it’s working title) was written just before the German & China tours of April & May this year.

More Taiwan TV festival video coming soon.

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Taiwan TV footage from Ho Hai Yan festival earlier this month. ‘Coming Home’ live.

Coming Home is the opening track on our 2010 ‘Betrayer’ album. You can download the song or the album from our Shop page.

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We had a fantastic Saturday night at Premier Function Center, Taralgon for the Freeza Battle Of The Bands. Max was on the judging panel. 5 of Latrobe region’s best acts played their hearts out for a chance at state finals. The competition was pretty fierce. I couldn’t separate my favourites. Max & I had an agreement – I wasn’t allowed to talk to her about decision-making til the night was done. Darcy Fox took the honours. She came armed with an acoustic guitar, a beautiful voice & a loop pedal. The songs moved back and forth from sparseness to wall-of-sound. An amazingly talented artist. You’ve gotta have razor-sharp timing and nerves of steel to do what she did. And she did it as though it was all second nature. Definitely an artist with a huge future.

Darcy Fox (pic from her website).

We were still pumped after the event & decided to wind down by driving back to Melbourne, instead of staying the night like we’d planned.

Great & inspiring to see so many young people with so much talent.

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We caught a thoroughly enthralling show last night at Reverence Hotel in Footscray. Our friends Dandelion Wine played a gripping headline slot, capturing everybody in the room, start to finish. It’s so unusual to see a 2 piece band with such a big, eclectic sound. In the first minutes I heard echoes of Portishead and Massive Attack. Then it turned fat & hard rocking. Then suddenly Middle-eastern beat-driven dance-rock. The guys are extremely talented multi-instrumentalists – and entertainers. An absolute must-see. They have one more show in Melbourne before heading off on an extensive European tour including shows in Germany, Poland, Romania and Estonia (and a headlining slot at a festival in a medieval castle).

Dandelion Wine, Reverence Hotel, Footscray 25th July 2013.

Go seem em when you can.

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