Just heading to Auckland after a sweet show in Christchurch last night. Al’s bar is great! Wildwood lights were really fun. Karaoke was sung, though Candy(WL) missed her song because she was too busy spewing.
Cab driver to the airport rambled for the whole trip about his experiences with prostitutes in C’Church, and we learnt that you need to be a millionaire to get a young lady(if yr old) and that you can buy a virgin for $1000 in Thailand. Oh, and if you get aids you will have ‘juice’ coming out of your face and you won’t be hungry cause the aids is eating your stomach. Werd.

Hey kids! We’re in Wellington NZ, sitting by the water, drinking Macs Hop Rocker and waiting to play at Bodega. Which is a really great looking bar by the way. Soundcheck was nice, although we discovered that our precious Maton Ibis bass has gone missing. We were so damn tired after Campus A Low Hum that we lost track of it. Hmmmm. Fingers crossed it turns up eh?
So, Campus! Damn fun people. 4 nights of excessive drinking, excellent bands and pining for beautiful kiwi indie girls. Ugh. We’ll write more soon and post some photos but for now adios muchach-fuckin-oes.

Signed: Dr Science.

Well, wings on fire is out! Has been for a week now. You can get it from any decent record store and also online from itunes.

We’ve also announced our national tour in November to support it, here are the dates:

Wings on Fire - 2009

Thursday 12th Nov: CANBERRA, Transit Bar
w/ Voss and Hoodlum Shouts

Saturday 14th Nov: Newcastle, The Lass O’Gowrie
w/ Great Toad and the Chameleon Circus

Sunday 15th Nov: BRISBANE, The Troubadour
w/ Eulogies(US) and The Seabellies

Thursday 19th Nov: Cronulla, The Brass Monkey
w/ Eulogies(US) and The Seabellies

Friday 20th Nov: SYDNEY, The Bald Faced Stag
w/ El Mopa, Yae! Tiger and Mr Rascal(bris)

Friday 27th Nov: MELBOURNE, The Curtin Band Room
w/ Oliver Mann, Blood Ones and Single Twin

Sat 28th Nov: HOBART, The Brisbane Hotel, Arvo show.
w/ guests

Sat 28th Nov: Hobart, The Alley Cat, evening show
w/ Teeth and Tongue and Ned Collette

There’s also a few reviews up on the media/press page, check ‘em out!

Hmmm, what else is news?! We will more than likely tour New Zealand in late Jan/early Feb next year! Stay tuned for further announcments about that.

We’ve also been setting up a studio space in Fairfield, for both Aleks and the Ramps and Potential Falcon. Al and I got really itchy the other day installing sound insulation bats in the walls. I can tick that job off my list, been there, done that, never want to do it again. As Aleks said, “If someone invites me to an insulation installing party i’m gonna say i have to wash my hair…”

Here is a very boring pic of the space:

we have plenty more carpet to steal, and couches, PA system etc to move in and make it more homely. It’s really great to have a place for ourselves though, no more putting up with metal bands jamming in the adjacent room!

Tonight is the first show of the tour and Sydney is experiencing torrential downpours.

Hugo and Simon have had a single run through of the set, the five of us not having played together since December ’08. Spirits are high however, Hugo, his wife Emily, Simon and some of Simon’s family went to see Gary Louris and Mark Olson the preceding night and catch a conversation between Stephen Cummings and Don Walker at the Sydney Writers Festival, both of which are ace!

Upon arrival the bar staff direct us to the rear door to load in, as we begin to do so however we are yelled at by the in-house sound guy for doing so. He informs us that we can no longer load in or out from the rear doors. His general mood and attitude towards us is not a good sign. What is it with in house engineers? I have met a large number of them, and can only think of two(Harry at the NSC and Renae at Rics) who are nice, decent, competent people. Hey venues/in house dudes, you are not doing us some massive favor by letting us play at your venue! You run a live music venue yes?! Then we are an important part of your income stream, treat us as such! (We are very easy going and professional people.)

Okay, so when all the borrowed gear arrives, we begin sound check. The laptop running Hugo’s keyboard sounds refuses to boot, so he will have to fudge his parts on guitar. Ugh. Fortunately he is a musical genius and we have now worries regarding his ability to do so. The rest of sound check is uneventful, aside from a side-fill packing it in and a bit more cursing from sound man.

Dinner is a mad run in the rain with no umbrellas to The Annandale Hotel. Home of Rider(the rider being a list of a bands requirements at a show, or just the free beer a venue gives you), the top notch Mexican place run my Matt Blackman from Charge Group/Palace of Fire/Tucker B’s, surely the busiest man in Aussie showbiz. Matt lets us taste his homemade hot-sauce and we are much pleased. We have another crack at Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Hott Sauce; Joe sweats a lot and has to remove many layers of clothing to cool down. I had a Burrito with Chorizo and Capsicum, it was AWESOME.

Showtime, No Art have brought the crowd (46 payers) and are awesome! Please come to Melbourne! The door charge has been changed from the agreed $10 to $8 with no explanation(WTF!?), we are given a single(1) drink each, local beers or basic spirits only.

Golden Mean fuzz it up, Line Drawings remind us why we love the ‘90’s so much(dual guitar interplay is the answer). We pile out of the venue having made a last minute attempt to get the bar girls to come party with us and head to the hostel round the corner.

We ditch the gear in the room and proceed across the road to the Cleveland and drink way too much until too late at night.

Awake to find there is no air left in the rooms, eat Spice I Am for lunch half an hour after breakfast and make a dash for the airport. On to Brisbane!