Pete Murray Launches New Album & National Tour
Album 'Summer At Eureka' out this SATURDAY, MAY 17
Pete Murray has a big week ahead of him. His eagerly anticipated new album "Summer At Eureka" is released this Saturday and his national concert tour goes on sale from 9am next Tuesday.
Hardcore Murray-lovers can get a sneak preview of the new live show when he launches the album via a special performance for Bigpond Music's "Monday Night Live" on May 19. While Pete has performed hundreds of shows around Australia over recent years this will be the first time he has performed a concert that can be viewed online and on mobile live as it happens. For all the links check out www.petemurray.com
In other news Pete has announced ARIA winners, The Audreys as the support for his forthcoming National Tour. The Audreys will be performing in a unique acoustic trio mode, as the main support on all capital city shows across the country.
The Audreys whose new album When The Flood Comes, recently debuted in the ARIA top 20, have been receiving glowing album reviews and have been selling out venues across the country. The stripped back trio mode will see the band using a combination of upright bass, banjo, harmonica, melodica, ukulele, electric and acoustic guitars.
Also joining the tour in the opening spots will be exciting new comer Gin Wigmore for some shows with Matt Joe Gow on some Victorian dates.
The addition of these rootsy and organic musical guests to the tour should dovetail perfectly with the feel of the songs on Pete's new album "Summer At Eureka". He created the self produced disc in his home near Byron Bay and it has a homespun warmth that makes it a great leap forward from his more melancholy multi-platinum hits "Feeler" and "See The Sun". The album's lead single "You Pick Me Up" is already among the 20 most played songs on Australian radio and the disc is expected to be certified gold within days of its release.
One of the hardest working rock bands in Australia, those Skybombers boys just don't stop!
There is no rest for the wicked though and the Skybombers will head overseas again next month for shows in the US before travelling to Japan for the Japanese release of Take Me To Town. In blistering form after some solid touring the past 12 months, these July shows will be the last chance for punters to check the band out before they depart!
Take Me To Town's first single Always Complaining debuted at #1 on the AIR chart and #23 on the ARIA physical singles chart, and has gained solid airplay on Triple J and Nova.
From club crawling anthems to hangover cures; the thrill of young love to the darker side of teenage dreams, Take Me To Town is an album drenched in the eternal elixir of youth: reckless optimism, arrogant self-belief and the mixture of sky-bound riffs, grooves and melodies tailor-made for teenagers to strum on their first $40 acoustic guitar.
Take Me To Town is out now on Albert Productions
www.myspace.com/skybombers
Acclaimed Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter Jeff Lang will release his new studio album Half Seas Over on May 10 th 2008 through ABC Music/ Warner Music , and will showcase his new material when he hits the road on a national tour throughout May and June.
With his eloquent guitar, sweet voice and plainspoken yet sensitive approach to the original and traditional source material, Jeff Lang is expanding the boundaries of traditional folk, country and blues to create a new brand of non traditional music which is undeniably and deeply steeped in tradition, yet with its imagination set on future horizons.
This powerful and hypnotic recording draws deeply on folk sources - the old, unsettling gothic tales that have passed from musician to musician from century to century - and the simple but compelling sound of acoustic guitar with minimal accompaniment to express the deeper resonances beneath the stories.
Inspired by a diverse set of influences, from John Fahey and Richard Thompson to Chris Whitley and Devendra Banhart, from Dock Boggs and Skip James to Dylan and AC/DC, Jeff Lang has created a contemporary classic.
Jeff will be touring nationally through May & June to support this release with blues/folk singer songwriter Kara Grainger, in support of her debut solo album, "Grand & Green River".
Jeff Lang "Half Seas Over" released May 10th 2008 through ABC Music/Warner Music
Jeff Lang delivers Half Seas Over
An album resonant
in story and song
Other Past Festival Clients Include:
St Kilda Festival - 2007
St Kilda Festival - 2006
The Pyramid Rock Festival - New Years Eve 2005
St Kilda Film Festival - National Tour 2005
St Kilda Film Festival - 2005
St Kilda Festival - 2005
The Pyramid Rock Festival - New Years Eve 2004
St Kilda Festival - 2004
East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival - Side Show Publicity Sydney & Melbourne 2004
St Kilda Festival - 2004
The Falls Festival - Lorne (Vic) & Marion Bay (Tas) 2003
Melbourne Event Publicity - The Livid Festival 2003
Vibes On A Summer's Day - 2003
The Falls Festival - 2002
The Falls Festival - 2001
Peaches & Cream Festival - 2001
Offshore Festival - 2001
Turn Up Your Radio - National Tour 2000
Coca Cola Redfest - National Tour 2000
The Falls Festival - 2000
Offshore Festival - 2000
Other Past Clients... just to name a few:
Dallas Crane, Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union - On The Beach Tour 2006
Tex, Don and Charlie with Mick Harvey - National Tour 2005
Spiderbait 'Greatest Hits' 2005
Pete Murray 'See The Sun' - National Tour 2005
Beasts of Bourbon - Reunion Tour 2005
Film Victoria - Melbourne on Screen 2005
Stars Behind Bars - MS Benefit Concert 2005
The Spazzy's - National Tour 2005
James Blundell - CD Release & Tour 2005
Mick Turner (The Dirty Three) - Art Exhibition 2004
Regurgitator Mish Mash - CD Release and National Tour 2004
JET - National Tour 2004
The Living End - National Publicist 2003
Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses - CD Release & Tour 2003
Dallas Crane - National Tour 2003
The Mess Hall - EP Release 2003
John Mayer (USA) - National Tour 2002
The Cooper Temple Clause (UK) - National Tour 2002
Tenacious D (USA) - National Tour 2002
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (USA) - National Tour July 2002
The Angels Box Set - CD Release 2002
Andy White (Ireland) - National CD Release & Tour 2002
Pete Murray "The Game" - CD Release 2002
Air Guitar Australia - Victoria 2002
Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses - National Tour 2001 & 2002
The Scientists - National Tour 2002
The Models - CD release 2001
[love]Tattoo CD - National Release 2001
Turn Up Your Radio - National Tour 2000
The Eels (USA) - Melbourne Tour 2000
NOFX (USA) - National Tour 2000
Transglobal Underground (UK) - National Tour 2000
The Creatures (featuring Siouxsie Sioux) - National Tour 2000
Machine Gun Fellatio - National Tour 1999
David Copperfield - National Tour 1999
The Living End - National Tour 1999
Pyramid Rock Festival
Phillip Island, New Year's Eve Dec 30 & 31, 2005
Now in it's second BIG year, the Pyramid Rock Festival offers over 50 bands on two stages with camping, food markets and all amenities included in the deal. Some of the acts this year include:
JOHN BUTLER TRIO, GRINSPOON, SCRIBE (NZ), XAVIER RUDD, STEREO MC'S (UK), COG, THE DATSUNS (NZ), BUTTERFINGERS, BODYJAR, THE HERD, DJ FORMAT (UK), THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, GYROSCOPE, CLARE BOWDITCH & THE FEEDING SET, SONICANIMATION, THE PANICS, EPICURE, AIRBOURNE, DJ HYPE & MC DADDY EARL (UK), N'FA (1200 TECHNIQUES), BEN QUIN, MC TREY & MAYA JUPITER feat:DJ NICK TOTH, ART OF FIGHTING, BRITISH INDIA, EVIL NINE (UK), TRIAL KENNEDY, LOVE OUTSIDE ANDROMEDA, ANDY SMITH PORTISHEAD, DYNAMO PRODUCTIONS-UK), MUPH & PLUTONIC, CUSTOM KINGS, HERMITUDE, KID CONFUCIUS, THE FLAIRZ, TOM MIDDLETON (UK), BENT DJ'S(UK), GERSEY, TREVA WHATEVA(UK), SPIKEY TEE (NATTY CONGO OUTERNATIONAL-UK), SEVEN, THE RESTLESS, CWQ, CANNON and more...
For more info on Pyramid Rock Festival, ticket info etc visit: www.thepyramidrockfestival.com
