NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
JASON ISBELL (USA) with special guests
Alamaba‘s Jason Isbell, formerly a member of the Drive-By Truckers, is finally coming to Australia! Isbell delivers a soulful vocal style, with songs that are passionate and unrepentant in their sense of place, and direct in their stubborn Southerness.
Sun 18 April 2010
www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic
JUKE BARITONE & THE SWAMP DOGS (album launch) with Mikelangelo & The Tin Star, The Brothers Grim and Mojo Juju
Gypsy Punk Cabaret and Pirate Blues Mayhem arrives at the East. Think about Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans, playing music by Muddy Waters, Danny Elfman and Mike Patton…then you’re getting close
Fri 9 Apr 2010
www.myspace.com/jukebaritone
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THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART (USA) with guests - Selling Fast!
Wed 17 February 2010 - Limited Tickets Avail!
Thu 18 February 2010 – Selling Fast!
Due to popular demand Mistletone are releasing extra tickets to the first The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart show at The East. Get in fast to see the Pains breathe new life into indie pop - Tickets are selling fast!
www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart
THE TEALEAVES (album launch) with The Adventure Spirit and Josh McDonald (Royal Parade) – Supports Announced!
With a style that is instantly familiar yet entirely unique, The Tealeaves have crafted a sound that you will want to revisit again and again. Their self-titled debut album will be released in February, 2010 through Vitamin Records.
Fri 26 Feb 2010
www.myspace.com/thetealeavesband
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For the first time in Australia, DANIEL JOHNSTON (USA) fragile musical and creative genius is playing next Wednesday 3rd Feb. Guests include OLD MAN RIVER and Melbourne’s very own KID SAM. Don’t miss what might be your only chance to see Daniel Johnston in Australia perform live. You won’t be disappointed!
Soundwave festival may have sold out but we are thrilled to announce a Melbourne sideshow for FOUR YEAR STRONG (USA) with special guests A WILHELM SCREAM (USA) on Wednesday 24h Feb. Four Year Strong are lauded for their crazy live shows: rutal breakdowns and soaring choruses. Tickets just went on sale and I suggest you get yours soon because two O/S acts at the one sideshow is just too good to miss.
REGROOVED is bringing the first Serato Video-SL club night to Melbourne, and it’s being held at the Prince on Sunday 7th March – Labour Day weekend. Featuring CHEEBA (UK/Solid Steel/AV Set), SLY PLAYERS (UK/GoodGroove), BOOM MONK BEN (UK/Solid Steel), MR NICE & THE UMALICIOUS MCs (AV Set) plus many more, this is a unique opportunity to see some custom visuals to the unique mash up style of Funk, Jazz Breaks, Hip Hop, Dubstep and DnB. The first 300 people through the door will also receive a copy of the Limited Edition Featurecast Regrooved CD! Presale tickets are now available, or get them on the door.
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Jeff Beck Announces New Band Line Up
Jeff Beck Nominated for 5th Grammy
Music legend Jeff Beck this week announced a sensational new line up for his 2010 World Tour, where he will be
joined by three first-class musicians and collaborators.
In addition, Jeff Beck has been nominated for a Grammy Award for his breathtaking live performance from the Ronnie
Scott’s DVD of ‘A Day in the Life’.
Full band line-up:
Jeff Beck - Guitar
Narada Michael Walden – Drums. A multi- Grammy Award winning producer, drummer and singer- songwriter in his
own right Narada has collaborated with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Tom Jones. Narada also
featured and composed four tracks on Beck’s classic 1976 album Wired and has been a long time friend of Jeff’s.
Rhonda Smith – Bass. Has played with a whole host of artists from Prince (playing to 1.4 million people on The
Musicology Tour), Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Little Richard to name a few. In addition to this Rhonda has made
genre defining solo records also employing her unique vocal talents.
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On Saturday (yes, Saturday – exciting!) 6th February KILL THE NOISE is bringing one killer line up to the Prince: MALENTE (GER/Fool’s Gold/Southern Fried USA), ACID JACKS, HARRIS ROBOTIS, GENERIK, DEAN BENSON, FANG RATS, MAT CANT, ANDO and QUINNMASTERS. Presale tickets are now available only through the Prince. We don’t suggest you chance it on the door!
You’ve got to give credit to any guy who’s willing to attempt a Katy Perry cover – especially when the song is “I Kissed A Girl” and that guy happens to be a proud homosexual and from Israel. So hats off to IVRI LIDER (ISR), who will hopefully perform said cover at his show on Sunday 28th February. Don’t let the connection to the pop diva fool you though, Ivri’s music is melodic, powerful and from the heart. Tickets are now on sale.
Direct from Brooklyn New York, the ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA are heading to Oz for what will be their first down under. The band encompasses a massive 12 current members, which is why it’s no surprise that these boys sure do know how to raise afrobeat sounds to a spiritual plane. With a sound foundered by Nigerian legend Fela Kuti, the band is influenced by jazz, 70s psychedelic, funk, dub, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa.
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Monday 11 th January
SCREEN SECT: JOHNNY SUEDE (Tom DiCillo, 1992)
DiCillo’s first feature was also Brad Pitt’s first starring role, in which he plays an aspiring rockabilly musician with an outsize quiff, who idolises Ricky Nelson. A strange, anachronistic Lynchian comedy, which also stars the wonderfully talented Catherine Keener and features a cameo performance by Nick Cave, as the Jim Jarmusch look-alike fictional albino rock icon Freak Storm. Weird fun.
Doors 7.30pm
Tuesday 12 th January
MIUC
Percussionist Will Guthrie and guitarist Ren Walters to provide regular performance opportunities for experimental improvisers at a time when such opportunities didn’t really exist with any stability in Melbourne founded The Make It Up Club in 1998. Since then, the MIUC has grown into the longest running program of its type in Australia, presenting a weekly series of challenging and adventurous freely-improvised music and sound performance. Hosted every Tuesday night throughout the year at Bar Open, the MIUC aims to present and promote the most daring and innovative improvised music from across Australia and around the globe, and to foster and cultivate Melbourne’s vibrant community of performers and listeners dedicated to one of the most rewarding art-forms in existence.
Doors 8pm
Wednesday 13 th January
GOODNIGHT OWL
SEAGULL
BROKEN FLIGHT
Wednesday night at Bar Open is going to ease the burden of the halfway point in the working week with both grace and charm as Goodnight Owl can lead you in one of two directions - an embrace of the dawn, or an adventure into the dark. Make it what you will, Central Australian born Eddie Alexander has developed his song writing to take the listener on a journey lyrically and musically, using fragile electronics to craft beautiful pop soundscapes. Goodnight Owl will be joined by Seagull and Broken Flight, and it’s free entry so you have no excuses.
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
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We are feeling nostalgic writing our last newsletter for 2009; what an amazing year we have had! Thank you all for making this year our busiest, best and most fun. From all of us here at the Prince Bandroom we wish you a safe and happy holiday season and we look forward to seeing you in 2010 - if not before at INFECTED MUSHROOM (sold out), LAMB (sold out) and GIRLBAR NYE (tix at the door).
Just announced: metal-gods FEAR FACTORY (USA) who are heading to Oz as part of the Big Day Out 2010. With a revamped line-up including guitarist Dino Cazares, singer Burton C. Bell, bassist Byron Stroud and drummer Gene Hoglan, the boys hit the comeback trail last winter with the album Mechanize – their first release in five years. With tickets flying out the door I suggest that you get yours soon! Presale tickets are available here.
If it’s electronica you love then look no further because DJ MARK FARINA (USA) is heading down under. His underground house and downtempo style, mixed with some laid-back jazz beats makes for one hell of a summer Friday night in St.Kilda. Guests include MIKE G, ANYO, JAMES BELIAS and ANT J STEEP. Early bird tickets are currently on offer (for a limited time only of course) - book online here.
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