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There will be a digital and a physical CD release also.

The CD EP version of “Isn’t It Strange is strictly limited to 500 copies and features 15 exclusive tracks - with remixes from Ade Fenton (Producer of Gary Numan), Roberto Marlow, Beborn Beton, People Theatre, aux and Vision Talk.

The CD EP contains entirely different mixes to the Digital Release!
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Announcing the release of their second album The Out Of Money Experience
Out Nationally on Saturday April 10 through Red Tape Entertainment/Inertia

Brisbane’s The Optimen are proud to announce the impending release of their sophomore outing The Out Of Money Experience – out nationally on Saturday April 10.

It’s been a long wait for fans for The Optimen’s follow up to their 2005 Boomtown, the band taking time to work on their label Red Tape as well as other projects. Receiving strong triple J play on the hip hop show in particular and community radio nationwide, first single Fire Fighters heralded their return late last year, and finally they’ve arrived with The Out Of Money Experience due in April.
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We are proud to announce the forthcoming release of our latest single “Isn’t It Strange”
It will be available as a Limited Edition CD with 12 tracks.
If you pre-order now, then your name will be included in the CD booklet. This offer lasts till February 19th, so be quick!
There are lots of great remixes on this EP and two new Parralox songs that will ONLY appear on this CD.
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Following on from the success of her latest album ‘Pour Me Out’, Kristy Apps is launching her single of the same name. On release ‘Pour Me Out’ the album was named Album Of The Week by Rave Magazine, and charted consistently in the 4ZzZ top 20 highest played through the months following – including most played during the week of August 8.

Reviews of ‘Pour Me Out’ have been emphatically positive:
“A truly amazing reworking of salt n pepa’s Push It… sung as if Bruce Springsteen wrote it for Patti Smith, it is something to experience.” On this impressive effort Apps’ has found a way to bridge the more intimate and bolder sides of her songs.”

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Bill Holdsworth – Rave Magazine August 2009
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It’s said that good things come to those who wait, and sadly, that’s going to be the case for Holy Sea fans. Following the unanimous acclaim received for their sterling first singles ‘Bad Luck / King of Palm Island’ , the band are disappointed to have to announce a delay in the release of their album Ghosts of the Horizon, now not due until late September.

It’s a shame, because as Rave Magazine said “The Holy Sea have their own distinct voice, and it’s honestly exciting to know there’s a whole album of it coming”. Inpress agreed, saying “The Holy Sea are an epic band, in all senses of the word…” while Beat declared them to be “the new authentic poets of Australian folk rock.”
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FEBRUARY/MARCH/APRIL 2009
Fresh from recording their incredible new album with International Producer Nick Didia, Katie Noonan and her new band The Captains are very excited to get out on the road behind their epic first single ‘Page One’.

‘Page One’ is a rockin’ song co-written between Katie and her Captain’s guitarist Cameron Deyell and legendary Oz songsmith Don Walker (of Cold Chisel fame) – a song that Katie wrote as a wedding gift to fellow Captain’s keyboardist Stu Hunter and his partner.

Over the last two years Katie and ‘The Captains’ (Cameron Deyell – guitar, Stu Hunter – keys/bass, Declan Kelly – drums) have been slowly building a vessel of exciting new songs.
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With their debut album ‘The Light & Shade’ out February 12 through MGM / JM Records, Central Coast band Jaywalker have hit 2010 running. In support of the album’s release – Sanity, as part of their “Breaking New Artists” promotion, will be featuring, displaying, playing and selling ‘The Light & Shade’ in every single one of their 240+ stores nationwide. Jaywalker will also be playing several instore performances as they tour the east-coast through February and March on their album launch tour.

The tour will also be partially funded by the Commonwealth Government, after the band was recently awarded a grant under the prestigious Australian Contemporary Music Touring Program.
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