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LapTopping – The Bit Long, Official E-zine of The Bedroom Philosopher
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ISSUE 77
Sunday April 25, 2010
**Songs From The 86 Tram album out now**
**Northcote single tour kicks off this week**
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LT BIRTHDAYS
Happy Birthday Rene Zellweger 41 today!
Happy Birthday Hank Azaria 46 today!
Happy Birthday Al Pacino 70 today!
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SONGS FROM THE 86 TRAM @ MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Climbing into a taxi after the show and having a kid yell out ‘hypocrite.’
2. Having the Melbourne tram conductor appreciation society turn up, including an old fulla in full conductor regalia including shorts with socks and original ticket bag with a big bundle of pennies that he handed out to …
Northcote video of the week on Channel V and Indie Of The Week on Rage! It’ll also be shown on Video Hits this Saturday and Sunday morning. See it HERE!
Click HERE to see me on Nova. Click HERE to read a track by track of ‘Songs From The 86 Tram’ on Mess & Noise. Feel free to enter the ensuing flame war and defend my honour. Songs From The 86 Tram out now at all shops!
NEWS
* The Northcote (So Hungover) video shoot went swimmingly! The clip will be launched real soon. If you’re in Melbourne you can sneak along to the Workers Club on June 5 and see it for yourself.
* Songs From The 86 Tram …
Click HERE to purchase from iTunes.
1. Middle Aged Mum
2. We Are Tramily
3. Sudanese
4. Trishine
5. (Interlewd)
6. Northcote (So Hungover)
7. Irish Girl
8. Tram Inspector
9. Man On A Tram
10. Song To Nod Off To
11. In My Day (Nan)
12. New Media
13. Old Man At End
Written by Justin Heazlewood. Produced by Chris Scallan at The Soft Centre, Melbourne. Mastered by Greg Calbi at Stirling Studios, NY. Strings on ‘Trishine’ arranged by Hugh Rabinovici. Fanfare on ‘New Media’ arranged by Chris Scallan. Design by Tambourine Design. Illustration by David Blumenstein. The Bedroom Philosopher: Voice, acoustic guitar, accordion. Introducing:
The Awkwardstra. Hugh Rabinovici: Drums. Andy Hazel: Bass. Gordon Blake: Electric guitar, sitar. Jamie …
w/ Josh Earl. Scott St, Newcastle….
Songs From The 86 Tram out now! Flick through indie at yr local record shop. Thanks to all who rocked up to Songs From The 86 Tram at the Comedy Festival. I had a blinder, pretty much selling out the whole run. You can read my psychological synopsis of being a comedian HERE.
Ya, so Radar Radio are loving Northcote (So Hungover) so I’m writing a tidy blog for them. Clap your specs on it HERE.
• Second single ‘Northcote (So Hungover)’ is going a bit apeshit. Triple J have put it on rotation, spinning it steadily over the past month. Last week is was the most requested song on Super Requests on five occasions. FBI in Sydney have just …
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ISSUE 76
Monday March 22, 2010
**Songs From The 86 Tram at Melbourne International Comedy Festival Starts Thursday. Click HERE to book**
**Album out April 16 through Shock**
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LT BIRTHDAYS
Happy Birthday Reese Witherspoon 34 today!
Happy Birthday William Shatner 79 today!
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WORLD CLASS JOKES
Q. How many cool kids does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. One, but they liked the old one better.
Q. What do you get if you cross a high school reunion with a computer virus?
A. Facebook.
Q. What’s the most dangerous part of a budgie?
A. The seedy underbelly.
Q. How do horny office workers …
Hello. Oh hey Joel how you going? Ya. I’m just on a, uh, tram, just really hungover. Hey, you know that um, band competition we went in, So You Think You Can Copy? Yeah, we won man! Yeah we got a record contract out of it. We’re with like Independent Records, they’re like an off-shoot of Sony. Ya we have to make like one over-hyped album, we get uh, Molly Meldrum kudos, Rage guest programming rights, a memory stick full of Myspace friends and we can write the soundtrack to an ad of our choice. Na man we haven’t sold out, we’ve still got creative control. Oh, our t-shirts, yeah extra smalls have gone. We like changed our name too, …
They say dance is the hidden language of the soul – if this is the case then Friday nights are all about learning to say rude words. Is there no greater relief from the cerebral shackles of modern life than cutting some serious lunch on the floor? While girls are so rhythmically infused they could dance to their own heartbeat, for men, like most things, it’s tricky. Strangled by their Straighty 180 collars and Blend It Like Beckham jeans, men love nothing more than to hover on the sides like out of work bodyguards, tapping along sheepishly, demonstrating that a fear of commitment isn’t limited to relationships. It wouldn’t hurt anyone to take dancing more seriously. Menfolk, listen up, put …
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ISSUE 75
Monday February 8, 2010
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LT BIRTHDAYS
Happy Birthday Seth Green 36 today!
Happy Birthday Alonzo Mourning 40 today!
Happy Birthday Garry Coleman 42 today!
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AUSTRALIAN FILM NEWS
Inspired by the success of Where The Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr Fox, Australian director Baz Luhrmann has begun production on a 240 million dollar version of Australian children’s book Grug. Angus Sampson is touted to play the burrawang tree turned haystack with a face with Rose Byrne cast as cara the snake. Luhrmann says the challenge will be sculpting the relatively simple plotlines into today’s standard three and a half hours for …
Newfarm, Brisbane. Free….
w/ Josh Earl. Launceston, Tasmania. $12….
w/ Josh Earl. North Hobart, Tasmania. $12….
w/ Josh Earl. $12. Waymouth St, Adelaide….
w/ Josh Earl (as part of Sydney Comedy Festival). Tickets $15 on door ($4 more if you pre-book). King St, Newtown….
