January 18, 2012 – 3:05 pm
- I have a book – The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries. You can buy it in selected stores (Sydney: Gleebooks. Melbourne: Metropolis, Paperback. More coming soon.) Or online HERE. Details on the Melbourne launch HERE.
- The Hippest 100 has been run and won. Congrats to Men Who Stare At Gotye for taking out pole position. Thanks to everyone who participated and supported the countdown. Click the link for the full list.
- I supported the Dresden Dolls nationally in January. It was glorious.
- Tram Inspector finished #19 in Rage’s Top 50 videos for 2011. Thanks to everyone who voted.
November 11, 2011 – 9:27 am
* I’ve been busy smashing out a Christmas EP and new video. They’ll be released very soon. A book of tour diaries is on its way too. I’m playing in Brisbane this weekend (Harvest / Livewired), then a residency at the Northcote Social Club Tuesdays in December.
* here is a video of me saying words.
* I recently gave a tell-all interview to Richard Fidler HERE. Some tour reviews are HERE and HERE.
* I told the census I’m a black Jewish woman in a wheelchair.
* Check out my profile in the Age online HERE.
* I’m touring nationally, solo, in August and September. The Head Sex & Bed Socks Tour will be an intimate rumpus of …
June 24, 2011 – 10:00 am
* I presented a story about op shops on ABC’s Collectors last Friday. Watch me walk towards the camera and talk at the SAME TIME here!
* The High School Assembly was a massive success! Thanks to all those who rocked up. Click HERE for a video of me busting out ‘We Are Tramily’ with special appearance by Raspberry Cordial’s J-Saf.
* There was a piece on the High School Assembly in the Sunday Age HERE.
* Tram Inspector scored Indie of The Week on Rage last week.
* I was a guest on The Conversation Hour with John Safran & Lawrence Leung. You can listen HERE.
April 4, 2011 – 11:53 am
• I’ve been selected to perform in the Melbourne Comedy Festival gala, to be screened on Ch. 10 April 4. Bonza.
• I performed Calypso by Spiderbait on Adam Hills’ show. You can see it HERE. www.abc.net.au/tv/adamhillsIGST/stories/s3159480.h…
• I’ve released four columns about the whys and wherefores of being a stand-up. You can find them in The Big Issue, JMag, Beat (Melbourne) and online at Scrivener’s Fancy. The current issue of Frankie has three of my pieces.
• I’ve moved house to Thornbury. It’s the new Northcote, especially now I’m there.
• I’ve been hanging out with Amanda Palmer. She has drawn on eyebrows and a lot of sass. She came to Wit-Bix and said my song about Australia was …
January 18, 2011 – 12:35 pm
- * I supported the Dresden Dolls nationally in January. It was glorious.
- * Twitter, happier, more productive.
- * Tram Inspector finished #19 in Rage’s Top 50 videos for 2011. Thanks to everyone who voted.
- * My new Christmas EP A Very Beddy Christmas is out now through iTunes, or you can buy the CD with salacious artwork from my shop.
- * A new video for 12 Days Of Christmas is up on YouTube. It features a number of cameos including Dave Callan, The
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January 14, 2011 – 3:54 pm
Amanda Palmer is a fan of ‘Northcote,’ and has invited me to rap over her ‘Map of Tasmania’ track at an Adelaide Fringe show March 2.
• I’ll be performing a new show ‘Wit-Bix’ in Adelaide Whinge and Melbourne Irrational Comedy Festivals respectively. Big rooms. No more sweating. Tickets are on sale here ADELAIDE / MELBOURNE.
• Amanda Palmer is a fan of ‘Northcote,’ and has invited me to rap over her ‘Map of Tasmania’ track at an Adelaide Fringe show March 2.
• ‘Northcote’ has finished #42 in Rage’s Top 50 Videos of the year, and #7 on Mess and Noise’s top tracks of 2010. They said: “Misconstrued as a “joke song” upon its release, The Bedroom Philosopher’s ‘Northcote …
October 30, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Vote for Northcote in the Hottest 100 HERE.
1. Seriously thanks to all who came to the residencies. 2. Merry festive and a Christmas new things. 3. Vote for Northcote in the Hottest 100. 4. Not voting for anyone else is like voting twice. 5. Peace & tinsel.
• I appeared on ABC’s Collectors Friday November 5. In six sensational minutes of air-time I will take you on an emotional journey through my 70’s tie collection and shrine of novelty items.
• Songs From The 86 Tram has been nominated for an ARIA award for Best Comedy Release. The other nominees are Heath Franklin (Chopper), Jimeoin, Arj Barker (taking our work, sleeping with our women, winning our awards), and Andrew …
August 10, 2010 – 11:19 am
Songs From The 86 Tram has been nominated for an ARIA – Best Comedy Release. It’s up against Andrew Hanson (The Chaser), Heath Franklin (Chopper), Jimeoin and Arj Barker. Winners announced November 7. The 86 Tram tour was a blazing triumph. Sold out Melbourne & Brisbane shows! Diary pending.
• The Northcote (So Hungover) video won an award of merit at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. It received a .jpeg of a laurel. Congratulations director Craig Melville and producers The Money Shot.
• The Songs From The 86 Tram National Album Tour is wising up, getting down, dropping in and rocking out with its left-field a-game on and folk-right b-list rocks off. We anticipate your participation in the …
July 9, 2010 – 3:45 pm
National Tour Aug/Sep on sale now, click HERE to pre-book.
• The Northcote (So Hungover) video is viralling out of control. It’s been Rage and Channel V videos of the week and will be aired on Video Hits this Saturday and Sunday. On the tubes it’s nearing 40K views and going strong. Feedback has been predominately positive. We had a swell video launch where Pose Tattoo, a supergroup of Melbourne indie muso’s played a gig. Sad Sanderson busted out ‘Boys Do Cry’ plus the original ‘Hey! That’s Sad.’ Check them out HERE.
• To make matters more confusing, I participated in an online ad for Metlink Melbourne where I penned a parody of Northcote called ‘Hurstbridge (So Sober)’ and then …
April 25, 2010 – 5:14 pm
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 …
March 27, 2010 – 4:15 pm
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 …
February 10, 2010 – 3:10 pm
NOTE: Northcote (So Hungover) is temporarily down from iTunes so the album can be uploaded April 16. Northcote (So Hungover) was the most requested song on JJJ’s Super Requests last week! Also I won the Green Room award for ‘Best Cabaret Production’ for Songs From The 86 Tram.
* ‘Tram Inspector’ the first single from Songs From The 86 Tram has been getting a fair spin around Melbourne. It scored Single Of The Week’ in Inpress: “….The Bedroom Philosopher’s hysterical skewering of meat-headed ticketing inspectors falls somewhere between a Fame-era Bowie slink and inspirational Hunners balladry. I like my musical comedy to, as the name suggests, be musically captivating first, funny second. Luckily, with Tram Inspector, both come equal first.”
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January 12, 2010 – 12:10 pm
Request new track ‘Northcote (So Hungover) on JJJ’s Super Requests HERE.
Tram Inspector single of the week in Inpress: “….The Bedroom Philosopher’s hysterical skewering of meat-headed ticketing inspectors falls somewhere between a Fame-era Bowie slink and inspirational Hunners balladry. I like my musical comedy to, as the name suggests, be musically captivating first, funny second. Luckily, with Tram Inspector, both come equal first.” Clem Bastow, December 16 2009.
Tram Inspector is now available on iTunes HERE
• Songs From The 86 Tram is finished and sounding a million dollars. I’ve fast tracked the first cut ‘Tram Inspector’ on Myspace. The plan is to a) wander around a bit b) send it off to record industry types c) leave a pile …
October 25, 2009 – 5:24 pm
December Residency @ Toff In Town, Tuesdays in December.
See poser, I mean poster:
NEWS
• The Melbourne Fringe run of ’86 Tram’ was sweet. Yarra Trams even came along for the first time. Three of their representatives came up afterwards and gave me a ‘I heart my tram’ badge. I think that’s good.
• I have spent the last month recording the ‘Songs From The 86 Tram’ album. It will be produced by Chris Scallan (has mixed Avalanches and Akon) *justin picks names up off ground* who finished off Brown & Orange. Six of the songs will feature The Awkwardstra in full swing, except Flutes McGee who is in Bulgaria. It’s officially sounding great and will surface early next …
June 22, 2009 – 12:01 am
Currently working on new “Songs From The 86 Tram” album.
New LapTopping soon too. Bizzy!
NEWS
(Brought to you by the new collaboration between members of The Shins and The Bangles ‘The Shingles.’)
♥ The Brown & Orange National Tour is pressed and ironed and ready to roll up the east coast like a convoy of can do. For the first time I shall be touring with The Awkwardstra in two Brown and Orange Chrysler Valiants filled to the brim with mind blowing instruments with more dapper banter than a 1920′s tennis tournament. All the major cities are there, sort of. If you are under eighteen you may take issue with some of the licensed venues and absence of all …
