May 15, 2009 – 9:45 am
Director’s Choice Award at MICF. National tour planned.
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♥ My Melbourne Comedy Festival Show “Songs From The 86 Tram” went extremely well. I almost sold out all fifteen shows, until I broke my humerus by riding my bike into a car door. I won the Director’s Choice award, including $1000 cash. The show received great reviews, including a personal thumbs up from one of my heroes, Tony Martin. It was sort of devastating having to cancel the show, but it did create a groundswell of support and good wishes, with which I was spiritually nourished. I plan to reprise the show for Melbourne Fringe Festival. …
March 23, 2009 – 10:45 pm
Winner! Director’s Choice award at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
While gliding down Smith Street on his trusty push bike last Saturday with the wind in his hair and the world at his feet, the Bedroom Philosopher was promptly grounded by his old pal, the 86 tram. The entanglement resulted in a broken humerus, a truth so ironic it’s actually cruel. So, with his head in his left hand, and his right arm in a sling, The Bedroom Philosopher regretfully has cancelled all remaining performances of his Melbourne International Comedy Festival show Songs From The 86 Tram.
Despite this, he was awarded with the Director’s Choice award for outstanding show. He is planning to reprise the show at Melbourne Fringe.
You …
February 16, 2009 – 2:49 pm
SONGS FROM THE 86 TRAM
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The wait is over! Brown & Orange is out now!
REVIEWS JUST IN FOR ‘BROWN & ORANGE’
“The Bedroom Philosopher, aka Justin Heazlewood, revealed himself as an hallucinogenic hybrid of Tripod and Syd Barrett on his 2005 cult hit I’m So Postmodern, inevitably putting him in danger of becoming a one-novelty-hit wonder. The BP’s second album Brown & Orange is less explicitly bizarre than the tune that brought him (sort of) fame, placing his eccentric streams of consciousness and oddball stories amidst an apparently earnest style of folk-rock and gentle experimentation (such as placing a taped ‘70s monologue alongside hypnotic Phillip Glass-style repetition).
The …
December 28, 2008 – 1:35 pm
The wait is over! Brown & Orange is out now. Request it in shops. There’s 14 new songs plus a 16-page deluxe colour booklet to enjoy!
Download Justin’s new radio show ‘Lime Champions’ here
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♥ Brown and Orange will be released Feb 7 through MGM. They’ve offered to press up a number of albums so I think we can call that a record deal motherfathers!
♥ Party In My Head is the next single to be released so keep an ear out for it through Jan/Feb. Wow Wow has been banned from Triple J’s Hottest 100 for Visa issues. In a statement from his rock …
November 26, 2008 – 3:04 pm
CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEW WOW WOW’S SONG FILM CLIP. (Choose ‘watch in high quality).
CLICK HERE TO BUY WOW WOW’S SONG ON iTUNES.
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♥ The Wow Wow’s Song film clip has been completed and was made the featured video on YouTube for a full week in November. It’s currently sitting at 22, 000 hits and has split people happily down the middle. The comments page played out like an arty gang-fight, with Philosopher fans defending the clip’s honour against a small legion of WTF? monster-voice haters. Special thanks to Andy and Susan for their gang busting textual healing. The clip was played …
September 17, 2008 – 3:15 pm
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• Meet Wow Wow. He’s the new single. Wow Wow is my friend and he means well. He likes to tell stories, and really hopes you like them. While Wow Wow could be a career destroying choice of second single, it does tend to get reactions from people, and you may need …
July 23, 2008 – 10:40 am
REQUEST NEW SINGLE ‘WOW WOW’S SONG’ ON JJJ SUPER REQUESTS – PLEASE. 
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• My new album Brown & Orange has been mastered (by the power of greyskull), and is theoretically finished. I am currently trying to ‘shop it round’ to prospective record labels and management types. (Faxing the sheet music to cassette manufacturers in Turkey – standing in Sony carpark frisbeeing discs at the receptionist.) I am also considering an album release direct to cash converters which would at …
March 12, 2008 – 4:50 pm
Currently seeking management/label. WANT TO EARN SIX FIGURE INCOME? Apply within.
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• A film clip to the second single Wow Wow’s Song (La La La) has been shot. It is being directed by Charlotte George. (She’s done some Audrey’s clips, shot footage for Laurence Leung’s show and will be directing the feature of Nick Earls’ World of Chickens.) Band members and extras were filmed against a green screen, meaning the clip will be a psychedelic affair full of effects, paying homage to the fit-inducing colour clashes of the 60’s and 70’s. I recommend Premier Studios in Port Melbourne for all your green screen needs.
• The Happiest Boy snuck …
January 22, 2008 – 6:22 pm
BUSINESS PARTNER OF GOLDEN GAYTIME CREATOR WRITES TO ME!
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* The business partner of the man who created The Golden Gaytime wrote to me. He’d heard the song, liked it and wanted a copy. He told me originally it was made by a South Australian company (Amscoll) owned by the Milton family, of which his partner was their only son. He invented the Golden Gaytime after his father told him of a local biscuit factory that was discarding broken biscuits. He asked him to …
November 7, 2007 – 4:53 pm
*New single The Happiest Boy available on iTunes HERE*
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* The Happiest Boy, as a song, is keeping out of trouble and can’t complain. It has been played on Triple J a bit, Rage once, and Channel V a few times. It was featured on Myspace’s front page for a week in October, and has been reviewed favourably by Melbourne’s Inpress. Clem Bastow said it was “one of the best indie pop songs of recent memory.” Brisbane’s Rave mag slammed it to high heaven, purely because it …
October 1, 2007 – 10:31 pm
New single The Happiest Boy is out now! You can see the film clip HERE
You can purchase it via iTunes HERE.
Click HERE to vote for the clip on JTV.
Click HERE to request song on JJJ’s Super Request. (Only if you’re in the mood – we understand you’ve got a lot on your plate.)
Review just in:
“…it’s woozy/cute combination of deadpanned witticisms and a sublime flute breakdown make it one of the better indie pop songs of recent memory.”
(Clem Bastow, Inpress)
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* The Happiest Boy, the first cut from Brown & Orange (the first cut is the deepest) is out …
July 24, 2007 – 5:48 pm
The first single from ‘Brown & Orange’ is set to be released next month. It’s called ‘The Happiest Boy’ and will feature an animated film clip from David Blumenstein. Stay tuned.
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• I’ve got a piece in the current Frankie magazine. After shopping my columns around for ages, this savvy, national publication has welcomed me with arty arms. More columns are set to appear …
June 6, 2007 – 1:53 am
I have a band now! Come see us play!
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• I have a band! (Not just me with a Tamborine stuck to my head – although that act seeks management) It is with great honour and pleasure that I welcome into my musical boudoir Andy Hazel on bass. (It’s okay to clap at the computer.) And Hugh Rabinovici on drums. (More clapping!) Andy is …
March 30, 2007 – 5:21 pm
FILMCLIP EXTRAS WANTED
I’m looking for Melbourne based extras for a Bedroom Philosopher film clip being made sometime in May. Also, I’m hoping to locate a sunny house to use as the location for the shoot. Something well-lit is a priority, and preferably you don’t mind things being moved around a bit. The shoot will take one day, most likely a Saturday. Please email me if you are interested.
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February 20, 2007 – 10:48 am
PHILOSOPHER SEEKS BAND
You can apply to be in my band!
In a bid to do justice to the musical diversity of the forthcoming album, I am currently trying to gather a consortium of like-minded mis-fits to form The Bedroom Philosopher and the Pooglet Three. The main position vacant is drummer. Must be able to handle all forms of somewhat out of time art-folk and occasional bit of rocky stuff. Brushes, sticks and mallets. One or two armed females preferred. If you could look as much like the drummer out of Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’ clip as possible that would be great. But seriously folks, I am also on the look out for a piano/synths practitioner, …
