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News 10/2/2010
New single Northcote (So Hungover) is like, now on iTunes. Here’s a link or whatever –
* ‘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, …
News 12/1/2010
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 …
News 25/10/2009
December Residency @ Toff In Town, Tuesdays in December.
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• 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 …
News 22/6/2009
Currently working on new “Songs From The 86 Tram” album.
New LapTopping soon too. Bizzy!
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♥ 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …