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News 9/8/10
Melbourne all ages show cancelled! (Licensing issues). Sorry. Vic leg of tour rolls off tomoz. click HERE to book.
• 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 …
News 8/7/10
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. …
News 25/4/10
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!
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* The Northcote (So Hungover) video shoot went swimmingly! The clip will be launched real soon. If you’re in …
News 27/3/10
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 …
News 10/2/2010
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 …
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.
See poser, I mean poster:
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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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(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 …
Director’s Choice Award at MICF. National tour planned.
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(Brought to you by the new collaboration between The Kinks and Skunkhour. ‘The Kunks.’)
♥ 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 …