Ghostdrums’ debut self-titled release made a huge impact in 2010. You may have heard ‘Red Thread’ on FBi or RRR’s Incoming program; or you may have seen apparitions of the single ‘Morning Sun’ as Rage’s Indie Clip of the Week.

Keeping things spooky for his Melbourne show, Ghostdrums joins forces with Mystic Eyes and Aoi and entry is a meagre $8.

Anyone who has seen one of Ghostdrums’ (aka Pete Guazelli’s) live shows can testify to what an excellent live show he puts as a one man band. So we heartily recommend that Melbourne folks come and check it out.

Oh, and happy new year everyone!

We’ve teamed up with other local publishers dotdotdash, the Rounds Project and the Perth Zine Collective to set up shop in the Slaughterblouse courtyard for the duration of the Beaufort Street Festival. So do come by and have a chat – extra points and negotiable discounts for those that bring breakfast cocktails before midday!

Our friendly walking wig aka hairiest guinea pig we’ve seen will tell you all the deets in the below flyer.

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6s & 7s TOUR SUPPORTS

Firstly, the 6s & 7s have announced the full line-ups for their Australian tour which starts next week and we can promise you that every show is going to be amazing!

SYDNEY
Thursday 26 August
Melt
12 Kellett Street, Kings Cross
with Traps and Des Miller

MELBOURNE
Friday 27 August
The Workers Club
Cnr Brunswick and Gertrude Streets, Fitzroy
with Teeth & Tongue and Jack on Fire

MELBOURNE
Saturday 28 August
Pure Pop Records instore
221 Barkly Street, St Kilda

ADELAIDE
Sunday 29 August
Grace Emily Hotel
232 Waymouth Street, Adelaide
with Hawks of Alba
Free entry
(Woah, free entry! No excuses Adelaide-ians!)

6s & 7s embrace new technology (downloads!)

Not so sure about this whole 6s & 7s band? You can now download the 6s & 7s track ‘Smilin’ from the triple j website, and fall in love! Free stuff!

Plus the 6s & 7s album is now available to download on itunes! Muchos convenient!

Pop into popsicle!

Finally, in other very exciting news, we can let you know that for those in Perth we will have some cool stuff available to purchase at Popsicle, that awesome annual pop up store organised by our friends, the On William Collective.

Popsicle runs from 9 – 15 September 2010 in the Perth Cultural Centre and we will have RISO and our Sleeping with the Band pillowcases featured. We should mention that we are reprinting some editions from the sell out WAM series. So get in super early to purchase pillowcases featuring those likely lads, Josh Fontaine, Sam Scherr and James Baker plus the lovely ladies Felicity Groom and Abbe May. AND we are also printing some all new pillowcase designs just for Popsicle, so  you can soon have Hayley Beth, The Tigers and Drapht to get cosy with on your bed. Check out the sexy flyer…

Or like the great news involving Adem K and Ghostdrums, two LIMV artists with recently released albums, who have both been invited to play the RTRfm Radiothon Closing Party on August 28 at the Rosemount Hotel (we highly recommend heading on down to support the good station RTR as well as checking out some awesome bands).

Or like the 6s & 7s getting a 5 star review in the Australian Music Magazine, where the writer concluded their review with ‘When you reach the end of this sonic journey into bliss-pop and doom, you wanna shake this guy’s hand and say “Thanks, you talented bastard!”.

The 6s & 7s new album ‘Choose The Sentinel Blooze’ continues to conquer the country! You may have heard the first single ‘Smilin’ on Triple J, where it has been added to rotation, or on FBi, RRRfm or a myriad of other stations where they are also playing tracks off the album on a regular basis.

Street press on the East Coast have also praised the album, saying “It’s a pretty awesomely warped and schizophrenic (not in an obscene ‘crazy, man’ way; in the sense that disparate and often troubled voices interject the songs at times, the tunes changing tack and shifting melodies in condensed, paranoid movements) pop album. There is, as has been suggested, probably some Xiu Xiu in there, as well as The Magnetic Fields, but who cares about references when the result is a strong, uncompromising new Australian voice.” – Adam Curley, The Breakdown (Drum Media, Inpress & Time Off)

And now, the 6s & 7s are happy to announce their impending album launch tour, where they are bringing the 6s & 7s stage show experience (TM) to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Clear your schedules and mark the dates in your diaries people!

Dates are as follows:

SYDNEY
Thursday 26 August 2010
Melt Bar
12 Kellett Street, Kings Cross
with special guests to be announced

MELBOURNE
Friday 27 August 2010
The Workers Club
Cnr Brunswick and Gertrude Streets, Fitzroy
with special guests to be announced

MELBOURNE
Saturday 28 August 2010
Pure Pop Records instore (5pm)
221 Barkly Street, St Kilda

ADELAIDE
Sunday 29 August 2010
Grace Emily Hotel
232 Waymouth Street, Adelaide
with special guests to be announced

We’ve had some good days over the past few weeks, and they are mostly related to the amazing behemoth that is Choose the Sentinel Blooze. It’s a love-labour that captures the perfection of Josh Fontaine’s songwriting – why don’t you purchase your very own copy from our online store.

So good times ahoy! This is how the last few weeks have played out…

June 24

It was Katie’s birthday and Smilin’ was played on Home & Hosed!

July 4

The 6s & 7s launch Choose the Sentinel Blooze at the Rosemount to raptuous applause

July 5

Steph from Home & Hosed plays Smilin’ again

July 7

Smilin’ is added to spot rotation on Triple J

July 14

Smilin’ is streaming on the Home & Hosed website

Sweet action! Thanks for your support, Triple J. Now that 6s & 7s are infiltrating the auditory canals of the nation, they will soon be journeying to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to deliver their cacophonous live show between August 26-29. Be sure to check em out!

If you missed out on an album, then you can grab it online for $25 including postage at our web shop right NOW. Otherwise it should be available at all record stores. Demand it’s presence!

We have also put 6s & 7s t-shirts up on the shop too, which are worth checking out. Definitely worth your hard earned dollars.

Yes! It is getting closer! The 6s & 7s debut epic ‘6s & 7s Choose The Sentinel Blooze’ has us all pretty excited. The 6s & 7s have the first single from the album – a brand new track ‘Smilin’ – heading out to the airwaves now, although you can also have a listen on the 6s & 7s myspace for those of you who are too impatient to wait. Plus we have details of the tracklisting and launch to announce and some pretty cover art (see above) to unveil. No, Josh isn’t shooting the birds, he just happens to have a gun in his hand. Honest!

So first things first:

Track listing:

Drunk Liberties
His Eyes
International Roaming Capability
Smilin
Kissing for Science
Holidayz
A Velvet Coma
Empty Cities
(Yr) Fucking Nights
You Will Think of Me
Drunker Liberties

And now for the launch details…

6s & 7s Album Launch
Saturday 3 July
The Rosemount Hotel, North Perth
with support from The Painkillers, Split Seconds and Craig McElhinney

We expect the night to be a choreographed epic, so be there! Pre-sale tickets available at our online shop.

*UPDATE!*

For those who (quite rightly) shun myspace and its horrible interface – you can listen to a new track off the new album right here (and if you like it, you can share it on every possible platform or social networking site you like). It’s one of our favourites from the new album, called Empty Cities.

6s & 7s – Empty Cities by loveismyvelocity

Ghostdrums’ excellent filmclip for Morning Sun has been chosen as Rage’s Indie Clip of the Week, so it will be shown sometime this Friday night (25 June), plus also sometime after 8am on Saturday morning. Check the Rage website later tonight or tomorrow for exact times, but we can tell you that the show will also feature new filmclips from, erm, U2 and Juliette Lewis. That’s right, we expect Ghostdrums will be playing stadiums and forming a full touring band with his Hollywood chums very soon.

Also in 6s & 7s news, their soon to be released debut album is now feature album on RTRFM in Perth, has had tracks added to high rotation on FBi Radio in Sydney and today had excellent reviews in Xpress Magazine and Sixthousand.

Don’t forget that presale tickets for the 6s & 7s album launch on 3 July at The Rosemount, North Perth are on sale (along with copies of  Ghostdrums EP) in our online shop.

Adem K launch. Image by the K's.

Oh yeah. May is over and we are having a mini-break to rest up after the antics of the past month. Seriously, we have launched a publication, opened a shop, closed a shop, launched a CD and recorded eleven bands in the space of one month. Overachievers, yes we are.

Takeaway Tunes photos and tracks are still easily accessible on the Takeaway Tunes link to the right of the menu bar. Or  www.loveismyvelocity.com/takeawaytunes will take you there too. Relive the memories.  If you don’t know what the hell we are talking about when we say ‘Takeaway Tunes’, then go here and be slightly less confused. Sleeping with the Band pillowcases, copies of RISO and Adem K CDs are all available in our online shop, so if you missed out on any May fun, then why not try and overcome your sense of regret by buying things?

Our next big project is to launch the debut album by the 6s & 7s called ‘6s & 7s Choose The Sentinel Blooze‘. To call this album ‘long-awaited’ doesn’t really do justice to the agonising wait we have all had to endure until we can finally take home some of these songs to listen to in the comfort of our lounge rooms (as opposed to the comfort of the Hydey front-room).

So, yes, that’s right, Josh Fontaine is releasing an album and we can confirm that it does have such hits as International Roaming Capability, Kissing for Science and Drunk Liberties on it. It also has a bunch of new songs which are equally on par with the old favourites, like Empty Cities, and His Eyes. And of course, it features Smilin’, (as popularised by Benjamin Golby) which will be hitting myspace and the airwaves in the next week as the first single. The album is also the best, strangest, most beautiful thing we have listened to for ages and the general consensus is that it sounds like nothing you have ever heard.

It will be released in stores on July 3 and distributed by Fuse Music Group. If you are in Perth, we have a launch party planned for July 3 at The Rosemount, North Perth, with more details soon, so giddy up.