Love Is My Velocity

Its been a while between updates, but we have so much news to break that we are going to have to use headings. Trust me, it is better than having to wince through awkward segues between topics. In other news…

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…

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

The 6s & 7s launched their debut album last night, which was a great gig! If you missed it, you missed out. They played the album, start to finish and there was an array of special guests. A galaxy of stars, to use Josh’s Telethon reference! The 6s & 7s had a choir, a whole brass band (trumpet, trombone and tuba), as well as tin whistle, singing saw and banjo and mouth organ on stage (sometimes at the same time).  Plus the supports were all uniformly awesome, as Craig, Split Seconds and The Painkillers are wont to be. What a night!

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.

As if May wasn’t busy enough, Love Is My Velocity are unveiling our final event in our May trilogy, which is a party for the launch of Adem K’s new record ‘The Community Chest’ at our new favourite venue The Bird in Northbridge.

Come down and have a drink with us on Saturday 29 May 2010, with Adem K, The Painkillers and The Gizzards to celebrate the launch of Adem K’s debut solo album and the closing of LIMV’s month of May madness.

After busying himself in the past few years releasing the debut When the Sky Fell album, ‘Welcome to the Growth Zone’ and the sophomore album for The Burton Cool Suit, ‘You Can’t Fight City Hall’, former Turnstyle frontman and indie pop roustabout Adem K returns in 2010 with The Community Chest, his first solo release in his more-than-a-decade-spanning career.

The Community Chest sees K’s pop sensibility run wild, combining the blues-rock fuzz of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with dreamy Beach Boys harmonies on opening track 200 Year Old Volkswagon, side-stepping between winsome verses and jerky choruses on third track Burning Questions for Sportsgirl, then rediscovering his synth roots with fifth track barn burner Ceiling to the Floor.

In addition to reaffirming his status as the best song title-er in the business, these songs show off the breadth, skill and eclecticism of K’s songwriting while at the same time providing the same wit and slacker 90s grit as his past projects.

The album will be available on the Love Is My Velocity online store, digitally on emusic.com and itunes and in all good record stores on May 31.

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After a false start a few weeks ago, the Bird is open and RISO is launching Saturday May 8 at 181 William Street Perth. Enter round the back of the venue from 8pm.

Presales secure a place on the doorlist for:

Astral Travel + Taco Leg + Is Swan + 1/150 Riso Publications + DJ AM, DJ Skomey and friends = $15!

Pre-sales still available at our online shop or get there early and buy a ticket on the night!

The last of the bands that will be recording in our Takeaway Tunes local label shop during the WAMi Festival have been confirmed, so we can now UNLEASH THE BEAST (the line-up). Goes a little su’in’ like this:

Wednesday May 19
8-9pm – Eleventh He Reaches London

Thursday May 20
6-7pm – The Ghost Hotel
8-9pm – The Benedict Moleta Band

Friday May 21
6-7pm New time! 5.30 – 6.30pm – Schvendes
8-9pm – Tomas Ford

Saturday May 22
3-4pm – The Bank Holidays
6-7pm – The Tigers
8-9pm – Taco Leg

Sunday May 23
3-4pm – Jane Harris
6-7pm – Owls
8-9pm – Hayley Beth

In case you haven’t heard/are confused, LIMV is erecting a temporary pop-up shop selling stock from WA labels and independent bands during the WAMi Festival, from May 19-23 at 54 Lake Street Northbridge, across the road from the Elephant and Wheelbarrow. When the sun goes down and legions of knife-concealing maniacs come out, the shop will host live, one hour recording sessions during which some of our favourite bands will lay down new tracks and reinterpret old hits.

The shop will also feature our limited edition Sleeping With the Band pillowcases. Sleeping With the Band pairs emerging illustrators with local music icons to make one-off pillow case designs that you can wake up next to for years to come. One such design is the fetching Mr Josh Fontaine above, illustrated by Freya Poulsen.

So what are you doing from May 19-23? Partying in a tiny shop? That’s right!

Thanks for those who came to the launch on Friday night, it was excellent fun. If you didn’t make it down, then not to worry, the four track EP is available as a USB release right now in our online shop.

You can order the USB for only $12 (including postage to anywhere in Australia). The USB comes with an awesome interactive player, comes housed in its own case and also allows you to download high quality tracks to as many computers or devices as you like. Plus, it is fully reusable.  Alternatively, you can purchase the tracks digitally in the itunes store, at emusic.com and at the nokia music store.

Chris Cobilis at Bank Notes - photo by Gene Eaton

For the 2010 WAMi Festival, Love Is My Velocity launch a new temporary takeaway joint at 54 Lake Street, Northbridge. Surrounding kebab shops need not fear the competition, because instead of providing deep fried snacks, LIMV are filling the space with a range of local music sounds, wares and activities that run throughout the festival from Wednesday May 19 to Sunday May 23.

TAKEAWAY TUNES POP-UP SHOP

For the first time, Love Is My Velocity present a pop-up local music shop to promote the hardworking independent label scene. Patrons can stop by and browse through a great range of CDs, records, vinyl, t-shirts, merchandise and related products. Stock is sourced from WA’s thriving community of local labels, including Meupe, Hidden Shoal, Walking Horse Records, Badminton Bandit, Owls, Heartless Robot and Jarrah Records. The goods of independent Perth bands and musicians are also represented. For local music lovers this will be the place to score hard-to-find wares and new special edition merchandise. For those newbies it’s the perfect introduction to a wealth of quality WA music.

TAKEAWAY TUNES TEMPORARY RECORDING STUDIO

Not just your usual record shop, Takeaway Tunes will be a hive of activity, featuring in-store performances throughout the festival. Housed within the Pop-Up Shop and following on from 2009’s Bank Notes, Love Is My Velocity and sound engineer Laurie Sinagra again team up, recording ten local bands in five days so punters can ‘takeaway’ the WAMi recordings for free. Hayley Beth, The Tigers, Benedict Moleta, The Ghost Hotel, Taco Leg and Owls will be amongst those visiting the studio. Every day from Wednesday 19 May, bands will load in, set-up, record, and load out, with the results uploaded each night to www.loveismyvelocity.com and spun the next day on RTRFM.

SLEEPING WITH THE BAND

Those who visit Takeaway Tunes will also have the chance to purchase a slip of local music history. For Sleeping With The Band, Love Is My Velocity commissioned five emerging artists to develop life-size portraits of iconic WA musicians. See James Baker (The Painkillers), Josh Fontaine (6s & 7s), Felicity Groom, Abbe May and Sam Scherr (Capital City) likeness’ printed on 1/10 cotton pillowcases. Get in early to ensure you’re one of the lucky few who can take their favourite musician home to bed.

Visit www.loveismyvelocity.com or join the Love Is My Velocity facebook group to keep up to date with the recording studio schedule and additional festivities planned for LIMV’s WAMi events.

BANDS & LABELS – STOCK YOUR GEAR IN TAKEAWAY TUNES

LIMV invite other local labels, independent Perth bands and musicians to submit their releases and merch – just email all@loveismyvelocity.com before May 1 to register your interest.