Love Is My Velocity

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Love Is My Velocity is proud to introduce Ghostdrums as we launch a limited edition USB release at Bar 459 at the Rosemount Hotel on Friday April 23 from 8pm.

As an eight year old learning to play the drums, Pete Guazzelli came up with an inventive way to make sure his family didn’t disown him. By draping a big white sheet (complete with eyeholes) over the top of his kit, he muffled the noise and created Ghostdrums.

After a fruitful period drumming in local bands like Fall Electric, The Kids and Gata Negra, Pete has revisited the Ghostdrums set up by building a unique machine from parts lying around the house. Combining a gold-sparkle ’60s Premiers drum kit with pedals, synths, loopers and the junk-percussion that’s been clogging up the spare room, Ghostdrums is this long-time Perth-based musician’s new solo project.

Keeping things spooky, Ghostdrums has joined forces with Melbourne artist Ghost Patrol to produce an interactive 4-track USB release that contains a bonus video for title track ‘Morning Sun’.

Ghostdrums’ experimental electronica combines intricate production with a lo-fi acoustic sound that’s as innocent and whimsical as his performance set-up.

See Ghostdrums with special guests, Rabbit Island vs Lil Leonie Lionheart and Chris Cobilis at Bar 459 at the Rosemount Hotel (Cnr Angove and Fitzgerald Streets, North Perth). Doors open at 8pm and capacity is limited,  so come early to grab one of the limited edition USBs released by Love Is My Velocity.

Ghostdrums’ self titled EP is also available digitally on itunes, emusic and the nokia music store from April 16. For a preview of the EP, check out his myspace.

Yes, you can now grab a copy of the 7″ and the accompanying mp3’s by The Tigers and Stina right now. It is available in selected stores, on this website (check out the shop) or available as a download on Itunes or Emusic.

And if you buy it from this website, you will get a free HARDCORE temporary tattoo with your purchase. The Tigers asked the question, “now that i am old whatever shall I do with my whimsical hardcore tattoos” and we have already solved this conundrum. Done! Get a temporary tattoo you dolt!

We await the next question we can solve through the medium of song. But no, we don’t know who stopped the rain.