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…

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!

We have regrettably had to change the date of the RISO launch to Saturday 8 May at The Bird as the venue is not able to open on Sunday 25 April due to unforeseen circumstances. More details to follow, but we hope the line-up remains unchanged. Most importantly the publication will still be as excellent!

If you have already bought tickets (you excellent people!) we will refund tickets if you can’t make the new date, but we hope everyone can. Ticketholders should receive an email soon explaining the options.

So the new date:
SATURDAY 8 MAY @ The Bird
181 William Street, Northbridge
8pm
$15 Entry includes a copy of RISO

We are truly sorry, but hopefully everyone can make the new date! Sometimes things just happen!

LIMV’s ANZAC DAY WEEKEND

Friday April 23
Head to the Rosemount Hotel in North Perth after 8pm, navigate your way through the beer garden and slip into the entrance to Bar 459. See Chris Cobilis, Lil Leonie Lionheart vs Rabbit Island and then to top it off – Ghostdrums.

You can buy a copy of the Ghostdrums USB on the night or just wait until you get home and have it delivered to your house or computer by purchasing it online.

Saturday April 24
Go to the pub, see a band, groan at Adam Sandler in the Saturday night movie, go bowling, roam the streets, whatever. buy a ticket to the RISO launch online.

Buying a ticket gets you on the doorlist to this event, as well as a copy of the publication and is therefore essential.

EDIT! Sunday April 25
Wander round the back of Kakulas to the Bird for the launch of LIMV’s RISO publication. You receive a collection of risographed posters featuring contributions from a number of Perth writers and artists. Have fun, collect your RISO publication on entry and see some awesome bands (Is Swan, Taco Leg, Astral Travel) and then go home, with the knowledge that the next day is a public holiday and you can sleep in.

DATE CHANGE!

We have regrettably had to change the date of the RISO launch to Sat 8 May at The Bird as the venue is not able to open on Sunday 25 April due to unforeseen circumstances. More details to follow, but we hope the line-up remains unchanged. Most importantly the publication will still be as excellent!

So the new date:
SATURDAY 8 MAY @ The Bird
8pm
$15 Entry includes a copy of RISO

The Bird has just got their licence, so this will no longer be a ’secret northbridge location’ or a ‘private party’ but we also encourage those who haven’t bought tickets to do so beforehand, as the capacity is limited.

Check out the Facebook event & join the LIMV Group to stay up to date with upcoming WAMi activites.

RISO is Love Is My Velocity’s limited edition poster publication featuring 4-colour text and image works from emerging writers and artists.

Launching Sunday April 25 of the ANZAC Weekend with a private party Saturday May 8th at The Bird with gig featuring Astral Travel, Taco Leg and Is Swan, RISO will showcase the work of writer-artists, artist-writers, writers and artists as they investigate the creative potential of A3 paper and a Risograph machine.

Although limited by colour choices, the Risograph pumps out around 100 pages a minute and has recently been acquired by LIMV friends BENCHPRESS.

BENCHPRESS is a small print studio established by Clare Wohlnick, Daniel Bourke and James Vinciguerra. Employing a GR3750 Riso printer, they are concerned with all aspects of the risograph process. From initial design to print, finishing and distribution, BENCHPRESS aims to collaborate with artists and friends to revel in the process of spot colour printing.

Direct enquiries to benchpressprint@gmail.com

RISO LAUNCH – SUNDAY APRIL 25 Saturday 8 May

Capacity limited to 150 at The Bird

$15 gets you:

ASTRAL TRAVEL

TACO LEG

IS SWAN

1 of 150 RISO publications

Click here to pre-order RISO and secure launch night entry.

Love Is My Velocity would like to thank the Australia Council, whose funding has made this first in a series of risograph publications possible.

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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.