Love Is My Velocity

So 2010 has come by and we are back in business, working away on a bunch of stuff – including making our limited edition of screenprinted bags (aka ‘doggeh bags’ – see below). We’ll be selling these at the Laneway festival on Saturday, so come by the markets if you’re there and say hello to us and check them out. Or at least think of us, trying to sell 7″ singles and copies of the LIMV Cookbook II to people getting progressively drunker, while you sing along to Speeding Motorcycle with Daniel Johnston.

But apart from the bags, we have at least three separate projects and releases up our sleeves, ready to unleash on a public, who are both unsuspecting and unaware of the excellence that will be contained within. Swing on by at the festival and we may just spill the beans.

Love Is My Velocity join their 7 inch single monkeys the Tigers and the Bank Holidays at the Perth leg of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival this Friday, February 6, 2009.

The PICA Bar will be open as a chill out space for festival patrons during Laneway. While our brosephs bang out the kind of epic sets that inspired us to release their songs on vinyl, we’ll be in there spinning wax (aka putting on hastily made mix CDs) and laying on a spread of beanbags and games (board, card, video and Twister) for people who want to take a break from the heat and enjoy a drink in PICA’s air-conditioned, indoor-plumbing-festooned comfort.

DJing with us are friends and members of local bands the Burton Cool Suit, Bamodi, Mass Birth, Bermuda, Radarmaker and Astral Travel, as well as some other local chumlies. We’ll be playing music keyed into the bands playing. There’ll be punk inspired by Jay Reatard, top 40, indie and hip hop hits inspired by Girl Talk, bar band piano and sax solos inspired by the Hold Steady, and more. Then some people are gonna be DJing according to the themes of “video games” and “nightmares”, so there’s something for everyone, really.

The games we’ll be playing are Streetfighter, Columns, NBA Jam, Uno, Mousetrap, Twister, Boggle, Scrabble, Pictionary, Super Mario 3, Mario Kart 64, and some stuff we don’t even know about yet. We also have a Spirograph set. Remember that thing? You won’t even want to see the bands. We promise.

Love Is My Velocity’s Gameway Festival – in the PICA Bar from 4pm to 12pm, Friday February 6.