Having successfully reunited with drummer Mark Dawson to re-imagine the albums Electrical Storm and Today Wonder, Ed Kuepper has decided to keep the engine running and add more shows including appearances at both the Darwin & Bribane Festivals with headline spots in the Famous Spiegeltent. The festival appearances follow sold-out shows in the same venue earlier this year in Melbourne.

Evocative would be the catchphrase of this collection of Eds music. This is music to drive long distances to, the thrumming rhythms like tyres on the open road, the lyrics the kind of things your mind might wander to when your surroundings become numbing; desperate tales of love and longing. – March 2011 www.i94bar.com

Full dates here

ON THE STREET!

The Hummingbirds, feedtime, Ups & Downs, The Moffs & Lighthouse Keepers.

There’s been a lot said and written about Sydney’s inner-city music scene of the eighties and early nineties – and rightly so. For many it represented the city’s most fertile period of musical activity and produced an amazing array of talent. Feel Presents has long been a supporter of this era having released two volumes of the 2CD collection Tales From the Australian Underground: 1976 – 1990 as well as promoting tours for Radio Birdman, The (original) Saints, Died Pretty, Laughing Clowns and others.

This time around Feel are showing their support for the era via a series of live shows entitled On the Street (a term familiar to all discerning gig goers of the time) and together with the Sydney Fringe will present a month of gig-going activity that recalls those heady times. Got your highlighter out? Here’s the gig guide.