Feel is proud to present the first ever CD (and digital) career overview of Sydney-via-Brisbane act Ups & Downs: Out of the Darkness – Sleepless, Singles & Other Stories
Often compared to The Church, R.E.M and the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene of the early eighties (The Dream Syndicate, The Long Ryders, The Rain Parade et al), Ups & Downs would undeniably produce some of the finest pop-rock songs of Australia’s original alternative era (1976 – 1989). Continue reading
Feel is proud to present Ode to Nothing – The Best of The Lighthouse Keepers, a sixteen track, sixteen page career overview & memoir compiled by the band and Feel inhouse archivist Tim Pittman.
Contemporaries of The Triffids, Wet Taxis, The Particles and the Laughing Clowns, The Lighthouse Keepers released their first single, the classic Gargoyle, in March 1983 and followed that with a further two singles (including Ocean Liner), a mini-album and a full length album before finally pulling up stumps with a sold out farewell show at Sydney’s Graphic Arts Club in March 1986. Noted Australian music scribe noted of the Lighthouse Keepers…
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.
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
Having sold out their first Melbourne show at the National Theatre in St.Kilda, Feel are proud to announce a second and final Melbourne show for Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Tuesday 2nd August at the Thornbury Theatre with guests Ron Peno & The Superstitions Trio. Tickets on sale Friday 8th July.
“the chemistry between the two is riveting… Campbell’s songs are simple, direct, gorgeous… If, after the brilliant Ballad, you had said that this pair would reunite and make an even better album, I wouldn’t have believed you – but I think they just have” – Sunday Times – 5 Stars ***** (CD of the Week)
Monday 1st August: Melbourne, National Theatre (St.Kilda) + Texas Teas.
$60.60 including fees – SOLD OUT!
NEW SHOW
Tuesday 2nd August: Melbourne, Thornbury Theatre + Ron Peno & The Superstitions Trio – ON SALE JULY 8TH
$55.00 + bf (or dinner & show $95.00 + bf) available from www.thethornburytheatre.com. Also available at Polyester Records, Fitzroy & Melbourne, Greville Records, Prahran, The Espy Bottleshop, St.Kilda, National Hotel, Geelong and Thornbury Australian College of Trade, Brunswick
Feel Presents are pleased to present three fantastic acts at this years ever expanding Splendour In The Grass festival.
For the first time in Australia the sultry duo of Isobel Campbell (ex-Belle & Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan (ex-Screaming Trees, QOTSA) will be engaging Splendour audiences with their dirty desert blues and “sultry, sizzling duets”. Backed by a five-piece band, their set will no doubt feature tracks from their critically acclaimed third album, Hawk and their Mercury Prize-nominated Ballads Of The Broken Seas.
Watch ‘You Won’t Let Me Down Again’ here
Stars of Sydney Festival 2010 Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears return and this time they’re bringing vintage soul vocal combo The Relatives with them. That makes for thirteen (13) people on stage! If you were lucky enough to see Black Joe & co blow the roof off any one of their three Sydney Festival dates you’ll know what an explosive live show they’re capable of. There’s a new album, Scandalous, available too. Buy it locally or via the bands own website: http://www.blackjoelewis.com/scandalous/
Check out one of our favourite BJL & The Honeybears clips here
And finally, an all time Feel favourite, Mogwai, will be performing their one and only Australian show for 2011 at Splendour in the Grass. General consensus is that Mogwai destroyed Splendour in 2006 so scrape your pennies together and get in line for tickets – on sale Thursday 5th May @ 9am sharp. But before you do that check out their latest masterpiece Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will out now via local chaps Spunk!
You tube link Mexican Grand Prix (live Jan 2011)
“…it was Mogwai in the GQ McLennan tent that built a skyscraper into the interstellar universe and convered with alien life forms in riot gear. It was an intense conversation on the sonic hemisphere, the vocoder getting a working through three of their songs, leaving one punter to exclaim: “That was the best show I have ever witnessed!” – FasterLouder.com (Splendour In The Grass 2006)
