For better than a quarter century, Henry Rollins has toured the world as a spoken word artist, as frontman for both Rollins Band and Black Flag and, without a microphone, as a solitary traveLler with insatiable curiosity, bypassing the resorts in favour of places like Siberia and Senegal, or Burma and Bangladesh. His curiosity and hunger for experienced based knowledge, teamed with his willingness to travel, his no-holds-barred delivery of his opinions and observations, and wicked sense of humour make him one of the most inspiring and interesting commentators / entertainers of a generation.

He returns to Australia in 2012 as part of The Perth International Comedy Festival, with two shows at the iconic Astor Theatre www.perthcomedyfest.com.au.

With sold out performances in Melbourne and Sydney in 2011 be sure to get your tickets early!

National dates for The Long March tour will be announced in the coming weeks, stay tuned.

They wowed them in 2008 as part of the travelling circus that is the Big Day Out and then again in 2009 for the inauguarl Sydney Luminous (now Vivid) Festival, and now Battles are set to return – courtesy again of the Big Day Out –  for only their 2nd ever full Australian tour. Here’s the dates thus far…

http://lineup.bigdayout.com/

Watch: My Machines

Following the re-release of Galaxie 500’s three classic albums on Domino Records last year, former G-500 frontman and guitarist, Dean Wareham, set out on tour playing a set of all-Galaxie 500 material with a three-piece band featuring his wife Britta Phillips (Luna, Belltower) on bass and drummer Anthony Lamarca.

And now Dean Wareham and his three piece band are bringing the music of Galaxie 500 to Australia for the very first time performing shows in Sydney and Melbourne before embarking on a three show run in his native New Zealand.
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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.

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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…

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