Darren Hanlon

I’ve been added at the eleventh hour to various festivals and shows around the place. Keep checking the tour page for updates if you’re interested. There are plans afoot for my own headline shows in London and Brighton soon too.

It’s been so long in the making I can hardly believe it’s true. We’re just now putting the finishing touches on the shop connected to my website. It’s calling Flippin Yeah Industries. I even carved the masthead out of wood myself! it’s now nailed above the doorway of my house.

I’ve always anticipated having my own record label releasing other stuff I’m into but for now being slightly distracted I don’t have the time to do a good job of it. So the site will remain a glorified shop for the time being.

Although each month in the Flippin Yeah Presents section there’ll be 20 copies of a specific album put out independent or otherwise of friends and colleagues from here and abroad. This is a way to have other music available on the site as well without official ‘signings’. Kind of like an Oprah Book Club.

Available at the site are all my past albums previously sold through Candle Records. If you’ve got all of those you might be interested in a Poster or Commemorative Spoon? Hmm, tempting.
T-shirts coming soon….

It’s also a place where tickets will be on sale for Australian shows and tours.

Go to;
www.flippinyeah.com or the merchandise section of this website.

So my reflective album writing year has just turned into a summer fun tour of Europe with the Magnetic Fields. I’m having trouble sleeping I’m so excited.

All the details of the shows are up in the tour section. For ticket info go to:

houseoftomorrow.com

There’s more dates coming too. See you there friends…

We made a music video for the song Fingertips and Mountaintops late last year. It starred Uk comedian Daniel Kitson. Daniel, myself and the director Nat had different ideas as to the plot but in the end we mashed them all together. Over the course of 3 minutes you can witness one mans personal journey from repressed private school lecturer to sweet-toothed, adventurous bicycle thief, all played out on the streets of Melbourne.

Daniel was quite the gentleman and kept everyone entertained on set. The catch phrase quot;be careful, I burn lenses!quot; was heard often. The only moment that came close to a leading man tantrum was when the behind-the-scenes camera crew failed to capture him solving the Melbourne Ages quot;target wordquot; in under 15 seconds. (We recreated the moment later for the cameras)

Anyway, if you haven”t heard of Daniel before you really should see about rectifying that situation. He’s a guy you feel you could hang out with and swap CD’s. His comedy hits your funny bone and thinking bone at the same time.
Here’s the clip…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqIO4RA_7IU

also another clip that we couldn”t put up is here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7itrqtMs1qY

And lucky for you he”s back in Australia! His tour dates are at his site:

www.danielkitson.com

quot;Fingertips and Mountaintopsquot; has been nominated in this years JJJ Hottest 100. if you have nothing better to do and your boss is not looking cast your vote here:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/vote/

for those kids living in the Emerald City there’s a few things happening this weekend i thought you might be interested in. Firstly, on Saturday 5th I’ve been asked to participate in the opening of the Sydney Festival for a free gig in the Domain. Myself, Angie Hart and others are singing songs written by various children from around the country. we’ll be accompanied by the Sydney youth orchestra and choir so it’ll sound lush i expect. the songs themselves are pretty cute and in one i’m supposed to be a ”bruised banana”. Anyway, it kicks off at 5pm and soon after Brian Wilson is playing. That’s right I say, and for free! We worked out the other night that you could finish any sentence with “and then Brian Wilson is playing” and people will be suitably impressed (take note anyone who has to tell their parents they failed last semester…break the news this Saturday).

The next day on the 6th my friend Stef (Architecture Records Boss) and I are hosting one of our underneath the Clothesline events at 2 frederick St, Petersham. It’s $5 and Joel Plaskett (Canada singing guy) and Sui Zhen (amazing sydney performer who sang with me at my xmas show) are playing. It kicks off at 4pm…

The new clip for Fingertips + Mountaintops starring UK comedian Daniel Kitson is hitting the screens tonight on RAGE around 12:20am, and should be repeated over the coming weeks. Be a Rage cheat and check the ABC website beforehand.