I’m in the UK en route to the Danish town of Aarhus to play as part of their summer festival ‘Sculptures by the Sea’. As there’s a possibility Frederick and our own Mary will be attending I will be minding my Ps and Qs. In a rush to pack I’ve only brought my hand-me-down jeans with the hole and my Dunlop volleys. I’ll have to go shopping.
I’m not sure if I’ll meet the Prince and Princess but my friend Nichlas suggests I watch the scenes regarding Tony Blair in ‘the Queen’ just in case. You should never have your back turned to a royal while they’re in the room.
My PO box has now changed for anyone who needs to get a message across in real ink. My mother, the busiest woman in south east Queensland, has been bugging me to give her a job just so she can help me out. She thinks I look stressed. And since I’m now adrift again for God knows how long she’ll collect my mail.
So send all tactile correspondence to:
PO box 821
Gympie, QLD
4570
AUSTRALIA
DANIEL KITSON AND DARREN HANLON ONE OFF SHOW
SOLD OUT
There will be very limited tickets available on the door on the night for $35
Daniel Kitson and I have decided to play an intimate show together at the Belvoir St Theatre in Surry Hills on Monday 27th April. Daniel is out in Australia for the Melbourne Comedy Festival so this will be his only Sydney show. Kitson will perform a Work in Progress geared towards a new stand up show he’ll be taking to Edinburgh later in the year.
As for me this will be the exclamation mark to end this past month of shows. I’ll leave you all alone for a while after this. Promise.
A short set from Portlands Carcrashlander will open the night. You might have seen him play keyboards and trumpet for me over the last month.
doors at 7.30pm
There will be very limited tickets available on the door on the night for $35
EXTRA BALL
After all the bulk of the Pagans tour has ended and Jeffrey Lewis heads home again the trek will now continue. Cory Gray who has been playing keyboards and trumpet doesn’t go home for another week so I decided to show him some other parts of the country. So now we have an EXTRA BALL section of the tour! This probably means nothing to a lot of you as we’re going deep into the outback of NSW. A few of these towns have never had an original band play before so please call any friends or relatives you might have living out there. Safety in numbers… we’re slightly scared of lynchings.
Friday 17th
COONAMBLE
Bucking Bull Hotel
FREE, 8pm
Saturday 18th
BOURKE Gidgee Guesthouse
$25 at the door. Food available
7.30pm
Tuesday 21st
WHITE CLIFFS
White Cliffs Hotel/Motel
FREE, 8pm
Wednesday 22nd
TIBOOBURRA
Tibooburra Hotel
FREE
Friday 24th
BROKEN HILL Bells Milk Bar
$10 at the door, 8PM
ALL AGES
Sunday 26th
CANOWINDRA Taste Canowindra
show only $30 show only, $70 with meal
bookings here
5pm
New Music Video for Electric Skeleton
The new music video for Electric Skeleton has been chosen as “Indie clip of the Week” on Rage.
Conceived and Filmed in about 6 hrs by Natalie Van Den Dungen and her buddies in a Melbourne warehouse she’s just moved into that day.
Here’s what Nat had to say about it:
“This was rapid-fire video making. Darrens only instruction was that it needed to include an Electric Skeleton that zaps people when it touches them. I had a chance to listen to it the next day and before I knew it I had a team of 4, a location and an idea. So many ideas came from things that happened that day or we found, it was kind of like the Wombles making a video clip.
Currently in between houses I found myself residing, for one week only, in a residential warehouse space that is filled with props and gadgets just waiting to be included in some film – an obvious location choice.
A friend came round to help me shift my fridge that I was donating to the warehouse. Once we had picked it up we stopped for some food and went and collected our creative genius friend Celeste Potter (Ouch My Face)from her boredom, with the plan that she would be the skeleton and create the costume and anything else that required paint. It turned out this was a long standing dream of hers to play the role of a skeleton and she had already researched skeleton costumes. We returned to the warehouse and met up with Paul Edwards the resident mastermind of the place (and soon to be star), with the replacement fridge and Celeste (soon to be donned Skeleste).
When we took out the fridge we realised Celeste could fit inside it and the incubator idea was born. Paul had earlier that day turned his green screen walls into crazy silver walls as part of a recording he was doing, which added to this idea perfectly. Whilst loitering in the kitchen I picked up some kind of washing machine piping, white, which happened to look like hips and legs and that was how we came about making the skeleton out of kitchen utensils and other white household goodies.
Once we had the idea on paper we started building the sets and collecting items for the costumes. Celeste designed the skeleton and painted necessary skulls on fridges and masks. Steve helped gaffer tape on the skeleton parts after kindly going home to collect more goodies for the shoot. We started filming around 1am, but I can’t be sure, and went until 5:30am to the point where our brains started to melt.
We had a lot of fun making it and I hope you have as much watching it. Ohhhh.”
