Category: LEAPS & BOUNDS FEST

Multi-award winning showstoppers and Aunty Meredith’s bluegrass band of choice, The Davidson Brothers, have released ‘Wanderlust’ – their first new album in 3 years on 20th June, 2014.

Their previous album “Here to Stay” not only enjoyed airplay on Triple J, it also received a 4-star review from The Age, which declared, “All music should be this much fun.”

There are 10 original songs on the album, including the aptly named “Bottle Cappin’ Back Crackin’ Blues,” which is one of three instrumentals, along with a rock remix of a new aoustic track also found on this album called ‘Lost In Amsterdam.’ 

An engineer currently woking in a bottle cap factory for wine and beer by day, Lachlan said, “Wanderlust is our first album in three years, which is a long time for us!  It’s also the first album that we’ve produced entirely in Melbourne in ten years and it was pretty hard work during the week after a hard day of bottle cappin’ in time to sweat it out in the studio. And we’ve played a tonne of great gigs in the city over the last few years.”

 In addition to being a Doctor of Chiropractic and a new father (baby Oscar is just over a year old), Hamish kept himself busy this year by writing songs with Lachlan, gigging all over Melbourne, including playing recently with Dan Sultan, and driving up from Bendigo to Melbourne for recording sessions for the album through the week.

Hamish says, “Melbourne has been really good for us and we’ve had a great time working with the friends we’ve made here in the past few years.  Our sound has benefited from all those influences and we’ve really enjoyed sharing bluegrass music with a broader rock n roll audience, too.”

 The album was produced by Hamish and Lachlan and was engineered by Adam Rhodes (Cat Empire, Paul Kelly, Angus Stone, The Blackchords, etc)

 You can see more about making the album here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLTzLB4vD4&feature=youtu.be

 Notorious for their warm and highly entertaining and energetic live performances, (you can see the Davidson Brothers launched ‘Wanderlust’ live at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne on 20 June 2014.

 In September the three time Golden Guitar winners and Australia’s most celebrated purveyors of bluegrass head off to the US where they’ve been invited to play at The World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, North Carolina.

 Order ‘Wanderlust’ here: www.davidsonbrothersband.com 

 Follow them on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/davidsonbrothers

PAUL KELLY JOINS THE LINE UP FOR THE LIVING LEGENDS SERIES AT THE TOTE THIS WEEKEND!

Paul Kelly will be performing a few songs this Sunday afternoon, July 13th at the Tote on Charlie Owen’s night which is part of the Living Legends Series honouring the careers of three Melbourne based musicians. Also added to the line up for Sunday is Wishful featuring Paul Kelly’s daughters Memphis and Maddy Kelly who will be playing songs linked to Owen.

The Drones’ Gareth Liddiard will be teaming up with founding Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds member Mick Harvey as well as the Beasts of Bourbon’s Brian Hooper to play a set of Kim Salmon penned tunes on Friday July 11^th which includes the Scientists, Kim Salmon & the Surrealists and the Beasts of Bourbon. Machine Translations will also be performing the songs of Kim Salmon and will also be joined by Dan Kelly for a set of surprises.

Saturday July 12^th will be all about Spencer P Jones at the Tote. Many acts from interstate and local will be paying homage to Spencer including his own group, the Escape Committee with Helen Cattanach, Dave Nicholls and Michael Hubbard backing up guest performers including Adalita, Sly Faulkner, Dan Brodie, Geoff Corbett and Brian Hooper as well as short sets by the likes of the Sons of Lee Marvin playing the Johnnys, Sydney group Greta Mob playing Beasts of Bourbon and The Pink Tiles take on the Last Gasp.

The Leaps and Bounds Music Festival presents the Living Legends series across three consecutive nights at the Tote honouring three renowned Melbourne based musicians with worldwide reputations. Kim Salmon, Spencer P Jones and Charlie Owen, we salute you.

The honoured musicians themselves will not be performing on the night – but they will be present on the night. It is a coincidence that the three are or have been guitarists in the Australian super-group the Beasts of Bourbon, each player has been prolific for over 30 years and have an incredible musical catalogue.

Each night will have a focus on one of the ‘living legends’:

Friday 11^th July: Honours Kim Salmon with a cast of musicians playing from his catalogue which includes the Scientists, Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, Antenna, the Business, the Darling Downs, Salmon and Beasts of Bourbon. The Scientists, formed by Kim Salmon in the late 70s, are considered precursors of grunge.  Peformers: Gareth Liddiard, Mick Harvey, Brian Hooper, Machine Translations, Caroline Kennedy, Penny Ikinger, Tex Napalm, the Bulls, Midnight Scavengers, Andrew McCubbin, Suzie Stapleton, Marilyn Rose and the Thorns, Teenage Libido, the Braves and more. Doors 7pm

Saturday 12^th July sees Spencer P Jones appreciated which includes the music of the Johnnys, Beasts of Bourbon, Hell to Pay, as well as Spencer P Jones with the Last Gasp, Cow Penalty, the Escape Committee and the Nothing Butts. Performers include Adalita, Chris Russell, Sly Faulkner, Dan Brodie, Geoff Corbett (SixFtHick, Bris), Phil Gionfriddo, Tom Lyngcoln (Nation Blue/Harmony), Helen Cattanach, Downhills Home, Cherrywood, Greta Mob (Syd), Pink Tiles, Sons of Lee Marvin, Space Junk, the Cheats and more. Doors 7pm

Sunday 13^th July is all about Charlie Owen, one of Australia’s most revered guitarists with a live showcase of the bands Owen has been a member of including The Divinyls, the Beasts of Bourbon, The New Christs, Louis Tillet & His Cast of Aspersions, the Working Class Ringos, Tex, Don & Charlie, the Tendrils and the Dark Horses.  Performers include Paul Kelly, Adalita, Mick Harvey, Julitha Ryan, Dan Brodie, Penny Ikinger, Grindhouse, Link Meanie, the Love Bombs, Suzie Stapleton, Tex Naplam, members  of the Large No. 12s and more.

The Living Legends Series at the Tote, 71 Johnston St, Collingwood. Friday 11^th, Saturday 12^th and Sunday 13^th July.

Presented by Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, PBS FM and Beat.

Tickets are available from Oztix, $25 for each night or $60 for all three shows.

http://thetotehotel.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?Event=44737

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival partner Wrangler will present two huge shows at the newly refurbished and fabulous Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood.

Wednesday 9^th July will see sonic rock n rollers Delta Riggs tear the roof off the joint along with special guests Sons of Rico and New Gods!  The Delta Riggs are back in Oz after a two month tour of the UK, Europe and the USA and this is their first show back in Melbourne.

Then Wednesday 16^th July, Stonefield will be bring their stunning psych rock riffs to the Gasometer!  The Findlay sisters Amy, Holly, Sarah and Hannah have just returned from a tour of the UK and are currently supporting Dan Sultan across the country.  Special guests are Nova & the Experience and Pretty City.

About Wrangler:

Wrangler was started in 1947 by Blue Bell, a denim manufacturing company with a simple ambition: to create the world’s best five pocket jeans. Having accomplished their mission by famously outfitting rodeo stars and cowboys, it wasn’t long before Hollywood came knocking, with handsomely rugged silver screen icons like Robert Mitchem and Steve McQueen wearing the brand.

Trends may have come and gone ever since, but Wrangler’s focus has revolved around the same motto from the beginning. It’s all about the jeans. 

Tickets on sale now from Oztix for $15 +BF.

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is proudly presented by City of Yarra, Music Victoria, Beat Magazine & PBS 106.7 FM with the support of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.

www.leapsandboundsmusicfestival.com.au.

Living up to the hype, Williams featured on SBS’ Rockwiz last week and has been announced as main support for the First Aid Kit tour in July. He also performed at the Sydney Opera House in April for TEDx Sydney alongside Megan Washington and Lior.

‘Strange Things’ (released 28 May) is the first single from Williams’ debut solo album, due for release in October. Lilting, quirky, beautiful and haunting, ‘Strange Things’ offers a taste of Williams dark sense of humour, and ability to find magic in the morbid.

 

‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ enters the room with strut and swagger, all souled-out and funked up with righteous backing vocals set against the backdrop of a hugely contagious melody.  It’s a fitting opener to an album filled with those rare things – intelligent pop songs, 10 of them all up.

https://soundcloud.com/quality-lightweights/its-time-to-let-the-wolves-out

Since his 2011 alt country release, ‘I Thought I’d Be Someone By Now’, potential candidate for a celebrated contemporary songwriter award but winner of none, Damon Smith has had 5 teeth pulled and has enjoyed the battle of a perpetually changing hairstyle due to a bastard receding hair line.With a new life in a new home as a stay at home dad and with weekend work around the country as a boogie woogie blues piano player, Smith says of his last few years with a baby girl in tow, “what the hell happened?”

His sufficient stockpile of issues, predicaments and complications have been discharged through his latest batch of songwriting, coming up with a record named:

‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’.

From the opening title track, Smith invites you inside his home. It’s warm (and often stinky) in there and there’s a sense of intimacy and a hint of the man who creates in his home studio, behind his house where he autonomously worked on these10 maudlin yet jaunty new songs.

Damon says of the single: “The chorus lyrics for Wolves are, ‘It’s time to let the wolves out, and time to let the love back in. You’ve built yourself a crumbling wall and now it’s time to climb it.’ meaning: take control of your actions, don’t be selfish and be sensitive to others while taking your rage and aggression by the scruff of the neck and throwing it out the window violently…you know, like an action movie, with glass and stuff flying everywhere!”.

Smith is an independent artist in the literal. He’s the man in the driver’s seat, from composition to production and with help from producer Fraser Montgomery on mixing duties this time around, he delivers a record of substantial listening quality.

With an unrestrained desire for spitting out his tales of ordinary life while ruminating on thought-provoking subject matter, ‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ revolves heavily around the idea of relationships.

He dances provocatively with his own issues throughout this record, breathes life into these troubles and woes and then punches them square in the face, revealing his ability to evoke emotion in the listener while the music itself unravels, layer after layer, melody after melody.

Accompanied by The Quality Lightweights during live shows, Smith has built a solid reputation in his hometown of Melbourne.

Don’t miss the single launch for ‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ on Thursday, 10 July from 8pm at Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford.  Support TBA, Free Entry.

 

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is proudly presented by City of Yarra, Music Victoria, Beat Magazine & PBS 106.7 FM with the support of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.