Seems this blog still exists. I had feared by now some other band would be squatting here, Trying to bring back rap-metal. Probably Linkin Park, those guys have been camped out on the corner waiting for someone to move out for ever.
Well, gotta clean this place up and make room for FACTS, some new film-clips and tour details. Aleks’ White Power treatise will have to go and there’s no longer room for Joe’s Golden Girls slash-fiction archives. We’ve sunk our entire budget into Vinyl copies of FACTS, thousands of them. I read somewhere that Vinyl sales are increasing every year and extrapolating that through the next decade it looks like we can’t really go wrong.
Ah, fuck. I guess I spoke too soon, it seems we are supposed to be hand dubbing cassettes. Finally, a use for all those mix-tapes I obsessively made for non-existent girlfriends in 1985.
Okay, enough comedyyyyyy JOKES!
Our new album FACTS is to be released on Feb 14th! It’ll be available in Vinyl from our bandcamp(with free download), and from a huge list of online stores both within Australia the rest of the World. iTunes and Vinyl pre-sales will start on Feb 1st and oh, we’re going on a 12 date national tour in March!
FACTS has been quite a while coming I know! It’s actually been finished since September 2011, but we’ve been busy in the intervening months. Al has been in Berlin testing the limits of liver cell regeneration; Joe has been hanging with his one year old baby girl Raven(his beard is now 3 and almost as good looking as Ravey); I’ve been keeping busy as a live sound engineer; Sez has been touring her solo project Kikuyu and Pas has been… I have no idea what Pas does. Mostly perfecting his creepy uncle impersonations I imagine.
Anyhoo, expect us(me) to be updating this blog pretty frequently for a while, we gotta convince someone to buy all the different outdated formats of FACTS.
did you see our clip for Middle Aged Unicorn on Beach with Sunset? Looky here.
Last week we finally got back up on stage. Thanks to everyone who came along to The Toff, we had a blast playing with Teeth and Tongue and Near Myth. It was our first show with new member Whistling Nancy and she totally fucking nailed it. So much fun! So goddamn nerve wracking after 8 months without playing.
Never fear though, we won’t wait that long for the next outing. I reckon end of August will be a go-er…. Stay tuned.
Here is a gallery of very nice shots from the evening, courtesy of Everguide and photographer Leah Robertson.
Here is one of a series of our latest press shots:
On another note, we’ve finished recording and mixing album no.3. Hopefully we’ll figure out a way to get it to you soon, cause its rad.
We have now booked five shows in Japan this October, with perhaps a couple more to come. Details soon.
Brain Cobra and Flying Diamonds are currently mixing our next single, due out in a few weeks, in Sydney. We’ll be playing shows in Sydney (Spectrum, October 13) and Melbourne (Workers Club, Oct 29) to launch it.
The end. Told you it was short! Did I mention that we’ve got Twitter? It’s sort of like this blog, except we offer you medical solutions to erectile dysfunction less often (but not never).
We got totally wastoid on some kitten juice, woke up the next day and it turned out we booked flights to Japan, so we’ve decided that we should play music while we are there.
So yeah, come October 2010, the ramps will eating horse sashimi/wasabi doritos/squishy sweet things in Japan and drinking terrible coffee from vending machines. Fuck yeeeaaah. One of the ramps will also be playing in ii too. Do Come!
on a non ramps related note, i made a music video for pikelet. it was filmed in the pacific somewhere, and we gave the camera acid. here ’tis.
we’re playing with crayon fields at their ‘welcome back from the US!!’ show at the Northcote Social Slub on April 24. we haven’t played in ages, so it’ll be rusty.
Our song ‘antique limb’ is in the running for the jjj hottest 100. i’m not sure what happens if it makes it in, maybe we win a fancy car or something.
So you can go vote for it here, if you’re one of those people who votes for things.
Also, we made an EP that you can get on iTunes right here. Kinda forgot to tell anyone about this, y’know how it is.
It features our song ‘destroy the universe with jazz hands’ from the midnight believer album, plus a remix by our pal slo-mo speedboat, an 8-bit re-imagining of ‘antique limb’ by neutro & lone zero and a cover we did of leonard cohen’s ‘don’t go home with your hard on’.
We’re playing at the Order of Melbourne this Sunday December 20 (after a “design” “market” “thing” earlier in the afternoon there) with NAmericans Castanets and Tiger Saw, and Novocastrian church organist Alps. Come see! Extreme Wheeze’s beard is going to turn bright white. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
