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Hello earthlings,

Welcome to Mistletone’s summertime news!

First and foremost, we are about to welcome Toronto’s most gloriously messed up progtronic party makers Holy Fuck to our shores. Holy Fuck’s live show are notoriously jaw droppingly awesome and we can’t wait til they bring it to Australia! Don’t miss out on these shows are you’ll kick y’self… grab a ticket now.

HOLY FUCK NATIONAL TOUR DATES

Melbourne – Wednesday December 10: 3RRR Presents Holy Fuck @ The Corner w/ Love Of Diagrams + Mountains In The Sky.
Tickets $38+BF on sale from The Corner.

Sydney – Thursday December 11: FBi Presents Holy Fuck @ The Annandale Hotel w/ Mountains In The Sky + WOW.
Tickets $38+BF on sale from The Annandale.

Meredith – Friday December 12 @ Meredith Music Festival.
Holy Fuck onstage around 2am, Friday night/Saturday morning.

Brisbane – Saturday December 13 @ The Zoo w/ Taste Of Teeth + Toy Balloon.
Tickets $38+BF on sale from The Zoo.

We are excited to announce that to be bringing Summer Tones, our seasonal Mistletone party, to Sydney and Brisbane (plus a baby Summer Tones in Adelaide), as well as taking over The Espy for Summer Tones Melbourne, which will feature 25 bands on three stages on Saturday February 28. Tickets for Summer Tones Sydney, Melbz & Brissy on sale now!

SUMMER TONES SYDNEY
Friday Feb 27 @ Oxford Art Factory w/ Dan Deacon, High Places, Lawrence Arabia, Beaches and Mark Barrage. Tickets $32 + BF on sale now from Moshtix, phone 1300 GET TIX (438 849) or online here.

SUMMER TONES MELBOURNE
Saturday Feb 28 @ The Espy w/ Dan Deacon, Pivot, High Places, Lawrence Arabia, The Ruby Suns, Rowland S Howard, The Stabs, Beaches, Qua, The Smallgoods, Witch Hats, Mountains In The Sky, Kes Band, French Rockets, Ned Collette Band, Fabulous Diamonds, The Diamond Sea, Mark Barrage, Panel of Judges, Ships Piano, The Twerps, The Brutals, Super Wild Horses, Dick Diver and Parking Lot Experiments. Tickets $35 + BF on sale now online, phone 1300 762 545 or pick your tickets up from The Espy bottle shop, Missing Link or Polyester Records.

(mini) SUMMER TONES ADELAIDE
Sunday Mar 1 w/- Dan Deacon, High Places + Mark Barrage. More details soon.

SUMMER TONES BRISBANE
Friday Mar 6 @ The Zoo w/ Dan Deacon, High Places, Lawrence Arabia, Beaches and The Ruby Suns. Tickets $32 + BF on sale now from The Zoo and Oztix outlets or call 1300 762 545.

The yuletide season approaches, so come make merry with Mistletone at our annual Xmas knees up on Saturday, December 20. The Mistletonia Xmas party will be held in the sumptuous surrounds of the Thornbury Theatre (859 High St Thornbury) newly restored to its former glory and features five Mistletone artists collectively gave us five of this year’s finest local releases: Kes Band, Beaches, Ross McLennan & his Sympathy Orchestra, Panel of Judges and Mark Barrage.

Tickets $15 available from the Mistletone shop or at the door. There will be heaps of discounted Mistletone merch available to stuff your stocking. Doors open 7pm so come early & stay late!

November has been a prolific month for Mistletone releases, most recently the career-defining Bad Vibrations by Panel of Judges. Panel of Judges are launching their li’l masterpiece of an album in Melbourne this Saturday night (December 6) at the Curtin Bandroom, (29 Lygon St, Carlton) with excellent supports St Helens and The Twerps, and in Sydney on Friday January 16 at the Hopetoun Hotel.

Also new to the Mistletone catalogue is the much-acclaimed debut by Beaches, last week’s 3RRR Album of the Week, described in Three Thousand as “a powerful, sex-driven record smacking of Stooges greatness”. Make sure you get down to Meredith early on Friday night to catch Beaches who are in blistering form after their sold out launch at Northcote Social Club last night. Sydneysiders can catch Beaches at their album launch next Thursday December 4 at the Hopetoun with Circle Pit and The Garbage and the Flowers.

Mistletone is thrilled to announce the return of Barcelona’s foremost exponent of ecstatic tropical rave, El Guincho. Having wowed Australian audiences with his deliriously fun and joyful live performances with Architecture in Helsinki last May, this time Pablo Díaz-Reixa will be bringing percussionist Aleix Clavera to make El Guincho live show twice as hectic! It will be an intoxicating, bacchanalian, tropicalia party you will never want to end!

EL GUINCHO AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2009

Friday, 30 January SYDNEY HEADLINE SHOW @ Oxford Arts Factory
El Guincho w/ extra special guest Mountains In The Sky. Tickets $27+BF on sale now from Moshtix online or phone 1300 GET TIX (438 849).

Saturday, 31 January – BRISBANE LANEWAY

Sunday, 1 February – MELBOURNE LANEWAY

Wednesday, 4 February – HOBART HEADLINE SHOW @ The Brisbane Hotel

Thursday, 5 February MELBOURNE HEADLINE SHOW @ The Corner
El Guincho w/ extra special guest Qua. Tickets $27+BF on sale now from The Corner.

Friday, 6 February – PERTH LANEWAY

Saturday, 7 February – ADELAIDE LANEWAY

Sunday, 8 February 2009 – SYDNEY LANEWAY

Speaking of El Guincho, Mistletone has just released the tropicalia-delic new album by Coconot, which is Pablo from El Guincho’s Barcelona-based band. Cosa Astral by Coconot is an infectious, polyrhythmic, Spanish language adventure; the soundtrack to a heady, sunshiney summer. If you like El Guincho you will love Coconot!

Also new on Mistletone is Delays by Melbourne’s one of a kind synth wizard, Mark Barrage. Delays has won many four star reviews – “raw, bedroom-produced brilliance”, to quote Music Australia Guide – and radio playlist love around the country. You can purchase Delays, and indeed any CD from the Mistletone catalogue, for just 20 bucks including postage from our online store.

We also have some tasty vinyl morsels in store, including the first ever 7″ single by Beach House, the beautiful new song Used To Be (as heard on their Australian tour and captured in the wonderful Shoot The Player video filmed at Tamarama Beach in Sydney), and the limited edition grey vinyl version of the brilliant debut by High Places, (which comes in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with gorgeous extra artwork including hand-illustrated lyrics sheet, and bonus MP3 downloads for the whole album). Beaches and Panel of Judges vinyl will be here soon! Go to the Mistletone online store for all your Xmas pressie needs.

Looking ahead, early 2009 Mistletone releases will include The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, the incredibly impressive debut full length by Dent May from Oxford, Mississippi (recently discovered by Animal Collective and signed to their Paw Tracks label); and Bromst, the incredibly epic new album by Dan Deacon, which we guarantee will melt your mind!

take good care & see you round the traps!
ash & sophie // mistletone moguls