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Dear friends, Spring has sprung! welcome to Mistletone’s Spring Notes.

VIVIAN GIRLS TOUR. We are super excited to welcome Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls to Australia for their first tour here in just a few weeks time. Having come through the hype machine and out the other side with a brand spanking new album Everything Goes Wrong (out soon locally thru In-Fidelity/Inertia), Vivian Girls have an armoury of killer new songs of the catchy, garagey/girl group surf-punk-pop variety. Vivian Girls bring their beautiful noise to our shores in Sept/Oct — grab your tickets now!

VIVIAN GIRLS AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES…………

SYDNEY: Fri 25 Sep @ Spectrum w/ Hawnay Troof (USA), Circle Pit and Dead Farmers. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix outlets or phone 1300 GET TIX.
MELBOURNE: Sat 26 Sep headlining Spring Tones @ Roxanne Parlour. Tickets on sale now from Polyester, Missing Link, Corner Hotel box office (57 Swan St Richmond, phone  9427 9198) or Mistletone website.
HOBART: Sun 27 Sep @ Brisbane Hotel w/ Native Cats, Moe Grizzly and Manchester Mourning. Licensed all ages show, starts 5pm. Tickets on sale now from Brisbane Hotel, Ruffcut Records and The Dwarf website.
MELBOURNE: Wed 30 Sep @ Northcote Social Club w/ Panel of Judges and Miniature Submarines. Tickets on sale now from NSC box office, phone 9486 1677.
ADELAIDE: Thu 1 Oct @ Metro Hotel w/ Hit The Jackpot and Rich Parents. Tickets on sale now from Oztix outlets or phone 1300 762 545.
BRISBANE: Fri 2 Oct @ Step Inn w/ Nova Scotia, The Legend with the Deadnotes, and Feathers. Tickets on sale now from Oztix outlets or phone 1300 762 545.
NEWCASTLE: Sat 3 Oct @ Sound Summit. More info here.

3RRR, MESS + NOISE and MISTLETONE present SPRING TONES (Melbourne)

The new & improved Roxanne Parlour will be home to Mistletone’s next party Spring Tones on Grand Final night, Saturday 26 September.

As well as guests of honour Vivian Girls, there will be Bachelorette‘s space-oddity electro-pop, the guitar-drenched dream-pop of Love Of Diagrams, the raw pop collages of New Jerseyian Ducktails, the razor sharp swagger of St Helens, the sparse and haunting acoustic guitar laments of Seattle’s Tiny Vipers, the schizoid choreography of Aleks & The Ramps and Hawnay Troof‘s sweaty club jams, not to mention Sydney’s Songs, plus The UV Race, The Dacios, Mark Barrage, Super Wild Horses, Rat Vs Possum, The French (Nathan Gray, Julie Burleigh & Bianca Hester), Children Of The Wave, Woollen Kits and Aoi (see band profiles here), and bangin’ DJ sets by theUniverse, Deformative, Ka-Splosion and Panel of Judges DJs.

Doors open 6.30pm with action on three stages and crazily discounted Mistletone merch.

Spring Tones tickets are $35 plus booking fee, and are on sale now from Polyester (city & Fitzroy), Missing Link, Corner Hotel box office (57 Swan St Richmond, phone  9427 9198) or from the Mistletone website.

BACHELORETTE headlines the Sundae Workers Series at new-ish Melbourne venue the Workers Club (the Pub Formerly Known as the Rob Roy) on Sunday, 27 September from 4-10pm. Bachelorette, aka Annabel Alpers from across the Tasman Sea, will grace the Sundae Series with one of her giddy, mesmerising, digital-vs-analogue, woman-vs-machine solo shows. In the middle slot are the wayfaring ladies of royalchord, Melbourne natives Tammy Haider and Eliza Hiscox, who return from two years living and touring abroad to launch their gorgeous new album The Good Fight (out on Mistletone in November), a folktronic masterpiece of summer pop and funereal folk. Opening proceedings will be Melbourne’s favorite broke-jazz, spook-pop lady-two-piece Flying Scribble, previewing their eagerly awaited debut album We’re A Chameleon, produced by Melbourne’s resident studio genius Cornel Wilczek (Qua). Extra tasty party goodness will be provided courtesy of Special Award DJs. Tickets $10 at the door.

NEW MISTLETONE RELEASES:

The Good Fight by royalchord (out October 10). The Good Fight is a departure from royalchord’s dusty alt.country sounds of yore, combining electronics with Eliza and Tammy’s neurotic and melancholic sensibility on 12 beautifully evocative and catchy songs. royalchord are returning home for a little while after touring extensively in the US (where the album was on the Supply And Demand label) to launch their most personal record yet, which they call “dance music for the down and out”. royalchord launch The Good Fight in Melbourne on Sunday 19 November @ The Toff in Town, and in Sydney on Thursday 26 November @ Hopetoun Hotel.

Crisis Tales by Curse ov Dialect (out October 24). Curse ov Dialect’s new album is a dizzying, multi-dimensional carnival of conscious hip hop. Inspired by surrealistic grappling with questions of identity and evolution, Curse ov Dialect have collectively created Crisis Tales: a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic scrawl of mercurial rage and spasmodic humour, flowing freely into the void of consumer culture. Curse ov Dialect launch Crisis Tales in Melbourne on Friday November 20 @ East Brunswick Club, and in Sydney on Friday November 27 @ Spectrum.

WHY? AUSTRALIAN SHOWS. Mistletone proudly presents WHY? on their first Australian tour. WHY? is a group of handsome Cincinnati-born men led by singer Yoni Wolf,  formerly of seminal pop-inflected psychedelic folk-hop outfit cLOUDDEAD. Evolving into WHY?, Yoni honed his trademark delivery – a sickly sweet, half-rapped, singsong style – shined up his wry, picturesque poetry and developed a clip-and-collage aesthetic using keyboards, toys, guitars, samplers and anything worth banging on. WHY?’s brand new album Eskimo Snow (out September 25 on Anticon/Stomp) is a companion piece to last year’s celebrated Alopecia LP:  a sung, sobering take on mortality that unfurls in lush waves of Americana and pop-infused psych-folk.

KES BAND recently launched their brilliant new instrumental album Kes Band II at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. Described as “wordlessly stunning” (Sunday Age, 4 stars), “ethereal” (mX, 4 stars), “epic and miniature” (Mess + Noise) — and the list goes on — Kes Band II will be launched in Sydney on Saturday December 5 at Spectrum. Mark your diaries!

BEACHES join My Disco and Your Animal for a Beck’s Rumpus Room show at The Forum on Saturday October 17 as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival (tickets on sale here).

San Francisco psych-pop singer-songwriter, showman, producer and all-round good guy KELLEY STOLTZ is returning to Australia for a summer sojourn and some shows with his trusty Oz pickup band featuring Mark from The Stabs and Mikey from Eddy Current Suppression Ring.  More details soon!

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peace & love,
sophie & ash