Mistletone

Melbourne born, Brooklyn dwelling indie-folk duo Luluc return home for a national tour to launch their much celebrated album, Passerby.

WED DEC 3: BRISBANE – Black Bear Lodge. Tickets on sale now from Oztix.

Melbourne born, Brooklyn dwelling indie-folk duo Luluc return home for a national tour to launch their much celebrated album, Passerby.

SUN NOV 30: HEPBURN SPRINGS – Old Hepburn Hotel. Tickets on sale now from Oztix.

Melbourne born, Brooklyn dwelling indie-folk duo Luluc return home for a national tour to launch their much celebrated album, Passerby and will stop off at Queenscliff Music Festival on Saturday, November 29. Tickets on sale now.

Melbourne born, Brooklyn dwelling indie-folk duo Luluc return home for a national tour to launch their much celebrated album, Passerby.

FRI NOV 28: MELBOURNE – Northcote Social Club.
This show has now sold out.

Melbourne born, Brooklyn dwelling indie-folk duo Luluc return home for a national tour to launch their much celebrated album, Passerby.

THU NOV 27: CASTLEMAINE – Bridge Hotel. Tickets on sale now from Oztix.

The magical new single from Australia’s most astute songwriting auteur, Ross McLennan, “General Singh“ is on digital release on Mistletone Records via Inertia.

• “This song certainly is an intriguing piece of work, starting with a series of moody, minor-chord observations of the eponymous General and the world he inhabits — ‘Carnival rides/ Hawking sights of forgotten machinery… an array of B-film scenery’ — before erupting into a brass-led chorus that finds McLennan imploring Singh to ‘sing… sing well’” – FLAVORWIRE

A fictional character embodying the anxieties of our time, “General Singh” is someone isolated from their fellow humans as a result of trauma. “I wander lost in public space”, sings Ross McLennan, and we envisage General Singh sitting on a train in dissociative state, wearing clothes that someone has provided. General Singh is about to embark on a regimen of weekly therapy, and worries that a string of miscommunications may lead to disappearing completely.

As Ross McLennan cryptically explains, “Crimes they have witnessed and in truth have themselves committed have led them to believe that happiness is not appropriate. The shit is really hitting the fan.”

Since disbanding Snout, his iconic indie-pop band from the 1990s, Ross McLennan released the AMP-shortlisted Sympathy For the New World album, followed by last year’s equally impressive The Night’s Deeds Are Vapour. “By name and mercurial nature, The Night’s Deeds are Vapour is about the thrilling transience of impulses and ideas, from eerie woodwind that slides around tonal certainty to lyrics seemingly on their own journey of discovery moment by moment”, enthused the Sydney Morning Herald.

MELBOURNE LAUNCH EVENT:

Ross McLennan and The New World, his remarkable 11-piece band, make one of their uncommon and unmissable performances at The Post Office Hotel, Coburg to launch “General Singh” on Sunday, October 19. Starts 4pm. Two sets. Free entry.

HTRK SYDNEY LP Launch: Saturday May 10 @ Civic Underground with special guests Alba & Guerre + DJ Spiral Sounds. Presented by FBi. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.

HOLY FUCK FREMANTLE SHOW:

• Fri 9 May – The Odd Fellow (formerly The Norfolk Basement), Fremantle with special guests to be announced.  Co-presented with Life Is Noise. Tickets on sale now from Tickets on sale from Life Is Noise, oztix, heatseeker and the venue.

HOLY FUCK planned to take a break. They needed it, having toured steady from 2006 to 2011. Instead they had babies, adopted pets, and produced records for other artists (such as METZ and Lights, earning their first gold record); they stole away to play international festivals whilst writing new material and playing small venues under secret names; they even started new bands that also went out and toured the world.

So much for the break. Now they are ready to come out of this pseudo-retirement, playing their first actual tour since 2011, in Australia.

The back story of this enigmatic Canadian band, who prefer to be called Holy Fuck but often get censored in the weirdest and most convoluted way, goes sort of like this:

In a time of polished indie-dance Holy Fuck emerged with broken casios and piles of noise-making ‘stuff’ to play sweaty frenetic shows that followed less a set-list than a spontaneous energy. They caught the attention of Brooklyn dance punks !!! (chk chk chk) and former Antipop Consortium MC, Beans, as well as Montreal’s burgeoning buzz band Wolf Parade. After touring with the aforementioned acts they signed with the then-brand-new XL offshoot, Young Turks.

From there it turns into a smeared blur: Coachella, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, plane tickets and endless summers playing European festivals, a tour with MIA, shout-outs from Lou Reed, Radiohead, Michael Stipe, shows in Japan, China, Australia & New Zealand (touring for Meredith Music Festival, Laneway Festival and Harvest), a stage-invasion by hundreds of fans at Barcelona’s Primavera (destroying everything in their path), more plane tickets, more endless summers, Coachella and Glastonbury again, and another shout out from Lou Reed (RIP).

Somewhere in there is a hit-and-run on a Ohio highway, whiplash, a destroyed van, an ousting from the Canadian government surrounding the controversy of their name (saying they aren’t Canadian enough for arts funding), and swine flu. They were voted Canada’s best live band by the CBC and were nominated for both a Polaris prize and a Juno (which we know may not mean anything to anyone not living in Canada… but all in all, not too shabby).

HOLY FUCK PERTH SHOW:

• Thu 8 May – Rosemount Hotel, Perth with special guests to be announced.  Co-presented with Life Is Noise. Tickets on sale now from Tickets on sale from Life Is Noise, oztix, heatseeker and the venue.

HOLY FUCK planned to take a break. They needed it, having toured steady from 2006 to 2011. Instead they had babies, adopted pets, and produced records for other artists (such as METZ and Lights, earning their first gold record); they stole away to play international festivals whilst writing new material and playing small venues under secret names; they even started new bands that also went out and toured the world.

So much for the break. Now they are ready to come out of this pseudo-retirement, playing their first actual tour since 2011, in Australia.

The back story of this enigmatic Canadian band, who prefer to be called Holy Fuck but often get censored in the weirdest and most convoluted way, goes sort of like this:

In a time of polished indie-dance Holy Fuck emerged with broken casios and piles of noise-making ‘stuff’ to play sweaty frenetic shows that followed less a set-list than a spontaneous energy. They caught the attention of Brooklyn dance punks !!! (chk chk chk) and former Antipop Consortium MC, Beans, as well as Montreal’s burgeoning buzz band Wolf Parade. After touring with the aforementioned acts they signed with the then-brand-new XL offshoot, Young Turks.

From there it turns into a smeared blur: Coachella, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, plane tickets and endless summers playing European festivals, a tour with MIA, shout-outs from Lou Reed, Radiohead, Michael Stipe, shows in Japan, China, Australia & New Zealand (touring for Meredith Music Festival, Laneway Festival and Harvest), a stage-invasion by hundreds of fans at Barcelona’s Primavera (destroying everything in their path), more plane tickets, more endless summers, Coachella and Glastonbury again, and another shout out from Lou Reed (RIP).

Somewhere in there is a hit-and-run on a Ohio highway, whiplash, a destroyed van, an ousting from the Canadian government surrounding the controversy of their name (saying they aren’t Canadian enough for arts funding), and swine flu. They were voted Canada’s best live band by the CBC and were nominated for both a Polaris prize and a Juno (which we know may not mean anything to anyone not living in Canada… but all in all, not too shabby).

HOLY FUCK SYDNEY SHOW:

• Wed 7 May – Goodgod Small Club, Sydney with special guests to be announced. Presented by FBi. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.

HOLY FUCK planned to take a break. They needed it, having toured steady from 2006 to 2011. Instead they had babies, adopted pets, and produced records for other artists (such as METZ and Lights, earning their first gold record); they stole away to play international festivals whilst writing new material and playing small venues under secret names; they even started new bands that also went out and toured the world.

So much for the break. Now they are ready to come out of this pseudo-retirement, playing their first actual tour since 2011, in Australia.

The back story of this enigmatic Canadian band, who prefer to be called Holy Fuck but often get censored in the weirdest and most convoluted way, goes sort of like this:

In a time of polished indie-dance Holy Fuck emerged with broken casios and piles of noise-making ‘stuff’ to play sweaty frenetic shows that followed less a set-list than a spontaneous energy. They caught the attention of Brooklyn dance punks !!! (chk chk chk) and former Antipop Consortium MC, Beans, as well as Montreal’s burgeoning buzz band Wolf Parade. After touring with the aforementioned acts they signed with the then-brand-new XL offshoot, Young Turks.

From there it turns into a smeared blur: Coachella, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, plane tickets and endless summers playing European festivals, a tour with MIA, shout-outs from Lou Reed, Radiohead, Michael Stipe, shows in Japan, China, Australia & New Zealand (touring for Meredith Music Festival, Laneway Festival and Harvest), a stage-invasion by hundreds of fans at Barcelona’s Primavera (destroying everything in their path), more plane tickets, more endless summers, Coachella and Glastonbury again, and another shout out from Lou Reed (RIP).

Somewhere in there is a hit-and-run on a Ohio highway, whiplash, a destroyed van, an ousting from the Canadian government surrounding the controversy of their name (saying they aren’t Canadian enough for arts funding), and swine flu. They were voted Canada’s best live band by the CBC and were nominated for both a Polaris prize and a Juno (which we know may not mean anything to anyone not living in Canada… but all in all, not too shabby).