Mistletone

EL GUINCHO FAREWELL SHOW! 
Monday, February 16 @ The Tote (Melbourne)
with Donza + Mark Barrage + Das Butcher + DJ Nervous Jerk.
Tickets $15 + booking fee on sale from Missing Link, Polyester, the Tote front bar or Corner box office.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 @ Thornbury Theatre, 859 High Street Thornbury
Ross McLennan’s New World Sympathique
+ Rebecca Barnard
+ Sailor Days (Biddy Connor, Laura Jean & Jen Sholakis)

Tickets $10 + BF online here  or $15 at the door.

Mistletone Records celebrates a prolific and terrific year with a Christmas party at the newly opened Thornbury Theatre, a historic venue returned to its former glory.

The Mistletonia party will feature five local indie achievers who released albums on the Mistletone label throughout 2008.

* psychedelic guitar rock heroes Beaches!
* the ever enigmatic, always charismatic Kes Band!
* a repeat performance of Ross McLennan Sympathy Orchestra’s warmly received Melbourne Festival ensemble!
* indie beacons of radness Panel of Judges!
* one-man synth-pop sensation, Mark Barrage!

Mistletone DJs will be spinning festive tunes throughout the evening and there will be heavily discounted Mistletone product on the merch desk.

Tickets on sale from Dec 1 from Polyester (city & Fitzroy) and online here.

Tickets $38+BF on sale from The Corner.

The inimitably hep Panel of Judges have made the modest masterpiece of their 10 year career. Bad Vibrations crystallises everything that is great about these beloved bastions of the Melbourne underground: restless imagination, lazily catchy melodies, epic rhythms, and heavenly riffs.

Panel of Judges launch Bad Vibrations at the Curtin Bandroom, 29 Lygon St, Carlton on Saturday December 6. Tickets at the door.

Tickets $12 at the door.

Mark Barrage launches his genius new album Delays @ La Campana, 53-55 liverpool st, the spanish 1/4, Sydney.Straddling the twin influences of electronic music and underground rock, Delays is a Morphean album in the spirit of Australia’s Severed Heads, the classic Komische groups and hard-art overseas labels Human Ear Music and Sacred Bones.Cost: $10

Beaches bring their trancelike, sonic overdrive live show to NSC to launch their debut self titled album. ‘Beaches’ is a journey into the sublime: twelve songs born out of sprawling jams, chiselled into rough-diamond perfection, laden with cosmic guitar stretches, vast textures, conjuring voices and phantom frequencies. Their stylistic shades reflect their shared musical loves, from 1960s hit parades to 1970s psychedelia, shoegaze to prog, southern boogie to krautrock; yet Beaches transcend their influences to create something wholly new.

Recorded by Jack Farley in Melbourne and mastered by Bob Weston in Chicago, ‘Beaches’ by Beaches is out on Mistletone Records on November 1. Tickets $12 + BF on sale now from NSC.

Mark Barrage launches his genius new album Delays (out on Mistletone Nov 1). Straddling the twin influences of electronic music and underground rock, Delays is a Morphean album in the spirit of Australia’s Severed Heads, the classic Komische groups and hard-art overseas labels Human Ear Music and Sacred Bones. Tickets on sale from Moshtix.

Mistletone presents much loved Kiwi space pop exponent Bachelorette, back in Melbourne for one show only at the Curtin Bandroom on Friday, October 24.

Bachelorette (aka Annabel Alpers) and her trusty computer minions will lavish your eyes and ears with trippy visuals and deliciously skewed home made tunes that evokes Gary Numan, Broadcast and Panda Bear (sometimes all in one song!).

Joining Bachelorette for this special show are The Sun Blindness and Teeth & Tongue.

Tickets $15 on the door at the Curtin Bandroom, 29 Lygon St, Carlton.