PARADES

Water Stories

Our new single Water Stories is available as a free download when you sign up to the mailing list. Don't like mailing lists? Well then maybe you can bootleg it on the Water Stories tour. Hope to see you (and your hidden tape recorders) there!

Write it Down & See What Happens...

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No seriously, the four of us have been working quite hard, although probably not hard enough. It's quite early to say what new Parades music sounds like, but avoiding traps old and new, whilst still being ourselves (but different) is not as complex as it reads. Auxillary percussion is poison. There at least half a dozen songs in the bag, with many more to come. Photos and all that stuff should turn up really soon.

Go and see The Deathly Hallows Pt 1 and Jono on tour in December. He's rolling out new music, it's incredible. Support that.

Playlist:

• Colour Revolt EP


• How To Dress Well - Love Remains


• Glasser - Ring


• Paul Simon - Graceland


• Richard Skelton - Landings


• Entourage Season 7

Step One: Clean The Studio

Tour Cancelled. New Album Starts.

In case you haven't heard yet the Ernest Ellis - Parades co headline tour has been cancelled.

Mr Ellis has an aggravated ear condition which could cause permanent damage when exposed to loud noises such as a concert, or worse yet, a string of concerts that carry with it the same performers and themes. He's cancelled all his shows for the rest of the year. If you already had tickets you can get a full refund from the point of purchase.

We still have some shows left this year (one movement, peats ridge, new years in brisbane) but are very unlikely to be replacing the tour with more shows. We are instead using this time to do something we have long talked about, give birth to a new record.

click here to see us live in the studio

"I Think I'll Call It A Morning..."

Lets see....ummmmm;

Tèfèri Fèllèqè - Kèlkeyelgn
Four Tet - FACT MIX 182
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Dirty Projectors - I Sit On The Ridge At Dusk
Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off
Mulatu Astatke - Yefikir Tizita
Mr. Oizo - Bad Start
Stars Of The Lid - Another Ballad for Heavy Lids
Tortoise - The Lithium Stiffs

Seriously though, I got into Dirty Projectors around the time of Rise Above. I saw a video of them performing it live and it blew me away....but only a couple of weeks ago did I get his older stuff...and fuck.... The Getty Address is the best fucking thing I have heard in a long long loooooooonnnggng time. If you haven't heard it then do yourself a favour!!!! It'll change your fricking life!

Anyway....
I'll stop boring you with this dribble.

tim.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF VAGUE INTEREST

Halal how are you?

A kind heads up to you who has seen us/will see us this year! Henceforth, we will be performing all of Parades current and future material as a four piece.

In the near past we have had many of our astonishingly talent friends come on the road and play live in Parades. Our gratitude to them is far reaching, exponential and infinite, and everything we do from now will be done so in their honour.

But it is high time to begin a new chapter, turn over a new leaf, close the case, baton down the hatches, start anew, start the machine, get even and GANGWAY.

For all shows now and forever more, Parades will be Tim, Jono, Mike and Dan.

For all the fish, we'd like to thank the following heroes:

Kirsty Tickle of Little Scout, for playing every QLD show and for coming to Perth on a school night to play in WA and along with her sister Mel, for being the kindest of strangers we've ever known.

http://www.myspace.com/littlescoutmusic

Jan Jugueta of Sealion, for being omnipresent and omnipotent. Also, for his lightning fingers and cabasa flair on the Klaxons Tour.

http://www.myspace.com/sealion

Tim Watkins of Great Grandchildren+10 other bands, for continually changing songs in the car during mid-vibe. And for like, everything.

http://www.myspace.com/greatgrandchildren

Christine Hazelwood of Sleepy Hands, for playing some of the biggest shows we've ever done with little to no practice, just sheer talent and an iron stomach.

http://www.myspace.com/sleepyhands

Importantly last but hardly least, Freya and Alyx from Kyu for gracefully getting this band through 2010.

http://www.myspace.com/kyusounds

We're here because of these people. Support their music however you can and may. Stay tunes for another...ANNOUNCEMENT OF VAGUE INTEREST

Scenes from WA

Surfing The Void: Klaxons Tour

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Over the last week or so we've done a small tour of WA and have just returned from 2 shows supporting the Klaxons in both Sydney and Melbourne. I'm not sure if any of us have had a quiet moment to reflect on it, but I'm taking one right now and here's what I think:

I think I'm on the brink of some kind of pseudo mental episode. I don't think I have the mental capacity (or incapacity?) to actually have a fully fledged one, so I'm wallowing in the murky shadow of how epic and disastrous a real one could potentially be. To say things happen quickly is an understatement. In going to Perth, I've realised that I've now been to a place in this country that I never thought I would ever go regardless of any factor at all. In doing this Klaxons tour, we've played on a stage in our hometown that we're in awe of and reverent towards each and every time we watch a band play there.

I can't explain the feeling, but it's almost an unnatural one. I don't really know what I'm saying either to be honest with you. Are we worthy of the opportunities? Will we know when it all ends? And where? A strangeness we'll just have to learn as truth. Off to Brisbane then...

• Chemical Brothers - Further


• Fennesz - Endless Summer


• Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People


• The Drones - Gala Mill


• Mastadon - Crack The Skye


• Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute

PERTH

If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It

There is another band attached to this one that goes by the name of Snake Face. It is the disgusting relative you wish you never had, the cruelest of natures creations, the bottom feeder, the cancer of this earth. Anyway, that band just put out a hardcore album called "Ignorant Youth" through Arrest Records in Brisbane. You can buy it here



Here's...THE LIST

1. Baths - Cerulean


2. Sun Ra - Atlantis


3. AXXONN - Below The Dead Ones


4. Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines


5. Matmos - The Civil War


6. Colour Revolt - EP


7. The Tourist - Wooden Legs, Real Feet


8. Deftones - Diamond Eyes


9. Henry Rollins - Get In The Van (On the road with Black Flag)


10. PREDATORS

DJ SET YOOOO!

eeelllloooooo internets!!!

so i'm doing a dj set at purple sneakers tonight!!
got some caribou...four tet...animal colective..MDSLKTR..groovejet...and some other party killers.
come say hi.

BYE.

"HIGH ROTATION"

okay...lets see:

stags, aircraft, kings and secretaries - tim hecker
words and images - great earthquake
the story of awe resonare - tom hall
killshot - ben frost
triangle folds - holden
flat beat - mr oizo
joe goddard - apple bobbings (four tet rmx)
blue nile - alice coltrane
talk - elemental
and then patterns - four tet

LAZY JOURNALIST

Plant my flag atop the hill

Fed the fucking rumour mill, 

We were all but hyped to death, 

And left for dead amongst the rest

Fist Fucked like Ventriloquist

Fuck you, Lazy Journalist!

- "Lazy Journalist" by Pat Cullen

The Most Important Music Chart In The History Of The Universe..

ok so,
here's what i'm enjoying at the moment.

matrimonioids... - prefuse 73
music is math - boards of canada
sun - caribou
look into the heart of now - clarke
j&w beat - floating points
the storm - high places
arpeggio - jackson and his computer band
our time - kieran hebden and steve reid
k.hole - coco rosie
held the hand - daniel johnston
ever since - dirty three
the warmest static - vorad fils

oh and..

all of>>

COSMOGRAMMA - FLYING LOTUS
out of control.

Video

Loserspeak in New Tongue

Shows

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Loserspeak In New Tongue video

Foreign Tapes, Home at last

Last week we had a mysterious box delivered, and the contents were quite pleasing to the senses...wasn't sure if we'd ever get the chance to make one of these, but here it is - The elusive hard copy.



Listening to:

Jonsi - "Go", Nico Muhly "Mothertongue, Van Morrison "Astral Weeks", Bad Brains "I Against I"

Past Lives

Single is now available on itunes. Includes a rad remix by Sydney act Underlapper. If you haven't already, check them out, seriously talented.


Past Lives

Parades Music Video

Tour

Come join us and The Seabellies.



(artist rendition of The Seabellies)

Thursday 18th March - Oxford Art Factory, Sydney - $12 pre sale / $15 on the door.

*Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au, Moshtix Outlets, or phone 1300 438 849

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Friday 19th March - Grand Hotel, Wollongong - $10 Pre sale / $12 on the door.
*Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au, Moshtix Outlets, or phone 1300 438 849

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Sunday 21st March – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle - $12 pre sale / $15 on the door
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets and over the bar at Cambridge Hotel.

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Saturday 27th March - John Curtin Hotel, Melbourne - $10 pre sale / $15 on the door.
*Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545

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Thursday 1st April - The Clubhouse, Brisbane - $10 pre sale / $12 on the door.
*Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545

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Saturday 3rd April - Plus One, Adelaide - Only The Seabellies
*Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au, Moshtix Outlets, or phone 1300 438 849

Michael (currently listening to bird of prey by fatboy slim)

Little secrets

I came to the end of "You Shall Know Our Velocity" (excellent reading), which I had bought second hand of the internets. I always check the blank page at the back of a book, out of habit really, for no reason whatsover. And I found something written by the previous owner (spelling and grammar intact):

"Like someone said on the back, this book could inspire a generation as much as it documents it, and that it does , I think, with the humor we must keep, the audacity we need to learn how and when to use, and the bombastic assault on all that we know to be true and real in this world.

Rolling your eyes will accomplish nothing, but this does, and I will, and I hope you will. I know it like I know the sun settles in the west I call home, but I still look at my compass every now and then just to be sure

The dark will keep fear at bay just as we keep shoes tied as we walk and a little loose when we skate, allowing a little room for chaos to reign, and somewhere between the space the sky hides with intentions of warmth and the earth we're so fond of manipulating with spades and soles, that's where we reside, breathing the tides in thankless intervals of moon-cycling sound, in and around us until we can no longer look left, right or behind - and then there is up, and we become the oceans sea" ... Sean Talbot October 6, 2009

Truly astounding. Our album "Foreign Tapes" will be out in April on Dot Dash/Remote Control

There is to much talk of

Past Lives.

Coming soon.