Woooooo! HUGE thanks to everyone for coming out to the shows and helping make them a success. We're very excited about seeing the video and hearing the recording; we'll keep you posted with when it's all ready. Well done to Jane who was on stage for all six sets across the two nights, for a grand total of six (?) costume changes....!

We got a very nice review and some great photos at What Sound - link below.

Thanks again and we'll see you next time.

http://www.whatsoundmelbourne.com/gig-review-the-nymphs-and-the-tiger-and-me-at-the-toff-august-10th/

YO YO YO okay team here comes the guts of the mail-out in point-form, after which you'll be at the fateful cross-roads of having to decide whether or not to take the point-form version and walk away, secure in the knowledge that you have the basic information without sacrificing much of your sweet, sweet time, OR do you live dangerously, gamble that time and keep on reading, with further useful information and light entertainment as the potential prize, and disappointment and/or no interest in the said information lurking nearby as the risk. I'd consider it your common or garden low-risk medium-reward scenario.

Here is is:

1. Sydney, Wollongong and Canberra shows this weekend.
2. Two Melbourne shows August 10/11
3. We have a new single and b-side
4. Thanks Brisbane, good times

You decide...


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Oh hello. Looks like you have decided to gamble your time and read on, CONGRATULATIONS FOR MAKING IT THIS FAR IT IS DYNAMITE FROM HERE ON IN well not really well maybe let's just see how we go.
 

1. Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra...
...we are visiting you, from this Thursday until Sunday. Thursday/Friday Sydney, Saturday Wollongong, Sunday Canberra. Great venues and bands sharing the bill throughout. Details and tickets are HERE.

2. Melbourne August 10/11
Two shows at The Toff in Town, live recording, double headline with The Nymphs. Tickets are selling fast, which is always nice, so get in quick if you're keen. Details and tickets are HERE.


3. New single
Jack Middle of the Broken Heart is the latest single from The Drifter's Dawn. It tells the story of a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde. For those of you who own it already, we have included an alternate version of the tune as a b-side. I'll let you know when they're up on iTunes, in the meantime there's a little write-up on it (with audio) HERE.

While I'd like to take the 'sweet vocals' compliment that the article send my way, it's actually Tobes singing this one. He's off fighting crime (hiking) this week and isn't even here to defend himself. Jane sings Pantomime, I sing Made it to the Harbour, and Tobes sings this one. We did a single for each lead singer. We're very democratic/meritocratic/I'M A DICTATOR.

For the record, this song is very much Tobes; he's singing lead and he wrote it. He actually wrote it years ago, right before he joined the band. They're possibly my favourite lyrics that he's ever brought to the band. Very cool I think.

A huge thanks to Tim at Made Visual for yet more excellent artwork. He turns out fantastic artwork for us every time. This one is a beauty. 

4. Thanks Brisbane
Photos from Brisbane. Happy days. See you again up north in September.


- Ade and The Tiger & Me

This Saturday 6th: Bennetts Lane
Tix and more details here


Good afternoon,

If, as I suspect might be the case, the recent trend of these newsletters, the established trend of thesenewsletters, and opening gambit of this particular newsletter are combining to give the impression that you'll have to wade through a haystack of indulgent,  flowery language to find the needle of actual relevant information, then you, sir and/or madam....may have a point. Although let us never forget that brevity comes at a price, and as my Grandfather used to tell me, "Brevity comes at a price". The price? He never said. He was Canadian.

That was all haystack, but I'll save you some time and flag the needle for you now. Here are the three key needles, before I haystack my way to the conclusion.

• Bennetts Lane, this weekend. Intimate show.
• The Toff in Town, live recording, double headline with The Nymphs. Tix and details here
• Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra in July, details here

Bennetts Lane

We're back at Bennetts Lane this Saturday 6th for an 'intimate' show. It's intimate because we'll swap sticks for brushes, electric for upright bass, keyboard for grand piano, trumpet for trumpet, and Tobes will play nude.

The Toff in Town Live Recording

These two shows are two of our biggest for the year. If you like this band, and all evidence points to either this fact or Sarah signing you up to this mailing list against your will and without your knowledge or consent (something she's trying to give up), then I recommend catching one of these. We're putting everything we have into them. They're being recorded and filmed, and I'll almost certainly ask the audience to sing some bits. The shows will feature a set from The Nymphs, a set from The Tiger & Me, and a collaborative set, including this sort of thing (I don't know who the 12-year old on piano is but it definitely isn't me).

Winter Tour

Between the two shows above, we're sneaking in a little east-coast tour, including a few Sydney shows, Canberra, Brisbane and Wollongong.

Thank you for your time. I'll leave you with a photo of my nephew 'being Tobes'. He is one of Tobes's biggest fans. I quote "uncle Ade is my uncle, and Tobes, well, he's my prime minister".

- Ade and The Tiger & Me

Good morning,

Where possible, I like to operate within the boundaries set out by email-subject-line-convention, and as such this email will be almost entirely dedicated to information about our show this Saturday, as indicated in afore-mentioned subject line. There are many and varied areas of life in which I like to consider myself a 'non-conformist', but email subject lines is not one of them. Start messing with that shit and THE WHOLE SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN. In any event I suspect I'm not as much of a non-conformist as I like to think but don't tell the people I went to high school with I like to keep them on their toes.

The irony now is that we're well into this email and I have not yet really discussed the gig, therefore breaking the subject-line-convention that I initially set up as important. See, this is exactly the sort of non-conformity that I'm talking about. Danger is my middle name. 

If last night's rehearsal told me anything, it's that we have every intention of both playing well and looking sharp at The Spotted Mallard this Saturday, and if either of these does not occur then something will have gone horribly wrong and we will be very embarrassed. To aid in this commendable goal we will be joined by special guests on trumpet and oboe. You might recognize them from our single launch at the NSC, but this depends almost exclusively on whether or not you were there.

Also gracing the stage will be the always-stunning vocal trio Aluka, and exciting folk/pop quintet Oh Pep!

I did a little Q & A for Beat Magazine about the show, it's here.

In addition, a happy accident on a search engine has led to the discovery that the date is also World Gin Day, an occasion devoted to the appreciation of gin, which lends the evening a certain, je ne sais quoi, or even possibly a…… gin e sais quoi!

EH?!

Am I right?!

No?

I’ll see myself out.

Actually before I go I have one more thing I'd like to say. GO BOMBERS GOOD WORK ON FRIDAY. Yes I accept that this is in no way relevant or what you signed up for, but this is both a) the biggest and b) the only (hence the biggest) public forum I frequent, so it's either this or chanting (further) victory slogans in Jane's direction, and it was made clear to me early in our relationship that what I thought was 'charming enthusiasm' and 'genuine passion' was in fact 'mental' and 'annoying', so please just think of Jane's general well-being and indulge me. What you need to understand is that beating Carlton lights a dangerous flame in me that burns furiously until the schadenfreude takes hold like an epic drug fever and I'm basking in their sweet, sweet misery and drinking their delicious tears. I blame the 1999 Preliminary Final, and also my Dad (who blames the 1947 Grand Final). Fraser Brown's tackle on Dean Wallis stalks me in my nightmares just go around him Dean OH NO! NO! GOD DAMN YOU FRASER BROWN.

Oh.

Sorry about that.

This Saturday 15th: The Spotted Mallard
With: Aluka and Oh Pep!
$12+bf or $15 on the door
Tix and more details here