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A couple of reviews from the Toronto show:
 
Now Magazine
THE TIGER AND ME at Rancho Relaxo Rating: NNNN
Melbourne’s the Tiger and Me were in danger of having their soft folk-pop drowned out by chatter, but thankfully they were arresting enough to keep the attention of most in the room. Elements of country rub up against a cabaret feel and some Gypsyish tendencies. Accessible but esoteric enough to still stand out. BB
http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=163621
 
 
CBC

The second release "Live at Manchester Lane" is now available for purchase at CDBaby - www.cdbaby.com/tigerandme2.  You can also click on Releases above to get there in a less typy, more clicky, way.
 
You can purchase this release as the physical CD or as a high quality download from CDBaby RIGHT NOW or you can wait for it to be available on iTunes, which will be in a couple of weeks' time.
 
The Tiger and Me Live at Manchester Lane features the immense talents of Mr Paul Daniel on drums and Mr Tim Keegan on double bass.  With this recording, we are bridging the gap between our first release, the self-titled EP and our upcoming album.  On it you will find some old songs given a new feel with the addition of bass and drums, as well as some cracking new tunes to give you a taster of what's to come on the album.
 

The good folk of New Found Frequency have recorded two of our gigs recently, with the entire sets from both streaming at the New Found Frequency Website. The Manchester Lane gig, which is now for sale as our second CD release (see next news post), can be heard at:
 
http://www.newfoundfrequency.com/concert/2008-04-17/The_Tiger_and_Me/
 

 
 
The second of our Canada shows was as part of the Australian Export Showcase - the entire evening was recorded and can also be heard at the NFF website. The guy who engineered the recording has worked with some big names (I will resist the temptation to name drop, suffice to say we were excited) and was working out of a massive portable studio van parked next to the venue. Awesome. Our set is at:
 
http://www.newfoundfrequency.com/concert/2008-05-16/The_Tiger_and_Me/
 

 

New Music West
Thursday 15 May - The Libra Room, 1608 Commercial Drive Vancouver - 8.30pm
 
Friday 16 May - The Bourbon, 50 W Cordova Street Vancouver - 9pm
 
 
Supporting Farrell Spence Thursday 22 May - Lime Restaurant, 1130 Commercial Drive Vancouver - 8pm
 
 
NXNE
Saturday 14 June - Rancho Relaxo, 300 College Street Toronto - 8.30pm
 

Jane and I are off overseas soon – we're playing shows at New Music West festival in Vancouver, and North by North East in Toronto, as part of New Found Frequency's Australian Export Showcase. What a lot of words with capital letters. My shift-finger is tired now.
 
THEN.... We're holidaying in Europe (yeah awesome I know) for several months (no really I know awesome). Going to Eastern Europe so I'm hoping to build on my gypsy music fascination with some close encounters of the authentic gypsy music kind.
 
We'll be back Septemberish and will launch pretty much straight into our first album (yay). It seems like a logical progression. EP. Live recording. Overseas gigs. Album. That makes sense to me.
 
We have Paul Daniel on drums (you may have seen him drum for Brendan Welch) and Tim Keegan on upright bass (The Portraits, Jess McAvoy) for both the album and some gigs coming up. This is very exciting. I will paste in what I said about them in our mailout:
Paul Daniel plays the drums like a poet sitting in a remote Norwegian cabin with only his genius to keep him warm, carving small wooden toys for his children in between writing a masterpiece.

Tim Keegan plays upright bass as though he's talking sweetly to a classy lady from uptown 1940s New York and drinking whiskey at the same time, seemingly not quite paying full attention to what he's doing and yet you can't help wondering where the whiskey is.
 
What? Exactly.

We're not very old tigers, so until recently we'd not been reviewed. Jmag gave us a little write up and The Age newspaper has pointed readers in our direction, but we'd not actually had a music journalist listen to, analyze, and then share his thoughts about our work in a very public forum. So without further ado, I refer you to Beat magazine's (slightly unusual..) appraisal of our first studio effort here. We do get compared to dahl, which I'm comfortable with, as it is a fairly strange thing to say. I'm pretty sure that the phrase 'fizzy potty poo poo sound effects' was bound to happen to us sooner or later.
 
http://www.beat.com.au/review.php?id=1108