This uniquely Australian worldview of Go-Betweens drummer Glenn Thompson is welded here to sun-kissed melodies and exemplary songwriting. These cinematic songs of love, loss and exhilaration feel like precious, forgotten memories and 'Brighton Bothways' is a riveting musical history lesson mixed with everyday uncertainty. Almost perfect. 8 DF NME
"Beachfield’s beguiling debut, Brighton Bothways" Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times.
★★★★ “A record to leave you with a smile on your face and a song in your heart.
Eleven of them, actually” – The Courier Mail
“He turns routine into something dreamy and romantic, with each and every one of these 11 songs full-to-bursting with subtle and seductive melodies” – Rave
“An ear for a great hook and a canny ability to turn life’s mundane little observances
into some glorious pop nuggets” – dB
“Memories of Champagne-era Custard come flowing back with this sparkling debut...
such is the brilliance on offer with ‘Brighton Bothways’” – Scene
“From semi-acoustic sunniness with a romantic streak to gently angular tunes with a pop fan’s obsessiveness... the kind of unaffected songs
Ben Lee is desperate to write” – SMH
Beachfield is the musical project of Glenn Thompson, once drummer of the Go-Betweens, currently guitarist/keyboardist with Robert Forster. During the '90s Glenn was also the drummer and sometimes singer of another Australian pop group Custard. Beachfield's debut album Brighton Bothways out now in Europe on Tuition and in Australia on THINK.
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Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
TORTUGA BAR - STORM EP (VIERSIEBEN RECORDS/FINETUNES) OUT NOW!
This online EP release (5 Tracks & Artwork) is not just an appetizer for the album which follows on June 26 - among the album versions of "Storm" (feat. Evan Dando) and "Feel the Love" it contains a remix of "Storm", made by labelmates Monocular, the track "Cavallo Pazzo (Song For Mondo Fumatore To Sing)" feat. Werner Kureinski, former member of Aheads and "Do It Right", a nice version of the Daniel Johnston song performed by Tortuga Bar and Navel.
i cant believe i missed your empress gig! for some stupid reason i thought it was in June. Ive been waiting YEARS for you to come to melbourne and i missed it! i hope it was splendid. Callum
Glenn is a live guest for a chat and a Beachfield song on the Outpost rock n roll radio show tomorrow on 2SER. Tune in to the Outpost on 2SER 107.3 or www.2ser.com Thursday 30 April @ 12. 00 midday !
