DEBUT ALBUM!! - "What We Made"
Will be launched on Saturday 24th October @ The Venue, Hobart. The album will be available first at the launch, then in stores afterwards....
EP 2008
handmade covers
run of 65
--a few still available at shows
It's Only Night
2007
collaged handmade covers, every one unique
run of 45
-----sold out
Crocodile Style
EP 2006
handmade covers tied up with string
run of 43
----sold out
Members:
Billy Whims: guitar, keys, vocals, melodica
Sam J Nicholson: keys, drums, bells, vocals
Kieran Holm: fuzzy bass,glockenspiel, toys, loops
Influences
Joanna Newsom,
Gillian Welch,
Mirah,
Grand Salvo,
Holly Throsby,
Leonard Cohen,
The Andrews Sisters,
Pikelet,
Bonnie Prince Billy,
Fionn Regan,
New Buffalo,
Joni Mitchell,
Smog,
Andrew Bird,
Nick Drake,
Sam J Nicholson,
Her Last Unicorn ,
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Bands we have played with recently:
Tiny Vipers
Grand Salvo
Sophie Koh
Houlette
Genevieve & Jezebel
Milk Teddy
Shiver Like Timber
Let's Not and Say We Did
Bang!Bang!Aids!
Peter Joseph Head
My Disco
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The Steadfast Shepherd
The TM Band
Sounds Like
“Listening to Billy Whims is a little bit like meandering through a forest full of tall green trees, in the rain. Everything sparkly and shimmering, wearing red gumboots, splashing through all the puddles whilst finding your way home to a place you know will be warm. When you get there, her gentle, lilting, almost childlike voice, invites you to take a seat, have some tea, and chat awhile about anything at all, and everything. There is so much fascination and curiosity in her music. Curiosity for the tiny nuances of human life, the things that we see as children, and then forget to look for as adults, and fascination with those rare moments that change the course of such lives forever. She is always unflinchingly honest about her beliefs, her sentiments, about the things that she knows and the things that she doesn’t, and the things she maybe wants to learn. Billy’s music passes on this sense that there are parts of life that we do not know, which are elusive and mysterious. But instead of being dark and fearful, these spaces and places are enchanting, and when we do happen upon something, accidentally, out of the blue, it breaks your heart with it’s charming simplicity.” – Courtney Blunsdon
DEBUT ALBUM "WHAT WE MADE" - available in Tommy Gun Records, Hobart - soon will be in other stores....
Billy Whims songs glow in the dark, with all the mystery of overgrown backyards. These gardenbeds are where she grows her melodies by day, among guitars, keyboards and violins.
The rain comes often in Hobart, Tasmania, as does the wind, taking her songs to near and far places about Australia and now the world. Billy Whims has played with the likes of Grand Salvo, Peter Joseph Head, Milk Teddy, Sophie Koh, Tiny Vipers (US) and more. There are records to her name, first the EPs "Crocodile Style", "It's Only Night" "Earthquakes" and the soon to be released debut album "What We Made" with 12 songs of indie-folk-pop imaginings.
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poster by Damon Bird
Bit delayed, but anyway - I had a great time at Melodica #3! The set up you had in the church hall was great, it was a pity that I could only stay for the first three acts. Real shame I missed yourself and Grand Salvo, was looking forward to hearing both. My girlfriend really enjoyed Peter Escott and is now a fan, so that's wonderful and all.
Thanks for adding me to your friends and shairng new friendship with me!! Waoooohhhooo!!!!! I love your music!! And I was surprised to find my favorite friends are on your top friends!!! I hope that I can watch your live show!! I love tailor made for small room!! By the way, I want to invite you to my MySpacefriends group. But now the group is running by private setting. Therefore, after a confirmation message of the approval reached me from MySpace, you can post message to the group forum. Can you join my group "HIROHO music friends"? Please jump to the URL and visit my group page!! Do you have any informations or news? If you join to the group, please post it at the group Forum please!! And then we can share the informations or news of group members!! I want to share the great musicfriendships with you!!
doubt i'd get away with too many posters so just a few will do per campus :) so like a handful in total? i dunno, any spares I'll just put around my street or something... i'll PM you my address to drop off stuff :)
Doh! I was actually going to come along to Sirens for the Steadfast/TOOM album launch but I'm heading up to Burnie to see my gal. Lame that it interferes with Amplified week! :/ (Also miss out on H+M=Y, which I already bought a ticket too...)
My attendance to Melodica is on shaky ground too... grrr! :( Looks like another awesome gig... August 1st, hope I can come! :)
Thanks for the info though Billy, always appreciated!
(Any A4 sized posters I could print off? Might put them up around school for Melodica seeing as it is all ages. :))
hello bill! how is it going?! seems like nov. 15th (sun) would be the best for us to organize a show with you. would it be ok? btw, there's something wrong with our myspace message manager... so will you let me know your email address so that we can get in touch more smoothly?
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