To Australian audiences, Clare is best known as a folk flavoured song-writing original who has released a slew of fantastic, thoughtful and cohesive albums through Capital Records/EMI. She has won Australia’s ARIA Award for best female talent in 2006, was nominated twice in 2008, was runner up in the International Song-writing Competition in the singer/songwriter category, has played every major festival in Australia, sold a stack of records and is generally loved and admired as much for her charm and leadership as her music, everywhere she goes.
But things are changing in the Bowditch camp. The first taste from a new album is meant to set the tone of what’s to follow, and that’s exactly what Clare Bowditch’s new song “The Start of War” achieves, in a very dramatic way.
In late 2008 Clare slayed a European tour with fellow Aussie and ARIA winner, Goyte, and then set up shop in that greatest of artistic cities, Berlin. After a chance encounter, Clare happened to rent the apartment of producer Mocky, most famous for his work on Feist's “The Reminder” album (as well as working with Peaches, Jamie Lidell, Gonzales, and a host of others). By day she wrote songs on Mocky’s piano (with Feist’s triple-platinum album award sitting above her) and by night, she and her Casio performed in hidden underground bars in the lost parts of Berlin, refining her sound for the morning to come.
Not surprisingly, what Clare produced during this time is a courageous and exciting contrast to what has gone before.
The Start of War is a fascinating and addictive reflection on the problem of being human, recorded with long-time co-conspirator Marty Brown and the great, GREAT, Mick Harvey (ex-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). With an honest, stripped-back arrangement, most of the song’s tension is drawn from the panoramic overlaying of backing vocals. One Bowditch just isn’t enough!
Clare’s forthcoming album is still being recorded with Melbourne’s cut and paste maestro, Qua. Then after a UK/European tour, Clare will be recreating David Bowies' amazing vocal sound from “Heroes” in Berlin's famous Hansa Studios, with Mocky at the helm.
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top notch gig tonight, Clare and band! im a bit tired from running after Tim! lol have a great gig tomorrow in cairns! and Clare, i'll keep you up to date with the stuff!
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The OK SLUTS hit the Adelaide Fringe! Three shows over three nights! The OK SLUTS are maverick mash-up emissaries from Alice Springs, on a quest to unpack the myths of the outback whilst unpacking their own whiteness into a controversial interactive song and dance show-bag that you can take home after and keep sucking on for weeks. With tight vocal harmonies and loose conceptual brilliance, the OK SLUTS explore genres unique to the centre such as casio gospel, wrong-country-town, desert vampire polka, hip folk fusion, indie-genous and two-thousand and eighties and have been described as something between hardplace and classic rock. Their sound is a product of taking the music of black American rap artists, passing it through tinny Holden Commodore speakers in a remote community, looping it four times around an Indigenous world view, filtering it through the complex and cynical mind of a burnt-out white Aboriginal service industry worker then adding distortion and a little bit more echo. Central Australian Rock Theatre Electric light hotel, Producers bar March 2nd 3rd, 4th
One hour and five minutes of nasty supercool garage and punk with a delicious injection of psychfreakbeat just in the middle. Just new or upcoming releases! No museum stuff!!! Links at www.lhcinmybasementpodcast.libsyn.com - www.myspace.com/lhcinmybasement as ever.
PLAYLIST
The Intelligence - Like, Like, Like (In The Red)
The Amcats - Jang Jang Robot (Smashed)
The Dirtbombs - Tanzen Gehn' (Soundflat)
The Intellectuals - Sex On TV (JeetKune)
Thee Fine Lines - Domino (Wee Rock)
Flying Squad - Going Down from Squadraphonic (Smashed)
Monsignore Boogalou - The Hustler from One Brain 4 Souls (Unsigned Yet!)
Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empires - Rosie Jones (Soundflat)
King Salami & The Cumberland 3 - Shake It Wild (Soundflat)
Waistcoats - Wir Gehen (Soundflat)
Dr. Explosion - Beautiful Delaylah (Soundflat)
Imperial Surfers - Hunka Hunka (Soundflat)
Tuna Tacos - We Gotta Lotta Do (Soundflat)
Montesas - So Wunderschïn (Soundflat)
B-Back - Misunderstood ftom Experiment In Colour (Area Pirata)
The Mynd Gardeners - Don't Bother Me Again from I See Through My Own Tyme (Smashed)
Fuzzface - Autentico Selvagem from Voodo Hits (Rastrillo)
Monsters - Fever (Soundflat)
The King Kongs - Crusher (Solnze)
Muddy Udders - Stinky Hole Epidemic from Consolidate Your Feelings
The Acronyms - KKK Go Away + Teenager In Love from Bands & Vans Compilation (Wee Rock)
Fuzz Chromes - Dropout (Fuzzy)
The Itch - West Of Hell from Vita Imperfecta (Wee Rock)
Fugue - Fuck The USA from The Best And The Rest Of... (Wee Rock)
La Motosierra - Chain Saw from Directo Desde El W.C. Bathroom Days Re-Revisited (Rastrillo)
The Neckties - Let Us Skate from Skate Smart, Not Hard Compilation (Fuzzy)
The Imposters - What's Wrong from Skate Smart, Not Hard Compilation (Fuzzy)
Chiltons - Devil's Music from Skate Smart, Not Hard Compilation (Fuzzy)
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This time Nick Twist II offer you a rich blend of some of the rawest old and new PsychGaragePunk vinyls and give you the chance to find the their contacts out on his blog at www.lhcinmybasementpodcast.libsyn.com and www.myspace.com/lhcinmybasement. Have fun!
PLAYLIST
The Rippers - Stop To Call My Name (Gravedigger's)
Los Raw Gospels - Fight! (Yakisakana)
The Four Slicks - 56 jewel t! (Yakisakana)
The Suppressors - Woods Of My Heart (Goodbye Boozy)
Turpentine Brothers - Get Your Mind Off Me (Aliensnatch)
Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion - She's The One (Crypt)
Black Lips! - Does She Want (Slovenly)
The King Kahn And BBQ Show - Teenage Foeutus (Crypt)
The Wylde Mammoths - You (Crypt)
The Headstones - 24 Hours Everyday (Pharaoh)
Black Time - Mystery Shopper from Midnight World (In The Red)
Dee Rangers - Blue Swedes from Blue Swedes (Screaming Apple)
The Tell-Tale Hearts - It's Not Me from The Now Sound of Tell-Tale Hearts (Voxx)
Demon's Claws - Get Together from Little Satan's Pet Pig (In the Red)
The Night Crawlers - Feel So Good (Feathered Apple)
Mr Moon Jelly - Joy Rider 5 (Unreleased Yet)
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