Peter O'Doherty, Reg Mombassa, Jess Ciampa, Bernie Hayes and special guest Peter Mitchell.
Influences
Land scape painting, folk music, transistor radios, country music, suburbia, Australian women painters between WW1 and WW2, late afternoon shadows, cicadas, psychedelia, blues, greys, grass, Lara's Theme, the sky, bricks, weather boards, Bob Dylan and Thelonious Monk
Sounds Like
haircuts, clacking cutlery, wheels and boots on gravel, distant dragonflies and lips chapping. May not sound like any of these but can identify with south-western Pacific folk-pop-psychedelic-electro-rock ensembles
Dog Trumpet have completed their fourth album 'Antisocial Tendencies. With patient attention to detail over four and a half years of song writing and recording, the brothers (with different surnames) Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa have crafted an indelible follow-up to 2002's eponymous Dog Trumpet release. There are 12 new songs, 6 each from Reg and Pete plus a cover of the World War Two hit 'Lili Marlene' made famous by Marlene Deitrich. Recorded by Peter at his Big Brain Studio in Sydney on a vintage 16 track reel to reel tape recorder the brothers sing and play all guitars, bass, harp and keyboards with embellishment from stellar guest musicians on cello, drums and percussion, flute, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, tuba double bass and harmonica.
The live line up has Reg and Pete on guitars, Bernie Hayes on bass and backing vocals, Jess Ciampa (sometimes Hamish Stuart) on drums and backing vocals plus guest harmonica from Peter Mitchell. Bernie Hayes is a respected singer songwriter in his own right with his third album 'Homebody" newly released. Bernie also sings lead vocal and plays 12 string acoustic guitar on the Antisocial Tendencies track 'Bloomsbury Birds', Peter's homage to the English writer Virginia Woolf and her association with the literary and artistic world of the pre-war Bloomsbury group. The title track itself, Reg's distinctive call to arms Antisocial Tendencies has anti-establishment lyrics and hypnotic guitar figures striking a chord for fellow fringe dwellers, iconoclasts and artists of all stripes.
Most of the songs had their basic arrangements ironed out with acoustic guitars around Pete and Reg's respective kitchen tables. The recording process would then begin with drums first or merely acoustics and vocals. Drums and percussion were sometimes added later as were the other instruments in a casual sort of ad hoc assembly of sounds. Some of the tunes found their way to final mixes rapidly. Others were tinkered with over months, sometimes even years as the layering process proceeded. With late additions of cello and flute the album has been mixed and mastered and is now released on Half a Cow Records.
TRACKS:
1. Once Too Often
2. Antisocial Tendencies
3. Shadows
4. Reading Comics
5. Bloomsbury Birds
6. Lord and Lady Pumpkin
7. Impossible to Find
8. Demon Paradise
9. Two Blue Birds
10. Some Time
11. The Curse of the Walking Dead
12. The Universe Goes On Forever
13. Lili Marlene
Guest Musicians:
Bernie Hayes - lead vocal (track 5)
Jess Ciampa - drums and percussion (tracks 1,2,10,12,13)
Andy Travers - drums and percussion (3,7,9,11)
Hamish Stuart - drums and percussion (8)
Heather Stratfold - cello (4,5)
Dale Barlow - flute and tenor saxophone (2,5)
James Greening - trombone, tuba and pocket trumpet (8,12)
Jonathan Zwartz - double bass (5)
Peter Mitchell - harmonica (10)
Otis O'Doherty - trumpet (1)
Jane Lindsay, Lisa Spence - backing vocals (8)
hey there chris and pete. we're the new sound sensation that's sweeping the nation. we've recorded so many number one jamz that we... have a lot of number one jamz now. you like gary numan? we're probably the next gary numan. so check out our jamz. especially all of them. they'll warm your heart with their simple grace. especially "Bootifel Baibeh Boi" and "Fanta Stick Cop Row Phil Ear". so ok bye!
Since you guys are my friends I though you might want to check out the hot new Vagrants vids from the recent Hi Fi Bar gig http://www.youtube.com/thevagrants
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
Hey there, sorry to be one of those people but here's a bulk message... from the heart.
We're
hitting the road with friends 'The British Robots' and travelling all
along the east coast. Our 2rd show is in Sydney, we're
going to be at The Bald Faced Stag on June 12th (8pm) with 'Sneeze' playing their first gig in years!
'Hair Today' @ Melbourne Propaganda Windows New video work by Jenny Hall Venue:Melbourne Propaganda Windows and Michael Koro Galleries -(Blender Studio Art Complex) 110 Franklin St Melbourne Opening Time:6:00PM Friday, May 29th
The Melbourne Propaganda Window is a multimedia project that turns Franklin Street into an outdoor multimedia art space every night at sunset. 'Hair Today' will be showing every night in June.
