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GREY DATURAS Australian shows June / July
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Member Since4/12/2008
Band Websitewww.greydaturas.com
Band MembersRobert MacManus
Bonnie Mercer
Robert Mayson

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InfluencesSun Ra, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Rashied Ali, John Cage, Einstürzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Wolf Eyes, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Syd Barrett / Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Neurosis, Monarch, Nick Cave / The Birthday Party, Classic Aussie Punk & Hard R&B Rock!
Sounds Like
LIVE @ Roadburn / Beyond the Pale in Tilburg, Netherlands: 25/05/2009



LIVE @ La Malterie in Lille, France: 26/05/2009


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"Not many display the DIY, "grab the bull by the horns" attitude the way Australia's Grey Daturas do. Completely uncompromising music and total dedication to touring initially warmed our hearts to these amazing people. Not content to sit around and wait for something to happen, or for all the imaginary conditions to be right, Grey Daturas have toured the United States several times, mostly in the true underground art and noise spaces. Expense, frustration and difficulties be damned, they show more balls than most bands that live in the U.S. or Europe.
Not many would reciprocate, and dare to throw it all to the wind and go to Grey Datura's part of the world. Uniting krautrock like jams, unstructured free noise, and psychedelic heavy rock into something unusual and heartfelt it will be a true joy to have their pure attitude and sound at Beyond the Pale"
Steve Von Till / Neurosis

"Grey Daturas hit the stage like a multi-car pile up! Heralded as a band with no songs or melodies, it's hard to really grasp what how awful 45 minutes of full volume feedback can be, without actually enduring ear bleed"
Carolyn Dempsey - Inpress Magazine (Australia)

When asked what he thought of Grey Daturas, Red replied:
"It's like Hendrix in the 60's, no one really got it".
Red - Sound engineer @ Hotel Great Northern (Byron Bay, Australia)

“Grey Daturas may very well be to Australia what Boris is to Japan or Sunn O))) is to the United States”
MIKE ASS-KICK HALEY - Heart Attack (USA)

“If the Melbourne sunshine puts a smile on most of its native's faces, this must be compensated for by the scowls of the Grey Daturas, an improvisational three piece intent on wiping all that is bright, clean and decent from the sun kissed land and drowning it in a muddy grave in the gape of the Pacific”
NICK SOUTHGATE - The Wire (UK)

“A perfect mix of churning metallic rock, New Zealand style free noise, freaked out psychedelic space rock and buzzing rumbling drone rock. So so good.”
Andeeee - Aquarius Records (USA)

“Sounds fucking great”
David Keenan - Volcanic Tongue (UK)
Record LabelNeurot Recordings / Heathen Skulls
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jun 20 2009 8:00P
The Brisbane - LP Launch Hobart, Tasmania
Jun 26 2009 8:00P
The Step Inn - LP Launch Brisbane, Queensland
Jul 3 2009 8:00P
ANU Bar - LP Launch Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Jul 10 2009 8:00P
The National Hotel - LP Launch Geelong, Victoria
Jul 11 2009 8:00P
Enigma Bar - LP Launch Adelaide, South Australia

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MANAGMENT / BOOKINGS:
Robert MacManus - Heathen Skulls
Po Box 253 Brunswick East
Melbourne Australia 3057
Email: greydaturas@gmail.com
www.heathenskulls.com
www.myspace.com/heathenskulls
Ph: 61 418772816


RECORDS LABELS WE'VE WORKED WITH:
Neurot Recordings
Heathen Skulls
Diagnosis Don't Recordings
Crucial Blast
20 Buck Spin
Throne
Conspiracy
Jerk
Old English Spelling Bee
Blackset Rainbow
Crashing Jets
Important
Rocket Recordings
Isolatednowwaves
Important


DISCOGRAPHY:

The Grey Daturas



The Grey Daturas
CDR, Black Mountain/Sonic Advisor,2002 - Australia
Live Volume 1
3 inch CDR, Live EP, Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003m - Australia



Live Volume 2
3 inch CDR, Live EP, Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003 - Australia
Dead in the Woods Dead in the Woods
CD, Second Album, Crashing Jets, 2004 - Australia
CD, Album, US re-issue, Crucial Blast, 2007 - US
CD, Album, Japanese re-issue, SMD Records, 2008 - Japan

Copper / Silvr

 

Copper / Silver (collaboration with Yellow Swans)
2 X CD, Jyrk, 2005 - US
2 x 12inch LP, re-issue on Olde English Spelling Bee, 2006 - US
All I See Is Nothing All I See Is Nothing
CD, Live EP, Black Mountain / Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2005 - Australia

Yellow Swans / Grey Daturas

 

Yellow Swans / Grey Daturas - Australian Tour EP
CD, EP, Heathen Skulls, 2005 - Australia
Live at the Rob Roy Hotel Live at the Rob Roy Hotel
2 x 3inch CDR, Live EP, Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2006 - Australia

Blood Trail

 

Blood Trail
CD, US Tour EP, Heathen Skull, 2006 - Australia
Black Plague The Black Plague (Split with Wolf Eyes)
CD, Heathen Skulls, 2006 - Australia
12inch LP, Conspiracy, 2006 - Belgium

Path of Niners

 

Path of Niners
CD, EP, Heathen Skulls, 2006 - Australia
CD, EP, UK re-issue with a bonus track, Rocket Recordings, 2007 - UK
Grey Daturas / Shearing Pinx – S/T
Cassette, Split EP with Shearing Pinx, isolatednowwaves, 2006 - Canada

Dawn of the Catalyst

 

Dawn of the Catalyst
CD, EP, Split with Monarch, 20 Buck Spin, 2007 - US
12inch EP, Split with Monarch, Throne, 2007 – Spain
Owly Claw Hammer Owly Claw Hammer
12inch LP / EP, Emperor Jones, 2007 - US
Return To Disruption Return to Disruption
CD, Third Album, Heathen Skulls, 2008: OUT NOW! - Australia
CD, Third Album, Neurot Recordings, 2008: OUT NOW! - US
Photobucket Grey Daturas European Tour 7"
European Tour 7": limited to 300 and hand numbered. Side A features a new track called Baron Planet, Side B has an etching of Grey Daturas font / logo. Heathen Skulls, 2009 - Australia

COMING SOON:

Return to Disruption 12"
12" version on 170 gram wax released on HEATHEN SKULLS - April 15th, 2009

Live in Tokyo
12" Live Album, Important Records: Mid 2008- US

Live @ 3PBS Radio
12" Live EP, Important Records: Mid 2008 - US

Live @ Rob Roy (2002)
12" Live Album, Blackest Rainbow: Mid 2008 - UK



RETURN TO DISRUPTION - REVIEW
Aquarius Records (San Francisco, USA): May 2nd 2008
Huzzah! Our favorite instrumental down-under doom-bringers return (to disruption) with this new full-length, the prolific Melbourne trio's debut for Neurosis' Neurot label. It's a good fit, of course, this should go over well with the whole post-rock/metal crowd, this album often grindingly hypnotic, the Grey Daturas' lumbering sheets of distorto-drone skullflowering forth over a roiling bed of precision percussive clangor right from the get-go! Their threatening waves of pure heaviness, sharpened into a drill-drone of an attack, also occasionally take detours into areas of abstract ambience, the guitars of Bonnie Mercer and Rob MacManus carving psychedelic feedback sculptures, then tightening again back into full metallic impact, driven by the skittering drums of Robert Manson. As heavy as they are (which is HEAVY) you can't really call the Grey Dats a metal band. They're in that quasi-metal realm with the likes of SUNNO))), Boris, Harvey Milk, and Nadja, perhaps, with a certain amount of experimental lo-fi fuckery going on that reminds us of many of their freenoise comrades over in nearby New Zealand... The title track itself is a clattering, pottering about, like something the Dead C would come up with, while the track called "Undisturbed" is anything but, sounding like a violin or creaking door hinge dying a slow and dismal death. And the high-end scraping skree of "Balance Of Convenience" should peel some paint. And then, as already mentioned, there's all the juggernaut, trance-inducing, spaced-out, instrumental doom rock post rock surging through tracks like "Beyond And Into The Ulimate" and "Neuralgia". The Grey Daturas definitely like all the varieties of drone! And fans of, what should we call it, avant-doom, or drone-doom, or whatever, should like all varieties of the Grey Daturas, starting with this disc if you haven't already made their acquaintance, covering all the bases as it does!


RETURN TO DISRUPTION is available now at a record store near you!!!!
Released on Heathen Skulls (Australia) & Neurot Recordings (US / Europe)

Neurot Recordings is distributed through Revolver (US) & Sounthern (Europe)

For Australian orders please contact Heathen Skulls direct:
Robert MacManus @ Heathen Skulls: mailorderstuff@gmail.com

STORES in AUSTRALIA thats stock RETURN TO DISRUPTION:

JB Hi Fi: All stores

MELBOURNE:
Missing Link
Metropolis
Greville Records
Collectors Corner
Polyester (Both City & Fitzroy)
International Trash

SYDNEY:
Red Eye
Utopia

BRISBANE:
Rocking Horse

ADELAIDE:
Big Star (All 3 stores)

PERTH:
78's
DADA Records


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GREY DATURAS Australian shows June / July's Friends Comments
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Secret Birds





Jul 8 2009 3:45 AM

see yas in geelong!


Disproject





Jul 8 2009 2:48 AM



Thx for the add
ARABROT





Jul 6 2009 3:55 PM



takk for add
Ödland





Jun 25 2009 7:04 AM

Dear friends, our first EP is out.
Chers amis, notre premier EP est sorti.
Ödland



The Rational Academy





Jun 23 2009 8:27 AM

Totally bummed! we'll be in melbourne while yr in brisbane next weekend!
raswans
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Jun 18 2009 9:09 AM

Top stuff...thanks for the love... best Australian band.
The Lonely Narration





Jun 18 2009 5:48 AM

hey guys! heard you on triple j last night, it really caught my ear, i enjoyed it alot. peace! sam
the Scrapes





Jun 13 2009 7:37 AM

Check out our new blog and let your mind wander...

http://planetofthescrapes.blogspot.com/

"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and lost times from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
Natasha Fox > Music





Jun 7 2009 6:52 PM

Hey! hope your all well.

Hows the tour been?

Natasha
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The BANNED





Jun 7 2009 7:00 AM

Your show at the Annandale last night was bone shaking !!! thanks for your awesomeness ...BGoode
Blaxter





Jun 2 2009 9:03 AM

Thanks for the add.

Blaxter
WOMBAT Booking





Jun 1 2009 8:28 PM

what (healthy) envy! i do hope you'll kick some asses for me over there. drive safe and enjoy every single show of that tour. hugs!!! ;D
watcher





May 29 2009 9:52 AM

thanks for the add. great sounds.


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May 29 2009 8:19 AM

I really think we should organise an after party! some of the roboto guys will be in town also.

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AFTERDARK RECORDS





May 28 2009 4:02 AM

Blank Realm





May 28 2009 1:01 AM

hey geedeez! we'd love to! sounds like fun times. thanks so much for askin us!
Blank Realm





May 26 2009 5:03 PM

sik! look forward to catching up with you guys when you hit bris!

peace!

BR
SPITFIRE PARADE





May 26 2009 4:52 AM

Tom


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May 19 2009 8:00 AM

all ages show in Melbourne please.
narcotomus





May 17 2009 5:54 AM

it was good hanging at the Formula One...uh, I mean Roadburn
Slocombes Pussy





May 16 2009 10:35 AM

Hey this Thursday at The Toff the alien transmissions pulse through the atmosphere. See you there!
Pollux





May 13 2009 3:09 PM

Cheers!


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May 9 2009 3:28 PM

Hi!

Thank you for your show in Lyon: it was really awesome! It is a pity that the public was not really present...
In all cases, we are very proud to work with you! We hope you like our first compilation... We stay in touch.

Cheers

Y.
INTERCOSTAL





May 8 2009 10:14 PM

YEP
SOUNDS GOOD
FUZZ ON
hobvaat





May 8 2009 4:50 PM

Hello, Great songs and all the best for european tour.
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