 LET'S GO SHOPPING!
Guess what? The shopping page has been fixed! Thanks for your patience. Now you can order all those HAC cds and vinyl you've been wanting to get the last few months. Thanks to Sandra for fixing it all up. BUT WAIT! THAT'S NOT ALL! If you order between now and the end of June, it's FREE POST if you're in Australia and HALF THE POSTAL CHARGES outside Australia for orders AUD$18.00 or over (we'll deduct the charges from your order at this end)...Now Go Real Crazy!!!
 THE RETURN OF SNEEZE
Their last show was the Half A Cow Sweet Sixteenth night at the Annandale in November 2006.
Now they are back! Tom Morgan, Nic Dalton and Leticia Nischang (Bambino Koresh) will be joined on drums by long-time cohort Andy Calvert, currently riding high in Wifey. And you'll all remember Tom and Andy played in the 'ill-fated' Givegoods (now what does ill-fated really mean?).
It's been two and a half years since we last saw Sneeze grace the stage...and they are ready to start up all over again! With four albums under their sleeve, including the classic Lost The Spirit To Rock & Roll, Sneeze will be recording album number five over the next few months and due for release early 2010. Sneeze will be playing at the Bald Faced Stag, 345 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt on Friday 12th June supported by Adelaide bands We Grow Up and the British Robots.
 KHANCOBAN are heading West!
WA TOUR:
Wed 3rd June The Moon Cafe (Northbridge, WA) Andre solo show
Thur 4 June Mojo's (North Fremantle) khancoban play with Justin Walshe Folk Machine + Selk Hastings
Fri 5 June The Hyde Park Hotel (Perth) khancoban play with Schvendes + Hayley Beth + Justin Walshe
Sat 6 June Clancy's Fish Pub (Fremantle) khancoban play with The Fancy Brothers
Sun 7 June Redcliffe on The Murray (Pinjarra) khancoban play two sets
MELBOURNE:
Saturday 20 June Northcote Uniting Church Hall. High Street, Northcote. Details TBA
WE GROW UP will be touring the Eastern States for the very first time, along with good friends, The British Robots in June. They say: We have dubbed this our 'Stimulus Package tour of the Eastern states' since we're paying for with money received from Kevin 07's recent cash handouts. 
Thur 11 June The Empress, Melbourne w/ The British Robots & Institut Polaire
Fri 12 June the Bald Faced Stag, 345 Paramatta Road, Leichhardt, Sydney w/ Sneeze, The British Robots
Sat 13 June Clarence Corner Hotel, Brisbane w/ The British Robots
Sat 20 June Rhino Room, Adelaide - w/ The British Robots & The Honey Pies
I'll give you bonafied lovin'!
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Nic Dalton and his Gloomchasers have released a summer single while they put the finishing touches to the Play All Night album (due out in May 2009). It's a bluegrass cover of the Chromeo disco hit Bonafied Lovin' and is available from iTunes only: 
 Another new song from Nic Dalton appears on the US label Planting Seed's compilation Blue Skies Daisy Days . Titled 'Domestic Bliss' and co-written with Nic's wife Kylie, it also features Gloomchasers drummer Danny Heifetz. Check it out here:
WE GROW UP
Night Kitchen
We Grow Up are a five-piece band who formed in 2006, led by singer-songwriters Jonathan Mortimer and Anthony Golding. They are joined by bassist Prudence Hart, keyboardist Jakub Tengdahl (who drummed on the album) and new drummer Tom Mackay. The band won a Triple J Unearthed competition in 2007, supported Missy Higgins in their home town and some regular Triple J airplay has helped create greater awareness of the band nationally. There are so many great tracks on Night Kitchen. Even the more left-field ones, such as 'Fingernails', are incredibly beautiful songs. The band aren't afraid to try something different with the arrangements and the whole thing comes across like a pop merry-go round. Love the extra 'Celia' refrain, the folk-pickings in 'Office Christmas Party' and there are memories of the Rain Parade in 'The Girl Who Threw Her Man Towards The Deep', which has a great little gnarly guitar riff appearing throughout. The final track 'Feathers' is a psychedelic gem, complete with whispery vocals and a great Triffids like melody line.
KHANCOBAN
Limbs May Fall
The band has recently finished recording their anticipated full-length record, Limbs May Fall, a twelve-track effort recorded in Melbourne by Neil Thomason (plus additional recording by Pete Cohen) and mastered in Chicago by Bob Weston, which is being released through Half A Cow Records on September 8th 2008. Being launched in Sydney: Saturday September 27th 2008 at The Hopetoun Hotel, 416 Bourke St, Surry Hills with Rand and Holland + Des Miller + And Then To Bed. Being launched in Melbourne: Saturday October 11th 2008 at the Northcote Social Club with TBA. Being launched in Adelaide on October 4th at the Rhino Room with WE GROW UP - a new Half A Cow signing - so it's a double launch!
SHE LOVES YOU TOO: Girl group compilation (hac100) OUT NOW!
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A compilation different to any other! Recorded between 1994-1998 it is a ‘fake girl group compilation’ finally released now to celebrate Half A Cow’s Sweet Sixteenth. Featuring songs written by the Half A Cow roster (Robyn St Clare, Nic Dalton, Tania ‘Spdfgh’ Bowers, Sidewinder’s Nick and Martin Craft, Tom Morgan) and music by Nic Dalton, Shane Melder, Nick and Martin Craft from Sidewinder with lead vocals by Juliana Hatfield, Lara “Ben Lee band” Meyerratken, Sally “New Buffalo” Russell, Kirsty Stegwazi and a host of unknowns. Includes 24 page booklet with liner notes, lyrics, the "fake" record covers and biographies.
AGNES KAIN: Keep walking or I'll kill you (hac131) OUT NOW!
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Indie folk pop duo Agnes Kain (Chanelle Afford and Stefan Simunic) have
been creating and playing music together for the past couple of years.
They are excited to announce the release of their debut album Keep walking
or I'll kill you, which despite the wicked title was born of love.
Throughout there is a deepness and substance that may be missed on first
listen, and although the album contains many a cheerful moment, concealed
within the upbeat and playful melodies of songs such as 'All time High'
and 'Puddles and Mud' are tales of a more serious and somber nature.
Whilst others like, 'My brother told me' and the title track, 'Keep
walking or I'll kill you' are penned from a still and thoughtful place of
innocence and bruises. Both self-taught musicians, Stefan and Chanelle
played most of the instruments on the album, including guitar, piano,
mandolin, bass, melodica, glockenspiel, and percussion. There is a
darkness which underlies the infectious and cleverly constructed songs of
Keep walking or I‚ll kill you, but also a feeling of sharing tea with old
friends. Listening to the album it is easy to fall in love with its
whimsical charm and warmth.
the WILD CHERRIES: That's Life (hac113)
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That's Life is a compilation of the Wild Cherries - the second '60s band of Lobby Loyde, Australia's first guitar hero and the guy who taught Billy Thorpe to really play. After he left the Purple Hearts, Lobby Loyde went onto Melbourne's Wild Cherries. By the time Lobby joined, the band had a new line-up comprising of original bassist Les Gilbert now switched to organ, Keith Barber on the drums, Peter Eddey on the bass, and Danny Robinson on lead vocals.
That's Life contains 24 tracks from 1965-68, including 16 previously unreleased. All eight songs from the 1967-68 Festival singles are here, plus unreleased recordings from the original 1965-66 lineup (who never released anything in their day) and a recently discovered 1966 live show. Add 'em up: 16 unreleased tracks! Plus 36 page booklet and never-seen-before pictures.
Very sad news with the passing of Lobby Loyde on Saturday April 21st, 2007. Lobby had been battling lung cancer for the last year and recently been playing shows with his old bands The Coloured Balls and the Purple Hearts to "play with his mates one more time". As well as releasing Lobby's first band The Purple Hearts last year, Half A Cow was keen to get the Wild Cherries compilation out so Lobby could see it as soon as possible. They arrived Thursday 19th. Lobby's copies of the cd were sent out on Friday 20th. Sadly, he never got to see it.
About Half A Cow...
Half A Cow Records has been a major force in the Australian independent music scene by releasing over 140 albums, mini-albums and singles by over forty different bands on both cd and vinyl for sixteen years. Half A Cow Records started in late 1989 by Nic and original co-owner Miles Ferguson at the same time they opened the now-closed Half A Cow book, comic and record store on Glebe Point Road in Sydney. The label's original intention was to release local bands on vinyl who Nic and Miles personally liked - a trait that continues to this day that makes Half A Cow one of the most unique independent labels in the world.
Bands that have released records on Half A Cow include the Smallgoods, The Orange Humble Band, Smudge, Art Of Fighting, Sidewinder, Crow, Kim Salmon, Sneeze and Bernie Hayes. Recent bands include Sydney's Bruce and Luke Russell, Melbourne's Khancoban, the Triangles and Adelaide's Swayback. Half A Cow has also released 'classic re-issues' by the Wild Cherries, The Eastern Dark, The Missing Links, Purple Hearts, the Someloves and Pip Proud.
Half A Cow owner Nic Dalton is, first and foremost, a musician and songwriter. He currently plays in the Gloomchasers and also with Tom Morgan in their band Sneeze. Over his career has been a member of the Plunderers, Godstar, Love Positions and helped out Hummingbirds, Ratcat and Lemonheads along the way.
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