About me: Shoot the Player is a Sydney based project, inspired by the Take Away Shows. We make spontaneous and unrehearsed music videos live on the streets in Sydney. We find a band, take them out onto the streets and ask them to play; we record.
Brisbane outfit Toy Balloon will release their debut album
Toy Division on November 8 through Lofly Records, and to celebrate will perform
an east coast launch tour throughout November.
Formed in 2007, Toy
Balloon was originally a fledgling two-piece made up by Nimai Etheridge’s
uniquely melodic wall-of-sound guitar and Greg Cooper’s beautiful sequenced
electronic compositions. The band have since matured into a four piece featuring
Chloe Cooper (Mr Maps) on key boards and Ben Green on drums.
The album
was recorded and mixed at the Lofly Hangar in Brisbane, a DIY performance space
that Toy Balloon has been an integral part of creating. Fostering emerging
artists and left-of-centre music, the Hangar acts as a performance space,
recording studio, and meeting place; and has resulted in a record with a rich,
layered sound reminiscent of New Order, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, and LCD
Soundsystem.
Catch Toy Balloon launch Toy Division at a venue near you
this Oct/ November.
TOY BALLOON TOUR DATES:
Brisbane- Thursday 29
October- The Zoo, Fortitude Valley w/ Moon Jog, Tin Can Radio and Doom
Doom.
Sydney- Wednesday 4 November- ‘Upstarts’ at Spectrum, Darlinghurst
w/ Convaire and Black Bear Brown Bear
Sydney- Thursday 5 November- Oxford
Arts Factory, Darlinghurst w/ World Champion and others
Melbourne-
Saturday 7 November- Pony, Melbourne w/ Love Connection and
Aoi
Melbourne- Sunday 8 November- El Joyero, Melbourne
Toy
Division is released November 6 on Lofly Records, with distribution through MGM.
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