RICHARD IN YOUR MIND + PIKELET NATIONAL CO-HEADLINE TOUR

September/October 2010

They’ve both put out second albums this year, both won heady praise and adulation around the nation for their musical brilliance, and now Melbourne’s Pikelet and Sydney’s Richard In Your Mind join forces for a national co-headline tour of earthshaking incredible-ness.

The wildly eclectic, patently amazing and ridiculously entertaining Richard In Your Mind are still a little puffed up from all the plaudits heaped on My Volcano, which earned albums of the week around the nation and handsome Triple J rotation on its release in June. They smashed a national launch tour in July and are now slavering to get back on the road.

Meanwhile Melbourne’s dazzling, incomparable Pikelet have enjoyed a similarly meteoric trajectory with Stem, which was released to the sound of a million jaws dropping back in February. Flogged by community radio and Triple J alike, and showered in critical superlatives, Stem hit the spot and kept hitting it until a thrilling musical climax echoed across the land.

Separately they were unstoppable, but together Richard In Your Mind and Pikelet are INDESTRUCTIBLE.

RICHARD IN YOUR MIND/PIKELET CO-HEADLINE TOUR

Geelong

Friday Sep 17

The National Hotel

tickets $12+bf from www.mohshtix.com.au / 1300 438 849

or $15 on the door if still available

Melbourne

Saturday Sep 18

Curtin Bandroom

tickets $12+bf from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 438 849

or $15 on the door if still available

Canberra

Friday Sep 24

ANU Bar

$15 on the door – door sales only

Sydney

Saturday Sep 25

The Gaelic Club

tickets $12+bf from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 438 849

or $15 on the door if still available

Katoomba

Sunday Sep 26

Gearins Hotel

tickets $12+bf from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 438 849

or $15 on the door if still available

Toowoomba

Thursday Sep 30

Spotted Cow

free entry

Gold Coast

Friday Oct 1

Coolangatta Hotel

tickets $12+bf from www.oztix.com.au and www.moshtix.com.au

or $15 on the door if still available

Brisbane

Saturday Oct 2

The Clubhouse

tickets $12+bf from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 438 849

or $15 on the door if still available

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Melbourne grunge pop heroes Scott & Charlene’s Wedding are the brain child of artist/musician/furniture removalist Craig Dermody, andParavista Social Club is an amazing collection of bittersweet slacker anthems. Made in a limited edition of 200 LPs, with op-shop covers individually painted over by Craig, the album was first sold at an art exhibition and then Scott & Charlene’s final gig before Craig moved to New York. These copies on the Chapter webstore are now the last remaining LPs available for sale, anywhere!

Each copy has a unique handpainted cover.

AVAILABLE ON ITUNES SOON

Melbourne grunge pop heroes Scott & Charlene’s Wedding are the brain child of artist/musician/furniture removalist Craig Dermody, and Paravista Social Club is an amazing collection of bittersweet slacker anthems. Made in a limited edition of 200 LPs, with op-shop covers individually painted over by Craig, the album was first sold at an art exhibition and then Scott & Charlene’s final gig before Craig moved to New York. These copies on the Chapter webstore are now the last remaining LPs available for sale, anywhere!

Each copy has a unique handpainted cover.

AVAILABLE ON ITUNES SOON

“Danny & the Parkins Sisters were a truly singular blend of

Chapter Music is proud to resurrect from undeserved obscurity the scratchy beatnik art-punk stylings of early 80s San Francisco trio Danny & the Parkins Sisters. Surrounded by the classic SF punk sounds of the Dead Kennedys, Pink Section, Flipper and the like, Danny & the Parkins Sisters opted instead to head in a very different direction.

Brash Arizona transplant Danny Vinik and chic, alluring sisters Debra and Beverly Parkins strummed on detuned guitars, banged on whatever was close at hand, and declaimed hilarious, incisive lyrics dissecting the scenes and tribes around them in visceral early 80s San Francisco. Their high-performance shows played out in legendary venues such as the  Sound Of Music and Club Generic, with guests including Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro.

In 1982, the band released a 8 song mini album on the Modern Masters label, run by Richard Kelly of the cabaret

collective Club Foot Orchestra. It included the all-time shoulda-beena classic, War Is On Your Doorstep, a pounding tribal punk chant that sums up all the paranoia andposturing of the post-punk era.

By 1983 the band were over, with Danny heading to South America and the Parkins sisters to New York, but their

brief SF moment shone with a peculiar, musically naive but still knowing charm.

Chapter Music presents two rare live recordings from quintessential Sydney prog group Tully, including their 1970 performance of Australia’s first ever rock opera. These recordings capture the band in their first incarnation, before they joined forces with members of revered folk-psych band Extradition to explore more contemplative territory.

Sights & Sounds Of 69, from a May show of the same name, is the only live Tully recording to have survived the intervening four decades, and documents a typically far-ranging, mind-expanding performance.

Perhaps Australia’s greatest living composer, Peter Sculthorpe wrote Love 200 specifically with Tully and vocalist Jeannie Lewis in mind. The work, commemorating Captain Cook’s expedition to map the Transit of Venus in 1769, was dismissed by the stuffy classcial establishment at the time, but Sculthorpe now calls it simply “one of my best works.” Heard here for the first time since the early 70s, Love 200 is an astounding piece, both elegant and jarring, serene and chaotic.

Sadly, all three of Tully’s studio albums are still to be officially reissued. Until then, Live at Sydney Town Hall, 1969-70 is a fascinating insight into the early work of one of Australia’s most heralded, but least heard bands.

Brash Arizona transplant Danny Vinik and chic, alluring sisters Debra and Beverly Parkins strummed on detuned guitars, banged on whatever was close at hand, and declaimed hilarious, incisive lyrics dissecting the scenes and tribes around them in visceral early 80s San Francisco. Their high-performance shows played out in legendary venues such as the  Sound Of Music and Club Generic, with guests including Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro.

In 1982, the band released a 8 song mini album on the Modern Masters label, run by Richard Kelly of the cabaret collective Club Foot Orchestra. It included the all-time shoulda-beena classic, War Is On Your Doorstep, a pounding tribal punk chant that sums up all the paranoia and posturing of the post-punk era. By 1983 the band were over, with Danny heading to South America and the Parkins sisters to New York, but their brief SF moment shone with a peculiar, musically naive but still knowing charm.

The CD comes filled with bonus demo, live and rehearsal recordings.