Hey Ladies and Gentlemen,

We're playing a special show Thurs Oct 15th at the Birmingham Pub on the corner of Smith and Johnson St in Collingwood, Melbourne..




Evening starts at 8pm and will be cheap. Come drink beer and have your kicks before the whole shit house goes up in flames!

Love,
TSB.

Hi Folks,

It looks like our new album, the title of which has been finalized as "Far Arden", will be coming out on Sensory Projects in Feb-March 2010. We're working on the artwork and such at the moment and can't wait to release it!

Stay tuned for more details...

TSB.

Black Cab - 11:30
The Sand Pebbles - 10:30
The Sun Blindness -9:30

Doors 8:30pm... $12... Gershwin Room.. an evening of wall melting psychedelia from three of australia's best psych bands.

CoME DOWN!

TSB.

Hey Kids,

Hi Folks,

Continuing the growing trend of chaos surrounding the organisation of our live appearances (our last gig, at the Tote, was cancelled due to liquor license trouble) and our increasingly strange personal lives, there has been a mix-up concerning a gig we're going to be playing at The Empress on July 4th. When we were asked by the venue to play, they said in their email "June 4 with Treetops". We confirmed, and advertised it here, only to discover this morning that it was a typo and that the gig is actually on July 4th.

So anyway, we have that gig booked, another on July 17th at Yah Yah's, and a few others in the works too.

In other news, the reason for the delay in the release of our second album is, in a nutshell, money. Releasing an album costs thousands and thousands of dollars. Recording costs, equipment, publicity, mastering, artwork, etc. We're still struggling to pay off the gargantuan credit card debts from releasing 'Like Pearly Clouds', and now we also have to find the money to pay for mastering this new record, which is cut and finished and ready to go once we have the cash. Since we are already struggling to pay our rent, I just don't know how long this will take.

If anyone finds themselves with excess funds and wants to help us out with a donation, our paypal address is - thesunblindness@gmail.com

But in any case, we're going to be playing lots of gigs in the meantime, including a possible imminent return to Sydney for some more shows. The expanded line-up is sounding exciting, and new material is being written.

We appreciate youe support!

Love,
TSB.

PS - Is anybody else eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new 13th Floor Elevators Box Set, 'Sign of the Three Eyed Men'? We are.. Holy.. Fucking..Shit.

2/1/09 - "As we approach the holiday season and the Gregorian New Year, we can
give thanks for having been born into this extraordinary, precious
time. Our actions over the next few years could have tremendous
consequences for humanity's future on this planet. At such a juncture,
the best present we can give to the people around us is our authentic
presence -- our willingness to listen, learn and remain open to
transformation, as the pace of change quickens around us." - Daniel Pinchbeck, The Present of Presence

1/8/08 - 'To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.' - Aleister Crowley

24/3/08 - 'When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius - Lift up thy head!' - William Blake.

14/2/08 - 'But nothing is high in perfection, nothing low, all things partake of the same nature, which is a big dream. Look at the tree; it is because it is, and it is not because it is a dream...Why is it that we feel compassion in our bones, when once I saw my father fall on the floor because his legs had gone dead in the easy chair, a surge tore at my heart, of something which you wouldn't expect to happen in a loathsome, unlocatable, tormented, non-self-natured, accidental composite of molecular groups of flesh and blood and bone, universes of this blank and bleak in a void and made to move in tormented vegetablized directions, molecular groups of atoms, world-spheres with no center and no selfhood suddenly worrying in this dream...if the message of compassion wasn't coming from the center of the universe of Essential Mind , saying, 'They've all wanted to take enfleshed form and take a crack at action in the dream and they were all damn fools' - O dont you remember when you were a little eye flying around the world looking at it eagerly, wanting to join in the fun, like a little spermatoza flying around the fetal egg and trying to get its little head in to swell, among a million brothers and sisters, shouldering its way into the world, in the womb of the woman in the middle of the Womb of the Dream, leaving that heaven, that moveless emptiness void of spontaneous and radiant effortlessness, that golden dream deep in the womb of mind, to take a crack at dark sad ether, at six million discriminated anxieties and self-misleadings about 'happiness', the slew of suffering on all sides in the name of some gutsy human idea, some divinity without lucidity and without self cause, liquid as water in a dream, unsatisfyable as a drink of dream water in a thirsty mournfull dream, the lugubriousness of it all, the mindless selfbelief and malicious flailing to hunger after hungering, the cry on all sides 'More life! More life!' and all the time the dead know better... stop the monkey mind of the universe, I say... We just think that we've got a self nature, when we think of ourselves... We just think that we're dying, when we die... It is like a castle of the Gandharvas, castles in the air... a world reflected in a mirror - the end. Let me know about the little ones who know that God is Pooh-Bear and that the rainbow went in the water...' - Jack Kerouac.

30/01/08 - 'Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!' - William Burroughs

5/12/07 - 'Everybody is Us - How do you like that?' - Ram Dass.

10/10/07 - 'Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?' - Jack Kerouac

23/8/07 - 'Words got me the wound and will get me well - if you believe it.' - Jim Morrison.

8/8/07 - 'Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts... if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.' - Ram Dass

2/5/07 - 'There is no greater freedom than freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.' - Terence Mckenna

20/4/07  -'Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age'  -William Blake

23/3/07 - 'Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.' - Walt Whitman.

22/3/07 - 'It is recovered! What? Eternity. It is the sea mixed with the sun.' - Arthur Rimbuad

21/3/07 - 'Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' -- H.G. Wells

20/3/07 - 'Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news for once? After all it's supposed to be THE news, right? 'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration … that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.' - Bill Hicks

19/3/07 - 'Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.' - Allen Ginsberg.

13/3/07 - 'For me, making music has always been a very spiritual thing, and I think anybody who produces records has to feel that, at least a little bit. Producing a record . . . the idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio . . . well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.' - Brian Wilson

4/3/07 - 'The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.' - Ken Kesey

3/3/07 - 'I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.' - William Burroughs

2/3/07 - 'Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.' - Robert Anton Wilson

1/3/07 - 'Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliment, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon. And I think we've come to a place with this psychedelic issue. And we have the gay community as a model, and all the other communities, the ethnic communities. We simply have to say, Look: LSD has been around for fifty years now, we just celebrated the birthday. It ain't going away. WE are not going away. We are not slack-jawed, dazed, glazed, unemployable psychotic creeps. We are pillars of society. You can't run your computers, your fashion houses, your publishing houses, your damn magazines, you can't do anything in culture without psychedelic people in key positions. And this is the great unspoken pillar of American Creativity. So I think it's basically time to just come out of the closet and go, 'You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.'' - Terence Mckenna

28/2/07 - 'Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.' - James Joyce

27/2/07 - 'Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.' - Peter Lamborn Wilson

26/2/07 - 'People use the word 'natural'...what is natural to me are these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and the Sunday School teachings.' —Timothy Leary

25/2/07 - ' I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man'.—Thomas Jefferson

24/2/07 - 'Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and govern'd their passions, or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.' - William Blake

23/2/07 -- 'Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.'—Terence McKenna

22/2/07 - ' We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins.'—Raoul Vaneigem

21/2/07 - 'Psychedelic drugs are the greatest means at our disposal to remind adults that the real world is very different from the mis-shapen universe they have created for themsleves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices' - Aldous Huxley

20/2/07 - 'At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos'.—Timothy Leary

19/2/07 - 'The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.' - Terence Mckenna

18/2/07 - 'Our scientific capabilities have outrun our spiritual capabilities. We now have guided missiles and misguided men.'—Martin Luther King, Jr

17/2/07 - 'If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?' —Buckminster Fuller

16/2/07 - 'Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap, lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and enviroment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.' —Alan Watts

Like Pearly Clouds, The Sun Blindness - Sensory/Inertia 2008
http://www.threethousand.com.au/hear/like-pearly-clouds-the-sun-blindness/

While many new 'psych' proclaimed acts go a path of diet dread and mind-split affectation - little further than the recent, forced drug sound of Brian Jonestown Massacre or first-listen covers of 'Sister Ray' with delay pedals - locals The Sun Blindness are tripping some truly illuminating, positive territory. Beautifully 'up' in general, as if cruising for the perfect, slow-unfolding acid dawn - there's an old style, sensory exoticism to the duo that captivates without demand; free of self-serving sentiment, happy in itself and bent for real on cosmic harmony. A Byron Bay chew at NYE they're not, but a true, purple-hued spiritualist endeavour.

Like Pearly Clouds is all that - huge and weightless, smiling stimulant music. Lots reminds of Spacemen 3, some of the Stone Roses' backwards track 'Full Fathom Five', bits of synth-swirling Country label mates The Rectifiers, and still less of Supergrass on the more stoned bits of their eponymous third album. Sunburst, vaporous guitars set the rhythm, accompanied at most by shakers - no drums - there's backwards tape work everywhere and keening, harmonic vocals in the middle. "I want to sleep inside your mind" they intone, "Let's get together, Drop out forever", and "Lazy living isn't very far away." Healing solvent of the best kind.

By Mark Gomes