As we come to the end of another year we have a huge amount of news to report..


* * * * *  NZ Tour  * * * * *

First off, our 2009 New Zealand tour starts this week..  We will be hitting the following cities playing with some shit hot NZ bands (We were blown away by the quality of the bands last time we played in NZ)

Here are the details:

Wed 16th December - Christchurch
@ Al's Bar - Dudas St. w/ Our Fallen & Bow Messiah

Thurs 17th December - Wellington
@ Bar Medusa (Ex Hole in the Wall) w/ The Dauntless, Spook the Horses and Elephant of the Ocean

Fri 18th December - Whangarai
@ Zone Bar - 2 Bank St. w/ Subtract

Saturday 19th December - Auckland - An Auckland Metal Xmas Party
@ Transmission room - Queen Street, w/ Subtract, Just One Fix and more



* * * * *  Album News  * * * * *


As you are probably aware by now, we have our heads down writing our third album and we are dangerously close to finishing..  We have also lined up Australia's best producer to make this album our finest sounding and most creative adventure yet..

So on March 1st we will be hitting Sing Sing South Studios for 1 month with none other than Forrest Savell (If you don't know him, you may know of Karnivool for which he was nominated for an Aria)

We are absolutely stoked to be working with Forrester, we have a massive respect for his and work and talent and we can't wait to see what he brings to the Five Star sound.

We haven't decided on a title for the album yet...  But the artwork is well underway and is being taken care of a Queensland artist by the name of Jargo.

Some of the song titles we have so far are:
The Swarm
Loss of Gravitas
The Book of the New Sun
Pariah Codex
Paramountain

As for the music, well, we have a good mix of crazy-ass fast (and really hard to play) songs that Five Star are known for, with a nice mix of big epic songs and other songs for which we couldn't think of any words to describe. Overall it should be quite the natural evolution for 4 guys who have been playing together for over 5 years... 
We are enjoying the new materiel and enjoying the challenge of getting these songs tight.

The as yet untitled album will be released in April

Also, look out for our first 2 albums - The Complete First Season and Slaves of Virgo..  They will be re-released next year and will be available in all good record stores.


* * * * *  Tour News  * * * * *


Upon the release of the new album we will embark on a 30 Date national tour starting in May 2010.   Helped along by a federal government grant we will visit all the capital cities in the country as well as some areas such as Darwin and Alice springs which
we have never played and look forward to seeing.

Dates will start appearing on our myspace page next year.


* * * * *  Upcoming Shows  * * * * *


Sunday 27th December - Adelaide - Summer Rage Festival

Look out for us in Adelaide on the 27th December where we will take part in the Summer Rage festival. This is a huge 2 day festival with 20 bands that takes place over 2 days. Five Star play the second night and you can find the frestival on at the Crown and Anchor Hotel, Grenfell St. Adelaide.


Friday 22nd January - Gershwin Room, Espy

In this show we join Bronson for their EP launch as well as our friends Death Audio.



So that's all for now...  We hope everyone has an excellent Christmas and new years.
There will be no rest for Five Star, we will be working through preparing for what will most probably be our biggest year yet!

FIVE STAR PRISON CELL - SLAVES OF VIRGO

(All Lyrics by A.Glynn. (c) Five Star Prison Cell 2007)

1. DO THE WORLD A FAVOR

Land Of hills

The bell of graves…

Ice absorbing thepoison that’s hosting stale words in a chalice vocabulary

Spilling the apathy

The Harboring ofharsh stains

The scalene of scalps

Of all you thinkersby trend

Ice absorbing thepoison that’s hosting stale words in a chalice vocabulary

Spilling the apathy

Fodder missionaries

The Warner missions

 It’s what I miss in you.

The Victims oftrends.

Do the world a Favor

You’d be doing me a favor

Do the world a favor

Go and Kill yourself

(Now I think youconfuse your indifference with enlightenment)

Land of Hills

The bell of Graves

Children of dirt

…And Bob Dylan

Bare footindifference

Iskar boughtProvidence

Vegan.

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2. OBTUSE (The Essence ofIndifference)

.. ..

I wish I could havethose types of pleasures

That simple folk likeyou hold to thought

Your medicate kinddefy frustration

Encumbered and you’reobtuse

I wish I could havethose types of pleasures

That simple folk likeyou hold to thought

Your medicate kinddefy frustration

Encumbered in yourobtuse, fastened, backwards bubble!

(Obtuse-fastened)

You Simpletons.

Dead….

You simpletons voidof life and lesson

You simpletons voidof mind and scope

You simpletons voidof life and lesson

You simpletons arethe essence of indifference

(The rest of the lyrics will be posted up shortly...thank you for your patience...)

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Five Star Prison Cell -The Complete First Season

You say its only meant for my eyes (but now i know)
Love is the oldest link to demise
I will be sure to savour those times
And not let you poison me for the bona fide

The leg up their acceptance gives you only ends up with you pissing on your self

You say its only meant for my eyes (but now i've grown)
You'll never poison me for the bona fide

The leg up their acceptance gives you only ends up with you pissing on your self (x4)

E nie meanie mini moe
Catch a traitor by the toe
If she hollers let her go
E nie meanie mini moe

Summer dinners with others
The lives of limited lovers
I know you live in another
Contingency plan for the failing smother

Tip tip tippy toe

Tippy toe trial
Test the waters in my confidence
To hell with the consequence

Well time will heal and lives will sequel
The salt will sting and go
I look forward to resurgence
With redifined vista sewn

And their wickeds slide
Into their crimson holes
And will meet a fate in death
That will coenside and justify
The vengence you've dreamed of--.

I will heal I know
I will heal I know

Don't be sad!

What I didn't know. What I didn't know
Is that all things pass.

2. Vexed (For Reasons Torn)

Let no defeat come between you and foe
Lest we forget our bisections make whole
Honour thy
Nemesis, neighbour the natter you know
Stems from the vex your existence errors
Be the salt on the finger
The rub in their eye
Let know defeat builds on flaw

Denied I fill my will to kill ???

Where is repeat going?

How do I beat my kind
Deny all and hide vex

Net, crow and leech off the solace of foe
Fallen defeated with unwanted chiding from you.
Vexed for reasons torn
Vexed for reasons torn
Vexed for reasons torn
Vexed for reasons torn
Vexed for reasons torn by shame

And who's to blame?

How do I beat my kind?
Deny all and hide vex

Net crow and leech off the solace of foe
Fallen defeated with unwanted chiding from you.
Vexed for reasons torn
Vexed for reasons torn by shame

Who's to blame?

3. Sequels to an Aftermath

Look, look to the sun
Its final set
Expectation gone.
Known only regret.
There was a time when love saw me blind
now fast heals bruising.
The fueling from doing and chewing through time.
Theres a line of lessons, progressions
I confess i'm doing it.

You decide today as you turn that page
You will not subordinate

Sever is the clever that i've come to master never have i ever left a knot so tangled
Progression is a lesson no matter how selfish
The only hole i'm crawling out of is your ass!

You decide today as you turn that page
You will not subordinate

Look up towards the
Sun
Deactivation of the
Onus
We are but
What?
These acts of valor
Rise like forgotten feats of dawn
Wheeze the life of mention only to set upon
un
Sung
These nights of heathen
Do me no just

Akin to the sun
Akin to the sun hillock again.
Vengence.

4. Ballad of the Cheated

Defeated so in your eyes
Been exsposed to your types
See the crime before it happens
The cheated know of your kind set
It kneads the dough of your mind
Just breathe and thank your vile omens
Evil takes it's toll
Let it
Just breathe and thank your milds
Just breathe and tack your miles.

Defeated so in your eyes
Been exsposed to your types
See the crime before it happens
The cheated know of your kind set
Defeated so in your eyes
Been exsposed to your types
See the crime before it happens
evil takes it's toll

Limited. Lonely like who?
Limited only by you

Evil dressed in disguise.

The lesser. The greater. Amount of the lesson.

Pour me in thy own wane.

What of it?
Subtle.
Suffocating my omens.

5. Subtle Breach of Bliss

You squared it into something
That's not me and imported
That is not me
My emolument
Not to be so florid

Dead is:
The usual passage safe and spared
You will pass it like they said

That's because (i 'm counterfeit shamming it)

Owl like features frog like view
The keepings of the havoc spooned
I neat it keeps it and sews it up with endurance.

You said to me this morning
Not to breach this calling
Not to be important
Not to seek my sojourn

Dead is:
The usual passage safe and spared
You will pass it like they said

That's because (i 'm counterfeit shamming it)

Now my wishes
Do not crave
Mission has smiled upon me
But left me soiled
Married to a fusion of ignorence
Rising to the silver noon
And fileing me--
Under numb and dead
So subtle but i'm there, dead, theirs--..

A clark kent. A mild vent.

I guess you can't be something if you know that you aren't
Bless this motivation or it's lacking of

Dead to the life oppossed
Dead > than a life that's owned.

Wisdom
Is the laughter
That is so cold
A reminder
And a blister
We all hold at a seem
Blister.
We all fall onto knives.

6. Failed Garrison

Don't you feel it slipping through your fingers?
Don't you feel it when the knife is turning through you? Through you?
Don't you feel it slipping through your fingers
Don't you feel it when the knife is turning through you

Through you. I feel it from you
I feel it through you.
So cruel to the one who fails the garrison.

When all of the fingers have been pointed.
When all in agreence house their notions

When all of the fingers have been pointed
My sin is not a sin but a different goal.
when all of the fingers have been pointed
You will still blame someone for conflicting the goal.

Who are you to critise or even judge me
When all that you know is false.

The man who bears his soul for his lung lumber
Reach out and fall

7. Cola

Today i have a thirst.
A thirst that can't be quenched.
The fizz they've canned
It moulds esteem with predjudice
That fools us into leisure lents

I'm lost for words between the foes
Some many choices cloned of coke
Help me understand it and not fear the loom.

It's time to boil and study tiles.
A rushed and flakey lack of style.

It's kind to you and me.
The colour so scanty.

Chide cola for it rots the teeth-we know.

8. Dissipated Moments

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9. Dead Air

LET ME GO
LET ME GO INTO MYSELF
LET ME SOAR IF NOTHING ELSE
AS IF TO FALL UNTO MYSELF .

WANE WARDERS - ASHEN SICK - IMPUDENCE - LEFT UNSAID
LUNG DEADENED THE DEAD UNSAID

NONPLUS NOD - NO NONSENSE - NONDESCRIPT - NONCHALANT
LUNG DEADENED THE DEAD UNSAID

WELL IT'S NICE TO KNOW I DO NOT FEEL A THING
I'M SURFICED WITH GROWTH IT'S A "SILENCE" THING

NOT TO AVENGE IS A LIFE OF VOID OF MISSION .NOT TO AVENGE IS THE BALK OF SUBMISSION

IT IS BEST TO REMAIN SILENT AND HAVE PEOPLE THINK
YOU ARE A FOOL THAN OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND HAVE THEM PROVED RIGHT!

I TICKLE THE TONSIL TO CHOKE UPON GAG UPON AND IN THAT HOPE TO SPIT UP THY WORTH

LOST IN A WAVE LOST IN ALL OUR SPEAK. LOCK IT AWAY. SOLACE FOUND IN THE DEAD.

THANK YOU – MERCI

DON'T TAKE IT SO ON FACE.
THE MASQUERADE OF DEAD AIR
THE TACTITURN AND ALL I SEEK IS MY SCREED.
DON'T TAKE THIS FONT ON FAITH.
WITH PASTURE SNEEZE DEAD AIR.
THE LUST IN LUNGS AND ALL UNDERNEATH IS MY CHARADE.

LET ME GO
LET ME GO INTO MYSELF
LET ME SOAR IF NOTHING ELSE
AS IF TO FALL UNTO MYSELF

10. The Minus Song

I feel enslaved as a pawn
A feeble sake for your own span
You know i feel ashamed and know you feel the same and so i flee for change from you vultures.

Once you take me out of the equation you are all you have. Heed the lesson. Survive it and monitor with noted stance.
Steer the blame if you want
Smear my name for the known truth

Peel the shades exspose the pith innate
I know for regal sake it apports.

I feel ashamed and know you feel the same and so i flee for change from you vultures

Once you take me out of the equation you are all you have. Heed the lesson. Survive it and monitor with noted stance.
Steer the blame if you want
Smear my name for the known truth

I feel enslaved as a pawn
A feeble sake for your own span
You know i feel ashamed and know you feel the same and so i flee for change from you vultures

Feel ashamed and know you feel the same

Once you take me out of the equation you are all you have. Heed the lesson. Survive it and monitor with noted stance.
Steer the blame if you want
Smear my name for the known truth