We regret to announce that we are unable to take part in the JD Set due to the serious illness of a band member. Apologies to all the fans who were looking forward to coming to see us. We also wish to thank The JD Set and Neil Terry from the Sound Campaign for their support and understanding.
Dardanelles

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We were thrilled and honoured to be shortlisted for the 2007 Australian Music Prize...

Australian Music Prize
2007 Australian Music Prize Shortlist:

New Buffalo Somewhere Anywhere
Perry Keyes Last Ghost Train Home
Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia
Lisa Miller Morning In The Bowl Of Night
Devastations Yes, U
Architecture In Helsinki Places Like This
Dardanelles Mirror Mirror
The Mess Hall Devils Elbow
Urthboy The Signal
bluejuice Problems


The award is announced on March 13th..

A lot of people have been asking for some lyrics to be posted. Sorry to have not got around to this earlier and for callously disregarding people who sourced the album online!
J


ALONE IS NOT

Alone is not the child with eyes still eating
It's commas raining clouds until you're reading
Your smile for lies
Your smile capsized.

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NATURAL SELECTION

Between melting and freezing
Instead of instead
The silent yes: a sharpened pen

Kiss like a mosquito
Whisper my friend
The silent yes: a sharpened pen

It's not you
It's natural selection

Ask me in answers
At the speed I fled
The books that were never read

Opinion's a virus
That's already spread
The silent yes: a sharpened pen

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FOOTSTEPS

And like the two said to the three
How can you talk like this to me
Hey decorate my falling down
Scatter your memories all around
The fire that's raining from below
Now you're a moment that's been closed

Turn off the lights
Eyes are footsteps in the night

This trail of breadcrumbs below your feet
Whispers like muscle cars on heat
Hey decorate my falling down
Scatter your memories all around
This unbecoming cartoon road
Now you're a moment that's been closed

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DREAM INTO ME

The curious fire is a shiny toy
That feeds on flocks of the orphaned noise
That spirals into you

You'd like some peace but you'd love some war
You'd like some talk but you'd love some more

Subtracted from all our speech balloons
We float like bricks once beyond the moon
Spiral out of view

Beyond the reach of the red-cheeked soul
That, motionless, tries to plug the hole
That spirals into you

Dream into me
Until tomorrow is a fond memory

And sketch a course up into my dreams
Where underwater all I breathe
Spirals into you

And at the trees we all bark in vain
And every smile that I can't contain,
Spirals into you

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MIRROR, MIRROR

It's raining weather balloons
And we're ooh-ing and ah-ing in zeroes and ones up until
Morning mourns the afternoon
Like a puncture repair kit so perfect it's never been used

Mirror mirror
Whisper all you've seen
Whisper all the whispers we wipe clean.

Futures start to reproduce
And it smells like the paper that patiently swallows the room
You are so practical
A dictionary picture of something that sometimes is you.

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CYCLES REPEAT

Just a child
Stuffed with rage that can't be treat
Rage so blind
Blind like sound, the sound of speak
A passer-by
Take that dad and now you're 'it'
Now the fright
Tiny hands and silent feet

Just a child
Stuffed with love that can't be treat
Love so blind,
Blind's a lovely cut of meek
Now the fright
Watch the starved newspapers feast
Now the why
Why's a high-priced cut of meat

As the cycles repeat and the shadows align
You know he'd take your place if you asked him to.

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ONCE AND FUTURE CHILD

You the thirsty number slaves
Little death upon your face
You the faceless aching cave
You the horn that screams your name

Loud noises falling down
You
Once and future child

You the restless overfed
Choking, choke on the unsaid.
You the celebrated head
Tethered to the future fled.

You the peeling dreams you fired
You the lightning in your eyes
You the seedling's naked eye
You the once and future child.

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MORSE CODE

Wrap me, silence, in your second skin
And tell me where you've been
Wrap me, silence, in your second skin
And wash me in the wind

In Morse code, skipping stones are writing poems for you
In Morse code, breaking bones are writing poems for you

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DOMINOES DANCE

Time once curdled murders much like snow
Falls on the fire that you grow
The soft machine that screams in bloodshot smoke
Dreams of dreaming at your toes

Yesterday is dead
It's all erased
Except for your smile on my face

As mirrors chase you like the flame the smoke
Light's conversation sews a cloke
And dominoes dance like volcanoes spoke
Of yesterday's unhappy ghost

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'mirror mirror' is championed at great blog have fun club
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review of 1990s melbourne show from beat magazine
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interstellar review of 'mirror mirror' at rip it up magazine
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'mirror mirror' is album of the week at syn fm
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'mirror mirror' reviewed by beat magazine
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'mirror mirror' reviewed by mess and noise
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smashing review of footsteps and alone is not at the dwarf
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dardanelles on beat tv episode 32
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online reviews from the 'footsteps' tour - brisbane at fasterlouder; adelaide at  spoz's rant. photos from the melbourne show also on fasterlouder....
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short interview in mess and noise covering the recording of the album.
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white boy dancefloor's gracious review of our performance supporting cut copy at the manning bar.
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interview with great blog off the record, just after the album was completed.
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'of course you said' being spruiked at not dead yet.
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great live review for a melbourne show supporting dappled cities fly at .alblog.
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dardanelles on jtv, a sixty second spotlight taken just before the home and hosed fiesta at the corner.
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the riot in belgium remix of 'of course you said' on in the mix podcast 30. the track was previously featured as an i.t.m. exclusive download.
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sunday music pick at l'etoile magazine, january, o-seven.
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features at in the mix and faster louder.
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the acid jacks 'more punk than funk' remix of origami tree on in the mix podcast 22
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origami tree reviewed as single of the week on itunes
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our feature for triple j's next crop, which includes audio and print interview
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josh's interview with lifelounge magazine
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alex's interview with australian music online
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we launched our single 'of course you said' in MELBOURNE at third class and it was the biggest night the club has ever had and here are some photos















we launched our single in SYDNEY at the annandale on easter sunday and here are some photos [courtesy of belle]

thanks to everyone who made it, and apologies to those who weren't let in because of the queue...