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LAUGHING CLOWNS - EXTRA MELBOURNE SHOW....

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Already appearing alongside the Dirty Three as part of January's Don't Look Back concert series, Feel Presents are now proud to announce a Melbourne headline show for Australian post-punk giants Laughing Clowns on Friday 22nd January at the East Brunswick Club.....

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The Laughing Clowns (singer guitarist Ed Kuepper, drummer Jeffrey Wegener, saxophonist Louise Elliott, bassist Biff Millar and keyboard player Alister Spence) reunited in January following a 25 year absence, and at the behest of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, to perform at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festivals on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island and Mt.Buller Ski-Resort.....

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... the reformed Laughing Clowns turn in an enrapturing performance of their jazz-affected post-punk and conclude with the towering saxophone melody and festival highlight of Eternally Yours. - LAST -FM review of ATP, Mt.Buller....

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Unlike the Don't Look Back appearance however, the Laughing Clowns will not be limited to the songs performed on any particular release and will instead consider material from right across their former existence and the years 1979 - 1984. Expect the unexpected but expect it to be great!....

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Tickets are on sale Wednesday 23rd December from www.feelpresents.com, the East Brunswick Club box office - 280 Lygon St or phone 9388 9794....

Thursday 21st January: Melbourne, The Forum (with Dirty Three) performing 'History of Rock 'n' Roll'. ....

Tickets $52.40 + bf from www.ticketek.com.au all Ticketek outlets or phone 132 849....

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Friday 22nd: January: Melbourne, East Brunswick Club (headline show)....

Tickets $38.00+ bf from www.feelpresents.com, the East Brunswick Club box office - 280 Lygon St or phone 9388 9794....

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Monday 25th January: Brisbane, The Tivoli (with Dirty Three) performing 'History of Rock 'n' Roll'.....

Tickets $52.30 + bf from www.feelpresents.com, all Ticketek outlets or phone 132 849....

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Tuesday 26th January, Sydney Festival, Enmore Theatre (with Dirty Three) performing 'History of Rock 'n' Roll'.....

Tickets $65.00 Adult and $60.00 Concession from www.feelpresents.com, www.sydneyfestival.org.au, all Ticketek outlets or phone 1300 795 012....

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For all media requests please contact Kylie Whyte: kywhyte@bigpond.net.au....

For all photo downloads please go to: http://www.feelpresents.com/downloads/index.html....

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some live videos filmed by David Granatto at the Tivoli Brisbane Feb 2008
on the Don't look back "honey steel's gold ' tour.

King of Vice
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xbaU0wYbMo0

Electrical Storm
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9xCfk3F4s

The way I made you feel
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QdAN5yP23vk

LAUGHING CLOWNS - THE REUNION CONTINUES

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LAUGHING CLOWNS - THE REUNION
CONTINUES

... the reformed Laughing Clowns turn in an enrapturing
performance of their jazz-affected post-punk and conclude with the towering
saxophone melody and festival highlight of Eternally Yours. - LAST -FM
review of ATP, Mt.Buller

Following stand out performances at the
inaugural ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES FESTIVAL, Feel Presents are proud to
announce two Sydney club shows for the legendary LAUGHING CLOWNS: May 2nd
& 3rd at The Basement.

In their initial incarnation, LAUGHING
CLOWNS existed from 1979 - 1984 and released some of the most brilliantly
executed post-punk, post-modern, post-anything music ever produced in
Australia. Featuring the prodigious talents of one-time Saint, Ed Kuepper and
drumming genius Jeffrey Wegener, this reunited version of the LAUGHING
CLOWNS also features former Clowns, Louise Elliot (on saxophone) and stand
up bassist Les 'Biff' Millar alongside recent Ed Kuepper sideman, Alister
Spence.

Forty Five minute sets at All Tomorrow's Parties were just a
teaser for what the Clowns promise this May.

Don't miss the reunion they
thought would never happen - LAUGHING CLOWNS - live in May.

May
2nd & 3rd: Sydney, The Basement
Tickets on sale January 23rd from
feelpresents.oztix.com.au or www.thebasement.com.au ..
 or via phone: 92512797

(also playing January 23rd at GoMA in
Brisbane)

For all media request please contact tim@feelpresents.com ..

For all photo downloads please go to: http://www.feelpresents.com/downloads/index.html

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great news for Brisbanite Clowns fans ,the band are going to be playing the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on 23rd of January

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We'd just like to say a big thanks to everyone that helped make the relaunch of Ed Kuepper's label, Prince Melon Records a success .

The first of the three volumes of offical bootlegs is almost sold out and the other two are going pretty fast as well. In keeping with the intention of these limited edition releases they won't be re-pressed when they've sold out

We have plans for one more volume in this live series this year before the release of Ed's next studio album. Keep an eye on this site for updates.

In the meantime you can have a listen to volumes one,two and three here Ed Kuepper on last.fm

You can also become a critic [oh joy!]and write a review here...

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ed_kuepper

regards from

your friends at

Prince Melon Records

Update volume one is now sold out

Well, in between the lavish cocaine parties with wild women in his jaucuzi, typical of the major label excesses we office juniors envy and aspire to [ luckily all of which are fully recoupable against artist royalties], Sir Alfonso [Prince Melon Records Head of In House Production] finally got around to applying his patented 'Hands Off Mastering Technique' to this live bootleg of Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective. Recorded at the Judith wright Centre for the Arts, in November 2007 at the Brisbane launch of Ed's last studio album 'Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog' . The show started with a specially commisioned short film about Jean Lee done by Judi Dransfield Kuepper and Louise Bennet, which was followed by two sets of Ed and the Kowalski's doing the entire 'Jean Lee..' album as well as a number of older songs .

The band on the night were

Ed Kuepper guitar and vocals
Peter Oxley bass
Jeffrey Wegener drums
Jane Elliot cello and keyboards
Ceri McCoy and his Tijiuana Brass Boize horns

The tracklisting is

Too many clues
Messin' part 2
My best interests at heart
Here to get my baby from jail
Skinny Jean
Demolition
Real to me

words and music Ed Kuepper
except tracks 5-7
Ed Kuepper and Judi Dransfield Kuepper

courtesy of Prince Melon International Publishing

as the waiter said to Sir Alfonso the other day upon serving him his sumptuous repast 'Enjoy !'



well all things must come to an end

your friends ,the staff at at Prince Melon

To celebrate the relaunch of Prince Melon Records , we're going to put up a link to an Ed Kuepper live performance in the next couple of days .

The show was recorded last year at the Judith wright Centre for the Arts in Brisbane, and features Ed with the expanded lineup of the Kowalski Collective.
This includes Peter Oxley on bass, Jeffrey Wegener on drums,Jane Elliot .cello and keyboards and the talents of Ceri McCoy and his Tijuana Brass Boize as the horn section.

Songs from 'Jean lee and the Yellow dog ' as well as a number of seldom heard older songs were captured in fairly reasonable bootleg sound quality so check it out.

all the best from your friends at Prince Melon

ED KUEPPER LIVE - Ed Kuepper (Prince Melon Records)
You might have missed the little things - and that would be missing a lot - if your reaction to the plainly-named tour CD "Ed Kuepper Live" is simply: "Meh, it's just another exercise in minor (chord) reinvention". Musically speaking, it's true that Sir Ed's worn more masks than a middle-aged Double Bay matron with a gold Amex card at an around-the-clock day spa, he's done his shape-shifting in a way that's never been boring.

Some of the reinvention on "Ed Kuepper Live" is by degrees, granted. But if those nuances in "La Di Doh" or the hypnotic "Honey Steels Gold" are lost on you, or alternatively you're not bowled over by the rock and roll power of his latest band The Kowalski Collective's take on "Little Fiddle" or "The Laughing Clowns", then cash in your deposit on the hospital TV and ask them to turn off the life support machine, there's no hope for you.

The Collective are drummer extraordinaire Jeffrey Wegener and the rock solid bassist Peter Oxley, two storied players whose combined musical history and cooking finesse would fill a stack of scrapbooks or pile of pizza boxes (whichever is more appropriate.) With Ed, they've been traversing the country for a few years now, sometimes as a trio or sometimes in stripped-down drums-and-guitar mode. They're at the core of the most recent studio album, "Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog" and up there as one of the man's best ensembles. Which is saying something.

I don't know what it is about Ed Kuepper, an occasional capo, a row of effects pedals and six strings, but after all these years he still summons up some incredible sounds. Horns are central to "Eternally Yours", right? That glorious line is at its heart. Well here's a version where you scarcely miss it; Kuepper compensates while Monsieur Wegener traverses every piece of his kit.

If there's a criticism it's that "Collapse Board" doesn't match the original Laughing Clowns version for outright tension, but even so it has a certain molten magnificence that deserves a hearing.

"Ed Kuepper Live" spans 51 minutes and while it's contents won't surprise many it won't disappoint most either. Copies were pressed for the 2008 Kuepper supports to Nick Cave in Europe - if you're quick/smart you'll grab one at an Australian show near you. After they sell out, eBay might have to become your friend. - The Barman

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