So here we are, on the trail from Melbourne to Adelaide, music blaring in the moon bus as the sun goes down over the South Australian mountainside. This particular road trip began a week after we got back from our wild two month adventure across the sea. We started touring through the central coast to the oxford at Wollongong, played our first ever headliner to a wholesome crowd at the Annandale in Sydney and jammed to the kids at Manly youth centre. After all the madness in the city and getting to know our new buddies The Bungalows (killer band), it was time to hit the slopes for a week in perisher. Snowstorms were pelting down in the middle of the day as we'd head up the mountain and slide back down cutting powder like Shaun White (the biggest kooks on the fields doing the poostance all the way). Awesome. That was that, and we were royally rooted after using muscles we never thought we had, played a gig at Station Resort, and hit the toad again for Melbourne. The Espy's always a good place to jam, and the joint was packed to the last piece of wooden floor for the Deep Roots fest. Then we rolled to play the East Brunswick club, Frankston pier live and Baha in rye, a mexican bar with a little stage and a brilliant crowd of locals on wednesday night. In the midst of all this we had our mates Revolver and Sun and The Blackwater Fever on the road with us sharing stages and fart stories. Complete gold. Both exceptionally cool bands. We did The Loft in Warrnambool to a few bogans and tonight we're about to down a countery at the Ed Castle in Adelaide, go mental (Happy b'day Dan) for a bit on stage and head to Newcastle. Can't wait for the run of home gigs from Port Macquarie to the Sunny Coast. No more wooly jumpers, blocked noses and dirty socks. Until next time, I'm sending whoever's reading a bundle of love from all of us here on the moonbus express.. Jesse

....After our three weeks in Canada sliding through the rockies and crossing the dreaded American border into Seattle, we spent the night in a hotel inside the birthplace of Nirvana and barbeque sauce drenched spareribs.
The next morning, we flew to Frankfurt and got a transfer straight to Amsterdam. After being there last year we were well cultured on the abundance of beautiful girls on vintage bicycles, windmills and chocolate canals. It's always a highlight of the touring world for us. We were bummed because we only got an hour or so in and had to flee straight to our gig in Le Touquet, France - which was gold.
Full cobblestone alleyways of people sandwiched in to celebrate French music day and we were the last act on at 11:30 pm. The crowd responded accordingly with their hands held high chanting for three encores. For a small part of the night we felt like The Rolling Stones in the late 60's signing albums and getting photos for hours on end.
We then toured through Lille to Paris- via Jim Morrison's grave- to packed bars in Calais, back to Lille to hang with our friends Gerald, Rob Sawyer and Eric, then to Boumchaka festival (thanks Emilie, Sylvain and crew) in Thionville.
After practicing our French skills, mainly sign language that is.. we then took the trek back to Amsterdam to spend some quality time promoting our next Oz tour starting in a few weeks, and hanging with our legend friends. Truck- who does a skit terminator style "Iam the TM 3000! part man, part tour manager", his lovely girl CB, Jeroen and his girl Robine, Rob S and Thiboult and our mate Clay from oz, with his Ozzy speaking "where's the dunny" German girl Eva. We all had Amsterdam as our playground for a week hash cookies and all, road tripping to Timboektoe (one of the greatest places on earth), Noordvayk Flying Pig beach hostel and a gig at the Winston Kingdom in the heart of the city.
As we speak I'm in a van with Dan and our UK promoter/good mate Andy on the way to London for our first ever gig there. I will write again soon for tales of our border control sagas and adventures of the world...
For now I'd love to thank our manager Neal and his lovely wife Magda for all your hard work and making this tour possible and all the good people/friends we've run into and shared stages with. We could never forget you. Can't wait to come back...
Love
Jesse, Dan, Jimmy and Lach.

Hi there,

Firstly, we've got two shows in QLD coming up:

15th May @ The Sands Tavern, Maroochydore
30th May @ The Cooly Hotel, Coolangatta

Tix are available thru www.oztix.com.au. Get in quick coz these are our last shows before we head over to Canada and Europe.

We have a new song up on our page too - "19". It's the new single off our upcoming album, "The Desert's Call" soon to be out and available internationally on iTunes.

Cheers!
Rogerthat

Its been a while since I’ve had a decent amount of time to sit in front of a computer and catch up on things.
We’ve been all over the place in the last couple of months writing/recording and playing shows, its been pretty damn hard for me to keep track of it all actually, so I thought I’d better fill y’all in on where we’re at with everything…

First of all we just finished up another east coast tour, our best one yet by far I gotta say.
It was with hip-hop scoundrels The Casual Projects from canberra, who tore the stage up with us every night. Big thanks to those lads for making it such a memorable one and thanks to everyone who turned up and partied with us. We really appreciate ur support.
Keep on diggin’ ha ha….

Soon after, we rattled our way down to port Macquarie and had a ripping time krankin’ out a few songs at fest of the Sun. To anyone who hasn’t been u gotta check it out next year. Has to be one of the raddest festivals I’ve ever been to for sure. Thanks to all the crew down there for looking after us so well, hope to do it all again soon :)

Next day, in a flurry of empty bottles and exhaust fumes, we motored our way further south to Sydney, where we spent the next week locked in the studio fine-tuning our new record. More on that later…
The week ended in a monster show with the beautiful girls & the fumes @ Selina’s in coogee bay. We’ve got some pics up of the show in our photos section now so check em out if ur keen. Thanks again for having us along boys, was good to see y’all again.

So other than all the driving, playing, partying, bacon & egg rolls and no sleep, we have somehow almost finished our first full-length record!
It’s really close now and we are stoked with how its sounding. We’re just adding the last few bits and pieces to it now and getting really excited about showing it to everyone!
One of the tracks from it, Tangerine Bird, has been played on triple j the last 3 weekends in a row (thanks Sarah!). So if u get a chance we would be forever grateful if u could text, email or call them and request it! Thanks :)

And for those who are busting to hear the new stuff don’t worry, we will have some new songs up on our page real soon with the record set to hit stores in March ’09. Can’t wait!!

Wow, if u actually made it thru all that, well done. haha. Thanks a lot for taking the time out to show u care.
Oh yeah, and if ur going to be in VIC over the break you can catch us at the Espy on boxing day, Pyramid Rock Fest dec 30th or @ Baha in rye NYEve.

Merry Xmas and all that. Stay safe over the holidays.

Love
Jimmy and the boys.