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Last Updated: 11/17/2009

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City: Sydney, Australia
State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 6/24/2006

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Sunday, September 06, 2009

the quiet before the noise.
Current mood:iridescent

having the little tour well and truly behind us we headed straight for the studio to record some new material. much of what we play live has not been properly recorded, until just now. and there are other songs that we dont play live which needed recording,

i guess the next question is "when will you put the demos up on myspace?" and the answer is probably not for a while, we are beginning our steps toward the album, and im not sure whether i want potential songs on the album to be prostituted on myspace yet. ii can say though that mgmt and all the other usual suspects are quite happy and i can honestly say im proud of the latest demos aswell. we actually used a glockenspiel for one which is a first,

also we are moving all our stuff back to our warehouse to write and write some more. its weird how much gear you accumulate as a band as you progress, when we just started to tour we'd turn up to the airport with a guitar and a back pack, nowadays there's a plethora of instruments, cables (we've been through 5 bongos) and a whole heap of other stuff.

and last but not least rest my soul/ devilover vinyl. yes they are on there way, they get manufactured in czech somewhere or something so they're probably traveling across asia on the silk road on the back of a goat. just msg your email address so we can get a count and reserve one (or many) for you.

p.p.s this friday if you haven't heard/read we are playing at world bar, i dont know what time, but come. i dont think we've ever played there.

with love from

Gabby and GW

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Monday, August 17, 2009

GW LIVE REVIEW

Lost Valentinos + Ghostwood - Roxanne Parlour (14.08.09)

First band for my night was Ghostwood, and holy fuck! It was amazing, to put it simply. Though highly unprofessional for me to say it in such terms, there isn’t much I can say about that does not contain expletives in regards to this band and how they managed to completely blow me away. Floating vocals, guitar, drums and bass, lots of echo and distortion creating a haunting atmosphere that blanketed Roxanne Parlour from corner to corner, there was no one you could ignore them. Having spent most part of the last 18 months in the UK obviously did them some good because they have come back bolder than ever. Primal Scream-esque “Rest My Soul” seemed to go on forever like some sort of spiritual experience. I realise it sounds like I am gushing, but it really was such an amazing performance from the band, not something you watched, but witnessed.

- http://melbourne.theaureview.com/lost-valentinos-ghostwood-14-august-2009

The [AU] Review, Alexandra Duguid

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Monday, August 10, 2009

The Tour with Lv so far
Current mood:pezazzed

the last week we've been touring in Qld. we flew up to brisbane on thursday morning, we met stevvy our shockingly impressive tour manager and all things were pointing forward; until we realized paddy had forgotten his pedals, which our time-traveling manager somehow managed to get them to the gate just in the nik from the infested depths of bondi... and as you can imagine getting pedals through the xray security is a laborious and retarded procedure with security still giving you the "9/11" speech... later that day i found a switchblade i bought overseas in my laptop bag which made me wonder "how can they spend ten minutes of your life scrutinizing a little white box that says in big writing "boss chromatic tuner" and totally overlook a knife"...

after debating if you fell off our hotel balcony into the pool whether you'd die or not (definitely would) we went to bar soma to set our gear up. i didn't ask whether the name was a reference to huxley, but somehow i doubt it. we played an alright show considering that we were hearing the crowd saying "play ghost" a song that has been sonically dead for almost three years... afterwards valentinos did their thing and maintained their rep for being the raddest unts.

that night we partied in the "valley" a cacophonous street of hedonistic debauchery and tragically aimless vagabonds asking anything of you.

the next show was in coolangatta, what can i say about coolie? not much really, we played an incredibly off show as the venue had somehow managed to run the power of the entire stage from one input resulting in multiple powerfailures, I just read a review from that night mentioning how we played red version..., curiously we haven't played red version since we were in UK... sure enough later it was another night of parties without rhyme or reason. its amazing how even after shorting out on stage the will was still strong to get mad...

wombye. wow what a place. the crowd were really rad many of which had trecked from the sunny coast, and after chatting to a few locals i realised that there were quite a few bashful fans, but by this stage we were all in a pretty lax mood, and instead of seeing the many sights of wombye, we all sorta peeled home.

and that has pretty much been our lives for the last three days, mgmt. (not the band) have been bugging me to do the twitter thing (www.twitter.com/ghostwoodband), so ill give it more of a go when we go to vic later this week...

thanks for listening and reading.

Gabby and GW. x

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Monday, July 27, 2009

songs, recording, and touring.
Current mood:

thoughtful

its come to my attention that myspace have decided that you can not easily download

songs anymore, ill be sure to try and fix it up soon,

as far as everything goes all is well. and i'm gonna put some more songs up,

so watch this space,

from gabby and GW.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

What Have i become LIVE

What Have I Become

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

REQUEST RMS ON JJJ
Current mood:sellout

hey here's the link to request our tunes to JJJ,

cheers

http://bit.ly/rKJDl

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

lost valentinos shows and vinyl
Current mood:whatever

hey so after a long time away from aus, we're touring with our old buddies lost valentinos the last time we played together it was our last show as the ghosts and they also changed their name..

but now we're playing a new set of songs which we wrote while in UK, the ones i put up last night are a sample of some of the ideas we've been playing with, but most of the songs we'll be playing have no demos or recordings, so if you wanna hear it you'll have to come see us!

also, we should be releasing a limited edition of a new single strictly on vinyl soon, so dust off your old record players and keep in touch, if you wanna reserve one, just email us

from gabby and GW.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

music for the publique

hey i just put some songs up after many people have asked for copies of untie my shoelaces and various others, they're all there for you to download for free.

be sure to check in every now and then cause we'll be putting more songs up.

enjoy! ,

from gabby and GW.

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