In just two more days you will be able to buy our new album, "Over The Stones, Under The Stars." If you are in Australia that should mean being able to get it at all good record stores, and perhaps even some of the less good ones. Ditto New Zealand. For everyone else there's iTunes, though I believe not in the US for a few more weeks - November 17, I have just been informed.

There is however, one way to get it earlier, and that way is that you live in Melbourne and you come to our instore tomorrow night (Thurs 22nd) at Polyester Records in the City. Joe, Ben and I will be playing a half hour set from 6pm, and albums will be available. It's all ages and free to get in, and will be your only chance to see us before the launch at Northcote Social Club on Nov 27. Polyester is at 288 Flinders Lane. We'd love to see you.

For those of you fascinated by our motivations, our dreams, and Ben's incredible journey on a right handed bass, Mess & Noise have just published a track by track feature I wrote for them - it's a leisurely stroll through some of the origins of the songs, the process of making the album and a bunch of other rambling rubbish. You can read it here: http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/3780810

Finally, the tour is looming ever closer, mark my words. Tickets are now on sale for the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide shows - details below. Jess Cornelius from our touring pals Teeth & Tongue is even learning some of our keyboard parts so you will have the full hi-fi experience. Also, Heinz Riegler has been added as opener at the Northcote Social Club show - he's great: http://www.myspace.com/heinzriegler

Here are the dates again:

NED COLLETTE + WIREWALKER - "OVER THE STONES, UNDER THE STARS" TOUR
 
Fri 13 Nov: Adelaide, Metro - with Laura Jean. Tickets on sale now: http://tickets.oztix.com.au/default.aspx?Event=12899

Fri 20 Nov: Bateman's Bay, North St Bar  - with Teeth & Tongue

Sat 21 Nov: Sydney, Raval - with Teeth & Tongue. Tickets on sale now: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=30616

Fri 27 Nov: Melbourne, Northcote Social Club - with Teeth & Tongue and Heinz Riegler. Tickets on sale now: http://northcotesocialclub.com or (03) 9486 1677

Sat 28 Nov: Hobart, Alley Cat - with Teeth & Tongue

And that there's the news...

'til next time

NC&WW

www.nedcollette.com
www.myspace.com/nedcollette

NED COLLETTE + WIREWALKER - FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY OCT 15, GLITCH BAR & CINEMA

Hello there, this is one for the Melbourne folks:

This time a year ago we'd just started a tour of Europe. Along for the ride was our good friend and great filmmaker Natalie van den Dungen. The result was two film clips and a 12 minute documentary/live film/Rocky IV type montage. Everything was done simply in a fairly guerrilla fashion, but the results are pleasing and capture what that first band tour over there was like.

So we decided that we'd actually have a screening of this stuff, just for the opportunity of seeing it on a big screen with nice sound, rather than it all being consigned to the internet and Rage at four in the morning.

This is going to occur this Thursday 15th October at Glitch Bar & Cinema in North Fitzroy. Glitch has an excellent small cinema out the back. This is all very short notice and should be a fairly casual night for a drink and some audio-visual infotainment. Consider this your personal invitation. We'll kick of at 7pm, with the 25 minute screening taking place at 7.30. If it turns out more people than we expect show up, we'll run it again at 8.30.

We also thought we might let the album play in it's entirety in the cinema between screenings, so those of you who want to can sit down with a couple of bottles of vodka and feast yours ears on its utter genius. This is going to be almost impossibly awkward for us, but luckily the Glitch front bar is well stocked and comfortable, so we'll hang out there.

Hope to see you! Glitch is at 318 St Georges Rd, Nth Fitzroy, just near the corner of Holden St.

Oh and here is a Facebook event listing thing - I have no idea how any of that works, but maybe you can do something useful with it:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149485942647&index=1

NC&WW

www.nedcollette.com
www.myspace.com/nedcollette

The new album "Over The Stones, Under The Stars" out October 23 on Dot Dash

Ps. Just a reminder that our Polyester Records instore performance is next Thursday 22nd, at 288 Flinders Lane in the City. It will be the only chance to see us before our launch shows at the end of November. It starts at 6pm, is all ages, and is FREE! Albums will also be available.

 

This to let you know that our new album, "Over The Stones, Under The Stars", is due for release on October 23rd, in Australia and New Zealand, on Dot Dash. It will also be available internationally on iTunes and via mail order from Dot Dash. More on that later.

 

It is my first album recorded entirely with a band - and a great band which I've been very fortunate to work with. Wirewalker, as you're probably well aware by now, is me with Joe Talia on drums, percussion and vocals; and Ben Bourke on bass and vocals. I like to rub it in.

 

We're very happy with it. I'll spare you the general press release vibe, but in a nutshell it was written mostly when I was in Glasgow last winter, recorded by Joe at his folks' place up in country Victoria, and mixed in New York by Joel Hamilton, who not only turned out to be just the right guy for the job, but an extremely excellent person as well. Fingers crossed he'll be here for the Melbourne launch. You can meet him and marvel at his utter excellence. It's a lot more stripped back than the first two albums - there are no extra players on it - and I guess it represents what we do live, albeit with some subtle extra bits and pieces. It has an excellent front cover too - painted by the one and only Anna Steele.

 

You can now hear three tracks from the album streaming on my newly updated website - now in black! - and also on Myspace.

 

I should also mention that this Saturday 19th I am performing solo at Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea's album launch at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne. Apart from one song at a Fringe event in a couple of weeks this will be my last show until my tour with Wirewalker in November. Opening the night will be Kid Sam. Come on down if you are in town.

 

And here are our tour dates. All shows except for Adelaide are with the excellent Teeth & Tongue - we really dig that band and are delighted to have them on tour with us. In Adeliade we are extremely fortunate to have our dear friend Laura Jean with us.

 

 

That's it for now, will be back with more news soon.

NC.

 

Hello there,

This week I bring you three facts.

1. I am playing solo at a fundraiser for the Vic Hotel in Brunswick this Saturday. It's a great pub, taken over by some great people, and they're planning to get it happening as a venue again but need your moneys to buy a PA. So come along and support the cause. If for nothing else because I could always do with another local. It runs from 4pm, is only 10 bucks, and also featuresKarl Smith (Lee Memorial, ex-Sodastream), Ship’s Piano, James And Robin (half of The Boat People), Julez, Baby Brain, Peter Dickybird, Le Gogo Seurs, D. Rogers, Oracio, TM Band, Miso and db. The Vic is on the corner of Victoria and Prentice Sts, Brunswick.

2. If you live in Melbourne (or even if not) you may have noticed it's that 3RRR Radiothon time of year. My involvement this year extends to my first ever graveyard shift. This will occur from 2am-6am this Friday morning (ie. Thursday night) and will take place with the veritable assistance of Shags (Koko-nuts, Pikelet band, Smallgoods etc), and Jono (Pets With Pets, Capgras Family, my first band in high school). We'll be playing records and no doubt talking complete rubbish. It will be ridiculous, and you probably wont be up, but if you are, listen in and CALL IN AND SUBSCRIBE, on (03) 9388 1927. If we get one subscription I will be happy on Friday. You can also stream it at www.rrr.org.au

3. My other involvement in Radiothon this year takes place this afternoon on Clem Bastow's 'Transference' show. Sometime after 5pm I will be playing a cover of Baccara's disco classic, 'Yes Sir I Can Boogie.' Yes sir. If you don't know what this is I strongly suggest you watch this. Trust me, I've been watching it all week and have now become competely transfixed. It's hypnotic - check out those roses. How it'll sound when I do it is anybody's guess, and despite it slightly confusing my sexuality when I sing it, believe it or not I can boogie voogie too. Subscribe to that.That number again: (03) 9388 1027.

Seeya,

NC.

Howdy folks,

 

I've been doing a few solo shows again recently which I'm very much enjoying. Have finally chucked in the Line 6 looping pedal because frankly they were becoming an overhead I was getting very sick of forking out for. They break people, consistently and often. Rats.

 

Speaking of rats, this Thursday I'm playing at the old Rob Roy here in Melbourne. It is now known, I suspect fairly misleadingly, as "The Workers Club." Yes, well, I suppose reading Vice is hard work....

 

I'll be supporting very good friends, worthy drinkers, and a band you should see if you haven't already - East Brunswick All Girls Choir - also misleading: they're not all girls and they live in Abbotsford, but Hobbs sure can sing. For the thousands of you on this list who came to our show in Bordeaux last year, he was the one who played just before us, and I think he thinks he looks like a rat, which is why all their promotion is based around rats in some way. They're doing a residency at the Worker's club and this will be the second week. At the fourth week they will be launching they're first ever recording, which they just made over the weekend at their hip warehouse. AND, their guitarist Rob is the spitting image of Joe Talia - for real - it's unnerving.

 

You should come:

 

East Brunswick All Girls Choir - 10pm

Ned Collette (solo) - 9.15pm

Doors 8.30.

Worker's Club, Fitzroy (cnr Gertrude & Brunswick)

 

Come and see me get my acoustic on. John Williamson style.

 

In other news, our new album is close enough to touch. It's being mastered as we speak, by a guy named Chad Clark, in Arlington, Virginia - that's in the freakin' USA. As you might recall Joe and I went over to New York in June to mix it with Joel Hamilton, and that went extremely well and we are all very happy. Release plans are firming up here in Australia, and we will let you know these and any overseas plans shortly. Another NC&Wirewalker tour of Europe is in the works for early 2009, and we'll definitely be playing shows here in support of the album later this year.

 

Finally here's what else is on the calendar:

 

 

That's it! See you soon.

NC&W

 

www.myspace.com/nedcollette