[gigs] Laughing Clowns Reunion

The big news this week is that the best band from anywhere ever (as usual, no correspondence will be entered into), the Laughing Clowns, will be playing their first shows since 1984 at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Mt Buller and Sydney. That’s not all for Ed Kuepper fans though, since he’ll also be playing with The Saints. (In fact, by the time of ATP it will be an amazing 12 months having also seen Ed play Honey Steel’s Gold as part of Don’t Look Back, and a great show with the Kowalski Collective at the Gov). Of course there is loads more great stuff at ATP as listed in my previous post, amongst the others I’m particularly excited about getting to see Harmonia, Silver Apples and M.Gira – none of which I had much expectation of ever seeing.

Here is some Laughing Clowns stuff from youtube:

Eternally Yours

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Holy Joe

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plus The Saints with Know Your Product

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Also this week was the first announcement for the Big Day Out. There was much less there to interest me, but I’ll check out later announcements to see who else gets added.

No word on the lineup for the Laneway festival yet, but it should be out pretty soon.

Also, according to the JJJ gig guide The Cinematic Orchestra are playing in Melbourne in January. Could they perhaps be coming out for the Sydney Festival? The SF music program has been very impressive in recent years. This year the ATP events in Sydney are part of the festival but I expect there will be much more. Won’t be announced for another month or so (roughly at the same time as the next ATP announcement).
OCTOBER

  • 9th Joan As Policewoman at Jive.
  • 10th The New Pornographers at the Gov.
  • 11th No Through Road at the Metro with Like Leaves and Billy Bishop Goes to War.
  • 12th The Tallest Man on Earth at the Grace Emily with Firekites and Matt Banham.
  • 17th Clue to Kalo with Swords, Megafauna and My Disco at the Ed Castle.
  • 19th Grand Salvo will be supporting Sophie Koh at Fowlers.
  • 31st The Drones at the Gov.

NOVEMBER

  • 3rd Howe Gelb at the Jade Monkey.
  • 7th Clue to Kalo at Rocket Bar.
  • 22nd Ninetynine at the Metro.

JANUARY

  • 9-10th All Tomorrow’s Parties at Mt Buller with the best damn lineup of any festival that Australia has seen. And there are more to be announced in November.
  • 30th Big Day Out, at Wayville Showgrounds, with Neil Young, Arctic Monkeys, The Living End, The Prodigy, Sneaky Sound System, My Morning Jacket, Pendulum, Bullet for My Valentine, TV on the Radio, Simian Mobile Disco, The Ting Tings, Tiki Taane, Cut Copy, Cog, Birds of Tokyo, TZU, Eddy Current Suppression Ring.

FEBRUARY

  • 7th Laneway Festival.
  • 17th Chick Corea and John McLaughlin at Her Majesty’s Theatre.

On the Stereo

  • Laughing Clowns – Cruel, But Fair 3cd (Hot)
  • The Saints – Wild About You 3cd (Raven)
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live Seeds cd (Mute)
  • Primitive Calculators – s/t cd (Chapter)
  • Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing  cd (ATP)
  • Harmonia – Live 1974 cd (Water)
  • Silver Apples – Silver Apples / Contact cd (MCA)
  • The Necks – Drive By cd (Fish of Milk)
  • Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies cd (Dedicated)
  • M. Gira – Drainland cd (Young God)
  • Robert Forster – The Evangelist cd (Capitol)