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The Dead Weather
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The Dead Weather are a brand new rock outfit consisting of Dean Fertita, Jack Lawrence, Alison Mosshart and Jack White. The impetus for the band came when Mosshart’s band The Kills opened on a few US tour dates for The Raconteurs. Recognizing immediately the musical synergy between Mosshart, White and Lawrence, the trio devised a plot to record together during some down time in White’s own Third Man Recording Studio in Nashville where White enlisted the addition of erstwhile Raconteurs’ touring accomplice and Queens Of The Stone Age collaborator Dean Fertita. What was initially imagined as a one-off collaboration for a 7” single release turned into a full blown album project once the quartet switched on the recording tape. The Dead Weather’s menacing sounds were so electrifying that they couldn’t help but keep the tape rolling. In three weeks they had recorded a full length album, Horehound produced by Jack White, to be released on White’s Third Man Records in June. The album features the band’s explosive debut single, “Hang You Up From The Heavens”, which is currently available through iTunes, backed with a dirge driven cover of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”
Violent Soho
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From the depths of Brisbane’s conservative right, also known as the one and only suburb of Mansfield, fully encompassed by the holy postcode, 4122, comes Violent Soho. The members of the group include Luke Boerdam (Vocals, Guitars), James Tidswell (Guitars), Luke Henery (Bass) and Michael Richards (Drums).

Violent Soho began a few years ago as a means of playing music together for four boys, then in their teens, who wanted to be able to embrace an 80’s and 90’s punk–grunge impact to their music without disregarding the ethic that ideally follows from such influence. The band has since then gone on its way to creating an energetic live show. From its beginnings, playing shows at outer-suburban pubs and rehearsing and recording demos in their parents' garages; the band has grown not by striving to achieve musical extravagance or stability, but by being a real band, by keeping its own principle and belief and sense of mateship within itself.

In late 2005, the band released locally its first EP "Pigs & TV", which received moderate success. Now, with "Pigs & TV" all but sold out, Violent Soho is proud to announce the independent release of their debut album "We Don’t Belong Here", a collection of dark, honest, guitar driven pop.

In between releases Violent Soho has also toured extensively as well as played shows with such bands as The Grates, Grinspoon, Faker, Magic Dirt, Butterfingers, The Mess Hall, The Black Keys (US), The Bronx (US), Black Francis (US), Jackson United (US), Nashville Pussy (US), Electric Eel Shock (JAP), The Vasco Era, Bliss ‘N’ Eso, Rocket Science, Cosmic Psychos, Celibate Rifles, Hard-Ons, Six Ft Hick and many countless others. This year, Violent Soho have also gone on a short but blazing tour of the UK and the US and have also featured on major festival line-ups around Australia including Homebake, Meredith, Falls Festival, Laneway Festival and many others. The band has a heavy work ethic. One which only seems to be able to work by the fact that Violent Soho is really just a unit, one band of mates.
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