Beaten, bruised

October 6, 2003

So, we’re back from Melbourne, beaten, bruised, and hungover. Thanks to everyone who has attended, danced, yelled, bought badges, or bought us drinks on our run of sell out shows in Victoria!

But the fun ain’t over yet, we’re off to Perth in a week. Here’s the Lowdown:

  • WED OCT 15 – PRINCE OF WALES, BUNBURY
  • THURS OCT 16 – SETTLERS TAVERN, MARGARET RIVER
  • FRI OCT 17 – BAR 120, HILLARYS
  • SAT OCT 18 – AMPLIFIER, PERTH
  • SUN OCT 19 – NEWPORT HOTEL, FREMANTLE 6pm – 10pm

The album will be well and truly out (7 days to go) by then and we have it for sale already on the site, and at all shows. Our Brisbane album launch is on October 24th at The Zoo, more on that
soon.

We’ve invented new “screamfeeder money denominations” on tour (the things we do eh?!) So, when we see you at the merch stand and we yell out “gimme two dolphins and a clam” you’ll know what we’re on about!

$5.00 note = a clam
$10.00 note = a dolphin
$20.00 note = a lobster
$50.00 note = a mullet
$100.00 note = a Bob Marley (started off as “a whale” – get the connection..)

Other than that, see you all at the bar. In Perth.

Tim / Kel / Dean / darek **screamfeeder**

Screamfeeder, rock for free / asking for trouble

September 21, 2003

OK so we’re so excited about the album, and we know you are too, we thought we’d just damn well give you an MP3 for the hell of it! It’s track 11, “Make Up”.Hit the site for the link:www.screamfeeder.com

Also on the site is a whole lotta great new merch, there’s shirts, and we’ve even got badges!

And we’re even doing special offers on packs of the three new singles, badges, posters, the whole lot, it’s fuckin nuts! And you can check out the new album ahead of time, all the artwork etc.

We will be getting the videos online any day now, promise. The “12345” clip was on RAGE this weekend.

Not only that but we’re coming to VICTORIA in a coupla weeks. We always love Melbourne, and in return the city is always very kind to us. Come and have fun with us!

  • Thurs 2nd Oct – National Hotel, Geelong
  • Fri 3rd Oct – The Espy, St Kilda
  • Sat 4th Oct – The Evelyn

The Geelong show is on their “student night” apparently. Now, I know as soon as that word is mentioned you’re gonna expect a whole tirade of condescension and ridicule from me. Not that I have anything against learning, education, universities or schools, quite the opposite in fact, it’s just that the students themselves seem such a pack of dopes when it comes to the appreciation of live music.

They’re regularly presented with the cream of the country’s bands, and all they can do is queue up at the bar for endless jugs of beer and roll around with sheets wrapped around them. That’s our experience anyway. Geelong, come on and prove us wrong.

Thanks to all who saw us at the Billy Bragg shows  – Billy was as nice a geezer as we expected, he had his arm around Kellie within about 3 seconds.

We’re doing a W.A / Perth run in October too, (see the site) including one Uni show. Maybe we’ll get beaten up by students somewhere along the line. Stay tuned.

In the meantime see you, amongst the togas and girls wearing their boyfriends’ football jumpers (oof, really hammering the stereotypes!) AT THE BAR!!

**tim/dean/darek/kel feeder**

Running late..

September 8, 2003

OK so we’re really on tour now, this weekend we’re hitting NSW:

  • Friday 12th Sept – Northern Star, Newcastle
  • Saturday 13th Sept – Annandale Hotel, Sydney + Peabody + Earth To Nigel

It should be a blast, so get there early.

The album is gonna be a few weeks late. It was meant to come out today, but we all have to wait just a little longer. These delays always happen, whenever you set a date the album always arrives too late. Damn, shoulda set the date for August, maybe we’d be ready by now.

The benefit of hindsight eh?! It’s kinda like the “cd launch” gig scenario that anyone in a band will be familiar with – the cds never turn up on time and the launch is for a product that is not technically “..there..” yet.

You can still check it out on the site, just click the “new album” link. www.screamfeeder.com

see you all at the bar! ~ screamfeeder

How much rock can you handle?

September 1, 2003

So, when I was a kid I went to see The Ramones play in London, and I was impressed to see that they successfully managed to out-punk the large, fairly hardcore punk audience, simply by rocking on for an hour and a half or more, ’till the crowd was an exhausted mess, beaten, defeated.

Now, we’re kinda gonna attempt the same thing this Saturday night, the 6th, at Ric’s (Brisbane).

Screamfeeder will be playing the “intimate” venue (at full volume) over two sets, starting at 10.00 and 11.00pm. THEN, DJ TJ (yours truly) will take control of the decks and keep the pace crankin till dawn (5a.m.)

Can you handle it? Yeah, it’s a challenge, come on!

We’re also hitting the road this month, taking it to NSW, VIC and WA. Check the site for dates. www.screamfeeder.com

All systems go for the album, it’s actually gonna be a coupla weeks later than we expected, but it’s all happening. The singles are on the radio, the vids are on telly, and we’ve even been on home and away.

Now, don’t anyone be giving me static about being on the same telly show as Lo-Tel, or I’m likely to crumble into a mess of embarrassing contradictions and mumbled excuses. We figure channel 10’s money is better off in our pockets than Lo-Tel’s any day.

See you up the front,

tim/kel/dazza/dean
*screamfeeder*