Friday 14 May 2010

The Good Ship Announce their debut single ‘A Harbour Fair’

LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT: THE GOOD SHIP IS A VERY BAD SHIP.

The Good Ship- 'A Harbour Fair' by HeapsaWill

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Drawing inspiration from fellow denizens of the deep like Nick Cave, The Decemberists and The Pogues, The Good Ships tune’s explore the seedier side of humanity.

Since forming only 12 months ago, their rousing live shows have seen them quickly snag a strong fan base and score some sought-after supports in their hometown of Brisbane including Skipping Girl Vinegar and Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything). While risqué lyrics certainly grab the punters’ attention, it’s the rich layers of folk, rock, country and pop textures that keep them coming back for more.

The Good Ship’s debut single 'A Harbour Fair' is a rousing singalong that tells the story of a band of sailors headed for shore after a long journey, eager for the triple delights of booze, ladies and gambling that await them in their Harbour Fair. Pursuing whales across the waves these past thirty days, the lads are well ready to hit solid ground.

The single is the first off the Good Ship’s debut album 'Avast! Wretched Sea'. The album, recorded over a long hot summer with Neil Coombe (John Steel Singers, Go Betweens) and Jamie Trevaskis (Wilson Pickers, Texas Tea), is a triumph of dark, sweaty, heaving beauty, featuring the Good Ship’s trademark blend of sweet melodies and debauched lyric.

Live, The Good Ship are a seething maelstrom of decadent musicality, with 8 to 9 members on stage at any one time and a whole heap of archaic instrumentation from mandola, lagerphone, fiddle and trumpet to accordion. This sense of joy and anarchy hasn’t been lost on audiences and after only a year on the Brisbane scene the band have gathered a substantial loyal following. The Good Ship will be touring east coast Australia through May / June to support the release of 'A Harbour Fair'.


‘A HARBOUR FAIR’ TOUR


SATURDAY 22 MAY 2010 8PM
Grace Darling Bandroom, Melbourne, VIC
with Dead River Deeps and the Wildes
COST: $10

SUNDAY 23 MAY 2010 8PM
The Old Bar, Melbourne, VIC
with The Hired Guns and RSVP
COST: FREE

SATURDAY 5 JUNE 2010 8PM
The Joynt, Brisbane, QLD
COST: FREE

SUNDAY 6 JUNE 2010 2PM
Peregian Originals, Peregian Beach, QLD
with Mardi Lumsden & the Rising Seas and others
COST: FREE


SATURDAY 12 JUNE 2010 8PM
THE CANNON BALL “A ROCK N ROLL PIRATE MASQUE”
Great Northern, Byron Bay, NSW
with the Rocketsmiths and Jimmy Willing and the Real Gone Hick-Ups
COST: $20

Maiden Single ‘A Harbour Fair’ is Out Now

The Good Ship’s Debut Album 'Avast! Wretched Sea' is out on June 19 through Autumn Recordings


“However real excitement is reserved for the seven gentlemen and two ladies of The Good Ship. Sans usual pirate attire, the merry crew rip it up on The Decemberists’ Rake Song, Violent Femmes’ Country Death Song and Gunners’ rabble-rousing I Used To Love Her. Murderously good.”

Rave Magazine – Live Review


“On stage from left to right there’s an accordionist in a puffy white shirt, a violinist with eye patch, admiral’s cap and a fake bird teetering halfway down his back, 3 guitarists, a bassist, a drummer and the one female member doing back-up vocals. The music was fun, melodic inlayers and full of vocal harmonies. The energy from the stage easily transferred itself into the crowd.”

Life Music Media – Live Review


Galleon Announce Debut Single 'Kamikaze' & Accompanying Launch Shows


Galleon - 'Kamikaze' by HeapsaWill


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Named after their favourite St Kilda café, four piece Adelaide based Indie-rock band Galleon was born in mid 2008.


Says frontman Nick Deegan “we were recording a bunch of songs in Melbourne with the four of us, and we still didn’t have a name. During these recording sessions I would leave the studio to write lyrics at this local café called galleon. We had a bunch of potential names, but Galleon ended up feeling like the most appropriate.”


With drummer Ryan Robinson, bassist Tim Anderson and guitarist Brad Iversen completing the line up, Galleon spent the best part of 2009 writing and recording what would be their debut release, a small collection of songs hand-picked out of roughly 30 other songs which were written alongside them. The songs, which later this year will form the band’s debut album, were engineered and mixed by ARIA nominated Jimi Maroudas (Eskimo Joe, The Living End, The Little Stevies), and produced by Patrick ‘Patch’ Robertson, singer/songwriter of now defunct Australian rock band Motorace.


Explains Deegan “we purposely gave ourselves time to record the album at our own pace, and hence the recording process was very chilled at times. I wrote the skeleton of one of our songs during a lunch break. Patch and I then recorded the bed track to this, and wrote the rest of the parts together over the remainder of the day.


The first of these songs to fall on public ears is ‘Kamikaze’, a song schizophrenic in nature and a good first impression of galleon’s knack for light and shade. Says Deegan: “Kamikaze to me is about transition of youth to adulthood and everything in between. Kamikaze was the word that best described the amount of new, cool and fucked up shit you go through in such a small period of your life, in that sometimes life is seamless and sometimes you crash and burn. Overall we live and learn…”


Alongside the writing and recording, Galleon has taken time out to play a handful of shows between 2008 and now. Such shows have included Schutzenfest w/ the Galvatrons, Ed Castle w/ The young Heretics, The National Jack Daniels tour and the 2010 Clipsal 500 after race concert w/ British India and Eskimo Joe to name but a few.


With national tour dates TBA in support of the forthcoming album, Kamikaze single launch dates took place in Adelaide a fortnight back and Melbourne this week;


Saturday May 15th @ 'Spensers Live, Melbourne

W/ Matheson