We had such a good time performing Suicide’s legendary first album at Pure Pop Records (in 40 degree heat!) we’re going to do it JUST ONE MORE TIME. This time we’re doing a double header at Yah Yah’s on Friday Jan 25th with Mikelangelo’s and his Hot Pearl Snatch band doing the Cramps’ classic A Date With Elvis.
Friday January 25th at Yah Yah’s Fitzroy Melbourne.
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Performing Suicide’s legendary first LP on Friday Jan 4th to support PurePop’s aim to soundproof their great live space against pesky music haters who live in downtown St Kilda. We’re geared up with a borrowed Farfisa plus actual sounds from a Roland CR-78 Analog Drum Machine (Suicide used a Seagram’s rhythm machine which is impossible to find, but quickly moved to the CR78 for subsequent releases and performances).
It’s sounding pretty authentic and we’ll try and keep the performance true to the vibe of the album as best we can. This was first the album to truly blow my tiny mind and still does today…
We’re slowly knocking off tracks for the Fourth with two done, another 8 ready to mix and two still needing some writing effort. Focus now is mixing and releasing next single Go Slow which will feature two additional tracks mixed by Tim Holmes – a 12″ style remix of Combat Boots plus new track Supermädchen. We’re aiming to get this single launched in October in Melbourne. As usual Cab work at a glacial pace but we treat every release as if it’ll be our last so we may as well get it right.
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So after beavering away on the Fourth for longer than is healthy it’s now time to let these babies out to see who sinks or swims. So we’ll be playing a little show at Melbourne’s Yah Yah’s on Sunday June 10th (Queens Birthday weekend) with Wes Holland from Sand Pebbles on sticks and Lucy Buckeridge from Lowtide joining us on bass. We missed the energy of a real live rhythm section so it’ll be great to have a bigger line-up on stage, and both Wes and Lucy are really excellent musicians. We’ll be attempting a big chunk of the Fourth, plus taking merch pre-orders via our Pozible campaign which is tracking nicely.
New single will be completed by next month too. Madness…
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Bonus disk live set recorded live to air in radio 3RRR’s performance space in August 2009. Track listing: Church In Berlin, Rescue, Black Angel, It’s OK, Ghost Anthems, Underground Star, Hearts On Fire, Rocket USA, 1970.
We’ve launched a Pozible campaign to crowd-fund the mixing and release of the Cab’s Fourth, a double-album (the Mount Everest of music). Great pledge rewards plus the warm fuzzy feeling of helping make something really great happen.
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Cab got gigs!
We’re doing a few shows…
First up is an intimate club and full band show at Grace Darling’s Basement club on Friday May 3rd. This will be a late night show (doors 10pm) for people to come down and listen to tracks we’ve completed or are in the process of completing for the dreaded Fourth, see us perform them to various levels of quality, and then have a dance as we mix them up to a clubbish frenzy. We have a special guest band joining us and the whole night is intended to be an excuse to get wrecked, particularly for Wes and Lucy who are fucking off overseas for a bit, as well as our long suffering Pozible supporters who have understandably written the whole thing off as a poorly performing investment along the lines of emu farming and the like. This will be a fun, intimate gig.No it won’t – we’ve CANCELLED this one (venue & PA is just too small).For those of you near Newstead in country Vic, Cab will be playing a tripped up stripped back club set under the stars on Saturday May 4th as part of the Newstead short story tattoo. The organiser is one Neil Boyack, now an author, who played guitar with me, James and Steve Law in a fairly ordinary 90′s band called Foil. It’ll be good to have a drink with him and Chris Grierson (also an author who played bass in said same ordinary band) and celebrate all those shitty gigs we played way back when, as well as those we still have to play…
Then we’ll launch a new single at the NSC on Sunday 9th June (long weekend). Not sure what we’ll launch. But it’ll be a single.
As for the album, well, we’ve three songs to mix. But I have to write some lyrics. So it’s close-ish, in a cab sort of way…
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