The return of Dan Kelly, Gareth Liddiard and Oneironaut!

My oh my! This week is a corker! On Tuesday October 5...

I am honoured to host Dan Kelly (he of the Tabloid Blues and multiple ARIA award nominations) and Gareth Liddiard (acclaimed Alpha Male and Drone) for a wee chat and some tunes. The boys are back in town and playing some shows that have been too damn long in coming. So if you're as impatient as I am to hear these guys again, tune in to welcome them back and get an early taste of the tabloid blues.

Catch Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males with the Drones on Thursday October 7 (with the Vandas too) and Friday October 8 (with Midnight Juggernauts) at the Tote. And I'll be on decks too. I can barely contain myself!

And...

Oneironaut pay a dreamy visit to Tyranny Of Distance. Lord how I've missed them... but they are back in venues and shops with their new release, the stunning Pure Through Evolution out now on Low Transit Industries.

Here's more on Oneironaut:

Melbourne four piece Oneironaut have been around since 1996. Following the release of two independent EP's and 2001's 'Antipodean Dream' album on Sydney's Comrade Records, the band has played extensively in Melbourne and has made regular visits to Sydney and Adelaide.

Oneironaut have been playing with the likes of Further, High Dependency Unit, Machine Translations, Disaster Plan, Decoder Ring and International Karate. The addition of a cello player has seen the band embark on a solid year of writing and recording. The resulting album 'pure through evolution' is a melting pot of sounds and ideas, this time utilizing a vast array of musicians. From horns to theremins, operatic vocals and strings, the band has produced 11 new songs expanding on their trademark guitar sound and lush arrangements.

Oneironaut launch new album Pure Through Evolution at the Rob Roy on Saturday October 9 with Disaster Plan and Colditz Glider.

But wait - there's more! Here's what you can look forward to on Tyranny Of Distance in the next couple of weeks too...

• Tuesday October 12: The Winter Ship (live acoustic set)
• Tuesday October 19: Durbeyfield (live acoustic set)
• Tuesday October 26: The Amazons

More details soon!

Playlist today...

The Spazzys - Zombie Girl (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)
The Specimens - Head Straight (The Quick And The Deaf LP - forthcoming)
The Blacklist - We Want Blood (Electric & Evil LP)
Wolfmother - Woman (Wolfmother LP)
First Time Hookers - You Got Me Wrong
The Tremors - Capital T (Cash Up Front, No Kissing LP)
The Boat People - Tell Someone Who Cares (single)
Joni Lightning - Peaceful Life (Joni Lightning LP)
Dappled Cities Fly - Cream (single)
The Smallgoods - 8 Times (This Is The Show EP)
Faker - Quarter To Three (single)
Red Riders - We'll Be There Soon (Red Riders EP)
The Rumours - If I Could See You (single)
Marcus Teague - A New Tree (live)
Marcus Teague - Playing The Spaces (live)
Marcus Teague - Feather Figure (live)
Deloris - Local Antarctica (Fake Our Deaths LP)
Durbeyfield - Burnt Out (Durbeyfield EP)
Darren Hanlon - Winter Takes Fall (Little Chills LP)
New Buffalo - It'll Be Alright (The Last Beautiful Day LP)
Grand Silent System - Did
Epicure - Self Destruct In Five (Self Destruct In Five EP)
Decoder Ring - Alpine Way (Somersault LP)
Decoder Ring - Somersault (Somersault LP)
Oneironaut - Intrepid Flight (Pure Through Evolution LP)
Riff Random - Calm Down

Enormous thanks go out to Marcus - of locals Deloris - and his guitar for the wonderful serenading they delivered, Dan from Epicure of Ballarat for one of two interviews (thank you thank you thank you) and Tom of Sydney's Decoder Ring - there is every chance that more of that interview will get a look in on the show in coming weeks.

Deloris play: Manchester Lane, Wednesday September 29

Epicure play: Prince Of Wales, Friday October 1
and Korova Lounge, Ballarat, Friday October 22

Decoder Ring play: The Corner, Saturday October 9


GIG GUIDE

Tuesday September 28
Pan Am + Silver Night Drive @ The Tote
Ash Naylor + friends @ The Rainbow

Wednesday September 29
The Kits + Origami + Fire Underground @ The Rob Roy
Deloris + Because Of Ghosts @ Manchester Lane

Thursday September 30
Souls On Board + Slight Of Build + Marcus (Deloris) @ The Rob Roy
Her Majesty's Finest + Pretty Mess + The Suns @ The Espy
The Blacklist + Uptown Killers @ Ding Dong

Friday October 1
Epicure + Love Outside Andromeda + Durbeyfield @ The Prince Of Wales
Art Of Fighting + Ground Components + Heligoland @ The Corner

Saturday October 2
The Spazzys + The Suits + British India @ Gershwin Room
The Anyones + The Pictures @ Ding Dong

Deloris, Epicure & Decoder Ring

After last week's brilliant live set from 67 Special, the live action continues on Tyranny Of Distance.
This week - Tuesday September 28 - Marcus of Deloris will bring his guitar in for a performance, this time of the acoustic kind. Deloris have just dropped Fake Our Deaths, their third LP featuring gorgeous tracks Playing The Spaces (the soundtrack to last Summer) and the new single Dead Drunks. It's been a little while coming but it's finally arrived and Deloris will be showcasing it at an intimate show at Manchester Lane on Wednesday September 29. Tune in for our very own intimate preview live on the airwaves this Tuesday.

And, hear what Decoder Ring have to say about their new album Somersault. It's the soundtrack to the best new Australian film in years (unless you ask Jim Schembri) and the debut feature film for director Cate Shortland. It screened at Cannes, received standing ovations, has everyone talking and includes one of the most starkly beautiful soundtracks you'll ever hear. Find out all about the film here, and find out all about the soundtrack next Tuesday on Tyranny Of Distance with Tom of Decoder Ring.

On top of that Dan from Ballarat band Epicure - famous for the song Armies Against Me - will be on the blower for a bit of chat too.

Tune in... it's fucking jam packed. Packed. Jam like.

APRA WEEK!

This week is APRA week, which means it's one of four random weeks every year that APRA (the Australian Performing Rights Association) takes a look at our playlists and uses the sample as a representation of what we have been playing recently - there's more about it here.

Then money gets shelled out. So it's all about ♥love♥ and keeping it local. Hey, it's the least I could do. So...
I present to you my APRA play list. To the following artists, buddies and genii - look out for that little old APRA cheque in the mail...

New Buffalo - No Party (The Last Beautiful Day LP)
Art Of Fighting – Real Time (Second Storey LP)
Fire Underground - Guilt Trip (Car Chase EP)
The Amazons – 4 2 The Floor (The Amazons EP)
Spod - Country Of Sweden (Eternal Championz albumette)
Spod - Nerdz (Eternal Championz albumette)
The Spazzys – Surfen Bird (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)
Kicks - She’s Only Your Lover (Pussy Power EP)
The Grates – Holiday (Nightstick/Grates 7”)
Nightstick – Trampoline (Nightstick/Grates 7”)
The Tremors - Bad Teenage Poetry (Cash Up Front, No Kissing LP)
Wolfmother – Woman (Wolfmother LP)
Kamikaze Trio – The Hit (Kamikaze Trio/Immortal Lee County Killers 7”)
Bit By Bats - Dance The Dance (Bit By Bats EP)
The Kits – Good Time (The Kits EP)
Your Wedding Night - White Hott (Your Wedding Night EP)
Bird Blobs - If I Could Kill (Bird Blobs LP)
Rocket Science – Connect Me (Eternal Holiday LP)
The Specimens – Kiss On The Lips (PBS Lobotomi Sessions LP)
Dollar Bar – House Of Cards (Dollar Bar LP)
Screamfeeder – Bunny (Introducing: Screamfeeder LP)
Screamfeeder – Dart (Introducing: Screamfeeder LP)
Decoder Ring – Heidi’s Theme (Somersault LP)
Iron On - Watch Me Stumble (Everybody Calm Down EP)
67 Special – Live from Studio Five

This week's show is brought to you by the letter S

It's drag racing with 67 Special on Tyranny of Distance!
67 Special will be back to visit, this time for a live set from Studio Five. Hey There Bomb! is their five track EP featuring the title track and latest single Last Drag. Straight from a massive East Coast tour with rock lords Dallas Crane where 67 Special strutted and posed like they were born for the big stage in convincing rockstar style, they'll be bringing you their own take of soulful r'n'b rock on Tuesday September 21. Live is where they do it best, so listen in.

Not just that! Spod - the oh so secksy and pink Spod, he of inimitable spazz electro mutant rock fame - will be calling from a phone somewhere. Hiz new albumette Eternal Championz, out now, will be a feature of hiz show at the Evelyn on Brunzwick Street September 24.

And the always lovable Screamfeeder who are celebrating the band's age (around about 12 years) with a collection of very old and rather new tunes and lots in between on Introducing: Screamfeeder. Don't miss Screamfeeder when they tell me what's happened and what's happening this week on Tyranny Of Distance.

And of course the AFL finals will come to an interstate end this Saturday. After the formalities, parties and beer, head on down to the Espy's Gershwin Room for some rock and roll with this week's guests 67 Special and a great line up including The Hovercrafts, Bad Girls of the Bible, 1QA, From Hell, Wax Mannequin, Season, Doctor Invisiablo, First Time Hookers and me, on the decks from 5.30pm. Go the Lions!! And only $5 for subscribers!

Playlist this week....

The Rumours: If I Could See You
Little Birdy: Raised In The Day
Acre: Private Ocean World
Darren Hanlon: Service Station (Little Chills LP)
Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males: Tabloid Blues (Sings The Tabloid Blues LP)
The Daybridges: Vixen Of Vinyl (Losing Control EP)
Cockfight Shootout: Eat Your Own Kind
Kamikaze Trio: The Hit
Betchadupa: Aiming For Your Head (Aiming For Your Head LP)
Los Dominados: Waggy
Nightstick: Push It Away
Nightstick: Fullfazi
Nightstick: Getaway
Nightstick: Sack
Panel Of Judges: Permanent Holiday (7")
Crayon Fields: Sweet Little Kids In Your Sad Little Town
Midnight Juggernauts: Jump The Gun
The Cops: Foxtrot Yankee (Stomp On Tripwires LP)
Rocket Science: We The People (Eternal Holiday LP)
Sneeze: When Honey Snaps (Just The Blues Sped Up LP)
The Kits: Good Time (The Kits EP)
The Kits: Let's Get Romantic (The Kits EP)
Gazoonga Attack: Disko #69 (Sex Nerd LP released October 4)
The Spazzys: Steal A Kiss (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)
Baby 8: I Want To Spend (single)
Frenzal Rhomb: White World (Rock Against Howard LP)
Givegoods: Collar To Colour (Rock Against Howard LP)

Thanks to Nightstick for their fancy fun fast and all too fleeting live set, I think i missed a couple of songs in the playlist, but you get the idea. If you need the whole tracklist you can find the band here - they treated us to a bunch of new stuff that's not on the EP!!
Also thanks to Jay and Kit of the Kits for coming in for a chat - listen out for their EP over the coming weeks, brand spanking and fresh to you from Tyranny Of Distance.

GIGE GUIDE
Gigs Tyranny Of Distance tips this week....

Tuesday September 14
Ash Naylor & friends @ The Rainbow

Wednesday September 15
The Cops (album launch) + Midnight Juggernauts + Osterberg (featuring Ben from Warped) @ The Tote
Royalchord + Momo Benchseat Band + Sam Schnazzi (C-Minus Project) + Andy Calvert (Givegoods) @ Rob Roy

Thursday September 16
Gyroscope + Kiss Chasey @ Ding Dong
Screamfeeder + The Suits + Electrico @ The Rob Roy
Special Patrol + Silver Night Drive + The Sparrows @ Espy

Friday September 17
Kurts + Fire Underground + De Ja Groove @ Duke Of Windsor
Jape Squad + Clinkerfield + Kathematics + Momo Benchseat Band @ The Green Room
Grandville + Joni Lightning + Ground @ The Tote (with DJ Jacqueline Dee)
TZU @ Revolver
Screamfeeder + Cannon + The Suits + Electrico @ The Espy
Augie March + Deloris + City City City @ The POW
Your Wedding Night @ The Evelyn
Streetkid Vandal @ Pony 2am
Tony Biggs Benefit w/ Conway Savage + Tendrils + TISM + Ron Peno + Kim Salmon + The Moodists + Lisa Miller + Brian Hooper + Ian Rilen + Spencer P Jones @ Gershwin Room

Saturday September 18
Salmon @ The Tote
Spazzys + Mach Pelican @ Ding Dong
Blacklist @ The Green Room
Legends Of Motorsport + The Styles @ Town Hall
The Casinos + The Kits @ Dance MF Dance 101 Smith Street

Sunday September 19
Nic Dalton + Bill Gibson (both Sneeze/Lemonheads) + Bernie Hayes @ Rob Roy 8pm
Darling Downs + Rob Snarski & Dan Luscombe @ Rob Roy 3pm

Nightstick Bludgeon Studio Five

Next week expect a dynamite set from Studio Five from Brisbane's insane and brilliant trio Nightstick (featuring Heinz, ex Not From There; Martin, ex Regurgitator; and Tam, from The Standing Eight Counts and Full Fathom Five among others).

As well as Nightstick, Kit and Jay from the Kits will be heading in for a chat and they'll be bringing in some brand new tunes they just laid down - new and exclusive to Tyranny Of Distance!!

Here's more on the fucking 'Stick....

The frantic and frenetic NIGHTSTICK return to Melbourne next weekend for 4 shows!!
Conceived in a Brisbane carpark in early 2003 by former ping-pong adversaries Martin and Heinz. Tam’s presence was demanded because he could play the bass guitar better then all the single-gloved street punks out there. He accepted the challenge on the condition that he use Martin's Fender bass guitar, the one previously owned by Duff McKagan. Martin said yes.
They locked themselves away and began to write a short, fast and gleefully manic set of songs. They liked it that way.
Inspired by the sheer precision of the mechanics who perform in Formula One pit lanes, the band trained themselves to set up their drums, amplifiers and guitars in less than 10 seconds. They claimed the Nightstick title because an old friend said it sounded both sexy and violent.
Nightstick have already cracked Triple J’s playlist, performed at this year’s Big Day Out, and have just released their debut ep on new label DOT DASH.
Nightstick’s urgent, direct and electric music make them one of the most exciting live bands in the country.

Nightstick play:

Thursday 9th Sep – Cut It Out @ Ding Dong
w/ Sinking Citizenship + Group Seizure
Friday 10th Sep - Mischief @ Volt Nightclub (cnr Heaths & Derrimut Rds, Hoppers Crossing)
w/ Remake Remodel
and 2am @ The Moser Room
w/ Vegas Kings
Sat 11th Sep – Dance Motherfucker Dance @ 101
w/ Love Of Diagrams + My Disco + Colditz Glider + Jemima Jemima

This week's playlist...
Music Vs Physics: Dot To Dot (MKB mix)
Devoted Few: Nothing Ever Changes (Billboard Noises LP)
The Sand Pebbles: The Day Summer Fell (Ghost Transmissions LP)
Tim Oxley: Weeping In Love (Flipside: A Candle Records Collection LP)
The Rumours: If I Could See You
The Chris Chapple Method: After The Scales Have Fallen (Melbourne Water Volume 1 LP)
Andrew McCubbin & The Hope Addicts: Is It You? (Steer LP)
Eskimo Joe: Older Than You (A Song Is A City LP)
Second Dan: The City
The Suits: Peppermint (International School Of Dance EP)
The Pictures: She Brought It All Back (Singin' It Just To See EP)
The Smallgoods: Round And Around (This Is The Show EP)
The Smallgoods: Spending The Morning (This Is The Show EP)
The Wagons: I Pray (Draw Blood LP) as selected by Shags Smallgood
Sneeze: Ain't That Kinda Party (Just The Blues Sped Up LP) as selected by Ben Smallgood
Rocket Science: Pop Lover (Eternal Holiday LP)
Gaslight Radio: Stranger Glue (Magic Castle Broke Songs LP)
Gaslight Radio: Your Parents Are Weird (Magic Castle Broke Songs LP)
Gaslight Radio: Don't Think Loudly/Goodtime No.9 (Z-Nation LP)
Nightstick: Saints
Kicks: Give It As Good As You Get It (Pussy Power EP)
The Mint Chicks: Opium Of The People (Anti-Tiger EP)
Brunettes: Mars Loves Venus (Mars Loves Venus LP)
The Crayon Fields: Good Ship (The Good Life EP)
The RedSunBand: Ol' Mexico (Peapod LP)
The Spazzys: My Car Doesn't Brake (Aloha! Go Bananas LP)

Kudos to Ben and Shags from the Smallgoods for their invaluable contributions, and to the inimitable Marty of Gaslight Radio for a kind chat about his world. Check out their gigs below....

GIG GUIDE

Tyranny Of Distance recommends...

Tuesday September 7
Ash Naylor & friends @ The Rainbow

Thursday September 9
Music Vs Physics + Macromantics + MKB @ The Evelyn
The Pictures + The Four Fifths + The Suits + The Vandas @ The Corner
Nightstick + Sinking Citizenship + Group Seizure @ Ding Dong
Rock ‘n’ Roll Wrestling with SixFtHick @ The Greyhound
Amo + Amplifier Machine + J Walker @ The Rob Roy
Laura + Sound Platform + The Winter Ship @ The Empress

Friday September 10
The Pictures + The Vandas @ Rubys Love Lounge Belgrave
Six Ft Hick + Vegas Kings @ The Tote
67 Special + The Hovercrafts + The Cyclones + The Bankers @ The Espy
Smallgoods + Dappled Cities Fly + The Tranquilizers @ The Corner
Nightstick + Remake Remodel @ The Volt Werribee
Nightstick + Vegas Kings @ Moser Room 2am

Saturday September 11
Nightstick + Love Of Diagrams + My Disco! @ Dance MF Dance 101 Smith Street
Gaslight Radio + The Soldiers + Ill Bravados @ The Rob Roy
The Redsunband + Crayon Fields @ The Tote
The Specimens + Vegas Kings + Remake Remodel + Uptown Killers @ The Espy
‘Melbourne Water’ CD launch with New Estate + The Bites + Panel Of Judges @ The Vic