I am having a little holiday before the tour.
I am in Malaysia for a family holiday before the start of the Desert Flower tour it’s the school holidays and my partner Mon needs some time away from the stress of her job so it’s good timing. It should be great with some hot weather and time in Penang , langkawe and KL. The Beggars launched the new record at two small shows in Adelaide last weekend one intimate basically acoustic show with the three of us singing and playing to one large diaphragm condenser mic (I do love that sound) the other show used a full mic up and bugs on all the instruments in a big room at The Gov and I am glad to say the new material feels really good to play live. It was really more like a pre launch because the record will not be available until the tour in October. I still don’t have all the tour dates and I guess I should be nervous about that. There are three agents booking the shows the one booking the middle of the tour has only told us his dates will be full with only Mondays off so I will just trust him and I do but I don’t even know for sure what countries we are playing definitely Germany and Switzerland but beyond that I don’t know. I will try and get the tour dates that I have got posted soon.
CD launch ticket and album offer!
The big CD launch is tomorrow 4pm at The Gov and just for today we are offering a free copy of the new Desert Flower album with your $25 entry. Reply to me todaywith a comment, Ill put you on my list and you can see me for a free album at the gig tomorrow!
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Supports for the Desert Flower Launch….
Supports for the Adelaide launch of Desert Flower at The Gov are The Texettes and The Fiddle Chicks both are great local acts and both have new albums out. The Texettes CD launch is tomorrow 2pm at the Jade Monkey in Adelaide, Stu and I will both be in the band. Terry Bradford [Texettes} crafts a fine song. And The Fiddle Chicks are just fabulous.
The singing gallery will just be little old us in a more acoustic style.
This is the album cover but we are printing an alternate cover as well. Just in case we get over this one.
The Desert Flower European tour looks like being a full itinerary, our German roadmanager Big Herb recons we may get Mondays off.
The Singing Gallery http://www.singinggallery.com.au/ at 7.30pm on Sep, 12. Ph. 0413 358 618
The Gov http://www.moshtix.com.au/Event.aspx?id=28665&pLock=&vip=&skin=&ref= at 4pm on Sunday Sep, 13. Ph 08 8340 0744
The Beggars 