AN EPIC IN THE MAKING?

With the band’s new line-up in place and complete, Sydney four-piece Bluebottle Kiss are set to release the first taster from their forthcoming fifth album.

To celebrate, they’re doing what all bands do - tour!

The new single is going to be called “A Little Bit Of Light”, and will have 4 b-sides that you won’t be able to get again, with a taster up on the band’s site.

The b-sides are:
Chained to the Wall
Road Nails
Running into Doors
You Put Out the Fire

It’s the second last number, “Running Into Doors”, that is now available on the band’s site.

Everything for the new album is, apparently, sounding ‘rich’, with the band’s label manager Nick Carr explaining his experience of visiting the recording studio thus:

Dates:
August
Thursday 11 - Barwon Club, Geelong VIC
Friday 12 - Northcote Social Club, Melb VIC
Saturday 13 - Jive, Adelaide SA
Wednesday 17 - ANU Bar, Canberra ACT
Thursday 18 - Oxford Tavern, Wollongong NSW
Friday 19 - Annandale Hotel, Sydney NSW
Saturday 20 - Cambridge Tavern, Newcastle NSW
Thursday 25 - Sol Bar, Coolum QLD
Friday 26 - The Troubadour, Brisbane QLD
Saturday 27 - Coolangatta Hotel, Surfers Paradise QLD

Links:
Band: Bluebottle Kiss

SIMPLE PLAN K.I.S.S. (AND S.U.C.K.)

Just when you thought mallrat punk-pop had died and gone to hell...

Montreal-based punk-pop group Simple Plan are returning to Australia and New Zealand, playing tin sheds all around.

The five-piece initially came together when founding members Chuck Comeau (drums) and vocalist Pierre Bouvier (oh, that name just ROXXX!!!) founded Reset at age 13. A modest success in Canada, touring the country with fellow punkers MxPx, Ten Foot Pole, and Face to Face. A debut album followed in 1997, however Comeau bowed out quietly to attended college. Two years later, Comeau let his studies take a back seat in order for he, guitarist Jeff Stinco (he pongs!), and Sebastien Lefebvre (another rockin’ name!) to start making music.

Bouvier was still in charge of Reset during this time, but grew tired of being both a frontman and a guitarist. He and Comeau reconnected at a Sugar Ray show (!) in late 1999 and it wasn’t long until Bouvier was back with Comeau and the rest of his mötley crew. David Desrosiers (bass) who had replaced Bouvier in Reset joined them, and Simple Plan was born.

They first came to attention as part of the Vans Warped Tour in 2001, and Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden and Mark Hoppus of blink-182 joined Simple Plan during sessions for the band’s first album, No Pad, No Helmets...Just Balls, which appeared in 2003.

For the follow-up, the band looked to mega-producer Bob Rock (he of Metallica infamy), who helmed their second album, Still Not Getting Any..., which appeared spritely in 2004.

Now the band are touring on the back of it. There’s a shock! So, blink-182 have broken up. Sum-41 have gawn metttal. And Simple Plan? Suckitude, dude! Corporate pop-rock has never sounded CHEESIER.

Oklahoma act All-American Rejects will fill the middle slot, with a local band also opening the bill.

Dates:
Thursday 29 September: Christchurch Westpac Trust Centre
Saturday 01 October: Auckland North Shore Event Centre
Sunday 02 October: Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Wednesday 05 October: Sydney Hordern Pavilion
Saturday 08 October: Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
Sunday 09 October: Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Tuesday 11 October: Perth Challenge Stadium