All The Nation's Airports

'Dear Passengers for Virgin Flight 666 who hauled their asses out of bed at 5:05 am to make our scheduled departure of 6:30 am, your flight has now been cancelled. Maybe you should have just flown Qantas from the get-go at a reasonable hour? Wouldn't that have been better? Yes? Oh but that's right, you're a bit cheap and stupid aren't you.'

I wonder if Fennesz flies by chartered plane.

I hope so.

Unpopular Mechanics:

Harmony In Ultraviolet

- Tim Hecker -

Everything on this record sounds like it's backwards looping.

But at the same time it completely make sense.

Also, it's very pretty. Beauty and brains.

PLUS +

Black Ram (Disc 2 in Sojourner Box Set)

- Magnolia Electric Co. -

This is my favourite Magnolia Electric Co. album.

I have no idea why it's hiding in this box set.

That said the whole thing is pretty great.

Anyway this is pretty much the saddest music ever made and yet I like it.

A lot.

EQUALS =

A perfect album squared.

You wouldn't know how to feel when you listened to it.

You'd forget how to feel permanently, it'd be that good.

Upcoming Shows Coming Up

Here is a link to this Thursday night's show in Adelaide:

http://aeaf.org.au/events/soundsitesaeaf.html

tom hall "..explorations into place, space and time.." with ambrose chapel, jason sweeney and tristan louth-robins

when: thursday 20 may 8.00pm sharp

where:The EMU SPACE, Electronic Music Unit 5th Floor, Schulz Building, University of Adelaide

(enter via the Scott Theatre lifts behind the Schulz building, Kintore Avenue, Gate 15) Map: http://emu.adelaide.edu.au/contact/

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Here is a poster I made for my new night here in Brisbane:

Tourism #1

# MELBOURNE

First show of the tour is opening up for Melbourne's Whitehorse, an intimidating prospect at the best of times with a full-band behind me. Tonight it's me, Page Hamilton (my laptop) and a bunch of bearded doom fans. It works somehow. The Old Bar PA helps.

Whitehorse are an unrelenting fucking beast of a thing. I am WELL attuned to the bleakness of this music, I love it, but Whitehorse never fail to bum me out. I've seen them twice now and I've never made the distance either time; I need a break and take one. They've got to be one of the best doom bands this country has ever produced, got to be.

The rest of the weekend is a house show, Coopers, Nadia, Steph, Jem and everything in between.

# PERTH

First impressions of Perth: street toughs, Toowoomba vibes and fucking cold. First show is at The Velvet Lounge under the auspices of Greg Taw. Accompanying Ambrose Chapel is Jane Harris, Mystic Eyes and Erasers (none of these names are our real names). Mystic Eyes is a total Perth-bogan annihilating drone fuck you and it happens before I play and so I just relax and let the doom out. It's sharp and short. Afterwards I go to The Moon.

Show two is at 'Whopper' (always my favourite Hungry Jacks option when I ate meat), spelt WAAPA and home to a lot of diligent and awesome performing arts student. I play their Sound Unbound festival and it's a good, loud time. After, I meet up with new friends and see a bad band and at night's end I accidentally order two gin and tonics when I only wanted one and then I drink them both and stagger towards the hotel.

My merch is sold, my shows are gone and my brain is a liquid so I fall blissfuly asleep in my hotel room. The tour can be a beautiful thing.

# DOCUMENTATION

ACT Show Poster

New Recording

Two weeks back I was in the final stages of finishing off a new Ambrose Chapel recording when my hard-drive failed and I lost the lot. It was going to be a cassette. That's the bad news. The good news is that this crash made me pretty angry and thus I went into the studio a few days later and smashed out an entirely new recording which is probably much better. Ahhh, the joys of creative practice.

Full update/release news as soon as I get it done.

(And yes, the new record is backed up)

New Website | New Release | Tour

Guess who spent Easter on his computer? Welcome to my new webpage.

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I've been working on a new record. Two longer tracks: both a bit nastier than the last two, both a lot longer than the last two. At this stage I'm pretty sure it's going to end up on cassette in time for my May/June tour. Speaking of which...

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House Party March 2010

I played a show...

...and I was really happy with it.

But really, who could be unhappy playing in this room:

Influences: Rosemary's Baby

From There To Who Knows Where...

Just got back from Melbourne City the other night. Great show at Stutter / Horse Bazaar. Thanks so much to all the paying punters, Annalee, Tom Hall and Matt/Ducktails.

Horse Bazaar's nice PA gave me ample headroom to try out new 'double big muff' processing techniques. One is never enough with distortion pedals.

Now I'm tried and bored.

That Stutter show was the end of an era for this project. I like my current set: a piece that evolved and devolved during the AXXONN/Ambrose Chapel/ Tom Hall European Tour earlier this year BUT it's time to document and move on. I found some nice sounds with that set but I want to go to different places with them. What I have is very Berlin August 2009 but for the moment/forever I'm in Brisbane 1976-Present.