Pictures by Adam Thomas, and they’re worth a thousand thousand words! Except to say huge thanks to The Sinbirds, Leon the Sound Whisperer and Joel ‘Son Of Netblade’ Barcham. And to all of you for being such an incredible crowd.
NICK
CRACKED ACTOR AT THE POLISH CLUB
Some snaps from our friends’ Mechanical Pterodactyl’s album launch. Cracked Actor played support and it was a great chance to flex some of our newer tunes ahead of album recording in November.
THE LAST PROMO – MAKE WAY FOR WAR
Nick asked me to shoot a promo for The Last Prom’s penultimate show for the year. Each gig this year has been based around one of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse – this Saturday (October 13th) is War’s turn.
Nick had the idea to make it a lock ‘n’ load montage, and we had fun twisting that to suit a drummer… that’s getting ready for prom… AND is the living personification of War.
The below is from their last gig – I didn’t film it, but had big fun editing it.
BIG SCORE AT THE PHOENIX
Big Score, my loose-as-a-goose multi-singer-songwriter jam band played at the Phoenix on Monday night, to a crowd of equally loose long-weekenders
The band includes three of the best songwriters the ACT has going: Andrew ‘Drew Walky’ Walker, Beth Monzo (of Dub Dub Goose/Beth’n’Ben fame) and the gigantic showstopping voice and presence that is Cameron Ewens. Guitarist Jon Engel is the dynamo that got us going in the first place, and our truly incredible drummer Nick Peddle makes it all sound a lot better rehearsed than it actually is.
We’ve had a record in the works for a criminally long time, but for now it’s just a great great group to work out some tunes with.
WAR
The 13th of this month is the penultimate show in The Last Prom’s 2012 Apocalypse Sequence. It’ll be the last ‘gig’-style show and the last with our existing set of songs. The final show in November will feature 10 all-new numbers that detail the tragic love affair between Death and The Antichrist.
The theme of this show is War, so we’ll be decking out The Front Gallery to look like a fallout shelter. Luke is supporting under his King Handsome Luke guise, as well as The Sinbirds and the ever-amazing Dead DJ Joke.
Our last gig- The Nuclear Winter Ball- ended up being one of the funner dance parties I’ve ever been at, so I’m looking pretty forward to it.
LINCOLNS DO BIRRIGAI
Last night, The Missing Lincolns rocked Birrigai, alongside our friends The Ellis Collective and Julia & The Deep Sea Sirens. Playing a brightly lit hall, to a polite audience of 50 high schoolers, we sold a few albums and even signed autographs. Surreal.
Prom In The Studio
The Last Prom took a 2-day break from readying our stage show to go to Sydney and record. We worked on two singles, ‘Half In Shadow, Half In Light’ and ‘Whatever I Want, All The Time’.
We cut straight onto tape at Linear Studios, which is where Family Pets by Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens (my favourite record by an ACT band!) was recorded.
A summer release date is most likely, but of course they’ll be regular updates here.
The Missing Lincolns at Bootlegs
The Missing Lincolns played a set for Live’n’Local at The Bootleg Sessions on Monday. It’s about our fifth gig since the inclusion of Josh ‘Lovedozer’ Chaffey on bass, and we already can’t imagine how we got by without him.
We played a bunch of crowd favourites from the last record like Guitar Fighter and Majordomo, plus a swathe of upstarts in contention for our upcoming 2013/14 release.
Thanks to Massive Johnson for her exemplary visual art support, as usual. Photos by the immortal Adam Thomas.
THE LAST PROM
The Last Prom is a band/theatre show hybrid I’ve been developing for the last two years. We’ll be presenting the finished version of our show on the 10th of November, meaning the next 8 weeks of my life are about to get totally consumed by it.
The Antichrist, played by me as a colossal pop music nerd, decides to re-imagine the ritual of the Apocalypse as a Hollywood-style High School Prom, and refashions himself and The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse as the greatest pop band history has ever known.
In an effort to keep Armageddon on course, Death (played by Triple J Unearthed darling Julia Johnson) disguises herself as a mortal and sets out to break my heart. The show ends with the complete destruction of time and all existence.
I’ve got a script, a director, a production team, a shit-hot band and 10 all-new original songs that we’re frantically trying to learn. This is a bigger scale than anything I’ve attempted before and I’m quietly terrified, but thrilled to have pulled together such a great team.
Keep updated on the show here or at thelastprom.com.
BABYFREEZE VIDEO
Luke and I have big plans for our electro duo Babyfreeze going into ’13. As a warm-up we shot this little promo for our track Make Sense Of This Thing Between Us, which was produced by the inestimable Paul Heslin.
Videography by Luke, rolling out of bed twenty minutes before by Yours Truly.
Lick Nuke 