Monday, September 29, 2008

SYDNEY: Spit Syndicate/Horrorshow Acoustic Show

The 1Day crew are playing a special acoustic performance on Saturday 11th October at the Lincoln, in Kings Cross. The night will feature performances by Spit Syndicate, Horrorshow, Rowan Dix, Sarah Corry and JMac.

Previous acoustic shows have been hugely successful, and this one is shaping to be no different. The Lincoln is a cool but intimate bar, so capacity is extremely limited for this show. It's going to cost $10 on the door, or $5 if you're on the guestlist. To get on the guestlist, please send full names to: nickel182@hotmail.com




Hope to see you there..

Tour recap

Our national tour came to a boozy end last weekend, so we thought it was about time for a bit of a recap. Since we last spoke, we've played shows in Newcastle, Brisbane, Perth and Rockingham.

Jimmy, Rowan and myself made the trip up to Newcastle the day after the sold-out Horrorshow Sydney album launch, so we were nursing some pretty killer hang overs. We've always had a lot of love for and from Newy so we were mad keen to get up there. This excitement increased manyfold when we found Abbie Cornish at soundcheck, doing her thing with Blades. Us being a bit ignorant of Newcastle hip-hop, we had no idea that she was part of the group. We were really stoked with how the show went, it was great to catch up with a few old friends and the audience seemed to dig the show. After the show, we kept the party going with the Beats Working boys at a house until the wee hours. They had a bit of a makeshift studio set up at this house (complete with electronic drum kit) and we jammed and freestyled for hours. None of us had had that much fun in a very long time. Newcastle was definitely one of the illest experiences we had on the tour, huge shout outs to the Beats Working boys: these fellas are deadset sickcunts.

Brisbane was next, and after the Briz Obese Block Party show earlier in the year we were looking forward to hitting up Brizvegas. It was great to see Pure Product and the Lowdown live, they were both sick. We went on way later than we should have, and we ended up playing to a fairly empty, big room - it wasn't exactly our finest hour. Still, we dealt with it like anyone else would have: drank the shit out of our bar tab and partied until our hellish 7am flight to Perth. No sleep til Brooklyn..

After more hours than one should really be spending on domestic flights on no sleep (Briz to Sydney, Sydney to Perth), we got to Perth . We'd never been to WA before and had heard great things, and the show was another one of our favourites. We still hadn't slept but the feeling of being in a completely new city and having people there know the words and get into the music was unreal. We linked up with some friends over there and got treated to some Western hospitality, Perth is the illest. The show wasn't packed to the rafters, but everyone that was there got into the music and we had a ball.

Rockingham was the following night, it's about 40 minutes out of Perth. Again, the crowd was looking a little bit depleted but it ain't never been nothing to a boss, we did our thing and enjoyed it. Outside in the beer garden, a young Western Australian man was silly enough to challenge Joyride to a skulling contest. He was swiftly defeated; Dixy can pour alcohol down his throat faster than anyone I've ever met. We had to catch a flight at 12:30 that night, so we had to bounce pretty soon after playing.

In short, the tour was a shitload of fun. The shows weren't sell-outs by any measure, but playing music that we wrote in our bedrooms about 2 years ago to crowds in different cities is an amazing feeling, regardless of how big they are. Cannot wait to do it again sometime soon.

PEACE- SS.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow film clip

Friday, September 26, 2008

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow film clip premiers on RAGE tonight

Yo apologies for the ridiculously late notice, but the HTGT clip is being screened on RAGE on ABC tonight at about 1am - if you're up, then check it out. Should have a high-res version for YouTube in the following days for those who prefer YouTube.

A few more apologies for the slowness on the blog tip, got plenty to fill you all in on, including a complete tour recap, some flicks and some new footage - and a whole bunch of merchandise for sale.

Bless x

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Tour so far, ARIAs, Blackalicious, Pretty Ricky, and more..

It's blog time.

What's really good blogosphere readers.

Thought it was high time that I hit yall with an update in the form of a blog. We played Revolver in Melbourne last weekend. As you may have noticed, we have a lot of love for the city of Melbourne (more love than Sydneysiders should, really..) so it goes without saying that we had a great time. The show was a lot of fun, it definitely wasn't packed to the rafters in there, but we had a great time on stage and everyone that came through seemed to have a good time as well. Huge thanks to all our Melbourne people that came and showed some love, as well to our NSW homies Beats Working, who sound ill. We're playing Newcastle on Saturday, along with Beats Working and Blades. The Last Kinnection were billed to be playing as well, but I heard some bad news the other day that they were caught up in a car crash - not sure of the details, but hope they're all safe and ok..

We picked up our Spit Syndicate Merchandise when we were down in Melbourne. It was manufactured by the good folks at Machine Industries, and it looks dope boy fresh. We'll be selling it online very soon, so there will be some pictures and videos for all of you to see before you buy - it is a very limited run though, so make sure you snap that shit up quickly.

We somehow got nominated for Best Urban Release at the 2008 ARIA Awards yesterday, which is a bit puzzling, definitely unexpected but pretty cool nonethess. I'm sure nobody (and I'm at the very top of that list) will be placing any large sums of money on SS to take out the pointy award, but it's nice to know that some industry folks are showing us a bit of love. Not quite sure how Urthboy's "The Signal" missed out on a nomination, and I'm even less sure of what the fuck an "Urban release" even is - but we'll be representing on the night regardless. 1dayers..

Speaking of 1dayers, we're playing the Blackalicious show at Oxford Art Factory on Tues 7th October with our friends who are currently taking the indie rap world by storm, Horrorshow.



Until next time fuckers, Nick. x

Friday, September 5, 2008

Some recent press...

We did an interview with Dan Rule for the Age and WA Today last week, here is the finished product:

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We're heading to Melbourne tomorrow for the Revolver show, should be a great night. If you're in Melly then make sure you come down. Gotta give some Birthday shout outs to my partner in crime, Jimmy Nice, who turned 22 yesterday - big up yoself player.

All Sydney heads need to get themselves to the Horrorshow launch next Friday at the Annandale Hotel, it is going to be monster.

We're picking up the SS merch tomorrow as well, so that will be for sale at shows and also online too i guess. Here Today Clip is finally done, we had some last minute changes to make which caused the delay, but it's finished now, so it should be on your computer and TV screens very shortly.

Schlaters - Nick/SS x