Do The Stomp

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010

 

... is here! Keep an eye out for it next week across [V], MTV and Rage. Stay tuned for request links.
And always remember - The Snowdroppers love you!

UPDATE: It's being screened on Rage tonight at roughly 3.15am, and then again Saturday morning a bit after 8.30am.
 

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The Junkyard

Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010

Dear valued reader,

As accustomed as you may be of viewing some hilarious photos from our many adventures, we can sadly only show you the following three images from our weekend jaunt to Maitland with dear friends, Gay Paris. For legal reasons all other photos have been seized by the Maitland Sheriff's Office.
 
We appreciate your understanding.
The Snowdroppers
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The Snowdroppers Visit Tamworth Country Music Festival

Posted on Sunday, January 24, 2010




The Snowdroppers spent a week in Tamworth last week and boy is there plenty to see and do in the country music capital of Australia; great country music, great food, interesting people to meet and much more.

 
Before we left Sydney to go on our journey north we made a quick stop at Stanmore McDees. Then over the bridge and far away, through hill and dale we travelled. At Singleton we made another brief rest for some fries and possibly mcnuggets for the hungrier amongst our little party. We were definitely looking forward to catching up for a yarn with our old friends the Brothers Grim and Graveyard Train, and make some new friends in Cash Savage and Abbie Cardwell. We had some pretty outrageous ideas as to how to take Tamworth by storm, and did we ever get up to some crazy antics.
 
Reaching Tamworth in record time, we quickly got to know the town and its genuine characters. Dylan, who manages the South Tamworth branch of the restaurant chain told us all about the controversial decision this year to include the “Grand Angus” burger on the menu which is less cost efficient and less characteristic of the other items. Whether it is worth the gamble remains to be seen. A talking point amongst the locals is whether the South Tamworth restaurant is preferable to the busier East Tamworth branch, which fry their chips a little hotter, resulting in a warmer, but occasionally too crisp, product.

People in Tamworth take pride in their Mcdonalds being of a high quality and internet message boards are now a convenient medium for concerns to be addressed.  
         
Vickie Gardiner for instance, had the following complaint to make:
 
"i am writting to say i have always loved the nuggets but after one night coming to get 20 nuggets also other meals which were 2 quarter pounder large tripple cheese burger large and a big mac large all meals as i mentioned the chips were cold and the nuggets very hard and chewy"
 
It's not just the food which occasionally comes under fire, the beverages are also under scrutiny by Tamworth’s small army of amateur but dedicated baristas (coffee lovers), such as Ian Bridge, who writes:
 
As a long term coffee drinker at East McDonalds, may I say that I will not be continuing my pagtronage of your premises until you fix your coffee problem. It's disgusting. Your coffee continually has a 'burnt taste' to it and leaves a very unpleasant aftertaste. TURN THE TEMPERATURE DOWN!!!! You're burning everything!!!! I'll try it every few weeks but until it regains its previous good standard, you'll be losing my and my friends patronage and money.
 
Whoa! Looks like its not just the coffee that’s getting “hot under the collar”! Its not all doom and gloom for the home of the Golden Guitar though, as other people have gone out of their way to mention the great service. Gregory McFlinigan writes:
 
Hi. My name is Gregory McFlinigan I totally disagree with "Vickie Gardiner" and "Ian Bridge" I as a passionate McDonalds customer believe that Tamworth restaurant is sufficient in all they do and what do you expect when you order a huge meal, the chips go cold. And as for you "Ian Bridge" the coffee is normal, its you because you have drunk to much coffee you dont have any tastebuds left. I came here to say i love Tamworth McDonalds and i am a very pleased with everything you do. WE ALL LOVE DYLAN THE MANAGER IF HE STILL WORKS THERE!! :)
 
The drive back home was in record breaking heat, unfortunately the vehicle I was travelling in did not have the modern convenience of Air Conditioning, which made for a very long trip! Luckily the kind folks of McDs Muswellbrook were happy to provide ice-waters (in the large size) free of charge via the drive thru window which made the trip back to Sydney a lot cooler (literally!). Props to Sharnaya and Rob D for going the extra mile for the customer. We appreciate it!
 
Pauly K
 
Ps. we are playing with Gay Paris in Maitland this Saturday 30th at the Grand Junction Hotel.
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Tamworth - Days Four and Five

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010

 SHAC: 65

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Tamworth - Day Three (aka You know you can buy a belt down the street for 5 bucks)

Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Like a overly cautious virgin, Tamworth opened her proverbial legs for us today... soon after Pauly was taken to the Hospital sick after witnessing Cougar Jones' line-dancing.

SHAC: 46

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Tamworth - Day Two

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2010

They say Tamworth sits somewhere between the sublime and the ridiculous..... still waiting on the sublime.

Sweet Home Alabama count: 35

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Tamworth - Day One

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2010

Tamworth has everything - steak sandwiches, ludicrous hats.... and all the 'Sweet Home Alabama' that you can cram in your earhole. This message brought to you by Bundaberg Rum.

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Annandale this, I'm going to the Fuck Hotel!

Posted on Thursday, January 7, 2010



First off, thanks to all who came and saw us play at Peats Ridge, it was in tents! Ah.
 
(Similar salutations sent to some sweet souls who so stoically saw The Snowdroppers support Seasick Steve!)
 
We are giving you a full week to recover before the first unmissable event of 2010. The Snowdingers headline the Annandale Hotel along with “Gay” Paris and Jackson Firebird. Expect a triumvirate of blues hellfire raining down upon your pitiful existence and an afterparty which may, or may not be at the creepy milkshake bar manned by Dr Satan a little up the road. 
 
Race up the Parramatta Rd Raceway and Beeee Theeere! for a Show-Stoppin, Blow-Jobbin, Snow-Droppin, Dave-Dobbin, Hip-Hoppin party!
 

The Snowdroppers  

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Check your local newstand...

Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009



For the Summer Music Edition of Ralph magazine (or view the pics here). Also next month Cougar will be sharing some of his favourite recipes with Women's Weekly, and London takes on three different styles of dry wall in Better Homes & Garden.

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You'll be happy to know....

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2009


The Harbour Cruise went off without a single seamen gag. Click here for photos.

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Sorry (R)Adelaide.....

Posted on Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Unfortunately due to continued illness we're unable to travel your way and play at the Grace Emily this coming Saturday night. The good news however, is that you can still catch this......



That's right, Kirk "Mother Fucking" Special will still be playing at the Grace and we'd suggest you catch it before this boy's moustache declares its independance and annihilates us all.

We'll be back sometime in the New Year Adelaide.

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Show cancellations

Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2009

Apologies to all, but we've had to cancel our High n Dry and Birmingham (Melbourne) performances this coming weekend. For those in Melb Saturday night we'd highy recommend going along to watch Nici Blue Eyes and La Mancha Negra at the Birmingham!

We'll be back on deck the following weekend with the Grace Emily (Adel) show on Saturday night and the Sydney Harbour Cruise (with SC Trash & Rumjacks) on the Sunday evening.

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So chums...

Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009



So chums it’s the last Barrelhouse show tonight, as well as being Friday 13th. To celebrate, we’re playing with the very special Kirk Special, the totally banging and racketty Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, and the tremendously DJish Sweet Jelly DJs. If you come home with a Snowdropper don’t expect a long spoon and a buffet breakfast as the next morning they’ll be heading up to Brisbane to support the Holy Soul.

The following week we’ll be in Katoomba with those mountin’ loving all beef paddies The Rumjacks and frivolous french fries Gay Paris, before asking “what part of Ireland are you from?” at the Gaelic Club for the Beyond Blue fundraiser, playing with the heaps gaelic The Rumjacks.

Like a junkie at an AA meeting, we’ll then be High and Dry before heading down south not stopping in Canberra to play in Melbourne, then off to beautiful Adelaide followed by a cruise ship show (?) in Sydney with fellow buccaneers SC Trash and irish punk auteurs The Rumjacks, who have already written a nautical themed song for the occasion. Come to think of it, pirates and irish people are quite similar, aren’t they? They talk in silly accents, drink too much whiskey and aren’t to be trusted around valuables.

Then we limp across the finish line of 2009 at the Peats Ridge festival with many other bands not including Sydney’s very own The Rumjacks.
 
Pauly K

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER SHOWS
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Nov 13 - Final Barrelhouse, Bridge Hotel
Nov 14 - The Clubhouse, Fortitude Valley
Nov 21 - Lady Luck Weekend, Carrington Hotel
Nov 25 - The Gaelic Club
Nov 27 - High n Dry Festival
Nov 28 - Birmingham Hotel
Dec 5 - The Grace Emily
Dec 6 - Harbour Cruise, Sydney
Dec 31 - Peats Ridge Festival

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Did we mention...

Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009

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Barrelhouse night #1: 23rd October

Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2009



Barrelhouse underwear count: 10

Our debut album “Too Late To Pray” is finally to be released this Friday the 30th of October, 2009. All Hallow’s Eve, Eve. Like a well overdue child, its placenta has already began to deteriorate and leak out sweet smelling detritus in the form of free download singles and the odd pus filled gig or two.

Premature celebrations began last Friday evening with the inaugural “Barrelhouse” night at the Bridge Hotel in Rozelle. It is to be repeated for the next three Friday nights. For those unaware of where Rozelle is located (and there seemed to be a few), its that suburb just left of Balmain most famous for its decaying mental hospital. Luckily, a large number of those rare individuals possessing both saucily dressed bodies and geographical astuteness, arrived on time to see the cheekily assonant Lanie Lane introduce them to the first of several long, hazy nights. Next week sees us playing with both Steve Smythe and Mojo Juju.

The Cuban Cigar Lounge defied convention by being neither terribly Cuban, nor cigar filled, or even existing! Magritte fans everywhere raised their pipes and declared it a rousing success.

La Mancha Negra did their usual thing, if you count their usual thing as being a really great band.

With the crowd suitably liquored up and ready to enjoy just about anything, we took the stage and played a whole lot of our new songs, plus some songs by other people when we got bored of them other ones. Luckily, everyone danced up a storm and had a real good time. We all drank a fair bit, smoked a lot of durries, packed up then I went to another party where this guy did a magic trick with Jessica’s lipstick. It was the coolest thing i’d seen it ages. Then I fell asleep in a chair.
 
The End
 
Pauly K


  

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Rosemary!

Posted on Friday, October 16, 2009



Is hitting a music channel near you! It's debuting on Rage tonight at 1am, and will then be repeated Saturday morning at approx 8.35am.

Help us keep it played by requesting it at the following links, and don't forget Rosemary is always available as a free download here

                                                       

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Presenting.... the Barrelhouse

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2009



With their debut album "Too Late To Pray" being released on Friday 30th October, The Snowdroppers wanted to do something special to celebrate rather then just putting on a normal gig. The Barrelhouse was (re)born.

The idea was simple. Create a place where their music would be the backbone to a world, a multi-room, inside and out, 1930's and 1970's inspired house of blues. Taking over a whole venue and creating a urban Juke Joint where the smell of sex and sweat is generated to the soundtrack of Nick Cave, Howlin Wolf, Eels, R.L Burnside, The Stooges and Aretha Franklin just to name a few.

With live music every week from The Snowdroppers, every night supported by two of Australia's best alternative/roots/grind/rock music including Lani Lane, La Mancha Negra, Nici Blue Eyes (Melb), The Barons Of Tang (Melb), Steve Smyth, The Brothers Grim (Melb), Kirk Special One Man Band (Adel) and Clairy Brown & The Banging Rackettes (Melb)

With soul enhancing Dj's, the best of 1970's Italian Westerns in the outdoor cinema, a hell of a lot of booze, the Cuban Cigar Lounge, the Barrelhouse cage girls… each night will provide a slightly different experience than the previous one, yet so much more.

This is for four nights only, forget Oxford Street, The Bridge is coming back to life with a injection of old tunes and young flesh.

So get ready to indulge the power-drinking, body-grinding, string-picking, nipple-licking, ghetto-dancing, finger-sniffing deviant blues child in all of us.



Tickets $12 at the door
FREE ENTRY for anyone willing to surrender their underwear at the door.

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Preview of the Rosemary video

Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009

And don't forget - you can download Rosemary for free here!

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Download Rosemary for free.... right now!

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009




That's right... it's Monday September 21st, which means that the first single from our forthcoming debut album is available as a free download right now. Follow this link to go to the download page where you can download the MP3 and also the artwork so you can print your own CD wallet.
 

Rosemary is The Snowdroppers' first single of their forthcoming album "Too Late To Pray". While it follows the traditional blues storytelling style, it also fuses sonically with more contemporary musical genres including pop, indie and even a splash of Australian pub rock.
 
The song's story follows a man who goes around to his strictly religious girlfriend's family’s house to ask for her hand in marriage. Whilst waiting for her to arrive back from church he takes some hallucinogens and finds a videotape, which in his addled state he believes to be his girlfriend Rosemary involved in a diabolical sex party. In a clumsy attempt at poetic justice he’s having the same problem telling reality from fantasy as Rosemary herself. Madness ensues.
 

"Too Late To Pray" will be available this October through Difrnt / Universal

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Artwork preview and release dates

Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2009

And now for some specifics!

Rosemary, the first slice from our album will be available as a **free** download on Monday 21st September. You'll be able to download it from our site, Difrnt World and iTunes.

Too Late To Pray, our debut album will be released on Friday 23rd of October and will be available from retailers around the country and also on iTunes.

We're also proud to give you a sneak preview at the cover for Too Late To Pray, and can't wait for you all to have a copy in your grubby little hands.

Back soon, and don't forget - The Snowdroppers like love you.

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Signed!!!

Posted on Tuesday, September 1, 2009

That is correct, your eyes do not deceive you.... we have been signed.


Cue the champagne and hookers please

Hot off the press, The Snowdroppers have joined the roster of Difrnt Music
www.difrntworld.com

They'll be releasing our debut album "Too Late To Pray" this coming October.

You can’t wait till then for your Snowdroppers fix?
Then jab and inject our new single “Rosemary” coming out in a matter of weeks for free download!!!!!

So get ready to indulge the power-drinking, body-grinding, string-picking, nipple-licking, blues-lover in all of you

Stay tuned to this space for sneak previews of "Too Late To Pray" and "Rosemary", exact release dates and dates for a string of shows throughout October/November/December.

Remember the Snowdroppers love you
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