Tour wrapped!

Hello!

So we finished the tour, sort of.  Plenty more going on, this Saturday we are providing some half-time entertainment at the Roller Derby bout on at the Hordern Pavilion, where I hear the D'Viants are going to be kicking some ass. Thursday 22nd july we're playing "Radar Radio" at the Gaelic Club, now with added pokies! Where's the Gold? Go get the feature in our slower (i.e more boring) songs! Friday we're playing The Wharf Sessions at the Sydney Theatre Company wharf thing, which i assume is some kind of free show for arts-type freeloaders (i.e me). Hey arts girls! We love you. Come for the free cask wine, stay for the band, and leave once the free cask wine runs out..

Next Saturday (24th july) we're playing the Black Cherry night at the Factory in Marrickville, this has the added benefit of being within walking distance of my house. So buy me a drink. Pleaaase. Your favourite paddywackers The Rumjacks will also be there, now with added member and new songs.

As there's no rest for the wicked, stupid, or imsomniac, the week after we're heading off a tour opening for Australia's darlings Grinspoon (or, as our manager inexplicably pronounces, Greenspoon) for about another 2 weeks. We'll be starting off in Tasmania, then Wagga, Bathurst, Penriff Panffers, Campbelltown RSL, Castle HIll RSL, Revesby Workers Club... yeah, you get the idea. The kind of places you'd see Mossy, Gangajang + "Frank" from Icehouse. I wonder what Grinspoon will be like? I remember working with a guy who said two of his ex-girlfriends had fucked phil, not sure what the significance of that was though.

I'm sure we'll be getting along famously by the end of the tour, although I am still a little bitter, the first band I was ever in had our first ever gig at the Ettalong Beach Hotel, we came second in a 3-band band comp, 3rd place had a car accident on the freeway up and didn't make it to the gig, and the first place winners was a Grinspoon covers band. Who were also JUDGING the competition! FUCKS SAKE!

Pauly K

Stomp shows

We just got back from our last three shows up north, Armidale, Nimbin & Laurieton. All three shows very different, but all fun. We have a lot of people to thank, first of all the gorgeous Lanie Lane for coming with us, supporting us, selling more CDs every night than us, rubbing it in our faces, and singing us bedtime songs. Too many ups, downs, highs, lows, and amazing people to mention here, but -

Thanks to Armidale for making it out of the house on such a freezing night, you were one of the most enthusiastic crowds we've had yet.

Nimbin - Nimbin hospitality is unequalled thus far on the tour, and boy does marijuana psychosis make for some interesting town characters. Special thanks to Pov for supporting us and having us back at her amazing bush studio for a late night jam.

Special thanks to the completely monged lady at Laurieton who shouted "Osala! Its.. Osala Bin Laden..! ...He's got a bomb!" as I was walking past. And to Lanie for her amazing restraint when said lady interrupted her mid song to ask her to "fucken play something I know". Thanks to all who made a trip, Port Macquarie and beyond, to say hi. And to the bar staff for letting us stick around and abuse the R.S.A laws.

For any Sydney or Wollongong fans, we're playing at the Oxford Arts Factory on friday with the Hell City Glamours and the Rumjacks, then the Oxford Tavern in Wollongong on Saturday. Confusing, I know.

Pauly K

So.....

Its been a busy couple of weeks. Most of it is a bit of blur of driving, mcdonalds, driving,  shippin' steel, and cheap hotels, but somewhere in between we managed to support the Wagons at the Annandale, make it up north to QLD, play in the loading dock of a burger joint in Toowoomba and a pretty damn decent gig in the pretty damn indecent Valley.

Adelaide cemented itself as one our favourite cities, full of cheap froffies, pretty girls, and one very special Kirk Special, who took us on a tour of the city's abandoned buildings. Hanging out with suspected meth addicts on the rooftop of an abandoned bank is something you don't forget in a a hurry. Grace Emily, we love you and your inane decorations. Dr Tims - back, back to the hell from whence you spawned.

Seriously though, Dr Tims - what the fuck? I am currently staring at a can of this hellish conconction sitting on my mantle, silently cawing like a triumphant raven child. Apparently intended to be a canned version of Cooper's Pale Ale, it instead masquerades as a medical professional's approved tipple, all the while tasting of watered down vomit passed through the catheter of a dying alcoholic's last gasp. Only given out to bands for free at the Grace, FREEEEEEE!!!!

This Friday we return for a second time to East Maitland's Grand Junction Hotel, a finer establishment in the Hunter region we've yet to encounter, followed by Saturday night at the View Factory in Newcastle. Saturday Night, already old, walking into Sunday and I find we're playing at Luna Park's Come Together festival, in the coveted 3:45pm slot, or something like that. Hope to see you there, and thanks to all the lovely people who've come to say g'day at the gigs in the last few weeks. You make all the time spent in close proximity slowly
driving each other mad all worthwhile.

Tour update!

The Do The Stomp tour kicked off  in ice cold conditions in Canberra, but with Gay Paris and the Beards in tow there was more than enough facial hair to keep everyone warm.

Our first time in Geelong was to a small but appreciative audience, one fine fellow by the name of Paddy was so appreciative of how hard we must have been working that he came up and sang one of the songs himself, giving Johnny a much needed rest.

The next night in Melbourne we again had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Jackson Firebird, see these guys if you haven’t already. If you have, see them again! If you’ve seen them twice, go for a third! If you’ve seen them thrice, that’s probably enough for a while.

The drive from Melbourne to Sydney is absolute shit. We passed the time musing on hypothetical situations such as “would you rather live in a world where only men exist, or in the current world but have no penis?” “Would you rather be married to Susan Boyle, or Jennifer Hawkins (but she has a penis)?". “Would you punch an old lady square in the face if it meant million dollar success for the band?” and other, less printable conundrums.
 
This weekend sees us off north to play Phat’s Garage in Toowoomba on Friday night and The Step Inn, Fortitude Valley, on Saturday. Hope to see you there.

Pauly K

Hi y'all

Thanks everyone who came to our first two stops on the Do The Stomp tour in Sydney, both nights were a blast and a good way to kick off the next.. two months.. of being in cramped conditions with the same three people..
Tonight we make our way down to Canberra to do a show at the transit bar with our two new favourite bands, Gay Paris & The Beards.

Friday night is our virgin gig in Geelong, the “Parramatta of Victoria”, with the Holly Weinart and Mildura's Jackson Firebird.

Also, come along to PurePop in St Kilda, Saturday afternoon round 3pm and have a froffy while we do an instore performance in their courtyard.

Saturday night sees us at the Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne City with The Broadside Push, and once again Jackson Firebird, hope to see plenty of you beautiful people at one, two, or even all three shows.

It all starts tomorrow!

Just a friendly reminder that our "Do The Stomp Tour" kicks off in Sydney tomorrow night at Spectrum (with guests The Alohos and Mother & Son), followed closely at the Sando on Saturday night (with guests Steve Smyth and Roland K. Smith).

Here's a quick preview at what the tour might have in store for all of us!

April so far...

(above) Getting monged in Alice Springs

So its "Pauly K's blog" now is it? That's become a thing. Rather than just "The Blog what everyone else is too lazy to do". Well the last few weeks have certainly been busy ones, we met many fantastic people and some new fans both young and old at Bluesfest 2010, whom we hope to see at some of our upcoming shows. Thanks to all for coming to say gday and making the merch tent signing less awkward than it otherwise would have been. In all the confusion we were even asked to sign an Old Crow Medicine Show album, which I would choose to take as a compliment.

Having the honour of supporting the Avett Brothers in Sydney town was most definitely a career highlight for myself and Mr Wishbone. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.

Last week we travelled to Alice Springs, incidentally the furthest from our beloved city i've ever been. James from Universal let us get room service and beers on his credit card, another career highlight. We ate the shit out of some overpriced ala carte and cheese platters. Due to our short stay there we didn't really get to see the sights, bit sad to travel all the way to Alice Springs without seeing Uluru, but we did get to partake in some off-road action driving "techniques" courtesy of Rusty B and a borrowed 4WD.

From there we headed to Adelaide where, do you know sir, Coopers actually costs more than it does in Sydney? WTF? and if you order a schooner, you get a middy. If you want a schooner, you have to order a pint. If you want a pint, you have to kick some fucking heads. We got slightly monged on coopers red at least one night.

We also spent a couple days shooting some scenes for the movie 'Red Dog' which we will be in for about 10 seconds playing in the background of a bar fight scene. Only time will tell if it joins the ranks of such celebrated antipodean classics as Breaker Morant, Shine, and Crackerjack.

I tell you what though, Adelaide people know how to rock the party. We played with The Beards, Tracer, Kirk Special and Ride into The Sun, Adelaidians are totally into live music and a paragon for the rest of the nation in terms of being willing to check shit out, get monged, and have a good time. We had a fantastic time there. Then we went to Glenelg.

This Friday (23rd April) we're supporting the awesome Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants at the Cambridge in Newcastle, then on Saturday we are doing the same at the Red Rattler in Marrickville. Incidentally this is not far from my house so perhaps beers and getting monged in my backyard afterwards! The next day is Anzac day where we celebrate our fighting men and women by getting completely monged. YAY

Pauly K

Coming to a gutter near you!

 
Where is your daughter, wife or girlfriend tonight?

The Snowdroppers highly anticipated first tour of 2010 celebrates the release of their new single “DO THE STOMP”. The four Sydney lads are hitting the road to entertain an array of drunken deviants up and down the east coast of Australia.

These dates come hot off the heels of a series of sold out Sydney shows at The Vanguard, Annandale Hotel and Oxford Art Factory, after stunning unexpected audiences while supporting international acts Seasick Steve and The Avett Brothers, and headlining stages at Playground Weekender and Bluesfest 2010.

Combined with a healthy cocktail of one part each sex, death, drugs and religion has made The Snowdroppers ready and able to live up to their ever expanding reputation.

DO THE STOMP TOUR DATES
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May 7 - Spectrum, Sydney
May 8 - Sandringham Hotel, Sydney
May 13 - Transit Bar, Canberra
May 14 - Barwon Club, Geelong
May 15 - Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
May 21 - Bon Amici Cafe, Toowoomba
May 22 - The Step Inn, Brisbane
May 29 - Gumball Festival

June 3 - Sand Bar, Mildura
June 4 - Crown and Anchor, Adelaide
June 5 - Grace Emily, Adelaide
June 11 - Grand Junction, Maitland
June 12 - View Factory, Newcastle
June 13 - Come Together Festival
June 17 - Armidale Club, Armidale
June 18 - Nimbin Hotel, Nimbin
June 19 - Laurieton Hotel, Laurieton
June 26 - Oxford Tavern, Wollongong

July 2 - Manly Boatshed, Manly
July 3 - Hotel Gearin, Katoomba
July 9 - Brass Monkey, Cronulla

And we're back.....

We are back at the Annandale Hotel Friday the 26th of March. The last time we played at the Annandale it was very crowded and annoying to get to the bar so this time we are hoping that you could buy a ticket (so we still get the money) but don’t worry too much if you can’t actually make it to show up. With all the lights and smoke machines they use nowadays it’s hard to see if there’s actually anybody in the crowd anyway.
Captain Reckless, Kira Puru and the Very Geordie Malones, La Mancha Negra and Kirk Special will all be playing there that night as well, so as you can imagine with all the bands there’s more than enough people to have a good time.
 
On the 28th March we are playing at the Flightpath Festival which is at Callan Park in Rozelle. Not another Festival, you say! Well I don’t see you organising anything, and besides, this one’s free, so chill out.
 
Next month we’ll be playing our very first East Coast Blues & Roots Festival in Byron Bay. We’re doing a set 11pm Friday night, so if you’re there and have had your fill of John Butler and his Trio we’ll be rocking out the tumbleweeds on the APRA stage, also doing a Sunday arvo show.
 
Then, after that, rumours abound of shows with The Beards and Mojo Juju in far off locales. Stay tuned…

Pauly K


MARCH / APRIL SHOWS
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Mar 26 - Annandale Hotel, Sydney - tickets
Mar 28 - Flightpath Festival, Rozelle
Mar 31 - Beach Road Hotel, Bondi
Apr 2 - East Coast Blues and Roots Festival, Byron Bay
Apr 4 - East Coast Blues and Roots Festival, Byron Bay
Apr 5 - Factory Theatre, Sydney (supporting the Avett Brothers)
Apr 8 - Gaelic Theatre, Sydney
Apr 10 - National Youth Week, Parramatta
Apr 16 - Jive Bar, Adelaide (supporting The Beards)
Apr 23 - Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle (supporting Mojo Juju)
Apr 24 - Red Rattler, Marrickville (supporting Mojo Juju)

Take the 'Do The Stomp' Request Challenge!

Request 'Do The Stomp' and get us to do some stupid shit! Full details here

Do The Stomp on iTunes

'Do The Stomp' hits iTunes today along with a live version of 'Baby No More' recorded at The Vanguard in April 2009.

Click here to buy it on iTunes

Playground Weekender

You know it's going to be a good gig when you need to take a boat to get there - you know it's going to be a great gig when your sound guy is missing fingers.

The Vanguard

Thanks to all who joined us for our Valentine shindig - and here's an encore of Cougar in his longjohns

Request Do The Stomp

Do The Stomp

 

... 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.
 

The Junkyard

Dear valued reader,

The Snowdroppers Visit Tamworth Country Music Festival

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.

Tamworth - Days Four and Five

 SHAC: 65

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

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

Tamworth - Day Two

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

Sweet Home Alabama count: 35

Tamworth - Day One

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.

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

First off, thanks to all who came and saw us play at Peats Ridge, it was in tents! Ah.

Pauly K 

Check your local newstand...

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.

You'll be happy to know....

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

Sorry (R)Adelaide.....

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.

Show cancellations

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.

So chums...

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

Did we mention...

Barrelhouse night #1: 23rd October

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


 

Rosemary!

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

                                           

Presenting.... the Barrelhouse

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 $10 at the door
FREE ENTRY for anyone willing to surrender their underwear at the door.

Preview of the Rosemary video

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

Download Rosemary for free.... right now!

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.
 

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

Artwork preview and release dates

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.

Signed!!!

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