ARIA Nominations: One Louder Goes To 12.

…which is actually two louder.

Congratulations to Sarah Blasko, Kate Miller-Heidke and The Drones for their multiple ARIA Awards nominations!

The ARIA Awards nominations were announced this morning and saw Sarah receiving 5 nominations, including Album Of The Year, Best Female Artist, and Best Pop Release for her latest album “As Day Follows Night”. First time nominees The Drones received 3 nominations, including Best Group, Best Rock Album, and Best Independent Release for the 4th studio album “Havilah”. And rounding out the One Louder roster, Kate Miller-Heidke received 4 nominations for her album Curiouser and her phenomenally successful single “The Last Day On Earth”, including Single Of The Year, Best Female Artist and Best Pop Release.

That’s a total of 12 nominations for One Louder acts.  Yes, there was much cheering and high-fiving, dancing around the office, popping of champagne, and a general sense of gay abandon.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The nominations are:

Sarah Blasko
Album Of The Year – As Day Follows Night
Best Female Artist – As Day Follows Night
Best Pop Release – As Day Follows Night
Best Video – All I Want (Head Pictures)
Best Cover Art – As Day Follows Night (Sharon Chai)

Kate Miller-Heidke
Single Of The Year – The Last Day On Earth
Best Female Artist – Curiouser
Best Pop Release – Curiouser
Best Video – The Last Day On Earth (Mark Alston)

The Drones
Best Group – Havilah
Best Rock Album – Havilah
Best Independent Release – Havilah

The ARIA Awards ceremony will be held on 26th November.

In other news…

Kate Miller-Heidke is off in the US supporting Ben Folds on his national tour, as well as doing a few solo shows, before heading back for her own national tour of Australia in November.  Her live album “Live At The Hi-Fi” is released tomorrow.  It’s been a hugely successful few months for Kate, with The Last Day On Earth sitting at no. 3 on the Aria charts for several weeks, and “Curiouser” flying back up the charts and reaching the no 2 spot.  Both the album and the single have gone platinum.

End Of Fashion are holed up in their studio furiously hammering away at demos for a brand new album.  They’ll be playing a few shows here and there over the coming months but are mostly keeping their heads down while taking full advantage of their creative streak.

Sarah Blasko is currently in the middle of a sold-out national tour around Australia, and will soon be heading over to NZ to tour the country in support of The Brunettes (who are returning the favour over here at a couple of shows.)

The Drones are in the middle of a huge tour of the US, Europe and the UK, including appearances at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals in London and New York, where they played their album “Wait Long and the Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By”, as part of the ‘Don’t Look Back’ series where bands are asked to perform classic albums in their entirety. Back here in Australia they have just released a live album “Live At The Hi-Fi“, which is available as a bonus disc with “Havilah” or available to purchase on its own through iTunes.

- Nick

All about the ladies

Kate Miller-Heidke now has both a platinum album and a platin single. Very nice. She’s in the US touring with Ben Folds, and he announced her last night to be his “favourite support act”. She’s back in Australia for a comprehensive national tour in November.

Sarah Blasko hits the road this week. All shows are sold out, except for a few tickets left for second Melbourne and Brisbane shows. “As Day Follows Night” went gold after only three weeks. She’s also heading to NZ for the first time in November, and we should have some very exciting news about some European releases very soon.

phew

I thought things were going to quieten down a bit in the second half of this year, but it hasn’t happened that way.

A couple of weeks ago we put together the hugely successful “Cannot Buy My Soul – The Songs of Kev Carmody” show in Brisbane as part of the Queensland Music Festival.  Many thanks to all the artists and crew who gave so much for so little.  There was an amazing lack of egos involved – absolutely everybody gave 100%.  Kev is also going to be inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame later this month – as he’s pointed out, perhaps the lowest selling artist to be bestowed that honour!

“As Day Follows Night” has proven to be Sarah Blasko’s quickest selling record yet – gold in 3 weeks.  She’s touring in Europe at the moment before coming back here in October for what will be a sold out tour.

Kate Miller-Heidke’s record has absolutely taken off, all thanks to a little promo spot on channel 10 for a great aussie soap opera.  The song “Last Day On Earth” is top 10 in Australia, and the album has gone back into the top 40.  She’s supporting Ben Folds in the US during September & October, and we’re working on a US release right now.

Back to work now…

BC

Drones – Last Tour Dates for 09

The Drones recently got home from a stint in the UK and Europe and have just announced more dates, which will be the last for 2009. Check out details below.

In the mean time Dan and Gareth are heading out as a duo to support Augie March on their Australian tour. Dates are all up on the Augies site – http://www.augiemarch.com/

USA

Wed 9th Sep : Bell House : Brooklyn NY
Fri 11th Sep : ATP Festival : Monticello NY
The three-day festival will have performances starting in the mid-afternoon, with around 35 acts set to play live across the weekend with DJ sets until late into the night, comedy, movies and more. Curated by The Flaming Lips; w/ The Jesus Lizard, Iron & Wine, Dirty Three, Suicide, The Feelies, The Drones Performing Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By, David Cross and more
Tue 15th Sep : Schubas : Chicago IL
Wed 16th Sep : Tractor Tavern : Seattle WA
Thu 17th Sep : Echo : Los Angeles CA
Fri 18th Sep : Cafe DuNord : San Francisco CA

UK / Europe Tour

Sun 27th Sep : Klubi : Turku
Mon 28th Sep : Tavastia : Helsinki
Wed 30th Sep : Garage : Oslo
Thu 1st Oct : Debaser. : Stockholm
Fri 2nd Oct : Debaser : Malmo
Sat 3rd Oct : Vega : Copenhagen
Tue 6th Oct : Magnet : Berlin
Wed 7th Oct : Blue Note : Poznan
Fri 9th Oct : Lucerna Music Bar : Prague
Sun 11th Oct : Atomic Cafe : Munich
Tue 13th Oct : Gaswerk : Winterthur
Thu 15th Oct : Circolo degli Artisti : Rome
Fri 16th Oct : Spazio 211 : Torino
Sat 17th Oct : Les Caves Du Manoir : Martigny
Sun 18th Oct : Dachstock Reitschule : Bern
Wed 21st Oct : La de Apolo : Barcelona
Thu 22nd Oct : Moby Dick : Madrid
Sat 24th Oct : Le Carre Bellefeuille : Paris
Mon 26th Oct : Botanique (Witlof) : Brussels
Wed 28th Oct : Vera : Groningen
Fri 30th Oct : Ekko : Utrecht
Sat 31st Oct : Patronaat : Haarlem
Mon 2nd Nov : Prince Albert : Brighton
Tue 3rd Nov : Cargo : London
Wed 4th Nov : The Cooler : Bristol
Fri 6th Nov : Cyprus Avenue : Cork
Sat 7th Nov : Roisin Dubh : Galway
Sun 8th Nov : Whelans : Dublin
Wed 11th Nov : Hare & Hounds : Birmingham
Thu 12th Nov : Night & Day : Manchester
Fri 13th Nov : Nice n Sleazy : Glasgow
Sat 14th Nov : Sneaky Pete’s : Edinburgh
Fri 11th Dec : Butlins Resort : Minehead – All Tomorrows Parties is celebrating 10 Years of ATP

- B

Sarah Blasko’s new video “No Turning Back”

Here is Sarah’s new video for “No Turning Back” which comes off her up-and-coming album “As Day Follows Night” – out on July 10th.  

Directed by Celeste Potter of Carbon by Carbon, the video’s illustrated artwork visually brings Sarah’s tune to life…

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Singles Club

It seems to be the week for singles here at One Louder.  End Of Fashion’s epic rocker “Force Of Habit” has been picked up by loads of stations around the country, and Sarah Blasko’s new single “All I Want” (you know, the one with the horse) is available now on iTunes for the bargain basement price of $1.69. 

And if you think that’s good value, which you should, then check out Kate Miller-Heidke’s latest single “Caught In The Crowd“, which for the same price includes  Kate’s new song “R U Fucking Kidding Me?” recorded live at the Hi Fi in Brisbane, plus a new remix of “Can’t Shake It”, all for the crazy, crazy price of $1.69.  Barmy!  Plus, if you email your receipt to us by Friday you’ll be in the running to win all sorts of crazy stuff like the original hand-written lyrics to “Caught In The Crowd”, tickets and backstage passes to Kate’s next show, a couple of Kate’s dresses from past video clips, and a set of 10 signed backstage laminates from some of Kate’s favourite shows, including the Cyndi Lauper gig at which she joined her on stage for “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. So get your entries in before I steal the prize.  I mean, for god’s sake, it’s Cyndi Lauper!

-  Nick

“Can’t Shake It” nominated for APRA Song Of The Year

This morning Kate Miller-Heidke’s “Can’t Shake It” was nominated for Song Of The Year in the 2009 APRA Awards.  Congratulations to Kate Miller-Keidke and partner Keir Nutall for yet another songwriting award, after their recent win of the Grand Prize in the International Songwriting Competition for “Caught In The Crowd”.

“Can’t Shake It”, the first single from Kate’s second album “Curiouser”, is nominated alongside some pretty impressive company – Nick Cave for “Dig! Lazarus Dig!”, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson for “Rattlin’ Bones”, Chris Cheney for The Living End’s “White Noise”,  and Nick Littlemore, Jonathan Sloan & Luke Steele for Empire Of The Sun’s “Walking On A Dream”, which Kate and Keir performed at the awards ceremony this morning.

Full list of categories and nominees here.  Congratulations to our good friends Shane Nicholson & Kasey Chambers for their nomination too.

- Nick

 

Sarah Blasko at FBi Benefit

Sarah’s first live show in ages will be at the FBi Benefit gig at the Metro on Monday 8 June, along with Sally Seltmann from New Buffalo, Jack Ladder and loads of other great musicians who are pulling together to help raise funds for the cash-strapped FBi Radio.  All proceeds raised will go towards saving the station.  More info and tickets here.

- Nick

Cannot Buy My Soul

It’s not exactly news, but we came across this clip of The Drones performing Kev Carmody’s River Of Tears at last year’s “Cannot Buy My Soul”, and it’s too good not to share.

 

This year we are presenting “Cannot Buy My Soul” as part of the Queensland Music Festival, featuring an even bigger line-up of some Australia’s greatest singer-songwriters and musicians, including Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, John Butler, Clare Bowditch, Tex Perkins, The Herd, The Drones, Glenn Richards, Sara Storer, Archie Roach, Steve Kilbey and many more.

More info and tickets here.

- Nick