Tuesday tune: When she sang about angels

seht and The Stumps are going to Australia tomorrow for almost a weeks worth of shows in Melbourne. Here's the itinerary, as we know it so far:

Thursday 3rd August:
Missing Link (405 Bourke Street) - instore performance 5pm by The Stumps

Friday 4th August
Pony Club (68 Little Collins Street) - The Stumps, seht and AM
with:
Datura Duo (2/3 Grey Daturas), Bad Cop Bad Cop (members of On/The Stabs), Agonhymn (members of Terrorust/Cement Pig)

Saturday 5th August
Bus Gallery (117 Lt Lonsdale St) - The Nether Dawn and seht
with:
Nigel Wright, Blarke Bayer (Ben Andrews of Agents of Abhorrence/My Disco), Skovorodino and Bone Sheriff (2/3 EOH)

Sunday 6th August
Bar Open (317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy) - The Stumps and The Nether Dawn
with:
Malakat (inc members of EOH/Whitehorse), Rod Cooper, and Mike Rose (Mark Groves of Whitehorse/True Radical Miracle)

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To celebrate the tour, both seht and The Stumps will be releasing limited-edition 3" EPs on Melboure label diagnosis...DON'T! reCoRdings. Needless to say, we're all pretty excited about this.

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So yeah. There ain't gonna be any Friday Farce this week, so I thought I'd leave you with a tune for Tuesday.

The Go Betweens - Cattle and Cane (5.99 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

I posted about the wonderful Aussie band The Go Betweens before; since then, Grant McLennan has passed away (and here), a turn of events that saddened me greatly.

Cattle and Cane, from their early album Before Hollywood, is described as McLennan's "autobiographical masterpiece" and was recently voted by the Australian Performing Rights Association as one of the ten greatest Australian songs of all time. It's not an unreasonable call.

See ya next week!