WGT times, “Selected Anachronisms” and Europe/Japan Tour!

March 7, 2008

Dandelion Wine be performing at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig (DE) on Saturday May 10 at 20:00 and again on Sunday May 11 at 16:00 in Heidnisches Dorf (Pagan Village).

The new album Selected Anachronisms was released in Europe and North America on April 25 on Ars Musica Diffundére/Black Rain and is instores now! More details soon; visit our myspace for a sample or order directly from Black Rain.

Dandelion Wine’s 2008 Europe/Japan Tour have just been begun :

Europe/Japan:
April 5 - Tokyo Dark Castle, Japan
April 8 - Gasmuso Gallery, Tokyo JP
April 12 - Le Petit London, Toulouse FR
April 13 - El Inca, Bordeaux FR
April 19 - Le Cleub, Paris FR
April 25 - Rock City, Uster CH
April 26 - Löwenarena, Sommeri CH
April 27 - Nach(t)brand, Zurich CH
April 30 - Hexennacht Festival at Schloss Berg Castle Solingen , DE
May 4 - Kunigunda Lunaria Festival, Vilnius, LT
May 10 - Wave Gotik Treffen, Leipzig DE
May 10 - Wave Gotik Treffen, Leipzig DE
May 15 - Cafe Szafe, Krakow DE
May 17 - Klub No Mercy, Warszawa PL
May 18 - Kafe Delfin, Gdansk PL
May 23 - Bunker, Chemnitz DE
May 28 - Schokoladen, Berlin DE
June 9 - Maus Hábitos, Porto PT
June 13 - Blood and Velvet, London UK
June 20-22 - 3 Wishes Faery Festival, UK
June 27 - Pitch Black, Burton On Trent UK

Full details on the shows page…

More shows still to be announced - check back here or join the mailing list.

Dandelion Wine at WGT 2008, Europe/Japan tour and Australian shows…

January 29, 2008

Dandelion Wine have just been confirmed for a repeat appearance at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, the world’s largest festival of dark alternative music. We will be playing two shows at Heidnisches’ Dorf. Further details to be announced, but in the meantime you can see photos from our 2007 WGT performance here.

Full tour dates will be added to the site soon,  but so far we can say that we will be playing in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. Stay tuned for details or sign up to our mailing list to find out more! (be sure to tell us what country you are in)

The other exciting news is that for the upcoming Europe/Japan Tour in April, May and June we will be joined by a new touring member - we are pleased to announce that Kirstin Honey will be accompanying us on keyboards, vocal harmonies, electronics and maybe even some accordion. As well as being a former member of the spectacular Geelong based
experimental band Seascapes Of The Interior, Kirstin is also a solo artist in her own right - keep your ears out for her new solo album that will be coming soon!

We also have some Australian shows in Jan, Feb and March:
Jan 31 - Melbourne - East Brunswick Club (Three To A Room theatre company benefit)
Feb 9 -  Melbourne - Weekender @ Ding Dong (with Winterpark and Lunar Module)
Feb 16 - Melbourne - Barbukka (with State of Flux, Geamala and others)
March 15 - Adelaide Hills - “Summer Of Love” (Adelaide Fringe Festival)

We are currently  hard at work on our new album - our third full length album and second on Ars Musica Diffundére/Black Rain

QLD, NSW & SA shows… and email is back!

October 26, 2007

First off, the email glitch that was bedevilling us is fixed, so anyone who has sent us anything and not heard back (especially between Oct 1 & Oct 10) please send it agan! Thanks…

In more exciting news we have three shows around Australia coming up in the coming weeks:
Nov 9 in the glorious surrounds of the Globe Theatre, Brisbane
Nov 10 with a spectacular hybrid electronic lineup at Vic On The Park, Sydney
Dec 16 with friends and label mates Brillig at the Grace Emily, Adelaide

Our last Melbourne show was at the beautiful old converted church Wesley Anne, where we joined by Melisa Collins (violin), Pete McKeown (Fender VI) and Megan Price (backing vocals) and where singer Naomi’s voice tripped the Decibel Meter and left the band with no PA or sound a whole 16 bars away from the end of their last song - we couldn’t have planned it better if we tried! We hope to do another Melbourne show with these three fabulous guests in the near future.

In other news we will be recording our new album in the coming months and are currently planning another tour of Europe and Japan for April/May next year… see you soon!

Dandelion Wine Melbourne and Sydney shows!

July 30, 2007

Dandelion Wine have recently returned from a three-month tour of Europe and Japan and are about to do their first Australian shows since the tour.

For our first Australian show back, we will be supporting German/Canadian synthpop legends Psyche at the Evelyn Hotel in Melbourne on Friday August 10. This show will feature tracks from our forthcoming “Selected Anachronisms” EP, so expect one of our more upbeat and danceable sets. Opening the night will be fellow Melbournians Schadenfreude, making it one hell of a lineup!
Head over to the shows page for more details and to buy tickets online (cheaper!)

Next, we will be heading to Sydney for the Under The Blue Moon Festival on Saturday September 1. This will be a bit of a special show : we will be playing a one off show in a 19th century Church in Enmore and will be joined by guest violinist Melisa Collins. We will be using the widest array of instruments we have used outside of Melbourne, so expect lots of strings!

In other news, since our return home we have been working on our new EP - recording is almost finished and release dates for both Australia and Europe should be announced soon. And we are still wading through tour photos to decide which ones to put on the site…

Dandelion Wine at Wave Gothic Treffen, and extra Japanese shows

May 23, 2007

Details have been confirmed for Dandelion Wine’s performance at Wave Gothic Treffen, the world’s largest festival of dark alternative music in Leipzig, Germany.

Monday, 28.05.07
Schauspielhaus
Bosestr. 1 04109 Leipzig
19:00
(with label mates Narsilion from Spain)

Also, two extra dates have been added in Japan:
Saturday, 02 June 07 - Tokyo Dark Castle, Tokyo
Tuesday, 05 June 07 - Super Deluxe, Tokyo

Dandelion Wine Japan/Europe Tour 2007!

March 19, 2007

Dandelion Wine are currently on tour in Europe and Japan throughout March, April, May and June . Please check the shows page for dates and details. New shows are still being added.

In other news, Dandelion Wine have just been added to the 2007 lineup of Wave Gotik Treffen, the world’s largest festival of dark alternative music.

Australian tour - Jan/Feb 2007

January 14, 2007

First off, a Happy New Year to all! Dandelion Wine saw the new year in with a last-minute set at a private party with friends… and a special guest spot as we were re-joined by Steve Wheeler on bass for a few songs. Too much fun!

To start the year, we are on a quick dash around Australia. Here are the dates at a glance (check the shows page for details) :
Thur Jan 18 : Sydney - Lansdowne
Sat Jan 20 : Brisbane - The Alley
Sun Jan 21 : Nimbin NSW - Nimbin Hotel (afternoon show)
Fri Feb 9 : Adelaide- Crown and Anchor
Sat Feb 10 - Adelaide - Forsaken @ Night Train
Sun Feb 11 - Gawler - Cafe Nova (afternoon show)
Sun Feb 11 - Adelaide - FAD Bar/Gallery
Sat Feb 17 - Melbourne - Salon at the Spanish Club

Plans for our European tour are well under way and we shall be announcing dates very soon. The tour will be in March, April and May 2007.

Reviews for ~An Inexact Science~ keep coming in… for instance, check out the latest one from Dutch zine Gothtronic here.

Tours, reviews, interviews, photos

October 19, 2006

A huge thank you to everyome who came and supported us on our ~An Inexact Science~ Australian tour - it was especially great to get such a fantastic response in new cities… we’ll be back soon for sure! And a huge thanks to all the bands we played with and our fantastic extended lineup and crew for the Melbourne launch!

Photos of the Melbourne launch by Todd Kunert will be up here soon. In the meantime Fasterlouder has photos of Melbourne and Sydney. In addition, check out our myspace for the whole tour rundown.

~An Inexact Science~ is out now in Europe and the US and doing well. Check out the September issue of Orkus magazine (Germany) for an interview with us and check out Orkus’ October CD - “Stable” (from ~An Inexact Science~) is featured on the disc along with Crade of Filth and Elane! Also see the October edition of Side-Line magazine (Belgium) for reviews…

Finally, stay tuned for some more shows around Australia in the new year (we’ve got some great shows lined up!) and also stay tuned for details of our third European tour in early 2007!

New album and tour!

August 18, 2006

The new album ~An Inexact Science~ is now available in Australia on Crustacean Creations, distributed nationally by Reverberation.

To celebrate this release we are undertaking our most extensive Australian tour to date:

Thu Sep 7 - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
(special show with extended lineup, string section and choir!)
Fri Sep 15 – Club Blink, Sydney
Sun Sep 17 – The Landsdowne Hotel, Sydney
Thu Sep 21 – The Troubadour, Brisbane
Fri Sep 29 – The Grace Emily, Adelaide
Sat Sep 30 – SIN, Perth

More information on the tour
Media release (126K, .pdf)

The making of ~An Inexact Science~

August 17, 2006

(The absurd and true details)

~An Inexact Science~ had a couple of false starts…

Naomi and Nicholas returned from their first European tour in December 2002 with the intention of starting work on a new album.

However, they then received an invitation to play at the 10th Annual Romanian Festival of Music in Bucharest so they embarked on another tour of Europe in May 2003.

When Naomi, Nicholas and Steve returned to Australia they set about recording the album, beginning with the song ‘Fence’ (a live favourite) using a PC and an old Tascam DAT machine that was used for A/D conversion. Several IT savvy friends were called in to fix ongoing problems but eventually the old beast imploded and refused to do anything except the Blue Screen Of Death.

After much research and to-ing and fro-ing, Nicholas became the proud owner of a shiny new Mac and a MOTU interface. So in 2004 they set about recording the album in earnest. The first day that the new recording setup was patched in and turned on ‘For The Next Time The Whole World Floods With Tears’ was born.

Unlike ‘Tunguska Butterfly’, which was planned and mapped out before a note was recorded, the decision was made to just begin writing and recording without constraining the material.

After a while the album began to take shape and it became apparent which songs went together and which did not. ‘Fence’ and another couple of songs were omitted from the album (and may find themselves as b-sides in the near future).

It also became apparent that there were a few songs that didn’t fit ~An Inexact Science~ but seemed to have a life of their own. These more straight ahead medieval/electro/dance songs will be included on a forthcoming EP: ‘Selected Anachronisms’.

Along the way bassist Steve Wheeler (who was supposed to be filling temporarily but ended up playing with the band for two years) left the band to concentrate on his main focus, Heligoland. Shortly after, violinist Daniel Stefanski joined the band.

Daniel’s previous work included DeFlocKed, an avant garde string quartet featuring Helen Montford and Hope Cstouros (My Friend the Chocolate Cake, Cosmo Cosmolini). Daniel, a doctor as well as a gifted violinist, played a live show with Dandelion Wine at Cabaret Nocturne/Dream and recorded ‘Muscle Memory’ before leaving Australia to work in HIV research in Botswana.

Amongst the chaos, the band managed to instigate the Dark Exports tour of the East Coast of Australia with Ikon and Immaculata, fracture some ribs in a car accident while taking a German friend to see some marsupials at Healesville sanctuary, do a remix for The Crystaline Effect and Naomi even managed to have some wisdom teeth pulled out!