News - Ned Collette And Wirewalker instore + album release

This Friday sees the release of Ned Collette And Wirewalker's album, Over The Stones, Under The Stars.

Since the release of his second album Future Suture, Ned has travelled the world, in and out of late night bars and dark venues, sometimes accompanied by his extraordinary band, sometimes alone – always with his solitary vision.

Over The Stones, Under The Stars is an album purposefully stripped of the orchestration that marked previous releases, conveying more of the fiery live experience of this unique band, forged from the last two years of performing around the world.

Don't forget to make your way down to Polyester Records (288 Flinders St Melbourne) tomorrow afternoon where you can experience Ned Collette And Wirewalker live as they drop in for a special performance. Everything kicks off at 6pm!

News: Ned Collette and Wirewalker film screening Melbourne

Melbourne folk, you are invited to a very special screeing at Glitch Bar & Cinema in North Fitzroy tomorrow night.

This time a year ago Ned Collette and Wirewalker embarked on a Europen tour with friend and filmmaker Natalie van den Dungen in tow.

The result was two film clips and a 12 minute documentary/live film/Rocky IV type montage.
Done in a simple fairly guerilla style fashion, the results faithfully capture Ned Collette and Wirewalker's first European tour experience.
The screening is your chance to see the doccumentary on a big screen, with great sound in the laid back environment of Glitch Bar & Cinema.

Everything kicks off at 7pm, at Glitch Bar & Cinema 318 St Georges Rd, Nth Fitzroy, just near the corner of Holden St.
Do not miss!

Ned Collette + Wirewalker video Come Clean + AOL Spinner mp3 of the day

Ned Collette + Wirewalker are already being picked up on the international radar with their track Come Clean chosen by AOL Spinner as mp3 of the day!

Here is the brand new film clip for the track, directed by Natalie van den Dungen

You will be able to find Come Clean on Ned Collette + Wirewalker's new album 'Over The Stones, Under The Stars' out Oct 23 through Dot Dash.

Touring November:
Fri 13 Nov - Adelaide, Metro* (tickets on sale here)
Fri 20 Nov - Bateman's Bay, North St Bar
Sat 21 Nov - Sydney, Raval (tickets on sale here)
Fri 27 Nov - Melbourne, Northcote Social Club (tickets on sale here)
Sat 28 Nov - Hobart, Alley Cat
[All shows will be with Teeth & Tongue except * with Laura Jean]

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Ned Collette + Wirewalker reveal details of album #3, tour dates and new mp3.

The creation of an album is a time of alchemy, as the sounds in an artist’s head take on tangible form. It’s a time of enchantment and good fortune, when thoughts become deeds, which in turn become captured moments and future memories.

However, from another perspective, the creation is only the start of the process. The music takes on a life of its own, beating its own path and forging its own identity out in the world. The musician’s life becomes defined and determined by the course the music takes.

This has been the case for Ned Collette. In the two years since the release of his sophomore work, Future Suture, his music has led him around the globe, in and out of late night bars and dark venues, sometimes accompanied by his extraordinary band, sometimes alone – always with his solitary vision.

The new creation is Over The Stones, Under The Stars, an album purposefully stripped of theorchestration that marked previous releases, conveying more of the fiery live experience of this unique band, forged from the last two years of performing around the world. Ned also adds piano, organ and mellotron to his usual axe slinging.

The first single taken from the album is Come Clean

Ned Collette + Wirewalker - Come Clean [mp3]

In November the caravan rolls on, as Ned Collette + Wirewalker tour Australia.
All shows will be with Teeth &
Tongue except * with Laura Jean:

Fri 13 Nov - Adelaide, Metro*

Fri 20 Nov - Bateman's Bay, North St Bar

Sat 21 Nov - Sydney, Raval (tickets here)

Fri 27 Nov - Melbourne, Northcote Social Club

Sat 28 Nov - Hobart, Alley Cat

Early in 2010 Ned Collette + Wirewalker will relocate long-term to Europe, with a continental tour organized by their European agent commencing in May.

Over The Stones, Under The Stars is released October 23rd on Dot Dash.

Sydney: Ned Collette & Wirewalker in your town tomorrow night!

Hello friends,

We're about to go where none of us has ever gone before - on a Tiger Airways flight. To Sydney. We've been there before although it does seem a while since we flew - usually it's the world's worst coffee and pies in Holbrook for us, then turn left at the Hopetoun.....

But this weekend - tomorrow night to be exact we're playing our first Sydney show since last September, and we're doing it at The Factory Theatre, which by all accounts is enourmous, so if you're a Sydneysider on this list or know any, please come on down, so to speak.

Also on the bill are the excellent Wifey, and in the middle spot Sui Zhen. Doors are at 7.30 for an 8.30 start and we'll be on just after 10pm. We'll be previewing a whole bunch of stuff off the new album as well as playing some ear-poppingly re-arranged versions of old news.

You can buy tickets now online or by calling the box office on (02) 9550 3666. They are $15+bf. Or $18 on the door, unless it sells out, which it wont.

NED COLLETTE & WIREWALKER

SUI ZHEN

WIFEY

FRIDAY JULY 17

THE FACTORY THEATRE

105 VICTORIA ST, MARRICKVILLE

SYDNEEEEEEY!!!!

Stay tuned for news about a mega-benefit at the Tote July 26, the latest on the album (yes it is finally finished, and almost christened), and more for the rest of the year.

Cheerio,

NC&W

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Ned Collette & Wirewalker in Sydney Fri July 17

NED COLLETTE & WIREWALKER
FRIDAY JULY 17
FACTORY THEATRE
w. Sui Zhen & Wifey

The last year has seen Melbourne's Ned Collette and his newly christened Wirewalker forging a devoted underground following around the globe. Since last playing in Sydney the band have toured Europe twice while Collette based himself in Glasgow to write album number three; played the exceedingly exclusive Camp A Low Hum festival in NZ; supported Augie March on various Australian shows, and played both the Summer and Castle Tones festivals on the Mistletone calendar. They have just returned from mixing the new album in New York, and now they play an increasingly rare Sydney performance at The Factory Theatre on July 17. New songs will be unveiled in what is ostensibly an album preview show, but fans can expect a smattering of the old as well - reworked into the the trio format, which veers from minute, sparse evocations of Collette's lyrics to wild free squalls of instrumental abandon. Very special guests on the night will be Sydney's own Sui Zhen and Wifey.



Tickets available now from www.factorytheatre.com.au or on (02) 9550 3666

Ned Collette and Wirewalker

with
MICK TURNER (Dirty Three/Tren Brothers)
RAND & HOLLAND (Syd)
CUBA IS JAPAN

FRIDAY MARCH 27, THE THORNBURY THEATRE, Melbourne
859 High St Thornbury, Vic
www.thethornburytheatre.com
presented by Triple R

Ned Collette and the newly christened Wirewalker return to Melbourne to play a very special one off show at the magnificent Thornbury Theatre on Friday March 27th. The show marks their return from two tours of Europe and a sojourn in New Zealand, and will encompass extensively road tested new material along with a smattering of the old. The ravages of exile have done nothing to weary the strength of the band - in fact the opposite - while Collette's lyrical fancy now turns to themes of the divine, the oppressed, and the eternal migration of the collective human soul. A new track, "Another Goddamned Amusement Park" - a musing on the probability that much of the internet is turning into the same dreary stultifier of thought that television has long become - is currently being featured exclusively by Triple R in anticipation of the show. Work on album number three continues, so this will be their only appearance until its completion mid year. Joining them on the night will be Mick Turner - the inimitable guitarist of the Dirty Three, dark and eloquent Sydney folk favourites Rand & Holland in an all too rare trip south, and conceptual newcomers Cuba Is Japan.

Presale tickets are now avalable now from www.thethornburytheatre.com

Doors 7pm, music starts at 7.50pm. Main act onstage 10.30pm.

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Ned Collette adds more international tour dates

Throughout December and January Ned Collette Band will be continuing their three month tour across Europe having already played dates in France, Switzerland, Poland, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and the UK. Late January will see the band touring New Zealand before returning to Australia for the Melbourne Summer Tones Festival happening in late February.

Tour Dates:
2008

UK:
Thurs 17th Dec - Captain’s Rest - Glasgow, Scotland

2009

Europe:
Wed 7th Jan - Ecurie de L’Ilot 13 - Geneva, Switzerland
Sat 10th Jan - Lego Cafe - Cesena, Italy
Thurs 15th Jan - Schokoladen - Berlin, Germany
Fri 16th Jan - Pimo Bar - Leipzig, Germany
Sat 17th Jan - Beatpol - Dresden, Germany
Sun 18th Jan - Valentin Stueberl - Berlin, Germany
Tues 20th Jan - Cafe Glocksee - Hannover, Germany
Wed 21st Jan - Groningen, Netherlands venue TBC
Thurs 22nd Jan - Biz’Art Bar - Paris, France

New Zealand:
Fri 30th Jan - Whammy Bar - w. Actor/Model & Trees Climbing Trees, Auckland
Sat 31st Jan - Charlie Farleys - w. Actor/Model & Trees Climbing Trees, Waiheke Island
Thurs 5th Feb - Good Luck Bar - w. Actor/Model & Pikelet, Wellington
Fri 6th Feb - Camp A Low Hum - Homedale
Sat 7th Feb - Camp A Low Hum - Homedale

Australia:
Sat 28 Feb - SUMMER TONES @ The Espy - w. Dan Deacon, Lawrence Arabia, High Places, Ruby Suns & more... Melbourne

Ned's latest album Future Suture is available through Dot Dash.
Ned Collette band have a new album due out early 2009.

Ned Collete Band European Tour blog

Midway through their one month tour of Europe, Ned Collette Band have managed to find some ever elusive wi-fi, starting up a tour diary and uploading some pics.

"...every day is another frantic journey into the European abyss - driving, changing tyres, tolls, leaving amps behind in Germany, eating rubber disguised as mashed potatoes, almost getting married off to provincial 'junge frau' in deepest darkest backwoods German pubs, perfecting our 'blue steels' for band photos in front of old stuff, seeing good old pals and of course playing the rock musiques de Australie, oui? They love that shit here."

More over at their myspace.

Ned Collette Band's final Australian shows for '08

This Friday 26th, Ned Collette Band will perform their final Melbourne show of '08 at The Tote. Supporting them on the night are Melbourne's St Helens whose members have one degree of separation from Spider Vomit, Bird Blobs, Minimum Chips, Alpha Males and Kes, with occasional contributions from Love Of Diagrams and Panel Of Judges.

The Tote gig will be filmed and recorded by Nat van den Dungen, beginning an audiovisual document which will also span the band's forthcoming European trip. Come and get your face on...

They will also be playing at Sydney's Hopetoun on Saturday October 4th.

After that they'll be heading off on their European tour which takes in the UK, France, Germany and more, as well as playing at places you'd be hard pressed to pronounce (try saying "Jadlodajnia Filozoficzna" 10 times fast). For the full list of dates go to their website.

Ned will be performing live on Melbourne radio station Triple R at 5:30 this afternoon, performing a cover of Guy Blackman. You'll be able to listen here.

Ned's latest album Future Suture is out now on Dot Dash.

Earlier this year Ned Collette Band performed the single The Country With A Smile from the album on ABC's Sunday Arts program with special guests on flute, trumpet and trombone:




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