St Helens free all ages live instore at Polyester Records Melbourne city this Thursday

St. Helens Play Live Instore @ Polyester Records
6pm this Thur 16th July @ City Store (288 Flinders Lane)

St. Helens will be playing live at Polyester Records city store at 6pm this Thursday. The album has been receiving amazing reviews all around town and already touted by many that it will feature in end of year favourite album lists.

All Polyester Records instore shows are free and all ages are welcome!

“one of the best local debuts in recent times” The Age ****

“a timeless world” Sydney Morning Herald ****

“razor sharp guitar interplay and bitter-sweet, intertwining vocals” Triple J

“Heavy Profession is a rock record proper, romantic and drunk on poetic absolutes like all good bleeding heart music should be.” Threethousand

Heavy Profession is out now through Dot Dash.

St Helens live at RRR performance space Wednesday & in Sydney Friday

St Helens perform in both Melbourne and Sydney this week.

The band are performing a live broadcast in the RRR performance space (at their studios in cnr Nicholson St and Blyth St, Brunswick East) this Wednesday 24th June, 6.30pm.

We have some double passes to give away to this exclusive performance so if you'd like to come email us at rsvp@remotecontrolrecords.com.au by 5pm tomorrow Tuesday 23rd June and we'll confirm if you got one!

And if you're in Sydney make sure to pop along to their Sydney launch this Friday:



St Helens 'Heavy Profession' is out now through Dot Dash.

St Helens album launch in Melbourne this weekend

“one of the best local debuts in recent times” The Age ****

“a timeless world” Sydney Morning Herald ****

“razor sharp guitar interplay and bitter-sweet, intertwining vocals” Triple J – Next Crop

“Heavy Profession is a rock record proper, romantic and drunk on poetic absolutes like all good bleeding heart music should be.” Threethousand

A reminder to all Melbournians that St Helens will launch their brilliant debut album Heavy Profession this Saturday the 30th of May at Northcote Social Club supported by Panel Of Judges, Circle Pit and DJ Ann Ominous.

Since the release of the album these guys have been pretty hard to miss. Heavy Profession has received glowing reviews, was RRR album of the week and last week the band graced the cover of Inpress.

Check it out!

Something else worth checking out is Hannah and Jarrod's appearance tonight on Dancing About Architecture at 9:30 on Channel 31.

Hosted by creator Clem Bastow and her co-panellists Tim Finney and Mia Timpano, Dancing About Architecture covers all things music. Whether it be the latest or the greatest, from CDs to DVDs and MP3s, music blogs to boutique 7" labels.

On tonight's episode Hannah and Jarrod take up One Mic Challenge, previously taken up by Jessica Says and Lee Memorial.

If you don't live in Melbourne, or just can't watch Channel 31 without a snowstorm of static, the lovely people from Dancing About Architecture post up episodes weekly here.

Heavy Profession is out now through Dot Dash.

St Helens Melboune launch Sat May 30

St Helens in your record store, on your radio and on a stage near you!

St Helens' debut album Heavy Profession is released today and if you're in Melbourne you'll be hard pressed to escape it.

Heavy Profession is album of the week at Triple R, with Jarrod and Hannah heading in for a chat and a couple of acoustic songs on Richard Moffat's 'Incoming' show on Wed 15th April at 5.30pm.

You can catch them playing a live set for PBS' The Easey Street Sessions between 3pm and 5pm on Easter Monday 13th April.

Then you can switch over to hear them on SYNFM's 'The Hoist' (who also made Heavy Profession their feature album) for a chat at 7.20pm.

And of course, you can now head to your local record store and buy it for yourself!

ALBUM LAUNCHES:
Sat 30 May - Melbourne, Northcote Social Club *ALBUM LAUNCH
Fri 26 Jun - Sydney, Spectrum *ALBUM LAUNCH
with other states to follow

Heavy Profession is out today through Dot Dash.

Devastations' only Australian show of 2009 this Friday

A reminder to all you music lovers that Devastions will be playing their only Australian of '09 at Melbourne's East Brunswick club this Friday 6th with support from St Helens.

In the meantime you can read an interview with Conrad over at Mess+Noise.

Devastations also feature on the soon to be released Dark Was The Night compilation having collaborated with Blonde Redhead's Kazu who added vocals to the instrumental track Misericordia from their latest album Yes, U.

DEVASTATIONS ONE AND ONLY AUSTRALIAN SHOW
Fri 6 Feb – Melbourne, East Brunswick Club
Tickets from The East Box Office or 03 9388 9794

St Helens - new single and tour dates

With their debut album set for release later this year, Melbourne’s St Helens give us a taste of what’s to come with new single How To Choose Your Guru Part 2. A testament to Jarrod Quarrell’s songwriting skills, the jagged guitars on ‘How To Choose…’ intertwine with a fervent cowbell beat to create an intensely pulsing track.

In the lead up to the release of their album, St Helens will be playing shows along the East Coast starting with a show at Melbourne’s East Brunswick Club on February 6th supporting Devastations on their only Australian show. St Helens’ music is as fervent on the stage as in the studio with word of mouth about their live performances landing St Helens the opening slot for Blonde Redhead after only 4 gigs back in 2007.

TOUR DATES

Fri 6 Feb – Melbourne, East Brunswick Club, supporting Devastations
Thu 26 Feb – Sydney, Hopetoun w/ Songs and The Ancients
Sat 28 Feb – Brisbane, Rics Bar w/ The Ancients

How To Choose Your Guru Part 2 [mp3]

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St Helens Get Up

Melbourne's St Helens are the inevitable outcome of too many late nights out.

The members of St Helen can trace one degree of separation from Spider Vomit, Bird Blobs, Minimum Chips, Alpha Males and Kes, with occassional contributions from Love Of Diagrams and Panel Of Judges.

Originally formed to give voice to Jarrod Quarrell’s (The New Season, Lost Animal) world weary but ultimately victorious songs, it wasn't long before word spread of the band’s razor sharp guitar interplay, Jarrod and Hannah's bitter-sweet, intertwining vocals and the broken glass danger of their intense live performances. After only four gigs, St Helens were opening for one of New York’s hottest bands, Blonde Redhead.

St Helens have finished recording a new album for release in 2009, the first single from which is Get Up [mp3]

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Introducing St Helens

What’s that line? “I can’t remember, I can’t forget.”

That’s how St Helen’s came in to being… the inevitable outcome of too many nights out.

A cursory glance at the pre-history of the people involved reveals one-degree-of separation from Spider Vomit, Bird Blobs, Minimum Chips, Alpha Males and Kes. Satelliting the core band are occasional contributors from Love Of Diagrams and Panel Of Judges.

Initially live shows were intentionally few and far between. Despite this strategy, word quickly spread about the band’s razor sharp guitar interplay and Jarrod and Hannah’s bitter-sweet, intertwining vocals. Four gigs in, St Helens were opening for one of New York’s hottest bands, Blonde Redhead.

An album is already recorded for release in 2009.

St Helens are now focused on sharing their soon to be released material to a growing audience and will be playing a run of dates in Melbourne and Sydney over the coming month, starting tonight as they support Ned Collette at The Tote for his final Melbourne performance.

September
Fri 26th - The Tote, Melbourne w/ Ned Collette.

October
Wed 1st - Birmingham Hotel, Melbourne residency
Thu 2nd - Club 77, Sydney w/ Warhorse & Turtle Creek
Fri 3rd - Loui's Warehouse, Sydney w/ Circle Pit, Songs & The Atrocities
Wed 8th - Birmingham Hotel, Melbourne residency
Wed 15th - Birmingham Hotel, Melbourne residency
Wed 22nd - Birmingham Hotel, Melbourne residency

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