SIMON CARTER (ex The Cops) + MONEY FOR ROPE w. Bell Weather Department + Creepers

Annandale Hotel
Cnr. Parramatta Rd & Nelson St
Annandale, NSW
Australia

Thursday 5 Aug 2010
7:30 PM
SIMON CARTER (ex The Cops)
with friends MONEY FOR ROPE & The Bell Weather Department + Creepers
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SIMON CARTER

In early 2008, after two critically acclaimed albums, Sydney band The Cops disbanded quietly and went their separate ways. Sole songwriter and frontman Simon Carter disappeared from the musical radar.

He emerged in early 2009 with online demos of his debut solo album, The Black Book Of The Universe. The demos showed that the same fearless musical exploration apparent in 2005's Stomp On Tripwires and 2007's Drop It In Their Laps was alive and well in his tiny basement studio in Summer Hill.

"I feel like everything that happened with The Cops happened to prepare me for writing this record, and to be honest, going to New Zealand was the catalyst for me. That place just inspired me so much. The Cops music was a bit of everybody's styles; just a melting pot of all the bands I really admired, but this record I can finally say feels the most like me. I wanted to capture the feelings I was having in NZ, because that kind of awe-inspiring beauty really put everything into perspective. It's an intensely personal record as well. I never really explored that side of my writing in The Cops, but I found that I craved it after we broke up."

Produced by Carter, he and his new band recorded the record themselves in his studio for $400. It was then mixed by the band's production team The Spectacles in Simon's apartment. The decidedly DIY aesthetic of the recording certainly belies the end result. "The Black Book Of The Universe" is a record of such enduring grandeur, scope and soaring emotion that it's hard to believe that this is the same man who wrote such throw-away pop as "Call Me Anytime".

In 2010, Simon Carter will finally emerge as one of Australia's most talented musical visionaries, releasing an album that seduces pop, rock, prog, psych and country into one hell of a beautiful collision.
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MONEY FOR ROPE

Melbourne six piece garage/surf/soul outfit MONEY FOR ROPE have been creating quite a stir in their home town for their energy fuelled live shows and now they've transferred that energy onto their debut 7" vinyl and they're coming to Brisbane and Sydney for the very first time to show it off.

Having completed a well celebrated residency at Melbourne's spiritual home of rock n roll, Cherry Bar, MONEY FOR ROPE have done a pant load of shows in and around town with the likes of The Mess Hall, Even, Wolf & Cub and The Vasco Era to name but a few.

At one of these shows in particular the organisers of Splendour in the Grass festival were in attendance and, liking what they saw and heard, added them to this year's line up right there and then, much to the delight of band and management.

Recent times have seen MONEY FOR ROPE enter the studio for the first time and the end result is a double A sided 7" single called 'Slow Dance / No.18' which ought to be on record store shelves within the month.
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Last Sale Date: Thursday 5 Aug 2010
6:00 PM
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