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COLLEGE FALL
National Tour - July -August 2010
Thursday 22nd July
The Front Bar
1 Wattle Place, Lyneham ACT
Ph: 02 6249 8453
Entry $5, from 8.30pm
Friday 23rd July
The Excelsior
www.excelsiorhotel.com.au
Co Album Launch with Halfway (QLD)
With Dan Brodie & Glenn Thompson
64 Foveaux St, Surry Hills NSW
Ph: 02 9211 4945
Entry $15, Doors 8pm. CF onstage 9.30pm
Saturday 24th July
X & Y Bar
www.xandybar.com.au
648 Ann St, Fortitude Valley QLD
Ph: 07 3257 1259
Free entry, doors 8pm, CF onstage 10.30pm
Sunday 25th July
The Greenroom
www.the-greenroom.com.au
7 Progress Crt, Toowoomba QLD
Ph: 0418 872 602
Entry $10, doors 7pm, CF onstage 9pm
Wednesday 28th July
The Great Northern
www.thegreatnorthern.com.au
89 Scott St, Newcastle NSW
Ph: 02 4927 5728 Free entry, doors 8pm, CF onstage 10pm
Friday 30th July
Northcote Social Club
www.northcotesocialclub.com
Halfway CD Launch
With Dan Brodie & Nick Barker
303 High St, Northcote VIC
Ph: 03 4989 3917
Entry $15, doors 8pm
Saturday 31st July
Pure Pop Records Instore (acoustic)
www.purepop.com.au
221 Barkly St, St Kilda VIC
Ph: 03 9525 5220
Doors 2pm, CF onstage 5pm
Thursday 5th August
Grace Emily
www.myspace.com/graceemilyhotel
232 Waymouth St, Adelaide SA
Ph: 08 8231 5500 Entry $7, doors 8pm, CF onstage 10pm
Friday 6th August
The Loxton Hotel
www.loxtonhotel.com.au
East Terrace, Loxton SA
Ph: 08 8584 7266
Entry $7, doors 8pm, CF onstage 10pm
Saturday 7th August
IDGAFF – Melbourne CD Launch
www.myspace.com/idgaff
160 Hoddle St, Abbotsford VIC
Ph: 03 9486 9900 Entry $10, doors 7pm, CF onstage 11pm
Friday 13th August
The Rosemount
www.rosemounthotel.com.au
Cnr Angove & Fitzgerald Sts, Nth Perth WA
Ph: 08 9328 7062
Entry $10, doors 8pm, CF onstage 11pm
Saturday 14th August
Settlers Tavern
www.settlerstavern.com
114 Bussell Hwy, Margaret River WA
Ph: 08 9757 2398
Free entry, doors 8pm, CF onstage 10pm
Sunday 22nd August
Broken Hill Hotel (acoustic)
www.brokenhillhotel.com.au
314 Albany Hwy, Victoria Park WA
Ph: 08 9361 1038
Free entry, doors 4pm, CF onstage 6pm
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th August
Gulliver’s Tavern
196 Cottontree Ave, Kununurra WA
Ph: 08 9168 1666
Free entry, door times vary.
MORE INFO ABOUT THIS ARTIST AND TOUR:
Dual songwriters Glenn Musto & Jodie Lee Bartlett are behind the now Melbourne based outfit College Fall. Telling their stories within a cocoon of acoustic folk, indie pop or rollicking alternative rock, theirs is a sound that emanates from their roots; the western wastelands of outback Australia. It’s a sound College Fall developed further through a love of the American indie-rock movement and a passion for writing gritty heart-on-your-sleeve songs.
With the upcoming release of their sophomore album The Curse of Us, College Fall are embarking on a national tour.
The Curse of Us offers up an angrier, more organic and rough around the edges band than their previous releases hinted at. The biting guitars, bar room piano and angular structures are well-suited to the partly biographical, partly commentary analysis of the human condition.
An unflinching look into the harmful deeds people do to themselves and each other, The Curse of Us is not for the faint-hearted.
A band that don’t fit into any particular category or pigeonhole, College Fall don’t try to impress with fashion or technique; their songs are not secrets or moments of sheer musical mastery. Instead, they give you authentic moments. Stories that ask difficult questions, that catch you at your most vulnerable. And there-in lies the brilliance.
Since their first performance in 2005, College Fall has continued to hone their skills both here and abroad. Their debut LP album Eleven Letters was a bedrock of simple, sweet guitar and 80s synth. Success ensued with first single Gravity scoring national airplay on Nova and Triple J in Australia.
Their world-embracing ethos brought them 5 European tours including Scandinavian folk festivals, British and Italian rock festivals, the London City Showcase in 2008, a date performing for the Danish Royal family and a tour of Japan, which included the 2009 Kansai Music Conference.
“In this period of music history, where songwriting is second place to marketability, and image rules over content, College Fall scream 'f**k you' through their delicate porcelain doll songs. The things that used to matter - lyrics, hooks and honesty -abound in every moment of this duo's music.”
- Mike Wafer, X-Press Magazine
“I have hardly seen a band command an audience with so effervescently…beautiful acoustic guitar, delectable harmonies and songs that stay in your head for weeks. College Fall are the real deal”
- Andrew P Street, DB Magazine
“A world class act with beautiful songs. And to think they have been isolated down-under for all these years. I feel privileged to have watched College Fall play tonight…don’t miss them next time they visit our shores”
- Ann Moore, 24/7 Magazine (UK)
The Curse of Us out thru Varsity Records / MGM Green July 9
