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CUSTARD
here comes the sun of it all:
latest album
SUBURBAN CURTAINS
is officially drawn

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The scintilatting strains of spring burst through every opening of your abode. Open your heart and your doors as CUSTARD are finally back on your street playing the songs of their life…your’s even. That unassuageable politics of love astride that turgid love of politics… a class unto themselves. A feel for the charm of the blossom.

Latest double kaazzaaam SUBURBAN CURTAINS will prick your ears and have you standing with a bounce and a flutter before you know what tracks you. Featuring a small bounty of collaborators –  Michael Lira (Darth Vegas), Serena Ryder, Maureen Hansen, Charlie Bedford and Lucy McLure – recorded with Chris Townend at MONA’s Frying Pan studio in Hobart, mixed by Glenn at the beach… feel the joy, season, and sun of it all.

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GLENN notes: “I was at work researching art museum / human digital interfaces when I stumbled upon the new recording studio at MONA with an old EMI/Abbey Road desk plus a Studer 8 track tape deck. I emailed them immediately. A short while later we got together at my place at Culburra Beach and bashed out 21 songs. We wrote down the chords on sheets of A4 paper and recorded a version of each tune on an iPhone. We put a PDF of the chord sheets and the recordings up on DropBox so we could study at our leisure. A month later we flew to Hobart and recorded all the songs in two days. 8 tracks straight to tape. Then we did what we normally do; we took our songs back to our respective home studios and recorded our vocals and other overdubs. I mixed it in my granny flat and sent it off to be mastered. Then I went back to work.” 

Dedicated with the utmost affection and care to our most dearest Sarah Longhurst.

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Listen to the full album HERE

CUSTARD
Suburban Curtains

on ABC Music OUT FRI 11 OCT

1 Diplomat Of Love
2 Black Rinse
3 Someday (featuring Serena Ryder)
4 I Love You FNQ
5 Coat Of Paint
6 Pushing All The Buttons
7 Getting Over You
8 Never Loved Melbourne
9 Heart Attacks
10 Help Someone
11 Some People are Missing
12 Fifty Plus
13 Vegetarian Squeeze
14 Love Tax
15 Cold Heart (Take Me Down To Rockdale Plaza)
16 Sometimes Angels
17 Molecules Colliding
18 Dear Weddos
19 Without You
20 No Pay No Delicious
21 The Leisurely Everly

DOUBLE VINYL, CD and CASSETTE – preorder here: 
DIGITAL
VINYL, CD & CASSETTE

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CUSTARD
open the curtains TOUR

with special guests (selected shows)
THE FAUVES and THE STRESS OF LEISURE

 – both also releasing sumptuous new albums this spring clean. Stay alert for ongoing forecasts. Tickets usual outlets – info here 

SAT 9 NOV – sydney CROWBAR – SELLING FAST!
FRI 15 NOV – hobart REPUBLIC CAFE
SAT 16 NOV – adelaide THE GOV
FRI 22 NOV – melbourne THE PRINCE – SELLING FAST!
SAT 23 NOV – gippsland LIVE AT THE BUNDY – NEARING SOLD OUT!
SUN 24 NOV – Castlemaine THEATRE ROYAL – SELLING FAST!
FRI 29 NOV – canberra THE BASO
SAT 30 NOV – Ulladulla THE MARLIN
FRI 6 DEC – perth MILK BAR– SELLING FAST!
SAT 7 DEC – fremantle MOJOS – NEARING SOLD OUT!
FRI 13 DEC – Townsvile DALRYMPLE 
SAT 14 DEC – Cairns EDGE HILL
FRI 20 DEC – gold coast MIAMI MARKETTA
SAT 21 DEC – brisbane THE PRINCESS – SELLING FAST!

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THE FAUVES

Everything you want from The Fauves and none of the stuff you don’t. Now in new-for-2024 hologram format, The Fauves version 4.1.2.6* provides a seamless concert experience.  Download the app to set musician competence levels or fast-forward through parts of the gig you don’t like. Pause the show when you’re full and take the rest of it home to enjoy the next day. Purchase the VIP package to hang around backstage with your favourite digital band in a conversationally safe environment. Don’t be fooled by the toned musculature and flawless complexions of our all-new holograms – these facsimiles have been programmed to reproduce all the flaws and quirks of the old decommissioned, no longer supported human format, but in a way we know you’ll love. All tickets come with a mandatory lifetime subscription to all other tickets to all other Fauves shows, such as may be performed now or in the future, all for a low, low $29.99 a month, while stocks last.**
* The Fauves’ 13th album Tropical Strength is out in November. While it was recorded by the superseded human version, our coding team is working tirelessly to redesign the songs based on a range of popular algorithms for a better, upgraded listening experience!
 ** Currently 7.59 billion years, or when the earth is swallowed by the sun, in part or in full, whichever occurs first, notwithstanding such other catastrophic events as may imperil the ongoing viability of the Earth, or any potential neighbouring planets or interstellar bodies (hereinafter, the “host environments”),  to support human and/or hologram life).

THE FAUVES album Tropical Strength out NOV 1 on Cheersquad

THE STRESS OF LEISURE

Faux wave band The Stress of Leisure return on their sub-tropical deathwatch with LP ‘It Goes Away With The Heat’. The Brisbane quartet are set to reacquaint themselves with the rest of Australia for the first time in 6 years, having only recently played with Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds and friends Regurgitator. Somewhat post-punk, somewhat fruity, somewhat always adjacent to everyday hostility in the lyrics, the band continues to rage in the age of Trumpism.

THE STRESS OF LEISURE album It Goes Away With the Heat out NOW on Valve

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AMNPLIFY – DB