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New album
‘DUMB LUCK’
out today!
Listen here
+ Watch the video for
‘TRUCKS’ here
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- Photo credit: Cameron Moss
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As the brainchild of OG-Red-Wiggle, Murray Cook, and his main accomplice, tambourine-wielding co-
Murray Cook is not someone you generally associate in Australia with serious guitar playing.
But anyone who has seen his guitar collection, his commitment to Carnaby Street heyday stage fashion and his fifty-year daily passion for playing guitar will know one thing for certain; Murray is indeed deadly serious.
He has a lifetime love of guitars and rock and roll. He’s also a passionate punter. It’s the perfect fit with The Soul Movers ‘old-school’ approach to recording and playing, with a mutual passion for analogue sensibilities.
There are no plug-ins on voices, no auto-tune on any recordings and no acoustic tricks on stage, bar a few guitar pedals. In a musical world that changes so quickly, The Soul Movers continue to stay true to their passions.
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Murray said, “Since I first saw one of The Monkees playing an electric guitar on their 60s TV show as a seven year old I have been obsessed with the guitar. When I was 11, I pestered my parents to buy me a guitar and then disappeared into my room for the next six years to play it. I collect guitars. I love them – they are tools and works of art. Eventually in the 80s I began playing regularly in bands. It’s my passion. I’ve had a long, amazing musical journey and, with The Soul Movers and this new record, I have come full circle. I’m old-school when it comes to music and the joy for me in recording ‘Dumb Luck’ is that we recorded the way we did when I was starting out. A bunch of friends in the studio banging out some songs because that’s what we love. Sure, we did some overdubs, but the true essence of this album is that it’s a recording of those performances.”
The second album track ‘Trucks’ shows The Soul Movers passion for the retro garage and New Wave sounds (think early Blondie, Violent Femmes, B52’s etc). Add a gleam of sun off the grill with Lizzie’s life-long “crome lust” (as displayed here in full MACK glory) to the crazy brother/ sister love in The Soul Moving fraternity… and The Soul Movers are hitting the road. No stoppin’ passing-through-YEAH!!
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The Soul Movers play live in the studio, grab that passion to create a sound on vinyl that is real, raw and funky before reproducing that same killer vibe on stage, just taking it up a notch or two!
“Our live shows are full of what we call ‘Muzz-luv’ initially but within two songs the transformation takes place,” says Lizzie. “The kids get it – they get that we are raw, real, and digging deep. And they LOVE to watch Muz do what he does best – play his bloody awesome guitar and enjoy every aspect of making wild, live music.”
To put the bling on ‘Dumb Luck’, the Soul Movers returned to many of the mind-blowingly original, hit-making studios they worked in to create 2019’s ‘Bona Fide’ album, and like all their previous albums including ‘Testify!’ and ‘Evolution’, they recorded in both the US and Australia.
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‘Dumb Luck’
Tracklisting
1 Dumb Luck
2 Trucks
3 Back to you
4 Price Tag
5 Monkey
6 Free
7 Broken
8 Smoke and Mirrors
9 The Truth
10 Stand In Your Power
11 All Over You
12 Sailor Boy
13 If Only (You)
14 Real World
15 Imaginary Butterflies
16 Rockin To The Promised Land
The Soul Movers are a musical tour-de-force across a hip and funky retro musical spectrum, recreating the best sounds from the 1960s and 70s, and making them one of the most exciting live show and festival acts on the touring circuit today.
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DUMB LUCK
Tour Dates
Tickets on sale now from the venues
Friday 1st September: George Lane – St Kilda, VIC
Saturday 2nd September: Cherry Bar – Melbourne, VIC – Melbourne album launch
Saturday 9th September: The Great Club – Marrickville, NSW – Sydney album launch
Sunday 10th September: Cleveland Sands Hotel – Cleveland, QLD
Sunday 10th September: Vinnies Dive Bar– Southport, QLD – Late show + The Local Romance
Friday 29th September: Hamilton Hotel – Newcastle, NSW
Saturday 30th September: Old Bar Beach Festival, Old Bar – NSW
Sunday 1st October: Old Bar Beach Festival, Old Bar – NSW
Saturday 21st October: The KISS Arts Festival – Kiama, NSW
Sunday 22nd October: The KISS Arts Festival – Kiama, NSW
Friday 27th October: The Royal Oak – Launceston, TAS
Saturday 28th October: The Republic Bar – Hobart, TAS
Saturday 11th November: Kinema Bar – Narooma, NSW
Saturday 9th December: Twin Towns – Coolangatta, QLD
Sunday 10th December: Cleveland Sands Hotel – Cleveland, QLD
Saturday 16th December: The Seaview – Woolgoolga, NSW
Sunday 17th December: The Hoey Moey – Coffs Harbour, NSW
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Photo credit: Cameron Moss
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