Three’s Company this weekend!

Hi!

I am starting to get butterflies in anticipation for this weekends tour with Scott Spark and The Rescue Ships.  Why did I have to be the first headliner for the tour?!  I am going through the usual series of questions every headliner has.  “will people come to my show?”, “will they like my new band?” “will they like my new song?” “what should I wear?”, well maybe boys don’t think about that last one as much as I do.  Secretly I think that’s the best bit about going on tour.  Three new dresses to wear in three different cities.  So many 3′s I think I may have gone a bit cuckoo!

Anyway here is an introduction to Scott Spark incase you haven’t heard of him

As a toddler, Scott Spark hung from Pandanus trees on Australia’s east coast, raised by two Great
Danes. And, at the age when most of us are still drooling and demanding to be dressed as fictional
characters, Scott was taking keyboard lessons, still drooling albeit in his Superman outfit.

Now, minus the tights and cape, he sings about shift-work, strategies for outsmarting death, love,
wanderlust at Christmastime and life’s variety of fuck-ups, while plinking the keys of anything
that has them. As showcased on his debut album, Fail Like You Mean It, his sound is some kind
of threesome between Randy Newman, Fiona Apple and ELO.

2010 was the result of 18 months behind-the-scenes work, culminating in close to 50 shows
throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, including tours with ARIA Award-winning artists
Washington and Tim Rogers (You Am I). Early in 2010, he was unearthed by triple j to attend
the Song Summit conference in Sydney and its masterclass sessions. Soon after, Sydney-based
indie label Other Tongues (You Am I, Lisa Miller, Dereb the Ambassador) picked up Scott’s
work and released his debut album Fail Like You Mean It, with tracks achieving rotation on triple
j and community radio stations countrywide.

You can find Scott’s music and more about him here…….

And The Rescue Ships!

The Rescue Ships fuses Elana Stone’s jazz influenced rock with Brian Campeau’s multi-layered experimental folk, citing influences like Sufjan Stevens, Owen Pallett, and the Dirty Projectors. Brian’s latest album was called “genuine genius” by Drum Media, and Elana has been described by the Age as “one of the best singing voices in the country.”