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NSC show sold out! Now time to Wash Winter's Willies Away With Whiskey...

Great night at the Northcote Social Club on the Saturday just passed. Full-house, smiles, laughs, sombreros, maybe a few too many drinks... ah well.

Onwards...! The fourth annual "Wash Winter's Willies Away With Whiskey" festival is looming ever closer at the Tote on Sunday 27th July. Line-up/full details to be announced.

Meanwhile Jimmy heads to QLD for solo shows early July, hangin with The Gin Club, and continues to hold fort at the Gem Bar & Dining Room each and every Tuesday.

Melbourne Show Announced!

With the album out and doing well, the national tour complete, and our longest break from the scene ever (2 whole months!), it's time to unleash the live beast again...

SATURDAY 21st JUNE Clinkerfield hit the NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB. Tickets available from the NSC Box Office on 03 9486 1677 or www.northcotesocialclub.com.

It's a bit of a one-off, as we won't be returning until late July in the lead-up to the Clinkerfield hosted "Wash Winter's Willies Away With Whiskey" festival.

After the huge success of the last Melbourne show at the Corner in early April, with the streets abuzz with whisperings in hushed tones of words like, "magical" and "amazing", this show is worth getting in early for...!

There'll be plenty of songs from the album, plus a whole bunch of newer material, and pleased to announce that we'll be joined by our mates The Palenecks.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Stewart heads to Western Australia again for shows from 11-14 June, in between continuing his Tuesday evening residency at the Gem Bar, Collingwood, now into month seven. And plans are underway for the band to hit the road again later in the year.

TOUR OVER - KICKED ARSE - NEED A REST

Yaaarrrgghh...blaeerrghh.. yawn... splat.

We're all back home now. The shows all over the land were wonderful, especially the magical night at the Corner in early April! We're working on a film-clip from footage taken on the night, and also mixing a live recording we made of it.

Now that the tour is over, we're holing up for a while to lick our wounds whilst we plan our next move. Basically, we're just resting on our laurels whilst the album sells thousands of copies in stores everywhere! Run out and grab your copy while stocks last! It's also available on-line via the RELEASES page. The response to "A Head Full Of Rain & A Heart Full Of Puddles" has been amazing. Find out why!

After this break the band will return for a one-off Melbourne show in June - stay tuned - though, of course, Jimmy just can't help himself, and continues to play shows everywhere, now into his sixth month of Tuesday evenings at the Gem Bar in Collingwood.

Looking further ahead, the fourth annual Clinkerfield/Waste Management curated Wash Winter's Willies Away With Whiskey festival is looming on the last Sunday of July, and plans are underway for another national tour in August/September.

And more recording!

National Album Launch Tour Announced

YARRRGH! We're on tourrr...!

Our new album "A Head Full Of Rain & A Heart Full Of Puddles" is finally here, out 15 March through Green Media/MGM Distribution on our own Waste Management label.

We're most excited to announce our national tour dates. Altogether, we'll be taking in a VIC regional, WA, NSW, VIC, SA, and WA again - a period of about six weeks through March & April. See SHOWS page for details.

We have copies of the album in our grubby hands, and they're available through this website. Go to RELEASES page to purchase through either Waterfront Records. Alternatively, you could buy it at a shop. It's in stores nationally.

See ya at a show.

Album Released March 15

After much arseing about, "A Head Full Of Rain & A Heart Full Of Puddles" will be released through Green Media/MGM Distribution via our own label Waste Management on 15th March 2008.

A national tour will follow the release of the album through late March and April.

The band is currently on hiatus in the lead-up to the national launch tour, though Jimmy just can't help hisself, and is playing all over the bloody place!

For anyone who's forgotten what all this Head/Rain/Heart/Puddles stuff is (and you could be forgiven), it is our new album, recorded way back in February 2007 in a country farmhouse by Mr Aaron Cupples, who did some amazing work with us, not to mention the albums he worked on for bands like Silver City Highway, The Drones, James McCann, Paul Kelly & Dan Kelly. It sounds amazing...

And it is finally ready to go!!!

Advance copies of the album will be available to members of our mailing list from 1st March.

Full touring dates will be announced before too long, but it pleases us to inform you all that the Melbourne launch will be happening at the Corner Hotel on Friday 4th April, and we'll be joined by our great friends The Idle Hoes who will also launch their own album "Little Victories" the same night.

It's almost 2009.

The album will be pressed this month. If it destroys us.

Trying to book shows around the country in March/April for a national launch tour. If it kills us.

At home, it's Sundays in January at the Old Bar, continuing our four year tradition of being January residents at the Old Bar leading up to a crazed carnival on the eve of the Australia Day public holiday. There's a whole bunch of guests each week (3-4 bands), plus a gold coin BBQ at 7 pm. These are the last full band shows until the album launches.

And Jimmy, in between a'whippin a whirlwind up in W.A. at the start of the month and then wreaking havoc at the Tamworth Country Music Festival at the end of the month, settles into Tuesday nights at the Gem in Collingwood.

Check gigs page for details.

And just for fun, here's a link to stream some live songs recorded at Northcote Social Club last year.

2008. Oh Eight. Oh Great.

The album will be pressed this month. Trying to book shows around the country in March for a national launch tour.

We now settle into January Sundays at the Old Bar, continuing our tradition (4th year running this year) of being January residents at the Old Bar leading up to a big bash on Australia Day Eve (this year's it's on the the Sunday which is actually the Aus Day public holiday - obviously much more important than Australia Day itself, because that's when we actually get a day off). There's a whole bunch of guests each week (3-4 bands), plus a gold coin BBQ at 7 pm. It's $6 entry each week for $10 jugs and good music. Except the last week which is $10.

CURRENT STATUS REPORT / DEPRESSED RELEASE

Clinkerfield's new album, "A Head Full Of Rain & A Heart Full Of Puddles", is now set for an early 2008 release. Probably.

It was recorded earlier this year in a lonely (of course), haunted (possibly) country farmhouse with Aaron Cupples, who has also done great work with Silver City Highway, SubAudible Hum, James McCann, Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males, The Drones, & Paul Kelly, as well as his own twisted-folk/trash-metal projects - though Aaron is now A.W.O.L somewhere in Europe, resting on his laurels.

Some of the songs from it, snuck out in billy-carts under the cover of darkness, have already been receiving airplay on community radio across the country, and now even Triple J, that all-powerful national broadcaster, has lent its ear, even though there aren't any singles on the album at all... (ahem).

Which sho' is nice, innit!

After Jimmy spent two months overseas, playing a little but mostly just terrorising the people of Spain, Clinkerfield returned to the stage at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne at the end of October and played a blinder!

They now settle into November with a "national" tour and sporadic Jimmy solo shows (check gigs page) in between new song writing sessions in country Victoria, before returning to Melbourne for a couple of residencies in December.

So after all and despite the odds, Jimmy got home safe and on time, and Andrew successfully met all his rehab obligations, and all is well in Clinkerland... for now.

Mid-October, 2007

Currently the band are having a rest, and deservedly so after a most stressful home-&-away season, but primarily because Jimmy, Clinkerfield's optically blessed front-man, is nowhere to be found. After wrapping up his year-long Tuesday night residency at the Rainbow Hotel on the night the full-moon turned blood-red during a total lunar eclipse, Jim thoroughly disappeared. He is reportedly now recovering somewhere in Spain, after over-extending himself at his private show for the Norwegian Music press that happened in Barcelona on his birthday (this show allegedly carried on for four days), with a little busking on the side...

And in even worse news back on the home front, the rest of the band (represented foremost by M. Quinn & W. Dunn and aided by their tireless associates) are locked in a heartbreaking struggle desperately attempting to monitor the increasingly erratic behaviour of Clinkerfield's problematic drummer Andrew, whose previously unknown drinking problem has spiralled utterly out of control in Jim's absence.

However, plans are still afoot for an Australian tour to show-off a song or two from the album in October/November, after Jimmy gets out of bed and onto a plane, and god-willing, does not get stuck in Tokyo (where he's been told he must wait 11-and-a-half hours for a connecting flight), and if Andrew fulfils his re-hab obligations.

Clinkerfield, all being well, play their first show back in the country of Australia-land in Melbourne at the Corner Hotel on Sunday 28th October. They shan't reappear in Melbourne until December, due to a hectic touring schedule during November that takes in Perth.

September '07

Clinkerfield's new album, "A Head Full Of Rain & A Heart Full Of Puddles", recorded earlier this year in a country farmhouse with Aaron Cupples, is now set for an early 2008 release.

After wrapping up his year-long Tuesday night residency at the Rainbow Hotel, on the night the full moon turned blood red during a total lunar eclipse, frontman Jimmy Stewart heads to Europe to play a private show for the Norwegian Music press in Spain on his birthday, and a little busking on the side...

Plans are afoot for an Australian tour to show-off a song or two from the album in October/November, after Jimmy returns from milking goats in the Pyrenees Mountains, before preparing to release and tour the album in early 2008.