The Summer Lovin' Tour

The wind in your hair, the sun on your face, the taste of salt in the air.

Yep, it will soon be Summer in Australia so, rather than staying cooped up in the dark rehearsal room writing songs, TBE have decided to hit the road for a selection of shows up the east coast including a huge NYE show at Twin Towns.
Joining us are very special guests After The Fall.

Check out the dates and ticketing details below:-

Tuesday 28th December 2010
WAVES, Wollongong, NSW - 18 +
Tickets available from Moshtix phonecharge 1300 GET TIX, www.moshtix.com.au and all Moshtix outlets along with Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and all Oztix outlets. 

Wednesday, 29th December, 2010 - Lic All Ages 
Port Macquarie Panthers, Port Macquarie, NSW
Tickets available from Moshtix phonecharge 1300 GET TIX, www.moshtix.com.au and all Moshtix outlets along with Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and all Oztix outlets, from the venue reception or phonecharge 02 6580 2300.

Friday, 31st December, 2010 - Lic All Ages
Twin Towns Services Club, Tweed Heads, NSW
Tickets available from the venue's box office or phonecharge 1800 014 014.

Sunday, 2nd January, 2011 - 18 +
Kings Beach Tavern, Caloundra, QLD
Tickets available from Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and all Oztix outlets, along with from the venue phone: 07 5491 1366.

Clint's Tour Diary Part 1

Hi all, welcome to my weekly tour diary. I hope this little blog finds you happy and feeling fine.

We had a great start to the tour playing to a sold out crowd in the Catalyst room at the Bridgeway Hotel, Adelaide. The boys from Calling All Cars had a cracker and really warmed the crowd up for us. We hit the stage about 10.30 playing through a selection of songs from each release and a brand new one I hope you all enjoyed. The crowd was awesome and in fine voice, with more good-looking fans than you could poke a stick at; we had a ball. Thanks to Prue and crew for making the start of tour a memorable night.

Next up was Mildura Sand Bar and after a short 6-hour drive up the road, it was great to meet Chris and Vince who really looked after us. It was another sold out show and one of the coldest gigs I’ve done in a while. Thanks to the fans down the front who tried to warm me up :P. It was a great night and playing for everyone there was awesome. Great vibe and great energy despite the cold.

Last for the weekend was the Roi Bar in Albury, and another great crowd. I’m so glad we are doing some regional shows, the vibe in these places has been amazing. Some very keen guys have traveled long distances to see us and it really does make you appreciate the effort people go to for music they love. Thanks to Ben and our crew for a sub zero load out, you guys are the bomb :)

Next week the wash up and all the details from the gigs around Melbourne so stay safe and have a great week/weekend.

Always

Clint

P.S. Nudie runs, excessive partying and all the naughty shenanigans coming soon :)

AUSTRALIA RECORD STORE DAY!

The TBE guys will be celebrating Record Store Day this Saturday (17/4/10) by doing a ninja signing session at JB Hi Fi Brisbane Central (Basement of the Q&A Building 1/2 Queen Street Brisbane) from 2pm.

Listen to your good friend Josh Homme...  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=indWlV5QLko

The Butterfly Effect announce the 'Four Wheels and a Heartbeat' tour

Many have suspected it and we're really glad to final officially announce it...

This Winter will see us hitting the road for the 'Four Wheels and a Heartbeat' tour. It's going to take in many of the towns that we've been unable to get to on any of the tours we've done in support of 'Final Conversation of Kings' thus far.
We've been looking forward to hitting the regional towns because they really are some of our favourite places to play and we haven't done some of these towns since we toured with Grinspoon in 2003 (Mildura, I'm looking at you). So, yeah, it's kinda going to be fun. Come and have a beer and say hi...
Support will be from the mighty Calling All Cars
dates and ticketing details are below
Tickets on sale from today (that's March 24 for those of you playing at home)

You can get them from www.thebutterflyeffect.oztix.com.au, Oztix outlets (tel 1300 762 545), the venues and other selected outlets as noted below. 

Friday 25th June The Bridgeway Hotel, Adelaide SA
18-30 Bridge rd, Pooraka. (08) 8262 4531. 
Tickets also available from www.venuetix.com.au 

Saturday 26th June The Sandbar, Mildura VIC 
45 Langtree Ave, Mildura. (03) 5021 2181. 

Sunday 27th June The Roi Bar, Albury NSW
491 Dean St, Albury. (02) 6023 3433. 

Wednesday 30th June Ferntree Gully Hotel VIC
1132 Burwood Hwy, Ferntree Gully :: (03) 9758 0111
Tickets also available from www.ticketek.com.au, Ticketek outlets or at 13 28 49.

Thursday 1st July Bended Elbow, Geelong VIC  
69 Yarra St, Geelong. (03) 5229 4477.

Friday 2nd July Inferno Nightclub, Traralgon VIC
21 Kay St, Traralgon. (03) 5176 0464.

Saturday 3rd July Pier Live, Frankston VIC
508 Nepean Hwy, Frankston. (03) 9783 9800.
Tickets also available from www.ticketek.com.au, Ticketek outlets or at 13 28 49.

Sunday 4th July The Commercial Hotel, South Morang, VIC
820 Plenty Rd, South Morang. (03) 9407 1082.

Wednesday 7th July Station Resort, Jindabyne, NSW
8228 Snowy River Way, Jindabyne. (02) 6451 4800.

Thursday 8th July Hellenic Club, Canberra, ACT
13 Moore St, Canberra. (02) 6247 9109.
Tickets also available from www.ticketek.com.au, Ticketek outlets or at 13 28 49.

Friday 9th July Panthers, Bathurst, NSW
132 Piper St, Bathurst. (02) 6330 0600.

Saturday 10th July Panthers, Newcastle, NSW
Crn King & Union St, Newcastle. (02) 4926 6200.

Sunday 11th July Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale NSW
2 Park St, Mona Vale. (02) 9999 4214.

Wednesday 14th July Campbelltown RSL, Campbelltown NSW
Carberry Ln, Campbelltown. (02) 4625 1408.

Thursday 15th July Castle Hill RSL, Castle Hill NSW
77 Castle St, Castle Hill. (02) 8858 4800.

Friday 16th July Entrance Leagues Club, Bateau Bay, NSW
3 Bay Village Rd, Bateau Bay. (02) 4334 3233.

Saturday 17th July West Tamworth Leagues Club, Tamworth NSW
58 Phillip St, West Tamworth. (02) 6765 7588.

Thursday 22nd July Villa Noosa Hotel, Noosa QLD
Mary St, Noosaville. (07) 5430 5555.

Friday 23rd July Surfers Paradise Beergarden, Surfers Paradise QLD
Corner Hanlan St & Gold Coast Hwy, Surfers Paradise. (07) 5570 1322.

Saturday 24th July Alexandra Hills Hotel, Alexandra Hills QLD
Cnr Finucane & McDonald Rd, Alexandra Hills. (07) 3824 4444.

Sunday 25th July Kallangur Tavern, Kallangur QLD
1517 Anzac Ave, Kallangur. (07) 3204 4333.
Tickets also available from www.ticketek.com.au, Ticketek outlets or at 13 28 49.

Friday 30th July  Jupiter's Hotel and Casino, Townsville QLD
Entertainment Drive, Breakwater Island, Townsville.  07 4771 4000.

Saturday 31st July Magnums, Airlie Beach QLD
366 Proserpine Shute Harbour Rd, Airlie Beach. (07) 4946 6266.

Friday 6th August Darwin Ski Club, Darwin NT
Conacher St, Fannie Bay. (08) 8981 0039.

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Introducing "Thousand Needles in Red"

Friends, country men and women lend me your ears,

May I introduce to you my new band "Thousand Needles in Red" we would like to cordially invite you to our shows around the country this month and next month as part of our inaugural tour. We hope you can make it as we would love to see you there :) I hope all is super sweet in your world and we'll catch you soon.

Big Luv

Clint

11 Mar 2010    Bar On The Hill – Newcastle Uni with special guests  
12 Mar 2010    Industrie Show Case Excelsior Hotel – Sydney with special guests
19 Mar 2010    Ferntree Gully – Ferntree Gully with special guests    Victoria
20 Mar 2010    Evelyn Hotel – Fitzroy with special guests    Melbourne
26 Mar 2010    Elephant + Wheelbarrow - with special guests - Calling All Cars    Brisbane
27 Mar 2010    Kallangur Tav - with special guests - Calling All Cars    Brisbane
1 Apr 2010      Great Northern - With special guests    Byron Bay
3 Apr 2010      Miami Tavern - With special guests    Gold Coast
4 Apr 2010      Club Envy - With special guests    Maroochydore
9 Apr 2010      Waves - With special guests    Wollongong
10 Apr 2010    ANU Bar - With special guests    Canberra
11 Apr 2010    Capitol Saloon Bar - With special guests    Wagga

A brief overseas recap, Summer in Australia, The Pyramid Rock Debacle and Hobart.

It has been a slow start to the year for the TBE crew but as we're finally back in the rehearsal room starting the writing and demoing process again it seemed like a great chance to update you guys on what we've been up to over the last 4 months or so...

We flew out for our overseas tour on the 18th of November. We flew Korea Air and in spite of a few concerns about the lack of tetris in the back of our chairs out of Brisbane (a lack that was more than compensated on the second leg of the flight), the flight was ace. We met a bunch of Aussies on the overnight hotel stay in Seoul and as Aussies seem to do overseas, we all ended up braving the cold and heading on a mission to locate Korean beer and soju (rice wine). We ended up in this really cool jazz bar (below). Mission accomplished!

We landed in London the next day and Aussies seem to do in London, we headed out  for a drink or ten. Our home base has become The Cross Keys in Covent Garden.
Our drum tech, Roger, first brought us here when we hit town in March last year. It's as cool as it looks...

The first show of the tour was in Cardiff.  Despite stupid hangovers and jet-lag, it all went off really well...
This was just the beginning of the blur of motorways that seemed to make up a lot of this trip.
It seemed we were heading North to then go South only just to head North again. Oh well, I guess that's rock n roll...
This is inside the van that was our home for a month...

Also pretty rock n roll, below is pretty indicative of the breakfast choices most mornings (and the weather for pretty much the whole trip).

Highlights in the UK included Glasgow (cool gig and a cool venue, not diminished slightly by a random bout of food poisoning), Manchester and Birmingham.

In the process, we caught up with a bunch of old friends (namely the hard drinking boys from To The Bones), and made some new ones in Slaves to Gravity.
They sound a bit like Shihad and like a drink too so we got along great from the start. This is them...

After the Birmingham show we grabbed the ferry to Calais and then drove to Paris. We almost ran out of fuel on the road so we ended up paying a old French woman (who didn't speak a word of English) 50 euros to put some fuel in on her credit card. It was hilarious.
Our accom in Paris was in the Pigalle area. This is where the red light district, The Moulin Rouge and many delicious crepe stands are.
We enjoyed our couple of days off by having a drink or two and by getting kicked out of a number of dodgy establishments along the main strip. Some serious laughs were had.

This might have contributed to any problems encountered...

 The Paris show was small and great and afterwards it was on to Utrecht in the Netherlands. It's an amazing country and there are many beautiful and fashionable people on bikes. This was the biggest show of the tour (except for the Aussie invasion in London). We had beers afterwards in dinky little bar. It was Uni night and the Christmas carols seemed to be flowing as regularly as the bad techno and the great beers. I have never seen young people singing Chrissy carols so loudly in a bar before... It was different.

Germany was amazing in general and to avoid a blog that's two miles long, here's the point form re-cap

We backed up Utrecht with an amazing night in Stuttgart. The venue has this crazy skull disco ball!

It was also in Stuttgart that we first met our new friends and support band from Sweden, Takida.
A week before they hit our support slot they'd played to 8000 people at a headline show in Stockholm…. sorry guys... This is them backstage in Munich

 
 Weisbaden was gorgeous, one of the only German cities to escape bombing in WWII,

We drank Glüwein (hot spiced wine) in the snow at the Christmas markets in Cologne.

After the show at the Logo club in Hamburg we went for Currywürst at the world-famous Reeperbahn. If you're ever in Hamburg, Herbertstrasse must be seen to be believed.

Berlin was great as always. Drinks with the Dukes of Windsor, accommodation next to the venue and a short drive to Dresden (the next show) meant a sore head for many the next day.

Whilst in Munich we saw crazy Germans surfing in a river in a snowy forest, ate at a traditional Münchener Sausage haus and drank more Glüwein in the snow.... mmmm....

Whether it was dodgy cold cuts in the backstage rider or perhaps something else entirely, 4 members of the touring party were hit with violent bouts of gastro.
This meant a few rushed stops on the side of the autobahn the next day and some, let's say, 'interesting' moments involving projectile vomiting during the show the next night in Vienna… Sorry to the guys at the club there...

It was a freezing drive through the bleak snow coverered mountains of Austria to Milan but it was gorgeous.

The gig in Milan was originally meant to be in this large semi-outdoor space whose defining characteristics was similar to those usually attributed to a large freezer. To everyone's relief the show was moved back inside at the last minute.

Mario, the singer in the support band, runs a wine bar in Malpensa airport which we generously partook off whilst waiting for our snowy flight out of Milan.
Barolo, the pride of Northern Italy, copped a small hiding.

We begrudgingly said goodbye to Mario and Europe as we said hello to Korea Air once again.
The trip home was pretty quick all things considered. We had a week to shake the jetlag which we'd mostly done by the time we hit Byron on our little mini-tour leading to the ill-fated Pyramid Rock festival. More on that in a bit.

The Byron show was sold-out. It was pretty amazing after all the small venues in Europe and the UK. Whilst it's getting better all the time for us over there, there's really nothing to compare to a hot sweaty room full of crazy Aussies screaming back every word. So thanks!!

This was followed up with equally excellent shows in Coff's and at Shelly's. We were totally ready to destroy the stage in Phillip Island…

That's when the wheels fell off…

We'd heard rumours of some massive storm that was supposed to hit the Pyramid rock site on NYE but after the hot clear dusty days we'd be having, I thought there was not a chance in hell.

On NYE day, we arrived onsite, we set up our gear backstage and then we saw the storm front coming up… holy shit… Beautiful Girls were on stage doing their thing… our gear went back in its cases and we tied tarps all over everything. Batten down the hatches!
We were assured it would only last half an hour so we'd still get our set, albeit slightly shortened…

After looking at the stage from a distance after the 'cyclone' had passed, it was clear that nothing was happening on that stage any time soon. Power was shorted and security weren't letting anybody within 20 meters of the place. We couldn't seem to get an answer as to what was happening from the organisers. They started to try and move Grinners and Empire of the Sun up to the small stage (we were still holding on to a slight chance that we might get a chance to play after Empire) but security put a swift stop to that due to the possibly of overcrowding on the small stage. We were gutted at this situation. we had spent a month in Europe and we had played these great warm-up shows and we were so keen!

The organisers of Pyramid didn't make an announcement to the crowd so there was 15000 very wet, very pissed off people who didn't get the NYE they wanted or deserved. If you were one of them, we'd like to offer what ever humble apology we can. We only hope it never happens again.

so what now…?

we've got 7 songs pretty much complete and we're going to keep putting songs together over the next few months in preparation for our new record. They're sounding great... quite progressive (whatever that means...)

Also, we're playing an O-week show in Hobart tomorrow night. It's called Ample Fire and it's at Tasmania University Union Grace St Rugby Carpark. It Costs $35 if your a student or $45 if not. We'll be playing with Muph & Plutonic, Miami Horror and Bag Raiders. Tickets on sale from the TUU Contact Centre Hobart, the TUU Shop Launceston and online from OZTIX

If you're around, come on down, we'd love to see you!

Also, we have a couple of big announcements due for the middle of the year. Stay tuned.

Cheers...

TBE

Help us out, get stuff

Hi Euro fans and friends of Euro fans!

As a way of getting the word out about these upcoming European shows and the imminent European re-release of Final Conversation of Kings, we'd like to do you a deal.

Embed the below in your myspace/blog/social thingy and send us a screenshot at info@thebutterflyeffect.com.au and we'll personally email you a free track. And a nice personal birthday/anniversary/bar(or bat) mitvah message if that's your thing.

Simple.

Thanks everyone

TBE