Hello lovers,
this will be my final post at this address. Thank you for reading and staying with me thus far. I hope we can continue to talk and travel together.
A Casual End Mile will now be blogging at:http://acasualendmile.wordpress.com/
Please come and visit there! It will be much better, because I'll be able to share with you unreleased demos, covers and old songs I record (without the mediafire middleman).
Don't forget you can also visit A Casual End Mile on facebook for the most current news.
Download a free digital copy the Fox & A Prayer/Vampire Hours 7" or purchase a limited
edition vinyl copy at: www.acasualendmile.bandcamp.com
Write me soon,
love Madelaine
x
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Band Camp
Thank you to everyone who was there last Wednesday to help launch the first single.
For anyone who missed out on the night, vinyl 7"s are now for sale at Cream on King (Newtown, Sydney). For those outside of Sydney, you can also purchase a copy from:
www.acasualendmile.bandcamp.com
Includes free digital download from the site above.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/madelainelucas/blog#ixzz10tu5LPnd
For anyone who missed out on the night, vinyl 7"s are now for sale at Cream on King (Newtown, Sydney). For those outside of Sydney, you can also purchase a copy from:
www.acasualendmile.bandcamp.com
Includes free digital download from the site above.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/madelainelucas/blog#ixzz10tu5LPnd
Monday, September 20, 2010
Two Sleeps
Only two more sleeps until the 7" launch! Getting a sweet little playlist together to share with those who make it down to Low nice and early for a drink or two....
Doors at 8 pm, playing for you at 9.30 pm
Come along early for good tunes and the best drinks in town
x
Doors at 8 pm, playing for you at 9.30 pm
Come along early for good tunes and the best drinks in town
x
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
7" Single Launch this September!
Come down to the beautiful space of Low 302 to help celebrate the launch of my very first release. The limited edition Fox & A Prayer/Vampire Hours 7" vinyl will be yours to own on the night! I'll also be playing with a brand new line-up....
x
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
It Walks Like Love
On Thursday night I will have the pleasure of opening at the belated launch of the latest record by Australian bluesy super-songstress Loene Carmen, It Walks Like Love.
For those unfamiliar with Loene's music, it is well worth discovering. Over the years, Loene has worked and collaborated with members of the Dirty Three, Tex Perkins, the Mess Hall, Holy Soul and the Scare to name a few, and her music provides an example of Australian song-writing at it's sultry, dusty, unique best.
The clip below for "Nashville High" (one of my favourite songs) comes from Loene Carmen's previous record Rock n' Roll Tears. You can also listen to tracks from the new album here.
It is real honour to be joining Loene for the launch.
Thursday will also mark the first A Casual End Mile show featuring live drums.
It Walks Like Love album launch will be held at the Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills, 8 pm
Tickets are $12 and will be available at the door. The night will also feature support from
Ed Clayton Jones - Chord Blood.
For those unfamiliar with Loene's music, it is well worth discovering. Over the years, Loene has worked and collaborated with members of the Dirty Three, Tex Perkins, the Mess Hall, Holy Soul and the Scare to name a few, and her music provides an example of Australian song-writing at it's sultry, dusty, unique best.
The clip below for "Nashville High" (one of my favourite songs) comes from Loene Carmen's previous record Rock n' Roll Tears. You can also listen to tracks from the new album here.
It is real honour to be joining Loene for the launch.
Thursday will also mark the first A Casual End Mile show featuring live drums.
It Walks Like Love album launch will be held at the Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills, 8 pm
Tickets are $12 and will be available at the door. The night will also feature support from
Ed Clayton Jones - Chord Blood.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
How Sad, How Lovely
Robert Forster recently wrote an article titled 'Lost Women Found' about the 'forgotten' folk music of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Connie Converse. These women wrote original, beautiful, honest music between the 1950s-1970s, but although largely ahead of their time, enjoyed little initial commercial success. However, recent years have seen a re-release of Bunyan's Diamond Day (2000), and first pressings of Baier's Colour Green (2006; compiled of songs recorded in the 1970s) and Converse's How Sad, How Lovely (2009; from tape recordings made in the 1950s).
Although belated, these albums have received deserved acclaim from various musicians (Bunyan recently worked with Devendra Banhart, and the Animal Collective) and music-critics. For this reason, it seems that their songs weren't 'forgotten'- it's just that their influence has too often has been misplaced, or gone unrecognised.
While I love to listen to Vashti Bunyan and Sibylle Baier, the music of Connie Converse was a new discovery to me. WNYC radio program Spinning on Air put together a wonderful special on her music last year which you can listen to here. Its full of nolstolgia, for forgotten old times.
The music, and mysterious lives of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Connie Converse could be the subject of numerous music or critical essays..... but their own words and voices will always tell their stories much better. Thus, my humble homage:
Although belated, these albums have received deserved acclaim from various musicians (Bunyan recently worked with Devendra Banhart, and the Animal Collective) and music-critics. For this reason, it seems that their songs weren't 'forgotten'- it's just that their influence has too often has been misplaced, or gone unrecognised.
While I love to listen to Vashti Bunyan and Sibylle Baier, the music of Connie Converse was a new discovery to me. WNYC radio program Spinning on Air put together a wonderful special on her music last year which you can listen to here. Its full of nolstolgia, for forgotten old times.
The music, and mysterious lives of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Connie Converse could be the subject of numerous music or critical essays..... but their own words and voices will always tell their stories much better. Thus, my humble homage:
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Fox & A Prayer/Vampire Hours 7" this August!
I am very excited to announce that in late August, Fox & A Prayer and Vampire Hours will be yours to own on vinyl! This special, limited edition 7" will be the very first release by A Casual End Mile. To celebrate, both songs are now available for free download here.
"Fox & A Prayer" was produced by Steve Lucas, and recorded at Bakehouse Studios in Melbourne at the end of winter 2009. "Vampire Hours" was recorded on Valentine's Day this year in the sunny studio paradise which is BJB Studios, in Sydney, and features Brock Fitzgerald (The Scare) on drums & bass.
Special thanks to my mother, Amanda Meares, for lending her original painting to the cause.
Many thanks to everyone who has listened thus far. I hope you will come and party at the launch with me (details tba.)
x
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