
Currently overseas playing showcases in London, New York City and LA, The Temper Trap are pleased to announce two final headline dates for 2008 in Australia. These dates celebrate the start of a MASSIVE summer for the band which will include a host of major appearances plus a coveted spot on the St Jeromeas Laneway and the Nevereverland Festivals.
With an enthusiastic reaction to their latest single, Sweet Disposition, the band has become one of the biggest worldwide blogging sensations over the past two months and a favourite on Triple J, FBi and 3RRR.
âWith the release of âThings Can Always Changeâ Sleep Parade have evolved into a heavyweight contender on the Australian prog-rock scene. A Flawless, world-class albumâ. Nick Snelling - Beat Magazine
Melbourne three-piece Sleep Paradeâs debut album Things Can Always Change was released in April 2008 through Shock Records.
The bands plans include spending the rest of this year and through till the end of summer touring the album and playing to crowds Australia wide. Having so far spent this winter on the road Nation-wide with bands such as Porcupine Tree (UK), Cog, Bushido, Mere Theory & Hinge.
Things Can Always Change has impressed fans and critics alike with its sonic beauty as well and complex arrangements. 10/10 Review - 0zProg.com
8/10 Review â Blunt Magazine
Album Of The Week â Beat Magazine
Sleep Parade cite Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Oceansize, The Mars Volta and Opeth as influences.
December 2008 sees a special surprise reunion of the Headless Chickensâ classic line-up from the hit-making era of their Body Blow album â and a welcome return of the Chickensâ unrivalled brew of dastardly electronics, danceable beats and sharp pop songs.
New Zealandâs Headless Chickens were possibly the most challenging chart-topping act of the nineties Downunder. A string of hits on both sides of the Tasman included Top 20 smash âCruise Controlâ, triple J favourites âDonde Esta La Polloâ, âGaskrankenstationâ, âJuiceâ, âMr Moonâ and the NZ number one âGeorgeâ. An enormously popular touring act with a flamboyant live show, the Chickens built a huge fanbase through the early part of that decade, touring with everyone from Arrested Development to Pop Will Eat Itself before they splintered apart and the band petered out before the end of the decade.
After a decade away, this group that saw its way through tragedy (the suicide of founding member Johnny Pierce) and triumph (their NZ number one triumph with âGeorgeâ remains the only chart-topping song for their legendary kiwi label Flying Nun) is now back to strut around the farmyard in their own inimitable style.
Chris Matthews and Fiona McDonald are back to share lead vocal duties, while the muscular rhythm section of Bevan Sweeney and Grant Fell lay the base for the sonic mayhem wrought by Matthews, Michael Lawry and Anthony Nevison.
"This is neither a rock band with some gee-whizz samples or a bunch of art-boffins making whoopee with guitars . . . Body Blow sounds like no one else on earth." (Rip It Up, November '91)