The ever-prolific Augie March – three albums in 12 years – have jetted off to New Zealand to record album number four. The Melbourne quintet will base themselves at Neil Finn’s Auckland studio Roundhead for the next month or so to record the as-yet untitled LP, set for release in late 2008. Product...
There was a certain inevitability about Thursday night’s Crowded House gig. Such stadium shows – with the outsized gestures (front-of-stage solos, video screens, hand claps etc) engineered to make up for the gap between audience and band, as well as covering-the-bases setlists – always carry a scrip...
After all their fine work in 2006 was greeted with unexpected acclaim at the start of this year – ‘One Crowded Hour’ topped JJJ’s Hottest 100 and Moo, You Bloody Choir took home the Australian Music prize – Augie March have spent much of 2007 repeatedly touring America. But they will be back in Aust...
If Augie March’s surprise appearance at the apex of what Glen Richards likes to call “the pop culture urinal” with ‘One Crowded Hour’ was a rare outburst of impeccable taste by the record-buying public, tonight’s Sydney crowd appear determined to prove philistinism is alive and well. Drowning out th...
Proving that hype doesn’t always prevail, Augie March’s steady march towards national prominence continued last night when their third album, Moo, You Bloody Choir, won the second annual Australian Music Prize and a cash prize of $25,000. The award, for the most outstanding and creative Australian a...
Having produced one of the Australian albums of 2006 with Moo, You Bloody Choir, Melbourne’s Augie March will tour it nationally one last time in 2007. The Cold Acre Tour will feature special guests Holly Throsby and Canadian singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett together with his band The Emergency. The ...