Thought for Food is their best IMHO.

used to be one of my favourite bands, i still think they're excellent, but it's been a while now since they've put out a new long player. i loved lost & safe, thought it was the best thing they've done.

at the spiegeltent at sydney festival!!

exciting!

Anyone know if there will be Melbourne shows/sideshows?

Playing the Curtin bandroom on Jan 14 & 15

i'm there

Interesting. Pencils in diary.

tickets bought. the best live band that never tours.

i havn't heard lost and safe yet, what's it like?

oh god i didn't realise it was sold out :(

both sydney shows? shit. was going to come down for either syd or melb, may have to be melb!

what, really? but who listens to the books!

sydney festival shows are different though. old people take a punt on ''art'' and ''music'' especially because it's in the spiegeltent and go see shit they don't know about but like the description of in the booklet. and then walk out halfway through, somewhat miffed it's not what they were expecting. (at least that was my experience during mice parade...)

I did not anticipate the sell-out. Blast.

dammit! i was waiting to get tix. and trafficsounds totally agree with you on the syd fest crowd. how annoying.

sydney festival shows are different though. old people take a punt on ''art'' and ''music'' especially because it's in the spiegeltent and go see shit they don't know about but like the description of in the booklet.

surely that's a good thing! people exploring new music and taking a punt.

and then walk out halfway through, somewhat miffed it's not what they were expecting.

ok, that part not so good. but i'd never noticed people doing that at syd fest gigs.

so happy I bought these. such a good band. so so good.

take time

I camped out out for Tix for Nix once and a guy told he'd seen old people leaving during Joanna Newsom. Another time at Tix for Nix an middle aged woman was asking if St Vincent was a chanson. Hopefully, people do actually use it as an opportunity to get into new music, I know that's what I use gigs for a lot of the time.

So glad I bought Books tickets. I got introduced to them by a kind person I worked with a year back. Amazing band, I can't believe what they do works so perfectly.

@whale
lost and safe is great.

i'll pick lost and safe up.. how about that newer EP?

likely to be tix for nix for the books?

it's out there already...

gmailed

Just listened to ''A Cold Freezing Night'' and it's so great! What an interesting band.

Just listened to ''A Cold Freezing Night'' and it's so great! What an interesting band.

I was surprized by how many beautiful, dark songs were on there, too.

Must say the new album is not satisfying me quite as much as Lost and Safe... pity. Oddly I belatedly discovered Tunng in the past few months and have been totally won over. I guess the ''folktronica'' label has been slapped on both of them - not all that accurately for The Books I'd say, but they do both scratch an itch in a similar way... melodic sample-collage, lots of dry humour. Recommend.

i have 2 tickets for their sunday show at thornbury theatre...and i cant go anymore.

anyone want 'em?

How many dollars?

Quite possibly

Yeah - Friday night at the Syemour Center - who's going?

Can someone describe this band to me? They're on a label releasing pretty good music. I may be interested, but have no way of hearing anything at work.

they're $80 for both. i also paid $10 booking fee, but $80 is fine.
message me 0421302705 if interested.

Oops, I only need one

Still got 'em...

i have literally just discovered this band. got 3 albums, first to digest was the lemon of pink. like it a lot.

Wonderful show at the Thornbury. My first time seeing them. Struck me how much surging wonder at existence is in their music. Well that's how it hit me tonight anyway. Love 'em.

Hilarious - scarves and duffel coats spotted outside the Thornbury Theatre. This is Melbourne in winter.

By 'winter' I mean 'summer'.

Daytrotter session

A year on, The Way Out has really grown on me. Gonna start reading all the track descriptions on their tumblr now!

Split up! Nick is moving on as... Zammuto.