i'm in and out on this band. sometimes they captivate me. the next day, the same song sounds empty and boring.

a new album? really?

i wonder if it has to come out thru mushroom...

There is just a line on their myspace. The various key members have stayed pretty active so I'm hopeful a new album does arrive sometime soon.

what the fuck? I hated Bad Light but loved everything else, even their pretentiousness (or image of pretentiousness). Was playing a few of their EPs last week, actually.

Really good news.

There is a new song demo on their myspace. The Flags of Strangers.

I was thinking about them today. I liked them, although their schtick was lost in Europe.

Crikey.

Is Bruce back managing them?

Will there be another promo-only one-sided 12'' vinyl?

Will there be another promo-only one-sided 12'' vinyl?

i dug out this record only the other day. very strange.

i can just imagine parisi promoting the fuck out of this record.

meanwhile, denis is waiting for the full-blown cordrazine reunion to kick into gear...

where's sandro when you need em, eh?

meanwhile, denis is waiting for the full-blown cordrazine reunion to kick into gear...

He's going crazy with anticipation.

ah, the 1990s.

So what's happening to Merida's band and record label

No, thanks.

fuck yeah!! new Paradise Motel?! :D

found this

I find this all very strange.

Merida's still involved ?

I have a clipping from back in the day where Bickford proclaims that their third album will be 'about hospitals and sickness'.

Next thing the Arrosa album will finally see the light of day ... Paging Adam Cole ...

Fuck.

I just clicked on that Myspace link.

It just made me tingle in the appropriate region.

Officially, extremely excited.

BTW that Cordrazine reunion is totes back on.

They're even playing Roxanne soon, supporting Paris Wells.

Presumably Hamish will be sans shirt again in line with their previous reunion promo shots.

What a difference 5 years, and 500 pounds makes.

i've got a copy of that arrosa album on a cassette tape somewhere. unmastered. unmixed too, i think.

cordrazine supporting paris wells? huh.

only thing i own is a remix album. i keep meaning to give it to loadie

Advance sales?

hi/thanks sleepy! that's some improvement. all i can remember is those damn traffic lights and some disastrous gaslight radio show with award-winning stage/audience banter.

Fez - Syd, Hobart and Bris tix are available from here

Others from the venues

Very good at the Sando the other night, though some people were kinda intent on some WHOOP YEAH! during the quiet bits. Ran through the album plus Aeroplanes, German Girl, Calling You and Men Who Loved Her/*Raining Pleasure*.

Charles obviously still under the weather (he hadn't played the Katoomba gig, I heard, due to some gastro horror) but they played well; better than the Melbs gig I saw, anyway. Good show!

Nice room at the Sando, though cranking the AC to 28 to sell more drinks is a shit act. Also, WTF is with the soundo and bar chicks playing bad house between acts? Would they play Glenn Campbell at a metal show?

Actually, that'd be cool, but you know what I mean.

Brilliant show last night in Brisbane. It's been over 13 years since the last time I saw them play and it brought tears to my eyes.

some writing about the recent Hobart show

Apparently there's another couple of albums in the can, and they've also just come across the album they made in London.

hopefully one of those albums has the promise song on it. DARN IT I STILL DON'T HAVE THAT SONG WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH (that's my epic sook)

can someone please ask the Paradise Motel to stick 'I Still Hear your voice at night' into iTunes so I can buy it? (physical copies sold out it seems and they have other albums in iTunes)

then i can have an epic sook victory.

I Still Hear Your Voice At Night

Released 29•01•11

Before we recorded 2010's Australian Ghost Story, we made this, our first of three releases scheduled for 2011. Taking its title from a John Cale song, ''Close Watch,'' it was recorded over 12 months, in 4 studios, in 3 different countries. Spanning 3 births, a death and the loss and discovery of at least two friends, I Still Hear Your Voice At Night is an examination of tightly compressed grief and joy.

The evidence of a bond that survived a ten year separation, ISHY VAN renders its themes through tales of hometown flooding, outback murder, unsolved disappearances, buried grudges, shooting accidents, husbands that drank their wives into solitude, a sailor who was loved and a sailor who destroyed all that he found.

I Still Hear Your Voice At Night
available from
www.the-paradise-motel.com
Itunes, and fine record stores through Left Over Life To Kill Records distributed by Inertia.

''ishy van'' makes me giggle.

Hmmm. not on itunes. Stupid mail out! You lied!

brilliant record.

i think 'the promise' is my favourite paradise motel song.

I always thought their name is Parasite Motel.

that's the thrash punk covers band, innit?

Sounds great.

The website is hosted by a furniture business. Get a CD and a settee!

i think 'the promise' is my favourite paradise motel song.

This one?

Love the cover. My order is in.

i still hear your voice at night is now in iTunes = MORE M4As TO WRECK THE LISTENING ROOM WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!