NEWS

LIVE MUSIC VIDEO

We have just received our copy of a DVD of our live gig for Sneak Peek at the Old Bar in March 2007. A couple of songs were recorded and our performance "Say You Won't" was then dubbed to video. If you'd like to check it out, go to our MUSIC page and you'll see it right at the top.

EP LAUNCH!!!

We have finally announced a date and venue for our EP LAUNCH.... it will be on VALENTINE'S DAY (14th February) at the TOTE HOTEL, Collingwood. Click on either (or both!) of the posters to the left for more details.

Joining us on the evening will be N4ncy H4z4rd, and Daddy's Little Girl.
Entry will be $5, from about 8.30pm, get there early cos we're on first, and make sure you stay around to catch up for a beer and check out the other two absolute pearler bands.
This is an 18+ event, ID required.
Management reserves the right to refuse entry.

So if you've been left desperate and dateless for Valentines, or if you're a lonesome loser, or if you can thinking of nothing better than taking your valentine out for a night of ripping live rock music; if you're sick of seeing Hallmark logos, or if you just wanna pick-up... (or all of the above!!)... head on down to the TOTE this Valentine's Day Night and spend the night with us :)

EP Review

We received this generous review of our new EP from
Tony Bates of 100.7 Highlands FM:

"The Curious Few's debut album has all the elements of great musicianship, with the sound being well outside of that for a trio.

For those people who recall the days of Space Rock and HAWKWIND, take a close listen to the opening track, You're Losing and be pleasantly surprised to see that the genre is back in good and capable hands. Highway Nine shows a musical maturity that belies the age of this band and the opening bars of Say You Won't, whilst being reminiscent of The Stones, shows that this Trio know how to rock.

This is not a retro band, but if you like your metal slightly harder than aluminium, this is for you."

Tony Bates
100.7 Highlands FM

ARTICLE IN SUNBURY MACEDON RANGES LEADER!

We got some awesome publicity this week with an article and photo in the Sunbury Macedon Ranges Leader newspaper. Click on the little image to the right to read the whole article.

The publicity is to promote our upcoming gigs in Sunbury:
Sunday 11th November & Sunday 25th November
Evans St Arcade, Sunbury
Outside Bet C's Cafe / Restaurant / Wine Bar
From 5:30pm, Free

Hope to see you all there!!

LATEST RECORDING

Finally we have our new self-titled recording ready for release!

You can get your hands on one at any of our gigs, or pre-order online at our "SHOP" page. We will also have them placed in a number of CD stores soon.

Stay tuned for more announcements regarding our EP LAUNCH GIG!!!

RECORDING DIARY

Day 1:
We load in to David Bridie's Enormadome Studio.
Cazz falls over and lands in a cactus in the garden causing one whole leg of her jeans to be covered in prickles. She then gets prickles in her hand as she tries to wipe them off. Luckily she had a change of jeans in the car. We set up and record all the instrument tracks live for six whole songs with only a few takes per song. It's now that the hours of preparation pays off! After Tim does a basic mix of the tracks we still have time to run a few little overdub bits, like the massive feedback at the start of You're Losing etc, and also lay down three vocal tracks for "Say You Won't". A late night as we head off to get some tucker and pillows for the night.

Day 2:
Back to the Studio.
First of all we lay down the rest of Cazz's vocals and Tim completes a bit more mixing and cleaning up of the tracks. Off to lunch, Cazz moves Robbie's car and drops one of the front wheels into a huge hole next to the kerb knocking the frontend out of alignment. Next Marty gets to lay down his vocals. Then we sit around tweaking and discussing and tweaking and discussing for hours until we all go crazy. Tim does the final bouncedown and we walk out with our CD to listen to!

Day 3:
After a couple of weeks of listening to our CD and assessing, we decide we'd like a few mix changes. As Tim is booked out we decide to go to Adam at Toyland.
On the way down we stop at Maccas at Calder Rwy and get some coffee... they fill it too full and when Cazz opens hers to put the sugar in it spills out all over her hand and legs so it not only burns but also looks like she wet herself. Six hours in Toyland studio working on the mixes and we come out with 6 tracks and 3 smiling faces.

Day 4:
After a couple more weeks we decide it could benefit from some mastering. Following a bit of research and advice we decide to take it to Dex. Luckily we didn't need to got into the studio for this, so Cazz didn't have a chance to have a clumsy accident on the way. We get the CD Master in the mail woohoo and it sounds very punchy indeed.

Then Cazz just had to get the artwork done for the disks, digipack and new website, get them printed and here we are.... a disk ready for release!!!