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2011 so there we have it.

dan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:11:17 +0000

Big love and happy new year to all our friends and family who have supported us this year, put up with our absences and made do with the lot of a loved one in a band.

A massive thanks to everyone we’ve worked with this year, to those who came out to shows, put on shows for us, promoted them. We’ve played with some fantastic bands this year, strengthened some friendships and made lots of new ones.

Extra special thanks to Darek, Dave, Toddka and Simon. It’s been bloody fab year and we’re even more excited about the new one ahead. New album, new songs, new shows and more touring. See you all sooon.

WAWT out.

Winding it up alright..

dan — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:09:26 +0000

Played Rics last night with our new friends Suicide Swans and had a freakin ball doing it. Thanks to the chaps from Grand Atlantic who joined us on stage with percussive excellence on ‘Let’s Not Lose’. November is well upon us and we’re winding up the year with a final show on December 10 at the Beetle Bar with the fabulous Jamie Hutchings from Bluebottle Kiss. We’ve done a few shows with Jamie around the country now and it’s always rather special to catch up and see him play.

We’d like to give a massive thanks Grand Atlantic for taking us around the country on their Constellations tour. Tour highlights were shows at The Loft on the Gold Coast and The Spotted Cow at Toowoomba. Much shenanigans abounded including an exchage of tour bus games. GA taught us how to play ‘Who’s ya dad’. We taught them how to play the ‘getting game’. That morphed into late night/early morning Heytell gang assaults..good times.
Cheerio.

Next gig:

More more more more more

tim — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:58:32 +0000

So, a few months back we did a gig at Ric’s and accidentally got paid twice. Good times abounded in WAWT, with Band Practice becoming a frenzy of champagne, posh cheeses and endless expensive raucousness.

Rics e mailed and said that they were aware of the discrepancy, and please could we pay them back, very soon. We said “um, yeah but the cash is like, all gone”. They were very nice about waiting a while. Dan came up with the genius idea of doing another gig there, for free.

They went for it.

Dan got a huge Hi 5, the venue got payback and we got a gig. Pretty sure that’s win, win, win.

So this is that gig. We play at 9.00pm. We’ve been touring a bit lately and sound pretty tight.. we will be paring it back however as Ric’s PA generally can’t handle the massiveness which is WAWT. Still, our message translates well with an acoustic guitar and a tambourine. Join hands, raise your voices, walk into the light.

Joining us, on at 8.00 are the truly awesome SUICIDE SWANS. If you are cool enough to listen to music made before 1980, you’re gonna dig em, I promise. They’re totally great. I don’t like Myspace any more than you do but you can hear them here: www.myspace.com/suicideswans HEAR THEM NOW!!!!

Come and have a drink with us, we’ll play you our new songs. coupla events to share, invite people to etc!
Facebook Event Here!

But wait there’s more.

[SinglePic not found]Another master stroke from Dan, one night we were driving home from band prac and reminiscing about our fun gig at the Dowse Bar. (He calls it the Dows-ee for some reason, the rest of us just call it the Dowse, not sure why, but fair play I suppose). He suggested we do a residency for a month. One e mail later and it was booked.

Free entry, EXCELLENT beers on tap, food available, kid friendly, armchairs, nice staff, um, what more do you want.. foot massages, spanish classes, hide and seek..? you got it.

We play in ‘reduced’ mode, which we’ve become very good at lately, it’s kinda fun. you can hear yourself talk most of the time, *not that we encourage talking during our set.

We have some GREAT supports too:
Dec 1. The Strums – acoustic. Clash-inspired beat punx, with a tambo on a hi hat stand and hearts on their sleeves. facebook.com/thestrums

Dec 8. Virginia Sook. They’re young, they’re sweet, they’re talented. (as opposed to us, dammit). Listen here: myspace.com/virginiasook

Dec 15th. Kellie Lloyd. You might know her from such bands as SCREAMFEEDER. She’s just recorded her second solo LP and it’s a gem. Notice I said LP there, not album. Yes, it’s getting pressed to plastic. She’s playing heaps and has killer songs. facebook.com/kellielloydmusic

Dec 22nd. Little Company, a “brother and sister folk duo”. I think they’re uber good and really excellent songwriters and soingers. We may just have to sabotage their gear before the gig. They might have a myspace but I couldn’t find it. They do have facebook and littlecompany.tumlr.com

So to sum up: Dowse Bar, Cnr Given Tce and Dowse st in Paddington. Thursday nights in December, 8-10pm, free entry, lovely little place etc. Come and hang out, way better than watching telly.
Facebook Event Here!

News, October..

tim — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:28:02 +0000

The tour’s going pretty well, thanks to the crowd at Woodland for making it the best show yet!

We’re going to be doing a Thursday night residency at The Dowse Bar in Paddington throughout December, details shortly..There are one or two support slots left if you know anyone good, or you are someone good.

Mixing progresses with the album, they say Rome wasn’t built in a day – our 15 song album is our own “Rome” at the moment.. but we’re getting there, promise.

We’re Comin’ Out

tim — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:35:23 +0000

W/A/W/T SRING OFFENSIVE 2011

Balmy Sunday Arvo at The Powerhouse & We All Felt The Love…

dan — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:29:55 +0000

Well we finally got around to playing one of our very favourite venues yesterday and we had a bunch of fun. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us at the powerhouse for Livespark. It’s nice to play a near full room and feel the love. To the choreographed dancers on the mezzanine, you guys were fab.

A massive thanks to The Bell Divers who were sadly unable to play with having one of their fold rushed to hospital at the last moment. We hope for a speedy recovery there. Like champions half of the band came along and still let us use their bass amp, so thanks heaps guys.

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and really look forward to coming back again.

Newcastle and Sydney it’s your turn next..we’ll be down with the boys from Grand Atlantic to make some lush noise and sort out your lager supplies.

Stay tooned!!!