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Saturday, February 10, 2007
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Live Album Available Now
Category: Music
Buy our new live album from www.huckleberryswedes.com
There's a sample of one of the songs "Dust Storm's Falling" on our MySpace Home Page
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
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The wheels, they are a turnin'
Current mood:  bouncy
Category: Music
Huckleberry Swedes News
Hi There,
Huckleberry Swedes have had a small hiatus from performing as a band since our tour with Bill Chambers.
That doesn't mean that behind the scenes, the wheels haven't been turning faster than a ute doing circle work at Gympie!! Drummer, Toby is just wrapping up a national tour with the Audreys, Mark has been on a solo tour in Denmark, Troy has been buried away in his studio demo-ing a whole bunch of new songs and Sam has been preparing to tour as John Schuman's bassist.
Meanwhile, there's been a couple of festivals confirmed, we've been sorting out dates set to record an album (at last) and some really fun gigs coming up.
We've also put a new FREE download on the website. Recorded at the Gallipoli Club, Newcastle, during our recent tour with Bill Chambers, here's a little taste of some of the stuff we've been working on. Hope you like it Heres some of whats happening........................ YHA Peace festival Fundraiser Mark and Troy will be doing a duo set at the Wheatsheaf this Sunday for Beats N Peaces, Peace Festival Fundraiser. Here's their press release....................... Who needs a reason for an awesome Sat night on the dance floor or a sublime Sunday Sesh? Well, weve got one for you anyway, 2 actually Join the wonderful crew from the Peace Fest for their annual fundraiser Beats n Peaces Across 2 splendid venues, on one weekend: Sat 9th Sept from 9, get worldly, get funky, get peace-lurvin at Rhino RoomO
if laidback tunes and a myriad of good beer is more your style Slide on down to the Wheaty for a good ol' fashioned Sunday Sesh Sunday 10th Sept from 4pm $10 on the door at both events, or $5 conc No matter which gig you support, or even if you come to both, your attendance will be helping to make the 2006 YHA Peace Festival even more incredible and goes to bring Peace One Day closer www.yhapeacefestival.org www.peaceoneday.org |  | Just Confirmed | October 2nd (2pm - 6pm) The Palais, Esplanade, Semaphore, SA $10/$7
Huckleberry Swedes Trio (Troy, Mark, Sam) @ Semaphore Music Festival. The Palais Deck Closing Party:The Fiddle Chicks, Huckleberry Swedes; The Yearlings, John Baker Duo
October 14th - Johnny Cash Tribute - Grainger Studio, Hindley Street, Adelaide, Price TBC
Adelaide Baritone, William Snell is Johnny Cash. A night of songs spanning the career of The Man In Black. Featuring members of Huckleberry Swedes October 15th 6pm - The Trinity Sessions - A Tribute To Neil Young, Church of The Trinity, 318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park, SA Price TBC
Neil Young Tribute featuring members of Huckleberry Swedes among many.
January 2007 - The Family Hotel, Tamworth, NSW
Huckleberry Swedes move into the Family hotel for a week during Tamworth Country music festival for a bunch of late night Alt Country Roots Shows
February 24th & 25th 2007 Tumbafest, Tumbarumba, NSW
The band on the road again
Merchandise Only a few truckers caps left. Let us know if you're interested.
Subscribe to our mailing list http://huckleberryswedes.com/mailman/options/mailouts_huckleberryswedes.com, Thanks for reading and......... Peace Huckleberry Swedes |
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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Greetings From NSW
Current mood:  energetic
Category: Music
Hi Folks,
Heres a little update from life on the road with Bill Chambers and Huckleberry Swedes. Since the last update, weve finally had our first gig with Bill in Melbourne a cracker of a night, I must say.
Spent all of last week in rehearsal mode. We actually were able to score a high school music room to practice in, which was fantastic. Im not sure the teacher really appreciated the disruption to his recorder lessons, but hey, thats rock and roll We started off running through Bills songs from his Frozen Ground LP, quickly realizing that this was going to be a lot of fun. There were a few impressions of Bills deep voice floating around the rehearsal room as we tried to work out the harmonies without him being there. Drummer, Tobys bass voice was a revelation He has really been keeping those dulcet tones a secret from us, but hes going to have to put up with a microphone in front of his face at gigs from now on at least, in future, hell be able to respond to on-stage payouts instantaneously instead of moaning about being picked on after the gigs.
We soon moved on to the Swedes set and had a fantastic time arranging some new songs, especially a beauty of Troys that has already become a highlight of the set, called Dust Storms. Oh yeah. For those of you worried about us disrupting the kids music classes, it was actually school holidays, so we had the whole campus pretty much to ourselves, except for the workmen doing alterations in another part of the building. It was funny to see these blokes line dancing down the hall as they passed the room.
It was a shame to not play in Mount Gambier on Friday, but it gave Bill the chance to play a gig with his daughter, Kaseys band up in Brisbane on that night. He arrived in Melbourne on Saturday where we had our sound check with him at the Cornish Arms for that night. It soon became apparent that the sound guy was going to be an asset on the night and he pulled a great sound really quick. (always a relief) There were a bunch of pre-sales for people who came to enjoy the fine food at the Cornish and stayed around for the show, and more than a few who happened to be in the room for sound check and decided that they should stick around.
Bill has a great loyal following of people that hes met through the many years hes spent on the road here in Australia. He assured us before the tour that our Alt-Country style would go down well with them, and we werent disappointed. We had a fantastic set to a really enthusiastic audience. The new songs played themselves and the crowd were appreciative and supportive. Many of them decided that they should pick up one of our Eps at the end of the night..beauty.
Once Bill came on stage, it was like they were greeting and old friend. The room had a fantastic feel to it, and although weve had little chance to play with him, he directed the stage like a master. A real rocking show that everyone seemed to enjoy., especially this band of miscreants.
Drove up to Albury on the Sunday to play an afternoon show at the Kinross Woolshed, an actual renovated woolshed in Thurgoona, Again played to a fantastic, supportive, albeit a little smaller, audience and had a ball.
Monday was spent driving up to Sydney for our NSW gigs for half of us. Toby and Sam went back to Melbourne, and Troy and Mark to Central coast to do pre-promo for the weekends gigs. After radio intervals, promos and a duo set at a fantastic songwriters night hosted by Bill we now find ourselves ready for the weekends gigs. (Any of you that find yourselves in Terrigal on a Wednesday night around 7pm should check out this one. Its called, Songwriters on Dekk and is every week at the Dekk Bar. Theres an amazing depth of talent in this area and it is a great night.)
Well pick up Sam and Toby from Sydney airport Friday and take them straight to the Bridge hotel for soundcheck and what looks to be a big night. Apparently the poster people have done a pretty good job and were up on stobie poles all over Sydney. Back to Terrigal on Saturday, Newcastle, Sunday and Tamworth next weekend.
More soon.
Catch ya later
Huckleberry Swedes
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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Greetings from the Road
Current mood:  working
Category: Music
Hi from Melbourne,
Had a couple of great warmup gigs here over the weekend.
Saturday night was at the rosstown hotel which, despite initial appearances, turned out to be a great sounding, well layed out venue. It was nice to see some SA friends there who were still celebrating their trip over to see the Crows on friday night. And despite the ambulance service being called for a poor woman who had a pancreatitis attack at the end of the night, everyone seemed to have a good time. It definitely was an interesting end to the evening with initial thoughts being that she had suffered a heart attack, to be later wrongfully diagnosed as a bad case of reflux. (we still maintain that she was one of the many victims of bass player, sam's (Clancy) knee trembling posturing)
Sunday at The Old Homestead, fitzroy, wasn't without incident either. After some initial PA problems, some quick thinking, a few phone calls and a rush across North Melbourne to borrow some stuff off of Goose's Dave Palmer, it was all go. The Swedes settled into a nice set at the cosy Homestead, gathering some more new friends.
Now it's rehearsals all week before the weekend gigs. This brings us to the main reason for this weeks email.
For those of you planning to come down and see us in Mt Gambier, unless you have other business there, please save your petrol. Unfortunately, Bill has had to cancel this gig, so we won't be able to make it there either. It's a little hiccup for us and we hope it doesn't put too many of you out................
More news soon..............
Meanwhile............. get out and see some local, live music.
Cheers
Huckleberry Swedes
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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Hello World
Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Writing and Poetry
Hello World,
Huckleberry Swedes calling
More Soon
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