Cake show in August
Andrew Penney
New Melbourne show announced // Saturday 6 August // Caravan Music Club // Oakleigh, Victoria
My Friend the Chocolate Cake will be doing one show in August at the premiere venue south of the river, The Caravan Music Club. After finishing an extensive Australian tour to promote their seventh album, Fiasco, the band has taken a short break but will be taking the stage again on Sat August 6. The successful tour was received with rave reviews around the country, as My Friend The Chocolate Cake forge ahead with their musically outstanding blend of pop noir, winning new Facebook fans by the thousands.
Fiasco has been well received by public and reviewers alike with the album now well into it's second pressing. Of course that is nothing compared to the sales of My Friend the Chocolate Cake Tea Towels at the gigs with the dishrags now in their fourth pressing.
This will be the last Melbourne show for several months before the Cake gang have a little break before more gigs later in the year.
It does not mean everyone is just lounging around with their feet up and a nice drop in their hand, (although that does sound nice). Helen Mountfort will be launching a new album Bel Air with her ‘other’ group Cosmo Cosmolino, check the tour dates at http://www.facebook.com/cosmocosmolino.
David Bridie has headed north out of the winter to sunny Bowen where he will be working on a live project for the Queensland Music Festival.
Saturday 6 August // Caravan Music Club
Doors from 8pm
Info and tickets from: www.caravanmusic.com.au
Address: Oakleight RSL, 95-97 Drummond Street, Oakleigh, VIC
Prices: $30 General admission standing, $35 Reserved with seating, $33 at door if available
Video
Richard McGrath has
made a fantastic film clip to Request and you can watch it
here
He has also done an
amazing atmospheric photo montage clip for Slow for Alice that is
available to view here
Live
reviews
"Abounds with
beauty and life... exquisite, serene instrumentals from cellist Helen
Mountfort."
(Sunday Herald
Sun)
“They proved you
can play together for two decades and not only like each other (I've rarely seen
a band so consistently engage with such obvious fondness) but keep relationships
and the music fresh, as two sets dominated by their most recent album showed.
They proved you can play pop music with lead guitar replaced by cello and
violin: Helen Mountfort and Hope Csutoros provided pathos in the typically
elegant ballad The Centre Cannot Hold, scene setting in Sister Berenice and
humour and zest in Vandorlo. They proved you can be affectionate, pointed or
downright funny about suburban Australian living, thwarted dreams and religion
without succumbing to mockery: Home Improvements still nips at your dancing
heels; new song Everything We Need catches you unawares; Pentecostal Girl still
makes you laugh; and the prettiest pop song, A Midlife's Tale, has never lost
its ability to seduce you into feeling while you're thinking. They proved there
is an audience for erudition and compassion - whether it's for the blunt force
of Foreigner or the devastating, but understated, The Gossip - who can still
have their faces creased into smiling whenever My Friend the Chocolate Cake
kicks up metaphorical dust. I think they made their point.”
(Live review,
Sydney Morning Herald, 5th June 2011)
“Beautiful,
creative, sorrowful, masterful music by a bunch of lovely people...... Front man
David Bridie cut a wry and sardonic figure, slagging off Kerri-Anne Kennerley,
quoting Barry Humphries.....................it’s a well-known fact that those
who truly know excellent Australian music when they see it all support the Cake.
The band certainly justified their cult following with this excellent
performance - right from opening number ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’ from their most
recent album, MFTCC commanded a rapt and reverent hush from the heaving Basement
crowd. You could have heard a pin drop throughout the whole
song.”
(Live review,
Live Guide, 6th June 2011)
Read recent media coverage
*Click here to read Darren Levin’s review for FIASCO in the The Age EG.
*Click here to read Iain Shedden’s article on My Friend The Chocolate Cake for The Australian.
*Click here to read Bernard Zuel’s review for FIASCO in the Sydney Morning Herald.
*Click here to read Tom Hoare’s review for MFTCC Sydney album launch for Liveguide online.
*Click here to read Bernard Zuel’s review for MFTCC Sydney album launch in the Sydney Morning Herald.
*Click here to read feature article in the Courier Mail
*Click here to read feature article in Junior Online
*Click here to read 5 star album review in Mercury
*Click here to read an interview with the band in Beat
*Click here to read 4 star album review in Rave Magazine
*Click here to read live review in Rave Magazine
Links
The album is now up
on Soundcloud at:
http://soundcloud.com/mftcc/sets/mftcc-fiasco#.
CONTACT
Penney & Logan PR
Carolyn Logan / caroly...@bigpond.com / 0400 441 025
Tilly Morris / enqu...@tillymorris.com.au / 0418 582 812
Photo Credits (Top):
Live shots from My Friend The Chocolate Cake show at Fly By Night Musician’s Club, Fremantle, WA – taken by Jodie Grieve.