Hi everyone

This is just a quick blog with a  list of our upcoming London shows. Come one come all. We are going to make a packet of it and hopefully by the time we leave London at the end of May we will be firmly planted in everyone’s hearts, making it hard for everyone to breathe and eventually suffocating the flow of blood to the vital organs. Your last words will be “achgh kreik!”

Copied and pasted from our myspace cause I’m laxy. Lazy.

More gigs to follow so stay online and follow us while you check on the progress of that Hey Dad themed mug and spoon set you finally realised it was time to put on Ebay.

Alex will fill you in on the details of our first couple of weeks. To part with here is a picture of us arriving in London.  We chose the option of camply appearing out of a phone booth rather than arriving in the usual “drunk and smelling on an Atlantic flight” option

And it’s been off from there, as you can imagine!

Peace out

p.s. did you know Deep Sea Arcade were once going to be called Plankton, which is kind of like Krill … then they could have come to London and been the London Krill. Or not.

x

Patch Adams.

I know. It’s been a while. I could make excuses:  Problems at home with Samson. Surprise trip to Versailles for emergency Armistace Day reenactment club meeting. Children at Dappled clothing company revolting - had to suppress.

But in all truth, we’ve just been heck busy.

Firstly: Laneways and New Years festivities:

We played some incredible festivals over the summer, from Pete’s Ridge to Falls festival, from Southbound to Sunset Sounds  and finally the Laneways national run. We saw the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs stadium dance show from out front (awesome), The Art vs Science juggernaut from side of stage (scary), Moby next to us at catering (quiet and hungry) and Hilltop Hoods from above (hover platforms are rad).

We played in unattractive short and sneaker combos and tested our bodies by wearing skin tight gold lycra sex suits at every laneway, even when going out in the heat was the safety equivalent of sticking your finger in a tiger’s butt.  You find the photos. You see the action.

Thanks for the ever amazing Sarah Blasko for singing Vision Bell with us.  Maybe you’ll hear a proper version of that one someday.

Secondly:

We’ve been working on some rad new material. We will play it for you soon. It is ultra good. Think the entire history of western music mixed with really delicious pancake and lobster platter.

Thirdly:

I’m leaving you, you cow!

Or, Here we come USA and UK and Europe and Japan and Hong Kong and wherever the hell we may roam.  Follow us.

We’re taking Zounds out of Australia and Dappled are relocating away for a while. We’re going to play shows. We’re going to get inspired for the best fourth album ever made. We’re going to legally recognise Alex and Ned’s puppy’s marriage in countries that allow that sort of thing.

Don’t worry Oz, we’ll be back for national tour in June or something like that.

But if you live in some place that isn’t within Australia, keep a look out for us. We’re the guys in the red cap. But not the dangerous guy that wants Julia Roberts dead. That guy SUCKED!

adiaŭo kaj varmega seksumo al vi

Hey all

We are nominated for a couple of Smacs and it would be awesome if you voted for us here: http://smacawards.com/

We are in the categories of record of the year (for Zoundssssss), best Sydney song (the Price), neatest foot imprint at a local sydney beach (Ned at Bronte 21/10/09) and biggest wheel.

Danke.

If life in Dappled were to be represented right now it would surely look like this: All five of us, standing aboard the good ship Dappled, jetting streams of coloured success onto the river of life. Despite the Sydney music scene looking as healthy as the back end of the bain-marie at Eddies’ 24hr convenience, life is pretty good.

Next on the list of good things after ARIA nominations (and other award noms that I’m not sure if I’m allowed to mention yet (Emmy???)) is Laneways. Looks like we’re doing it. SICK! It’s probably the best line up I’ve ever seen for a Laneways and so come and along and cry.

In other news, check out Tired Hands. Beautiful singing and songs. http://www.myspace.com/24zzz

And I think we might change our name to Alfresco for the next album. We’ll hold a public poll closer to the time and see what you all think.

Kynd Ragards

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OMG! It seems incredible but it’s true:

We are the feature albums on Triple J AND FBi all this week. It means you can hear all sorts of treats from our upcoming album all week. Getting this is so great!!! It’s like buying a caravan and discovering a man inside who cooks food from the middle ages in perfect imitation.

medieval man

And in celebration of this fact and our upcoming tour, we have put a  selection of songs on our myspace from our exceptional new album “Ziggurat le party pyramid” (or Zounds as you may know it)

Wowzers!  The internet certainly does stuff.  JB Hi-Fi have set up a little pre-ordering mechanism on their web site, so you can buy Zounds, our new album, 12 songs of dap dap, right now, if you live in Australia (sorry everyone else), even though it’s still two weeks away from hitting stores.

This link will take you to such a place.

Allegedly we will be signing every copy that sells in this fashion, but I think that could result in total ouchies.

Also Spinner.com has announced The Price to America. Here.

Feel free to listen to it on US soil. Even leave a comment like this:

“Dear Dappled Cities. On my recent migration north to procreate in warm shallows I chanced upon your song. It is truly excellent and good for getting the juices flowing in certain situations. Kind regards, Robert. “

Hey hey hey hey.

We recorded a lovely version of The Price and also a cover of Animal Collective’s “My Girls” for triple J’s Like a Version. But then we forgot to tell you that it was on air. Woops.

Either way you can listen in retrospect here, on triple J’s website.

It’s madshit.

It seems that all we ever do of late is ask young people to do something - youth arts, youth dance and now a youth workshop. But what can you do - they are our future!

On the 22nd of July indent is holding a workshop (part of a regional series) which will teach young people about many aspects of the music industry. It’s probably mostly about how to hold excellent gatherings, giving sound advice on frisbies and teaching them to respect old people on public transport.

But for my part, I’m gonna be showing the youth how to write a song - or at least how to do it my way (which you will find out is quite extaordinary by many standards, including some international ones). So check out the flyer below and if you are young or can pass under a height measurement device that I am currently constructing, then please feel free to attend said workshop. Check out indent.net.au for more info.

Aren’t bassoons just such a lovely instrument! Just absolutely a delight to listen to.

save the scene poster

Hey there “people”

You wouldn’t believe it but Dappled Cities are curating an art show. Kind of. It’s pretty secret so we can’t say much.

But here is a flyer and some info. Get involved.

Zounds ART Flyer