http://www.dappledblog.com The web log of one Dappled Cities... Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:45:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dappled cities needs your help. We've all broken our hands and none of us can eat or go to the toilet. If you can spare a few hours this weekend, it would be greatly appreciated. Services required are: 1) food 2) cleaning 3) painting 4) henna application (face and body) Also, please vote for our ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=396 Dappled decided to hit Europe. And we did. Here's a newspaper article from the Belgium times. "Dappled cities is the art rock from Sydney, Brisbane. Much like other great Australian bands Crowded House and Russell Crowe, they are much popular. All members is famous. Singer Ned Cooke surfed professional in 1988 and ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=371 London is a wonderful city. Full of fantastic museums, Italians, pubs, clubs, Spaniards, parks, old buildings, a palace, old women who hit your foot with a stick to make you get out of the way even though they have a bit 9 foot of space and you are standing next ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=369 Yep. That's us. Pro-fess-ion-al. The day had everything. Kids laughing at us. Men falling by the wayside. Goals. Celebrations. A geranium we nicknamed "The Pope". A new group of kids arriving and then laughing at us. A woman laughing at us. But most importantly, a shitload of fun.... Practice went pretty ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=355 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 ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=348 Well, New York has really turned on the fine weather for us. A beautiful run of 8 degree days culminating in a balmy 10 degree day today. Sure, it's pissing down rain, but that 2 degrees of extra temperature is all that matters. At the end of the day, at ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=337 Hello, A good friend of mine, U2's Bono, sat down with me under a bridge in downtown Austin. We were "roughing" it with four homeless people that only had eight teeth between them (and one of them had five). My other friend, Metallica's Jason Newstead, was nice enough to transcribe the ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=324 Well, we just had our worst day ever. 1. There was an earthquake at 4am. 2. We had to get a plane at 8am. American domestic air carriers always forget to tell you to leave 2 HOURS to get through the process of ticketing, sercurity and walking to the terminal. That said, ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=322 I'm going to a write a blog from every place we go to. Not just because I have a loaded gun to my head and my family are being held in a crack den and being threatened with death, but because I want to. We just had an unbelievably successful demo ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=312 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 ... http://www.dappledblog.com/?p=309