That's using your melon

An important missive from Prince Melon Records:

The 4th volume in the limited edition Ed Kuepper live series will be available soon. Recorded live to a capacity crowd at the Forum in Melbourne early 2008 on the Don't Look Back 'Honey Steel's Gold ' tour. It features all the hits and some rarely performed tracks such as 'King of vice' Friday's blue cheer/libertines of oxley' and 'summerfield', as well as the non lp encore of 'Electrical storm'

The Don't Look Back shows were one of the biggest highlights of 2008 for mine with the pairing of Ed and Co with Died Pretty fairly inspired. More info on this one at Prince Melon's myspace.

Mr Wegener goes to Blogtown

Consummate drummer and an articulate correspondent, Jeffrey Wegener (pictured, right, with Ed Kuepper) is blogging on the legacy of the Laughing Clowns on the band's myspace. He writes:

"So there you go groovers - the Laughing Clowns are not at this point in time going to be put to bed. I can't forget about the band even if I wanted to. Too many people remind me. The spirits are still there - beautiful and funny, sad but often glorious.

"So from time to time I am going to write some stuff here, and I would love some feedback - whether on the Clowns or other related threads - e.g. the live music scene, the role of indie music, the global place of Australian music, etc. Could be about what just a good bloke I am. Or whether the comb-over really is to become the ultimate retro-nouveau tour de force fashion statement based on quantitative science, or did those Bad Seeds guys just set me up? And do you like my new jacaranda coloured suit?"

Sounds like something to follow. There's an earlier Ed interview by Chris Hollow (of Melbourne band The Sand Pebbles) there too. Read it here.

Psst...free Ed Kuepper b**tleg

Courtesy of Prince Melon Records and hot on the heels of the spiffing "Ed Kuepper Live" CD selling at his Australian shows, here's a 2007 show for you to grab.

The lowdown from the Prince Melon Records myspace:

Well, in between the lavish cocaine parties with wild women in his jaucuzi, typical of the major label excesses we office juniors envy and aspire to [ luckily all of which are fully recoupable against artist royalties], Sir Alfonso [Prince Melon Records Head of In House Production] finally got around to applying his patented 'Hands Off Mastering Technique' to this live bootleg of Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective. Recorded at the Judith wright Centre for the Arts, in November 2007 at the Brisbane launch of Ed's last studio album 'Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog' . The show started with a specially commisioned short film about Jean Lee done by Judi Dransfield Kuepper and Louise Bennet, which was followed by two sets of Ed and the Kowalski's doing the entire 'Jean Lee..' album as well as a number of older songs .