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New: Lurch & Chief - Keep It Together + Tour
With a shadowy single out, Lurch & Chief have announced a tour and it's the perfect time to see their best work yet.. For every single that Lurch & Chief have released over the past year, they've had an accompanying tour and with the announcement of their latest effort, Keep It Together there's another tour to boot. The tour will see them traipsing around the East coast of Australia, celebrating a single that perhaps their most promising work to date. Initially the track meanders a little, but as the Foals-esque vocals of Hayden Somerville flow aggressively into the all-powerful bassline at the halfway mark the track really makes it mark. And this is when the vocal interplay of Lilibeth Hall's voice shines through. It's new sonic territory for Lurch & Chief and we're excited.  KEEEP IT TOGETHER TOUR DATES  FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER - Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane 18+ SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER - Goodgod Small Club, Sydney 18+ SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne 18+ Follow Lur
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Video: Nicholas Allbrook - Did I Just Arrive Here..?
Nicholas Allbrook brings you the oddest thing you'll see all day.. In the words of Nicholas Allbrook himself, "James Spinks made a video for me. I love it so much I want to shit in my hat and go to the courts and officially change my name to Doctor Shit-Hat. It is the visual equivalent of everything I try to do with musicband." For those who don't quite vibe with what Allbrook is trying to say it's basically a race between a Dog, a Peacock and a Giraffe who are all on hover boards. And they're all covered in fluorescent paint of all varying colours. For a nice touch, all the buildings share the same colours as the racing animals. As time goes on the Dog suddenly gains a pair of psychedelic styled speed dealer shades. Said Dog then hits a huge ramp, does a backflip, loses his fresh shades, goes past a spaceship, the moon and then realises, 'Oh shit. I'm falling.' How this links with being in a band is beyond us but as a cut of psych-jam with some out of this world vocals anything is pos