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MUSIC, VARIOUS ARTISTS & LAUGHING OUTLAW PRESENTS
PONY
UP/THE DEVOTED FEW - AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2009
Hold
on to your hats, it's just a matter of weeks before Montreal-based Pony Up and
Sydney's The Devoted Few team up for a run of East Coast dates. Both bands will
be performing material from their new albums as well as songs from previous albums
that are well entrenched in the psyche's of any fan of smart, passionate and invigorating
indie pop.
Montreal-based Pony Up! formed on New Year's Eve
2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee, released their debut,
self-titled EP, 'Pony Up!' in 2005 on his buddy Steve Aoki's label, Dim Mak.
April
2006 'Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes' was the first full-length from Pony
Up. To promote their debut, the band toured Australia extensively in the summer
of 2006, where their single 'The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die)'
would later be voted #47 on Triple J's Hottest 100.
In September
2008, Pony Up supported The Mountain Goats on tour as well as touring the U.K.
and Europe for the first time. Later that year Lisa Smith and Laura Wills joined
the touring lineup of The Dears.
Pony Up return to Australia
in June to promote their new album, 'Stay Gold' which was recorded in Montreal
with producer Murray Lightburn (singer/song-writer/producer of the Dears. Joining
Pony Up on tour are Laughing Outlaw Records label mates The Devoted Few whose
album 'Baby, You're A Vampire' has been widely acclaimed by magazine and newspaper
reviewers, as well as receiving heavy radio play on JJJ and major community stations.
In
the current issue of Music Australia Guide, reviewer Jeff Jenkins commented in
his 4/5 star review that 'Baby, You're A Vampire' is "one of 2009's great
rock records." The Sydney Morning Herald's critic Bernard Zuel also gave
the album 4/5 stars and said it was "stuffed with impassioned grabs for your
heart with classic build-and-swell arrangements, vocals that feel wrenched by
Ben Fletcher's guts and the kind of hearty tunes that lodge with you . . . when
you make music that sounds like it matters deeply to you, the rest of us will
come along."
The Devoted Few recently completed an extensive
run of dates to launch their new album. A review in FasterLouder observed: "There's
only a small number of bands in this country who play every show like they're
playing at AAMI stadium, and it's those bands I'll see any day of the week. Ben
Fletcher is one of Australia's most charismatic frontmen, and the band he has
assembled just get better every time we see them."
SAT
13 JUNE - CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE
SUN 14 JUNE - KAROVA LOUNGE, BALLARAT
WED
17 JUNE - ANU BAR, CANBERRA
THUR 18 JUNE - OXFORD ART FACTORY, SYDNEY
FRI
19 JUNE - THE ZOO, BRISBANE
