Autumn serenades…

Well it has certainly been a while… I’m rubbing my eyes a little… where am I again?

Oh that’s right. Planet Earth.

Greetings! I’ve been under a giant rock called Carrigmore since October. Took a month off and never came back! It’s been a long journey. Amazing how far you can travel whilst you’re sitting still. There’s been gigs here and there (Boogie Festival, Brunswick Festival, NYE at the Union), and a few adventures (Sydney with Handsome Young Strangers, Adelaide Fringe fest work, carting hay and roustabouting in shearing sheds thru rural vic), but mostly operating under the radar and taking it easy!

And now, with summer gone and the first homefires of winter being lit, life is slowly cranking up again… there’s plans to head to USA again in August, the 9th annual “Wash Winters Willies Away With Whiskey” festival looms in July and possibly a new bulk soup recipe or two, Apollo Bay Festival with the Miserable Bastards is upon us at the end of April, and a long-promised new solo record is in the works featuring a host of songs written and recorded at home and abroad over the past few years.

Stay tuned for “It’s A Wonderful Life!”, out later in the year.

Sing in Spring…

I’ve been on the run since January… Adelaide Festival and the Garden of Unearthly Delights, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Apollo Bay Music Festival, Boogie Festival, my annual pilgrimage to the USA and back again, the eight annual “Wash Winter’s Willies Away With Whiskey” Festival, and now I find myself in Darwin working on Darwin Festival.

But I’m going home again… for Spring. A busy month looms in Melbourne. Saturday arvo’s at the Pinnacle Hotel in the beer garden, and Monday nights at the Post Office Hotel, amongst a bunch of other shows.

Stay tuned.

Anyway in NYC again…

So anyway, I’m in the USA again til 19 July. The Russians have welcomed me back into their stern drunken large loving bosom for another two months of Tuesday nights at their crazy little bar The Anyway Cafe. A few other little gigs are popping up. I’ll be in Nashville probably late June, maybe going to New Orleans with my main man over here Matt Menold and his band Clear Plastic Masks who’re about to release an amazing record. https://www.facebook.com/Clearplasticmasks for more about them. The 8th annual “Wash Winter’s Willies Away With Whiskey” festival is on at the Tote back in Oz on Sunday 29th July. That’s about all for now – head down, buns up, don’t let nobody kick you in the buns… xoxo Jimmy

Sat 12 May – PARTY!!!

w a s t e   m a n a g e m e n t   p r e s e n t s . . . 

THE TOTALLY WASTED MANAGEMENT PARTY!!!

Saturday 12th May 2012
at the John Curtin Hotel

29 Lygon St Carlton – across from Trades Hall
Ph 03 9663 6350  www.johncurtinhotel.com

Doors at 7pm, entertainment all night until 3am, $10 entry

Upstairs in the band room from 8:30pm…
- Clinkerfield - The Miserable Little Bastards - While The Mountian Waits - The Steins - GALAX

Free in the front bar from 7pm…
- Warwick Mark Dunn – Danny Walsh – Pete Ewing – Jimmy Stewart – Dave Evans

Plus DJ Emma Peel (PBS FM) hostessing the decks all night and after the bands.

Waste Management presents the “Totally Wasted Management” party at the John Curtin Hotel on Saturday 12 May, celebrating the musical mayhem of all those affiliated one way or another with this fine local label, home to such Melbourne bands as Clinkerfield and The Miserable Little Bastards.

The “Totally Wasted Management” party, pulled together by local mo Jimmy Stewart and his funny little “music/human waste agency” on the eve of his departure to the USA for two months, will celebrate this talented group of people who together hold all the ingredients necessary to cook up a most satisfying evening of entertainment.

For 10 bucks see almost 10 acts perform across the whole pub with early jams in the front bar, crossing over into late shows in the upstairs bandroom until well past the midnight hour. See Clinkerfield, who’ve been confusing the congretations since 2002 with their drunken pirate convict rockenroll spazmotron antics. See The Miserable Little Bastards fresh from their highlight festival performances at Port Fairy & Apollo Bay. See “While The Mountain Waits”, the theatre show by Josh Cameron, Pete Ewing & Ed Service, with collaborations from The MLB’s, reprising their November 2011 residency project at the Toff In Town. See The Steins, the best and baddest bunch of 19 year old psychedelic rockers from the bush fresh from slaying them at Boogie Festival. See GALAX, the solo electronic/acoustic project by Clinkerfield’s drummer Dr. Boogs. See the Girl Bomb Emma Peel, DJ gal about town bringing the sounds of her PBS FM show “Switched On” to the decks. See Jimmy Stewart, running around here and there and everywhere like a crazy superstupidman all night. And as if that wasn’t enough for you, there’s plenty more for us…

This is the last chance to catch all these folks together until late July, after Jimmy returns from NYC to host the 8th annual “Wash Winter’s Willies Away With Whiskey” festival at the Tote, slotted for Sunday 29th July.

Get down to the Curtin Hotel, across from Trades Hall on Lygon St, on Saturday 12 May for the “Totally Wasted Management” party. Doors $10 at 7pm, free entry to the front bar.

See…
www.themiserablelittlebastards.com
www.clinkerfield.com
www.jimmystewartswonderfullife.wordpress.com
www.washwinterswilliesawaywithwhiskey.com
…for more unformation.

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April Melbourne, May New York

Look out New York City. Superstupidman is heading your way. This snapshot is of The Steins putting in an amazing set at Boogie Festival over the Easter Weekend. I stormed the stage. Yes, I’m up to my usual tricks after some hiatus. Check out CARBIE WARBIE’s photos for more gorgeous visual moments from this great festival.

So I’m back in Melbourne for a little while. Adelaide/Fringe Festival/Garden of Unearthly Delights = BOOM TICK WOOSH DONE. Check out this:

 

It’s a 3 part video of one of my arvo shows in the Garden.

Check the [A]LIVE APPEARANCES page. There’s a whole bunch of shows going on in Melbourne at the moment. Then it’s straight to NYC for 2 months of Tuesday nights at the Anyway Cafe again, only the best little Russian Vodka bar in North America. Stay tuned for further developments of last years Catskills international collaboration writing/recording project with Matt Menold, Jack Dawson, and Eddie DuQuesne. Deep breaths, everyone.

The Garden of Unearthly Delights

See http://gardenofunearthlydelights.com.au/ for more info.

This is my home at the moment, the crazy magical carnival garden in Adelaide that’s set up for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. It’s the 10th year of the Garden, and it’s everything it’s title suggests and more!

I helped with the build of the Garden (40-60 crew working all day every day for 2-3 weeks to set the whole thing up in Rundle Park on the NE corner of Adelaide city), and then I become part of the Front Of House team, standing on the front gate dressed up like a pirate carnie with a megaphone shouting down Adelaide and greeting the million or so revellers they expect to walk through the gates between 16 February and 18 March.

I’ll be doin a couple of solo shows on the outdoor Bandstand stage on Sun 19 Feb and Sat 17 March.

Back in Melbourne late March, few shows here and there, then back to New York City to set up at the Anyway Cafe every Tuesday night for two months from May to July!!!

Look out for The Miserable Little Bastards at Port Fairy Folk Festival and Apollo Bay Music Festival in March and April.

The Miserable Little Bastards album out November 2011

The Miserable Little Bastards (Clinkerfield’s now out-of-control side-project – see “ALL ABOUT THE BANDS” for more unfo) have been working on a debut record now since April 2010 (when it was recorded at Fitzroy’s Adelphia Studios). And finally – it’s ready!

And look out! You can see The MLB’s at the Toff In Town every Tuesday in November (except the 1st and 15th Nov). Read on…

DEPRESSED RELEASE!

The Miserable Little Bastards are an old-school throwback for the modern day fallout, performing depression-era show-tunes for the new global recession, and their debut album “Misery Loves Company” will be released locally through Waste Management over Summer 2011/12.

Conceived in 2008 as a side project for drunken-pirate-convict-rock maniacs Clinkerfield, The Miserable Little Bastards have evolved into a mystery bag of some of Melbourne’s finest musicians, featuring banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass and acoustic guitar, squeezebox, and a chorus of men singing along to the rambunctious rambling of ringleader Jimmy Stewart.

The fun begins over THREE Tuesday evening shows at Melbourne’s Toff In Town for November (Except 1st Nov and 15th Nov), where they will join forces each week with “While The Mountain Waits“, a theatrical monologue-based performance by Josh Cameron with live musical accompaniment by Pete Ewing and Ed Service. It delivers the “lost world of a country-come-city bloke dreaming of a return”, and it is via this essential kinship that The MLB’s and “While The Mountain Waits” will weave together their stories, developing the collaboration over the course of the month. Opening acts each week will host members of the MLB’s presenting their own material featuring: Danny Walsh Banned; Jason Bunn’s String Quartet; Warwick Dunn’s Debut; and Andrew Alves GALAX project – a very talented bunch of bastards!

It’s an in-house circus of delights! Tuesdays at the Toff In Town for November will be Melbourne’s only midweek entertainment destination, with a full program of musical dramatics from 8pm til late each week, followed by DJ’s til it’s time to go up or throw home.

Advance copies of the “Misery Loves Company” album will be available on these nights and at select record stores on 12” vinyl and CD, and it will make you very happy indeed…!

Doors 8pm, $10 entry.