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Whoa whoa whoa whaaattt a weekend! We had a total BLAST playing @australianmusicweek in Cronulla. Met two Aussie legends (@paulkellyofficial and @nathan_cavaleri), saw some absolutely awesome bands, heckled our man @thedocrocktor during his panel talk, swam, ate and drank, and had the time of our lives. 

Massive shout out to Ron and his crew at @studios301 who let us shake out the pre-show jitters. Phew! Thanks for having us @australianmusicweek !!

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Seems a tad ironic that we’d release a new single called ‘Keep it Warm’ on the day of the Global Climate Strike… 🤨...but Keep it Warm is about keeping the fire in your belly burning bright 🔥 Not letting the system get you down 👊. We hit the Melbourne Global Climate Strike march yesterday  and already feel our fires burning stronger. Until the next march, sit back and enjoy this new tune of ours which is a “rollicking folk-punk number that starts off as a meandering alt. country-rock ballad before it crescendos into a blazin', head-banging, psych-groove monster.” – Scenestr. Give it a spin on Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, Youtube, Google Play, and everywhere else good music is found. We hope you love it! Yowzer! We're playing Bowlopalooza on October 12 at the Thornbury Bowls Club (Melbourne for you non-Melburnians) if you feel like a boogie. Can't make it? No worries - sit back and enjoy one of our BBJ sessions. Big hugs!

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Heeeyyy yeeaaah, it's a little way-off but we are going to be playing the @rinkydinkau Bowlopalooza at @thornburybowls On Oct 12. You KNOW this will be a good time!! Tickets on the door or via the Miles FB page, 10 bucks. Food, drinks, bowling and music - what more could you need??

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So it's election time in Australia and we thought we'd write a cheeky little toe-tapping country song about politics 🤠 nothing but 3 chords and the truth in this knee slapping number! You can stream, buy and listen to this knee-slapper on iTunes and Spotify, as well as BandCamp...yeehhhaaaa!!!

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Our new song You're Never Alone is out today. Now. RIGHT NOW! Give it a spin on Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, Youtube, Google Play, Soundcloud and everywhere else good music is found.

What's it all about you ask? Well... “The world is a crazy place at the moment and it’s hard not to feel disheartened and anxious about what’s happening. Climate change, the growing global disparity between the rich and poor, the weakening of democratic institutions, mass pollution – it’s overwhelming. You’re Never Alone Is that voice that says ‘I’m overwhelmed too, and though I can’t make it better for you, I am here with you’” - Lou

We hope you love it! 

Big hugs,

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After some cracking gigs at Last Chance Rock and Roll Bar and Moonee Valley Festival we are ready to release our latest single in a few days...stay tuned!

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Stoked to be playing Nightjar Festival again next year, only this time in Torquay! Can’t wait to sing it and shake it on January 17 and kick-start 2019 with a bang!!

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Coming soon...a triple-treat-mini-Melbourne-tour! We’ve been knuckling down recording and writing, but how could we say no to playing in these sick line-ups:

19 Jul 2018 - Rockstar Bar, Frankston, Melbourne (supporting Atlas and the Attic)

20 Jul 2018 - Retreat Hotel, Brunswick, Melbourne (supporting Exquisitor)

21 Jul 2018 - Central Club Hotel, Richmond, Melbourne (supporting Mufaro)

Come have a dance and contemplate this crazy thing we call life with us...xo

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Oh yeah - it’s on this Friday!!! After playing an epic show with our pals City at Midnight in Geelong last week the fun continues at Whole Lotta Love Bar in Brunswick. We will be slaying the stage straight after our bestie Jimmy Maddon at 10pm, in support of Riff Raiders. Don’t be the fool who misses this one...

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It’s all happening...recording that is! We’ve already had one session laying down the drums and bass (as you can see in the photos above) and the rest are on their way. It’s been a fun-filled start to the year with Nightjar and then Moonee Valley, Feast on Frankston and Basin Music Festival, and in between some epic tempo sessions getting ready for the new tunes we got coming your way. Yeah that’s right - NEW TUNES!!! Stay tuned...

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A few scenes from Nightjar Festival in Geelong - what a gig, we all had such a BLAST! Thanks to all those watching and dancing (and singing too). Also thanks to the Nightjar team for having us and for Patrick Callow for his EPIC photos. What a time!

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Heeeyyy Heeeeyyy, it’s 2018!

2017 was pretty awesome for us - released our debut EP Extended Play, smashed some awesome shows and did a mini regional tour, won the Oxfam Gig-makers Award and generally had a blast singing and playing - but 2018 has officially begun with a bang!

There we were, chilling up in far north Queensland listening to the 4zzz Hot 100 for 2017 count down on New Years Day, having a beer and a laugh, when all of a sudden we heard a familiar piano riff...it was our song Crazy House at number 19!!! Holy Sh%$!!!

We can’t thank everyone who voted enough, or 4zzz fm radio for their excellent work supporting Aussie bands like us. We are so stoked and are still jumping around.

Next up we’ll be playing opening night at Nightjar Festival in Geelong on Feb 2 and then Moonee Valley Festival on Feb 25, so come down for a dance if you’re in the hood. And after that, we’ll be hitting the studio to record some new tunes...2018 is guna be awesome, we can feel it in our waters!

Cheers to you all! xo

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SUNDAY THE 12TH OF NOVEMBER - We’re doing the final leg of the regional tour for our debut EP – Extended Play (yeah, the same EP that was an Indie Rock Cafe’s (USA) Top 10 release for 2017 and as heard on Triple M, Triple R, PBS and Double J radio)! Prepare yourself for a vibrant and moving musical odyssey as we smash The Workers Club in Fitzroy Melbourne....WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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Big Sound 2017 Wrap-Up

As winners of the 2017 Oxjam Gig Makers Award we got flown up to our home town of Brisbane for Big Sound 2017. The following is the wrap-up article we wrote for Oxjam. It was an epic week and though we had a total blast running around, listening to fresh live music and meeting some great people, we also learned a lot about the Australian music industry that has left us with more questions than answers...

Rolling across the Story Bridge under the picture-book skies of Brisbane we were both thinking the same thing - “How lucky are we??” No way would we have ever thought that putting on an OXJAM gig this year would have resulted in us getting the chance to attend BIGSOUND 2017! And attend we did, living and breathing BIGSOUND for four whole days -  darting between industry talks, networking events and masterclasses by day and rocking it at any number of live music venues by night!

We took our fill of industry workshops ranging across topics such as digital media trends and gender and diversity in music, to masterclasses on band finances and music synchronisation. There were also key note addresses and conversations with incredibly high-profile industry names such as Tina Arena, Archie Roach, Mary Ramos (Quentin Tarantino’s Music Supervisor), Alison Wenham (CEO of the Worldwide Independent Network) and rock legend Simon Napier-Bell (music manager, author and journalist). If that wasn’t enough we continued on into the evenings, flitting from party to party and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bernard Fanning whilst trying to fill our ears with as much live music as possible!

But it wasn’t all sunshine and great tunes. Many events and discussions were unable to escape the clouds lingering above the sustainability of many avenues of the music industry. Talks regularly fretted over an ever-changing landscape in which many aspiring artists are required to accept the pittance which tax-dodging multinational digital content providers pay, and then have to fight to maintain relevance with an increasingly apathetic audience that can be quite happy to shell out 10 bucks for a smoothie but then baulk at paying small change for the blood sweat and tears that creates music.

Particularly sobering was the keynote address from Australian music great Tina Arena who called out commercial radio stations for not supporting Australian music enough. We learnt of the overwhelming levels of non-compliance by Australian commercial radio stations failing to meet the 25% local content requirements of their broadcasting licences (with many playing as little as 8%!) and that the slim chance that already existed for local artists to get traction is therefore even slimmer and will continue to be so as long as it is tolerated by the general public that powerful media interests can manipulate the rules of the game in their favour.

These issues form part of the broader fabric of injustice and corruption in our world for which there will remain an ongoing need for like-minded individuals to rally behind social causes, like those Oxfam work on. It is for reasons such as these that we were more than happy to donate our time and efforts to jam for Oxfam Australia and raise funds to fight poverty and inequality.

So, despite all the big names, the big parties, the big talks, and the big opportunities to network with music bigwigs, the best part by far of BIGSOUND for us was the opportunity to broaden our own music community by meeting like-minded singers and songwriters, crazy guitarists and wild drummers, kooky visual artists, music nerds and passionate volunteers. In these circles, you can still discover people just looking to create and connect with each other and we will be forever grateful for being given the opportunity to do just that. Thanks for the trip of a lifetime to Oxfam Australia, let’s keep making those gigs for good!

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It’s happening - the Kick on @ Kubu Festival is happening!!! If you’re in the Geelong area after the AFL Grand Final come get your fix of fresh music. It promises to be an AWESOME night!

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Not only did we raise $533 buck-aroos for Oxfam from our Oxjam gig last week at The Brunswick Hotel, we had a total blast! Thanks to everyone that came, your generosity and good vibes made the evening!

And did we mention we won the Oxjam Gig-Makers Contest? Des and I will be heading up to our hometown of Brisvegas for BigSound in September...wooo hooo! Thanks Oxfam, we can’t wait!!!

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Yep, we’re playing The Loft in Warrnambool this Friday...it’s guna be awesome!!!