PRE-ORDER PRIZES

We’re offering a number of prizes for anyone who orders the new album ‘Where Did You Come From?’ on either CD or LP before the release date on Friday March 6th, to be drawn a few days before hand. This includes international buyers as well. Details as follows:

AUSTRALIAN PRE-ORDERS

FIRST PRIZE – LIVE CONCERT ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA
One winner will be drawn out to receive a free solo show IN YOUR OWN HOME for you and your family and friends (hopefully not just you, that would be creepy), to be arranged sometime in 2015. Hopefully we could tie it in to the March/April tour? If you live in Tennant Creek or somewhere like that it might be tricky, but then it’s more of an adventure for me! You might have to pick me up from the bus station.

Details of the actual performance can be ironed out between myself and the winner when the time comes.

SECOND PRIZE – SIGNED AND PERSONALIZED TEST PRESSING
One winner will receive the double-LP test pressing with my signature, and whatever message or picture you want scrawled across it. Maybe you want it dedicated to a friend or loved one? There are only two of these in existence.

OTHER PRIZES – SIGNED PHOTO PRINTS
I took many photos on my trusty OM01 Olympus during my travels through the US for the making of this album. Many of them will be reprinted in the booklet which comes with it. We’ll draw 20 people out of the hat to receive an 8 x 10 print of your choice from the collection. Signed also.

 

INTERNATIONAL PRE-ORDERS

FIRST PRIZE – SKYPE CONCERT
Obviously lamer than getting a proper concert in your home, this is the next best alternative. Skype is awkward at the best of times. Of course if the winner lives somewhere in the world I think I’ll be going this year I’d much rather come and do this live. But obviously if you live in Greenland (and yes, we’ve had orders from there before) it would be hard to get there… but AMAZING!

SIGNED AND PERSONALIZED TEST PRESSING
Same as above. You’ll be mailed the second test pressing, signed etc.

OTHER PRIZES – SIGNED PHOTO PRINTS
We’ll draw 10 people out of the hat to receive an 8 x 10 print of your choice from the album booklet collection to be sent straight to you.

 

 

NEW ALBUM INFO

The brand new LP Where Did You Come From? will be released physically in Australia and USA (through Yep Roc Records) on Friday the 6th March this year, and on iTunes worldwide.

This is the first time an album of mine has been released on vinyl. Not only that, but it wouldn’t all fit on a single LP so we had to make it a double. Both the CD and the LP will come with a 36-page booklet filled with all the lyrics plus photos I took throughout the journey on my battered old camera, and each of these will also both be available as a Special Edition version which will come with a live CD of a show I played supporting Billy Bragg, way back when I began in 2000.

The CD special edition will be a very limited run, and the LP will be also hand numbered to 300. You can pre-order the album through my label Flippin Yeah to ensure you get your copy delivered to your door around a week before the official release date.

Details HERE.

ALBUM COVER

Track Listing:

1. Salvation Army
2. When You Go
3. Trust Your Feelings (When You Wake)
4. There’s Nothing on my Mind
5. Letter From an Australian Mining Town
6. Fear of the Civil War
7. My Love is an Ocean Away
8. Manhole Cover Tap
9. The Chattanooga Shoot Shoot
10. The Will of the River
11. Awkward Dancer
12. Halley’s Comet, 1986
13. Shine A Light

MELBOURNE FOLK CLUB SHOW

Darren Hanlon + Laura Jean St Stephens a

On the 28th January I’m sharing the stage with my good friend Laura Jean for an intimate solo show at the renowned Melbourne Folk Club. Single Twin playing also.

Tickets available HERE.

MELBOURNE XMAS THURSDAY MAYHEM

With one sold out Northcote Social Club show (19th dec), and the Church Hall show the day before close behind, we’ve decided to add another NSC show on that same night. I’ll run from one stage to the other!

Here’s the info:

THURSDAY 18th Dec
MELBOURNE, VIC
Northcote Uniting Church Hall
(251 High St)
ALL AGES!
6.30pm (early show!)
$26 presale – $30 on the door if available
Limited to 200 tickets
with Grand Salvo
TICKETS

Paddy Mann 7.00-7.30
Darren 8.00- 9.10

 

EXTRA SHOW!
THURSDAY 18th Dec
MELBOURNE, VIC
Northcote Social Club
8.30pm$26 presale – $30 on the door if available
TICKETS

NEW CLIP FOR ‘WHEN YOU GO’

Filmed amid the old-world charm of the Sou’wester Lodge on location in Seaview, Washington State, I present to you the new clip for When You Go.

I’ve spent lots of time at the Sou’wester these past years, holed up in a van, or a stately room in the lodge. In fact I was their first artist in residence, which was so dreamy…piles of books delivered to me for inspiration, sounds of the ocean. The staff would bring surprise bowls of blueberries in the morning and warm sake at night.

The coastline just down the road is wild and dramatic and marks the spot where Lewis and Clark completed their trans-continental ramble of America.  Apparently they encountered fierce storms, rolling waters and high winds that held them at bay for 3 weeks. “The most disagreeable time I have experienced,” wrote Clark on his Blog. I can see where he’s coming from, and have braved the icy waves only once as a dare, but that kinda of dramatic weather is nice when you’ve got a warm van to bunker down in.

A short bike-ride further north lays the tourist town of Longbeach.  It’s everything you’d expect of a faded, sandblasted resort town: seasonal video game arcades, crumbling old carousels and bumper-cars, a meth-head Go-Cart Track that would make any public liability assessment officer salivate onto his clipboard.  It’s also home of Marsh’s Free Museum which houses, in a glass case, the mummified remains of Jake, half man/half alligator, found in a swamp somewhere in Florida in the early 90s. A newspaper clipping says a woman traveled there recently with a priest and married him (Jake, not the priest).

So, the clip. Believe it or not there was no script! We just arrived for a weekend with a camera and a few friends and made it up as we went along.  Lots of special people feature: Shelley Short as the fickle love interest, her Dad Joe as the fish monger, Eric Isaacson as himself (head honcho of Mississippi Records in Portland), plus the two wonderful ladies who own and run the Sou’wester, Thandi (who plays my disgruntled boss) and Cathy (‘Thrifty’ vintage clothes seller).

It was directed by local filmmaker Jeff Rowles, who was happy to go along with the looseness of it all.

So if any of you find yourself in the Pacific North West, drop in and stay for a while at the Sou’wester. If you’re an artist or writer call ahead to see if there’s space for a residency and stay for a whole week! Tell them I sent you and you might get a good rate, or at least some free blueberries.

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