Launch

Well what can I say??

We have sweated and we have been through thick and thin, it has taken time, sometimes feeling like we were stuck in the mud and sometimes feeling like we were flying along at a million miles per hour… But we have now completed an album that reflects these early years of Blackchords as honestly as we could. And on Friday night we were able to celebrate this album this final step we had to take to move on for the next stage of Blackchords’ life.
It was awesome… To walk on stage at the beautiful Gershwin room at the espy and to see all your happy faces beaming back at us immediately struck me and the boys with this electric energy. At times I found myself with an uncontrollable grin plastered across my face, and thinking this is exactly what I hoped for, I was immersed in the music and well and truly in the moment! It goes without saying that without all of you that helped pack out the Gershwin room, it would not have been the same night!
I can’t wait for the next one!!

Stay tuned as there is much much more to come from Blackchords, Including photos from the Gershwin room and our brand new film for "At Worlds End"!


X N.J.M

Finally we have made it. Blackchords have reached the stores!

Yesterday was International Record Store Day and so it was an even greater day to release our very first album.
Thanks to everybody who came and celebrated this mile stone with us at Pure Pop Records, we had an ace day never thought that an in store gig could be as good as it was!
We want to let you know that for a short period of time you can listen to the entire blackchords album at www.blackchords.com
Also if you are in Melbourne tune into triple R 102.7fm this Wednesday at 5:30pm to listen to a live interview with us.
So thank you again for all your support and hope that we see you down at the Gershwin Room at the Espy in St Kilda on April 24 for the Big Launch Party!

Take care
Blackchords

Check out the store locator at Stomp to find out where you can get your hands on the Album.

 

Getting closer

Hey all its not long now till our Album is finally out in stores and we are out celebrating at the Esplanade in Melbourne. We can’t wait as you can imagine.
We have just put online our brand new Blackchords Shop so go check it out here.
You can pre-order a copy of “Blackchords” album or get your hands on our Tee’s.
Also we are adding new tracks to myspace during this lead up to the release, so you can have a listen to more songs from the album.

XX N.

We are ready to go! Blackchords Release Announced.

After how many years and how many incarnations of Blackchords?
We’ve lost count. But we have finally arrived at the point where the group becomes a band… It’s been an amazing journey to get to this point (releasing our debut album) but we made it. It has not been quick, it has not been easy, but we have finally got an album for the world to hear. We hope that you like it!

Throughout the life of Blackchords there have been a few musicians who, without their help Blackchords would not be here today so… To Peter James Spark, Tim Downey, Bindi Lobley, Scrappy Scrappy, Guy Kable, Ben Smith, Nick Lovell, Nick Batterham, Jimi Maroudis, and Turner and Hooch! Much love and many thanks to you all!

The official release date for “Blackchords” is April 18. We will be playing a special in store gig at Pure Pop records, St Kilda.
You will be able to buy the album in all good music stores throughout Australia and it will be available to order on blackchords.com and downloadable at itunes.com.
Triple R presents our official launch party at the Gershwin room, Esplanade hotel, St Kilda on Friday april 24. Doors open 8pm.
Very special guests Wellyn and The Holy Sea will also be playing at our launch.

We’ll keep you informed with more Blackchords over the coming days/weeks. So keep tuned!

XX

Blackchords

2300km's, old people fighting and the famous Jack Thompson bbq sauce?

We have arrived back in Melbourne after our little trip up to Sydney to play with the Church and we survived.
We started off in Geelong for an interview and an acoustic performance of our single “At Worlds End” at K-Rock radio and then a gig at The Nash. We pumped out a high-energy, rock heavy gig and I don’t think we have ever sweated so much. It was a great little crowd and a hot little stage (A nice start to our tour). After the gig there was no time to lose so we crammed all our gear and ourselves, miraculously into the Tarago and at 1am set off on our death defying friendship testing 13hr drive to the Blue Mountains in NSW. We arrived somewhere after 2pm exhausted and delirious unable string together 2 sentences and stinking of the sweat from the gig of the night before. As we were unpacking the van in our delirious states’ over the road a tourist bus pulled up and fists started swinging! It started off as a simple miss understanding as to where you could get the best local post cards and ended up with an all in brawl between the fat conductor and the elderly Brazilian tourists armed with soup strainer moustaches and hand bags. They were out of breath pretty quickly which was lucky and the fat conductor was able to scramble into the van and lock himself in along with the remaining tourists and their camera phones… It was time for sleep!
Friday nights gig was quite a contrast from the night before a chilled down tempo show to let us savour with a few glasses of Jack Thompsons’ very own branded wine and a nice bowl of chips covered in Jack Thompsons’ famous bbq sauce and after the show we grabbed a refreshing Jack Thompson ale and wandered around the bar to have a look at the photos of Jack in all his glory on the sets of his many different films?.. Nothing like a bit of self-promotion I say!
From Geelong to Kings cross… The next day we hit the road again detouring for the awe inspiring Blue Mountains outlook to cleanse the soul and then headed for Sydney. We arrived in Sydney with only 2 things on the to do list! Bondi beach, and to see what Paul Kelly was talking about, down at Kings Cross. Unfortunately tho it seemed that the US Navy had docked in Sydney Harbour and they had been given some R&R so Kings Cross was over run by sailors and we weren’t going to get anywhere near it!
Sunday night came and we were ready to play with a great Australian band that we had all grown up listening to. The Church. A fantastic show and fantastic welcome to Sydney. The Boys from the Church were great bunch and looked after us well and the crowd was as warm as we had been hoping for! The Church showed us that even when you are fully-grown up it is possible to still play rock’n’roll and do it with grace!!
To be continued…….

                

                   

                 

 
              
               

See more photos here

International Songwriting Competition

Blackchords makes the finals of The International Songwriting Competition.
Yesterday I was informed that our song Broken Bones was nominated twice as a finalist for best rock and best film clip in the International Songwriting Competition. There have been 15,500 entrants from all across the world so we are pretty excited to have been chosen as one of the finalists!
We now need your help in getting the peoples choice award which is drawn at the start of April. All ya need to do is click on the link below and go and cast your vote for Broken Bones. You can vote once a day too. So from now until March 31st you can vote… Lots!

Click here to vote.

N.

Blackchords

And then it began

Last night was our first gig back for 2009 and the start of our tour.
It is great to be back and to shake out some of the cobwebs.
This has been the first time Blackchords has played as a full band at the retreat hotel and I must say it was a really nice vibe.
Here are a couple of photos from the gig.
Also if you haven’t already checked out the dates that we are playing please do. There are more gigs coming up in Melbourne too and it looks like we’ll be heading down down under to Tassie, which is going to be awesome! Unfortunately tho for the moment we wont be making it to Queensland and WA. Hopefully it will happen later in 2009.
We DO now have a release date for our album and a date for the launch but that will be under raps for a little bit longer.
Will let you know soon.

Take Care

N.
Blackchords

Photography by Sasufi