<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163</id><updated>2009-11-05T15:01:41.759+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon London Newsletter</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/index.htm'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/atom.xml'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-5451192165825003656</id><published>2008-11-20T23:10:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T23:10:36.167+09:00</updated><title type='text'>quick correction</title><content type='html'>hey folks,&lt;p&gt;just to clear up any confusion created by the misprint in a previous &lt;br&gt;email, this week&amp;#39;s shows are:&lt;p&gt;Sat 22nd @ Colonial Brewery Margaret River from 2-5pm&lt;br&gt;-Simon London + Tammy Smith, Joel Barker&lt;p&gt;Sat 22nd @ Cape Wine Bar Dunsborough from 9-12pm&lt;br&gt;-Simon London + Tammy Smith, Joel Barker&lt;p&gt;Sun 23rd @ Railway Hotel Fremantle (8 acts)&lt;br&gt;-Simon London + Tammy Smith duo show @ 6pm sharp&lt;p&gt;Thurs 27th @ Little Creatures Loft Fremantle (free entry)&lt;br&gt;-Joel Barker (8:30), Simon London (9:30), Matt Irvin (10:30)&lt;p&gt;more shows have been added in December. will update you al in a &lt;br&gt;few weeks.&lt;p&gt;cheers,&lt;br&gt;Simon et al.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-5451192165825003656?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/5451192165825003656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=5451192165825003656' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/5451192165825003656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/5451192165825003656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/11/quick-correction.html' title='quick correction'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-1847646780236196151</id><published>2008-11-06T10:44:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T10:44:31.979+09:00</updated><title type='text'>debut tonight.... and then some</title><content type='html'>Greetings folks,&lt;p&gt;*** debut duo show: Simon London + Tammy Smith ***&lt;br&gt;TONIGHT Thurs 6th @ Tanglehead Brewery, Albany&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s a bit of news to share this time.&lt;p&gt;DUO SHOW -&lt;br&gt;Tammy and I have been working on a set of songs that we&amp;#39;re about &lt;br&gt;to start doing in duo format. It&amp;#39;s a blend of country, gospel, old-&lt;br&gt;style R&amp;amp;B stuff. If you&amp;#39;ve never heard Tammy sing you&amp;#39;re in for a &lt;br&gt;treat- something special seems to happen when we sing together &lt;br&gt;and we&amp;#39;ve chosen and written these songs to build upon that &lt;br&gt;sound. There&amp;#39;s a bunch of shows we&amp;#39;ll be doing before we leave...&lt;p&gt;OFF TO SWEDEN FOR 2009- &lt;br&gt;....which is some of the other news. In January I&amp;#39;m heading off to &lt;br&gt;live in Sweden for all of 2009. Tammy is doing some study over &lt;br&gt;there so we&amp;#39;ll be based in Uppsala and work on playing our way &lt;br&gt;around Europe and generally just having a blast. So, here&amp;#39;s a list of &lt;br&gt;shows for you that will be your last chance to see me, the Spirits &lt;br&gt;or the duo show until 2010...&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thurs 6th Nov - Tanglehead Albany WA - from 10pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON&lt;p&gt;Sun 16th Nov - Caves House Yallingup WA - 6-9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON&lt;p&gt;Sat 22nd Nov - Colonial Brewery Margs WA - 2-5pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON + JOEL BARKER&lt;p&gt;Sat 22nd Nov - Cape Wine Bar Dunsborough - 8:30pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON + JOEL BARKER&lt;p&gt;Sat 23rd Nov - Railway Hotel Freo WA - doors from 4, 6pm&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON&lt;p&gt;Sat 27th Nov - Little Creatures Loft Freo - 8-11pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON LONDON + JOEL BARKER + MATT IRVIN&lt;p&gt;Fri 5th Dec - Prince Of Wales Bunbury WA, from 9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON LONDON + THE SPIRITS&lt;p&gt;Sat 6th Dec - Quindanning Tavern WA, from 9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON LONDON + THE SPIRITS&lt;p&gt;Sun 7th Dec - Caves House Yallingup WA - 6-9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON LONDON + THE SPIRITS&lt;p&gt;Sat 20th Dec - Tanglehead Brewery Albany WA - 9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON LONDON + THE SPIRITS&lt;p&gt;Sat 27th Dec - Colonial Brewery Margs. WA - 2-5pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON&lt;p&gt;Sun 28th Dec - Caves House Yallingup WA - 6-9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;TAMMY SMITH + SIMON LONDON&lt;p&gt;Sat 10th Jan - Settlers Tavern Margs WA - 9pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON LONDON + THE SPIRITS&lt;p&gt;Sun 11th Jan - West Cape Howe Winery - 3-6pm - free entry&lt;br&gt;SIMON + TAMMY LONDON&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that last entry reads correctly. Cause we&amp;#39;ll be happily &lt;br&gt;married by then!!&lt;p&gt;See you out there somewhere...&lt;p&gt;Simon et al.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-1847646780236196151?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/1847646780236196151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=1847646780236196151' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/1847646780236196151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/1847646780236196151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/11/debut-tonight-and-then-some.html' title='debut tonight.... and then some'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-5685294723871287647</id><published>2008-09-27T20:15:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T20:15:14.626+08:00</updated><title type='text'>WAMI Song Of The Year nominations... and some shows</title><content type='html'>hey folks,&lt;p&gt;TWO WAMI NOMINATIONS&lt;br&gt;a quick missive to say that I&amp;#39;ve had TWO songs nominated in the &lt;br&gt;upcoming WAMI Song Of The Year competition - both from the &lt;br&gt;new album Now That The Horses Have Bolted. &lt;p&gt;band song &amp;#39;The Father&amp;#39; has been nominated in the rock category &lt;br&gt;and the solo acoustic tune &amp;#39;Iron Horse&amp;#39; has been nominated for the &lt;br&gt;blues&amp;#39;n&amp;#39;roots category. the awards are announced Oct 9th.&lt;p&gt;there&amp;#39;s a site where you can here and vote for the most popular &lt;br&gt;WAMI-nominated song at &lt;a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au"&gt;http://www.perthnow.com.au&lt;/a&gt; if you want &lt;br&gt;to have a say yourself about what you like etc.&lt;p&gt;SHOWS STARTING UP AGAIN&lt;br&gt;after a little break over September, I&amp;#39;m getting back in the saddle &lt;br&gt;again this weekend to kick off our summer shows. as I&amp;#39;ll be &lt;br&gt;spending most of 2009 in europe, we&amp;#39;re lining up some shows &lt;br&gt;through the summer before I disappear... they start with:&lt;p&gt;Sat 4th Oct (day) - BOOTLEG BREWERY - Simon London solo&lt;p&gt;Sat 4th Oct (night) - CAPE WINE BAR - Simon London solo&lt;p&gt;Sat 11th Oct - TANGLEHEAD BREWERY - Simon London + the &lt;br&gt;Spirits&lt;p&gt;NOW THAT THE HORSES HAVE BOLTED - NOW IN STORES&lt;br&gt;those of you who didn&amp;#39;t want to wait have already ordered their &lt;br&gt;copy of the new double cd via the website. if you&amp;#39;re a bricks and &lt;br&gt;mortar shopper, the new album is available through your favourite &lt;br&gt;record store now... out through MGM. enjoy!&lt;p&gt;thanks,&lt;p&gt;Simon et al..&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-5685294723871287647?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/5685294723871287647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=5685294723871287647' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/5685294723871287647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/5685294723871287647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/09/wami-song-of-year-nominations-and-some.html' title='WAMI Song Of The Year nominations... and some shows'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-491213895759860344</id><published>2008-08-13T19:30:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T19:30:54.430+08:00</updated><title type='text'>new cd now available to mailing list... &amp; albany show</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/uploaded_images/cd-cover-754432-754513.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/uploaded_images/cd-cover-754432-754492.jpg"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;hey folks,&lt;p&gt;if you&amp;#39;re a bit out of touch with the world of Simon London + the &lt;br&gt;Spirits, you may not know that we&amp;#39;re about to release our new &lt;br&gt;double cd - Now That The Horses Have Bolted - due to hit the &lt;br&gt;stores in a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;Now That The Horses Have Bolted has both a rocking band cd and &lt;br&gt;an acoustic solo cd contained within its svelte and fancy artwork. &lt;br&gt;and those folks who&amp;#39;ve already lent us their ears are saying it&amp;#39;s the &lt;br&gt;best collection of tunes we&amp;#39;ve offered up so far. which is obviously &lt;br&gt;good.&lt;p&gt;but...&lt;br&gt;before the new release makes it to the stores, we wanted to give all &lt;br&gt;you loyal folks on this mailing list the advance word on how you &lt;br&gt;can get a copy now...&lt;p&gt;by... &lt;br&gt;coming to the gig at Tanglehead Saturday 16th August (Albany &lt;br&gt;WA)... and the lads will sort you out with a signed copy if you think &lt;br&gt;that&amp;#39;s a good idea. it&amp;#39;s free entry all night. show starts 9pm.&lt;p&gt;or... &lt;br&gt;if you live elsewhere you can go to this link - &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com/2/releases/index.php"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com/2/releases/index.php&lt;/a&gt; where you can &lt;br&gt;purchase a cd anytime from now on and we&amp;#39;ll get it to you asap.&lt;p&gt;if you&amp;#39;re interested, there&amp;#39;s some info about both cds and how and &lt;br&gt;where they were recorded at: &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com/2/news/details.php?news_id=29"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com/2/news/details.php?news_id=29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#39;s it from us for now. hope all is well at your end.&lt;p&gt;thanks,&lt;br&gt;AAM&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-491213895759860344?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/491213895759860344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=491213895759860344' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/491213895759860344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/491213895759860344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/08/new-cd-now-available-to-mailing-list.html' title='new cd now available to mailing list... &amp; albany show'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-343722727214354247</id><published>2008-06-30T23:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-30T23:08:02.530+08:00</updated><title type='text'>the Iron Horse tour rides on to VIC, TAS....</title><content type='html'>Hey there folks,&lt;p&gt;a quick missive to remind you that the current IRON HORSE tour &lt;br&gt;rolls eastwards tomorrow... I&amp;#39;ve got shows this week and next in &lt;br&gt;VIC and then on to the debut TAS tour.&lt;p&gt;VIC shows are:&lt;br&gt;Thurs 3rd - ELWOOD LOUNGE in Elwood &lt;br&gt;Sun 6th - THE BAY HOTEL in Mordialloc&lt;br&gt;Tues 8th - THE ESPY in St Kilda&lt;br&gt;Wed 9th - THE RAINBOW in Fitzroy&lt;br&gt;Sun 13th - YOUNG &amp;amp; JACKSONS in the city.. w- Nick Barker!&lt;p&gt;ALL SHOWS ARE FREE ENTRY and the details for playing times &lt;br&gt;are on the Live Shows section of the &lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;website...or you can just email for more details.&lt;p&gt;TAS shows are:&lt;br&gt;Thurs 17th - LARK DISTILLERY in Hobart&lt;br&gt;Fri 18th - THE LOFT in Hobart&lt;br&gt;Sat 19th - THE HUB in Launceston&lt;br&gt;Sun 20th - ALLEY CAT BAR in Hobart.&lt;p&gt;be great to see you out at these venues. come say hi.&lt;p&gt;the new album NOW THAT THE HORSES HAVE BOLTED is &lt;br&gt;being manufactured as you read this and we&amp;#39;re proud to say it&amp;#39;ll be &lt;br&gt;being brought to you in stores all around Aus by the good folks at &lt;br&gt;MGM by the end of this month (JULY)... sweet indeed.&lt;p&gt;thanks folks,&lt;br&gt;Simon et al.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-343722727214354247?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/343722727214354247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=343722727214354247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/343722727214354247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/343722727214354247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/06/iron-horse-tour-rides-on-to-vic-tas.html' title='the Iron Horse tour rides on to VIC, TAS....'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-138648829130061302</id><published>2008-05-26T09:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T09:57:22.510+08:00</updated><title type='text'>iron horse tour</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/uploaded_images/SimonIronHorseTourFlyer-742513-742802.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/uploaded_images/SimonIronHorseTourFlyer-742513-742570.jpg"  border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;hey folks,&lt;p&gt;hope this finds you all well.&lt;p&gt;after a busy month since my trip to Melbourne in April, I&amp;#39;m heading &lt;br&gt;out the door again, this time for the big IRON HORSE tour through &lt;br&gt;June/July.&lt;p&gt;the tour takes its Iron Horse name from the lead track from the &lt;br&gt;forthcoming album - a double disc release with both a band and &lt;br&gt;solo cd. the band cd is all finished, the solo one is being mixed &lt;br&gt;and mastered in two weeks! finally.&lt;p&gt;so I&amp;#39;ve got dates in WA, VIC and TAS (first time to the apple isle) &lt;br&gt;so please come down and see me when I&amp;#39;m in your town. &lt;p&gt;if you&amp;#39;re in Perth there&amp;#39;s a swag of gigs coming up but my favourite &lt;br&gt;pick is the Clancy&amp;#39;s show I&amp;#39;m doing with great Aus songwriter Neil &lt;br&gt;Murray (Good Light In Broome, My Island Home etc), which will be &lt;br&gt;a personal highlight. The Young &amp;amp; Jacksons gig in downtown &lt;br&gt;Melbourne should be good too, where I&amp;#39;m playing with Nick Barker.&lt;p&gt;so, I&amp;#39;ll let you know when the new album lands, and in the &lt;br&gt;meantime, hope to see you at a show sometime soon.&lt;p&gt;a list of gigs is attached...&lt;p&gt;thanks,&lt;br&gt;Simon London&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-138648829130061302?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/138648829130061302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=138648829130061302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/138648829130061302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/138648829130061302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/05/iron-horse-tour.html' title='iron horse tour'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-782391235870864219</id><published>2008-04-07T21:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-07T22:55:36.066+08:00</updated><title type='text'>victoria, victoria</title><content type='html'>Hey folks,&lt;p&gt;a quick missive to our Victorian compadres to say there&amp;#39;s a little &lt;br&gt;bundle of shows coming up this week in your garden state:&lt;p&gt;Sat 12th April - Moby Cafe, Torquay (free entry, 8pm onw)&lt;br&gt;Sun 13th April - Empress Hotel, Fitzroy (Josh 4-5pm, me 5-6pm)&lt;br&gt;Sat 19th April - Moby Cafe, Torquay (free entry, 8pm onw)&lt;p&gt; -  - all shows with Melbourne lad Josh Backwell - -&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m also doing a short live set on SynFM (90.7FM) this Friday 11th &lt;br&gt;a bit after 7pm if you want to tune in..&lt;p&gt;On this tour I&amp;#39;ll be road-testing some of the new tracks I&amp;#39;ve been &lt;br&gt;recording for the acoustic part of my next release. You can read &lt;br&gt;more about what it&amp;#39;s all about here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com/2/press/details.php?press_id=27"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com/2/press/details.php?press_id=27&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look forward to crossing paths... WA shows resume in May.&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;br&gt;Simon&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-782391235870864219?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/782391235870864219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=782391235870864219' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/782391235870864219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/782391235870864219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/04/victoria-victoria.html' title='victoria, victoria'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-653486180147167710</id><published>2008-03-21T18:58:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T18:58:29.344+09:00</updated><title type='text'>march onwards.....</title><content type='html'>Happy Easter folks.&lt;p&gt;A quick update - &lt;p&gt;GIGS:&lt;br&gt;Sat 22 March - COLONIAL BREWERY - Marg. River - 130pm onw&lt;br&gt;Sat 22 March - CAPE WINE BAR - Dunsborough - 830pm onw&lt;br&gt;Thurs 27 March - MOONDYNE JOES - Beaconsfield - 830pm onw&lt;br&gt;Sat 29 March - TANGLEHEAD BREWERY - Albany - 900pm onw&lt;p&gt;TOURS:&lt;br&gt;Heading to Melbourne in April - check the website soon - a couple &lt;br&gt;of gigs at the Empress (city) and Moby (down the coast) etc.&lt;p&gt;NEW STUFF:&lt;br&gt;Mixes of the Spirits new release are back from the east coast and &lt;br&gt;are sounding pretty damn hot. Looking to release the cd mid-year.&lt;p&gt;OTHER ARTS STUFF:&lt;br&gt;Tim Keady&amp;#39;s sister - Katie Keady is an award winning actress from &lt;br&gt;WA who is doing a solo play called &amp;#39;Kids&amp;#39; Stuff&amp;#39; and it&amp;#39;s bloody &lt;br&gt;good. We went along and were blown away - funny, gripping and &lt;br&gt;powerful. Season closes on the 29th, tix through BOCS for those of &lt;br&gt;you in WA - 9226 6300 - we recommend it.&lt;p&gt;Have a safe and happy Easter break one and all.&lt;p&gt;Simon et al&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-653486180147167710?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/653486180147167710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=653486180147167710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/653486180147167710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/653486180147167710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/03/march-onwards.html' title='march onwards.....'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-2081163842556361924</id><published>2008-02-08T16:31:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T16:31:29.739+09:00</updated><title type='text'>back in the saddle....</title><content type='html'>Hey folks,&lt;p&gt;it&amp;#39;s been a while since being in the saddle but there are some solo &lt;br&gt;shows coming up this month in WA, both metro and country...&lt;br&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;TUES 19th - HYDE PARK HOTEL - North Perth&lt;br&gt;as part of the ongoing &amp;#39;Hahn Solo&amp;#39; series of tuesday night shows. &lt;br&gt;other acts include &amp;#39;Star&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;Lexi Keller&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;Seve&amp;#39;. I play last (10:15?) &lt;br&gt;but will be there from around 8pm so come join me for a drink.&lt;p&gt;SAT 23rd - CAPE WINE BAR - Dunsborough&lt;br&gt;the best venue in dunsborough, an acoustic, free entry show that &lt;br&gt;starts before 9pm...&lt;p&gt;SUN 24th - OCCY&amp;#39;S BREWERY - Busselton&lt;br&gt;and then a sunday afternoon wind-down show at one of the newer &lt;br&gt;south-west breweries. again, acoustic and free entry from around &lt;br&gt;2pm&lt;p&gt;THURS 6th - LITTLE CREATURES LOFT - Fremantle&lt;br&gt;joining with melbourne&amp;#39;s own rosie burgess as she tours in WA. &lt;br&gt;had the pleasure of playing with her in 2007 and she&amp;#39;s well worthy &lt;br&gt;of you choosing to start your weekend early by coming down and &lt;br&gt;checking her out.&lt;br&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;p&gt;OTHER BITS &amp;amp; PIECES - original Spirits&amp;#39; drummer Matt Morcombe &lt;br&gt;graced the stage with us in Albany last weekend in a way that &lt;br&gt;made going back in time a refreshing thing to do. was thoroughly &lt;br&gt;enjoyable. we&amp;#39;ve still got a reams of recorded stuff we have to finish &lt;br&gt;off - I&amp;#39;m working on having a few releases out this year both band &lt;br&gt;and solo so we&amp;#39;ll keep you posted. at least two east coast tours &lt;br&gt;are on the cards for 2008 - april and october - and a european tour &lt;br&gt;for june/july could happily coincide with the tour de france but we&amp;#39;ll &lt;br&gt;have to see about that. see you at the bar perhaps.. all the best,&lt;br&gt;Simon et al.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-2081163842556361924?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/2081163842556361924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=2081163842556361924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/2081163842556361924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/2081163842556361924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2008/02/back-in-saddle.html' title='back in the saddle....'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-1479653388875456116</id><published>2007-10-11T16:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T15:12:43.818+08:00</updated><title type='text'>notes from the road....</title><content type='html'>hello to all you good folks.&lt;p&gt;I thought I&amp;#39;d take a moment to regail you with a few updates from &lt;br&gt;my north american travels. I&amp;#39;m still in Canada now as I write with &lt;br&gt;one show left to play. knowing me this will probably be a lengthy &lt;br&gt;monologue. beware. if you&amp;#39;re one of the more productive of the &lt;br&gt;species you better go do something else with the next ten minutes &lt;br&gt;of your life.&lt;p&gt;it&amp;#39;s been an interesting couple of weeks.&lt;p&gt;I left Australia at the end of September to head to Canada to play &lt;br&gt;some shows over here with my buddy and Aussie expat Matt Irvin. &lt;br&gt;he&amp;#39;s been based in New York and Winnipeg for the last eight &lt;br&gt;months and he was up for putting a small tour together. &lt;p&gt;leaving Australia wasn&amp;#39;t without incident - the night before I was due &lt;br&gt;to fly I played Mojos in Fremantle but my car broke down (fuel &lt;br&gt;pump) and I spent the whole night waiting for mechanics and tow &lt;br&gt;truck drivers. anyways, a day later I was en route to Singapore. a &lt;br&gt;tardy booking had meant I needed to fly to Singapore, Los &lt;br&gt;Angeles, Toronto and then on to Winnipeg for the first show. don&amp;#39;t &lt;br&gt;bother with getting out your atlas or google earth - suffice to say it &lt;br&gt;was a stupidly long way to get there. &lt;p&gt;half way there and the Aussie Rules Grand Final was due to start &lt;br&gt;while I was waiting in the LAX departure lounge. the sports bars &lt;br&gt;were full of tvs showing baseball so I dropped ten bucks on an &lt;br&gt;instant wireless connection to watch the first quarter on my laptop. &lt;br&gt;but nothing would stream so it was a play-by-play notation on the &lt;br&gt;AFL website of Geelong dominating the Kangas that sustained me. &lt;br&gt;after the boarding call, some faithful die-hards at home kept the &lt;br&gt;sms updates coming in while sitting in the plane delayed on the &lt;br&gt;runway. by the time I had to turn my phone off the score was &lt;br&gt;looking like a sure thing for Geelong. this would be a good omen for &lt;br&gt;the tour.&lt;p&gt;Matt met me as a weary and dehydrated specimen in Winnipeg &lt;br&gt;some 40 hours of flying later, but in good spirits.&lt;p&gt;after retrieving guitars unharmed, we tooled around town, saw the &lt;br&gt;sights and then headed out to watch a CFC football game - my first &lt;br&gt;- as the hometown Bombers dispensed with Hamilton in a close &lt;br&gt;game. american football takes some getting used to as the stop-&lt;br&gt;start plays mean your passion is by necessity a very measured &lt;br&gt;business but Matt&amp;#39;s cousin Chuck had me oriented to the &lt;br&gt;strategies. after that finished I headed home and crashed out. it&amp;#39;d &lt;br&gt;been almost sixty hours without any real sleep and I was done.&lt;p&gt;we played Winnipeg on the Monday. the place was an &amp;#39;Aussie&amp;#39; &lt;br&gt;style pub called the Billabong which was packed full of Matt&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;relatives and I guy who was the spitting image of Kav Temperley &lt;br&gt;from Eskimo Joe. complete with the scarf. the gig went really well, &lt;br&gt;Matt delivered a killer &amp;#39;home-town&amp;#39; set and the Winnipegians &lt;br&gt;seemed to like my tunes on the whole.&lt;p&gt;Tuesday we headed out of Winnipeg across the prairies in the &lt;br&gt;direction of Saskatoon. We got as far as Yorkton and then arose &lt;br&gt;the next morning and kept trucking. &lt;p&gt;the prairies are bloody incredible. the skies are vast, the land is &lt;br&gt;flat, the clouds are ever changing and there are colours that are too &lt;br&gt;vivid for words. I took about 300 photos in the first week and 250 of &lt;br&gt;them are of the changing skies. what&amp;#39;s more is that many of the &lt;br&gt;shots look like I&amp;#39;ve used editing software to make them so vivid. but &lt;br&gt;that&amp;#39;s just how it is out there. I chatted to locals about it and some &lt;br&gt;just shook my hand in a quiet knowing and the others probably &lt;br&gt;thought I was mad. but not everyone has the feeling that they&amp;#39;re &lt;br&gt;driving through a Turner painting.&lt;p&gt;Saskatoon is a pretty little place (locals boast that it&amp;#39;s the Paris of &lt;br&gt;the Prairies) with six large bridges running across a beautiful river. &lt;br&gt;the show went ok but it probably wasn&amp;#39;t the best venue for what we &lt;br&gt;were doing. the next morning we headed for a place called the &lt;br&gt;Wanuskewin Park run by First Nation people - Cree - that was a &lt;br&gt;very powerful place. an historic camping area on tributary rivers &lt;br&gt;there were a bunch of former buffalo (bison) jumps, ceremonial &lt;br&gt;grounds, installations etc but most of all the place had a resonant &lt;br&gt;peace to it. we left there for Regina feeling charged and restored.&lt;p&gt;pulling in to Regina felt like pulling in to what I imagine a part of &lt;br&gt;Detroit or Michigan might be like. brown, industrial, harsh and &lt;br&gt;noisy. we stayed at the iconic Plains Hotel that we learnt later on &lt;br&gt;was the heart of the less salubrious area of town. the tattooed biker &lt;br&gt;(replete with gang colours) that gave me directions to our venue &lt;br&gt;was very cordial though as were the patrons of the hard core blues &lt;br&gt;club below when we loaded back in at 2am. the show went well &lt;br&gt;and the turn out was pretty respectable. the next morning someone &lt;br&gt;we&amp;#39;d met showed us around town a little before we decided to head &lt;br&gt;south.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve always wanted to go to Montana. I can&amp;#39;t explain it. perhaps it&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;the romance of the open spaces or the horses or something but I&amp;#39;ve &lt;br&gt;always pledged I&amp;#39;d get there. now, with a few days hole in the &lt;br&gt;schedule it seemed like an ideal opportunity to duck below the &lt;br&gt;border and see it first hand. Matt, being the intrepid traveller that he &lt;br&gt;is, took little convincing and we headed towards the border.&lt;p&gt;beyond Moose Jaw we headed south and made it as far as &lt;br&gt;Assiniboia, a little farming town of hard drinkers, pick up trucks and &lt;br&gt;grain bins. we were warned earlier not to go there because it&amp;#39;d be &lt;br&gt;an &amp;#39;indian town&amp;#39;. the fattened grain-fed white farmers that we found &lt;br&gt;there would have long sinced pushed any &amp;#39;indians&amp;#39; out in to the &lt;br&gt;shadows beyond the wheat silos and the moon drenched paddocks &lt;br&gt;that ran for miles and miles and miles. and if they hadn&amp;#39;t, the &lt;br&gt;110dB hard rock cover band doing soundcheck in the bar we &lt;br&gt;landed in would have been a handy fall-back position with enough &lt;br&gt;Creed and long haired guitar solos to drive anyone out of town. we &lt;br&gt;holed up there for the night, drank the local beer, played the local &lt;br&gt;pool rules and smiled at the pretty local girls with their local &lt;br&gt;boyfriends. it was a friendly enough place but one where you &lt;br&gt;watched your words to ensure no-one felt put out enough to want to &lt;br&gt;put you out of sorts any more. trading caps at the end of the night &lt;br&gt;with one of the harder drinking locals seemed like acceptance by &lt;br&gt;the time we stumbled out of there, watching out for the town&amp;#39;s local &lt;br&gt;shiny blue sedan with the lights atop. we never saw it.&lt;p&gt;we spent most of the next day driving around the Badlands near &lt;br&gt;the border, watching the prairie plains take on a new undulation &lt;br&gt;with gulches and gullies and breakaways. we saw almost no-one &lt;br&gt;all day. a family of wolves ran in front of us and then up to the far &lt;br&gt;ridge as we looked on from the road&amp;#39;s edge. it was just them and &lt;br&gt;us and a few distant horses.&lt;p&gt;crossing the border in to the US and Montana was easier than &lt;br&gt;anyone could have imagined. I get nervous any time I have to deal &lt;br&gt;with US officials and their collective inability to think for themselves &lt;br&gt;but after dealing with a pair of friendly homeland security folks I &lt;br&gt;was almost surprised when they didn&amp;#39;t offer us a beer for the rest of &lt;br&gt;the trip. it was all very straightforward.&lt;p&gt;and then it was in to Montana. soft overcast skies and long and &lt;br&gt;gently rolling plains of unfenced wheatfield stubble that felt like &lt;br&gt;slow smooth breaths. we drove like this for hours. past the &lt;br&gt;abandoned St Marie, down towards Glasgow and on towards &lt;br&gt;Malta. after seeing wandering calves and grazing deer in the &lt;br&gt;peripheral throw of the headlights we got a cheap room in a &lt;br&gt;roadside motel from a very friendly middle aged lady. our first post-&lt;br&gt;border-crossing conversation with an American went something like &lt;br&gt;this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;so where are you guys from?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Australia. we&amp;#39;ve driven down from Canada today&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;oh really? I couldn&amp;#39;t tell with the accents. so you drove all that &lt;br&gt;way?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;what, you mean did we drive from Canada? yeah sure, we crossed &lt;br&gt;the border this afternoon&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;no, I meant did you drive all the way from Australia? It must be a &lt;br&gt;long way to drive from there to here.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;we flew in to Canada&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;oh that&amp;#39;s ok then. that&amp;#39;d be a long drive otherwise&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;she was a lovely lady and ran a nice hotel with the best shower of &lt;br&gt;the trip. across the railway line we found a great little bar and a &lt;br&gt;counter meal and $2.50 premium beers and Montana was getting &lt;br&gt;better by the minute. a country band was setting up. the stetsons &lt;br&gt;were out in full force and the super friendly country folks were &lt;br&gt;buying beers with us round for round.&lt;p&gt;line of the tour - delivered by a forty-something stetson-wearing &lt;br&gt;man with a wry grin:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I used to miss my ex.... but my aim&amp;#39;s just getting better all the &lt;br&gt;time&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;sand was thrown down on the floor for the dancers and the tightest &lt;br&gt;country band you might hear fired up. impressed by the telecaster-&lt;br&gt;weilding guitar gun in the corner I went over in their first break to &lt;br&gt;talk shop with him and chew the fat about guitars. a few bars in to &lt;br&gt;chatting he nodded, pulled out some chewing tobacco and said,&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;so, you&amp;#39;re the lead picker then are you?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;me not being the &amp;#39;lead picker&amp;#39; meant that we obviously had a lot &lt;br&gt;less to talk about than I&amp;#39;d imagined and my cue to return to the bar &lt;br&gt;gracefully followed quickly.&lt;p&gt;the rest of the night was a pretty colourful affair but Matt and I &lt;br&gt;agreed easily upon a retreat to the motel when all the country &lt;br&gt;songs were sounding the same. we left the town in the morning &lt;br&gt;and headed further south and west to our destination of Whitefish, &lt;br&gt;Montana.&lt;p&gt;now that we&amp;#39;re north of the border again, we&amp;#39;re heading for a gig in &lt;br&gt;Kelowna, British Columbia tomorrow after having spent all day &lt;br&gt;being amazed by the Rockies. absolutely incredible. like a different &lt;br&gt;planet.&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#39;s it from me for now. there&amp;#39;s a guy on the television that Matt&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;watching who is quoting from 2 Corinthians while a text prompt &lt;br&gt;says:&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Call Now for your FREE, LARGER, Miracle Spring Water&amp;quot;... &lt;p&gt;(capitalisation his). it doesn&amp;#39;t make a whole lot of sense to me &lt;br&gt;either but it sounds convincing. I got to go and get me some. he&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;promising &amp;quot;a personal financial explosion!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;peace to all.&lt;p&gt;Simon.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220 [new number]&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-1479653388875456116?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/1479653388875456116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=1479653388875456116' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/1479653388875456116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/1479653388875456116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/10/notes-from-road_11.html' title='notes from the road....'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-2687531201661290661</id><published>2007-10-11T16:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T15:09:44.663+08:00</updated><title type='text'>notes from the road....</title><content type='html'>hello to all you good folks.&lt;p&gt;I thought I&amp;#39;d take a moment to regail you with a few updates from &lt;br&gt;my north american travels. I&amp;#39;m still in Canada now as I write with &lt;br&gt;one show left to play. knowing me this will probably be a lengthy &lt;br&gt;monologue. beware. if you&amp;#39;re one of the more productive of the &lt;br&gt;species you better go do something else with the next ten minutes &lt;br&gt;of your life.&lt;p&gt;it&amp;#39;s been an interesting couple of weeks.&lt;p&gt;I left Australia at the end of September to head to Canada to play &lt;br&gt;some shows over here with my buddy and Aussie expat Matt Irvin. &lt;br&gt;he&amp;#39;s been based in New York and Winnipeg for the last eight &lt;br&gt;months and he was up for putting a small tour together. &lt;p&gt;leaving Australia wasn&amp;#39;t without incident - the night before I was due &lt;br&gt;to fly I played Mojos in Fremantle but my car broke down (fuel &lt;br&gt;pump) and I spent the whole night waiting for mechanics and tow &lt;br&gt;truck drivers. anyways, a day later I was en route to Singapore. a &lt;br&gt;tardy booking had meant I needed to fly to Singapore, Los &lt;br&gt;Angeles, Toronto and then on to Winnipeg for the first show. don&amp;#39;t &lt;br&gt;bother with getting out your atlas or google earth - suffice to say it &lt;br&gt;was a stupidly long way to get there. &lt;p&gt;half way there and the Aussie Rules Grand Final was due to start &lt;br&gt;while I was waiting in the LAX departure lounge. the sports bars &lt;br&gt;were full of tvs showing baseball so I dropped ten bucks on an &lt;br&gt;instant wireless connection to watch the first quarter on my laptop. &lt;br&gt;but nothing would stream so it was a play-by-play notation on the &lt;br&gt;AFL website of Geelong dominating the Kangas that sustained me. &lt;br&gt;after the boarding call, some faithful die-hards at home kept the &lt;br&gt;sms updates coming in while sitting in the plane delayed on the &lt;br&gt;runway. by the time I had to turn my phone off the score was &lt;br&gt;looking like a sure thing for Geelong. this would be a good omen for &lt;br&gt;the tour.&lt;p&gt;Matt met me as a weary and dehydrated specimen in Winnipeg &lt;br&gt;some 40 hours of flying later, but in good spirits.&lt;p&gt;after retrieving guitars unharmed, we tooled around town, saw the &lt;br&gt;sights and then headed out to watch a CFC football game - my first &lt;br&gt;- as the hometown Bombers dispensed with Hamilton in a close &lt;br&gt;game. american football takes some getting used to as the stop-&lt;br&gt;start plays mean your passion is by necessity a very measured &lt;br&gt;business but Matt&amp;#39;s cousin Chuck had me oriented to the &lt;br&gt;strategies. after that finished I headed home and crashed out. it&amp;#39;d &lt;br&gt;been almost sixty hours without any real sleep and I was done.&lt;p&gt;we played Winnipeg on the Monday. the place was an &amp;#39;Aussie&amp;#39; &lt;br&gt;style pub called the Billabong which was packed full of Matt&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;relatives and I guy who was the spitting image of Kav Temperley &lt;br&gt;from Eskimo Joe. complete with the scarf. the gig went really well, &lt;br&gt;Matt delivered a killer &amp;#39;home-town&amp;#39; set and the Winnipegians &lt;br&gt;seemed to like my tunes on the whole.&lt;p&gt;Tuesday we headed out of Winnipeg across the prairies in the &lt;br&gt;direction of Saskatoon. We got as far as Yorkton and then arose &lt;br&gt;the next morning and kept trucking. &lt;p&gt;the prairies are bloody incredible. the skies are vast, the land is &lt;br&gt;flat, the clouds are ever changing and there are colours that are too &lt;br&gt;vivid for words. I took about 300 photos in the first week and 250 of &lt;br&gt;them are of the changing skies. what&amp;#39;s more is that many of the &lt;br&gt;shots look like I&amp;#39;ve used editing software to make them so vivid. but &lt;br&gt;that&amp;#39;s just how it is out there. I chatted to locals about it and some &lt;br&gt;just shook my hand in a quiet knowing and the others probably &lt;br&gt;thought I was mad. but not everyone has the feeling that they&amp;#39;re &lt;br&gt;driving through a Turner painting.&lt;p&gt;Saskatoon is a pretty little place (locals boast that it&amp;#39;s the Paris of &lt;br&gt;the Prairies) with six large bridges running across a beautiful river. &lt;br&gt;the show went ok but it probably wasn&amp;#39;t the best venue for what we &lt;br&gt;were doing. the next morning we headed for a place called the &lt;br&gt;Wanuskewin Park run by First Nation people - Cree - that was a &lt;br&gt;very powerful place. an historic camping area on tributary rivers &lt;br&gt;there were a bunch of former buffalo (bison) jumps, ceremonial &lt;br&gt;grounds, installations etc but most of all the place had a resonant &lt;br&gt;peace to it. we left there for Regina feeling charged and restored.&lt;p&gt;pulling in to Regina felt like pulling in to what I imagine a part of &lt;br&gt;Detroit or Michigan might be like. brown, industrial, harsh and &lt;br&gt;noisy. we stayed at the iconic Plains Hotel that we learnt later on &lt;br&gt;was the heart of the less salubrious area of town. the tattooed biker &lt;br&gt;(replete with gang colours) that gave me directions to our venue &lt;br&gt;was very cordial though as were the patrons of the hard core blues &lt;br&gt;club below when we loaded back in at 2am. the show went well &lt;br&gt;and the turn out was pretty respectable. the next morning someone &lt;br&gt;we&amp;#39;d met showed us around town a little before we decided to head &lt;br&gt;south.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve always wanted to go to Montana. I can&amp;#39;t explain it. perhaps it&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;the romance of the open spaces or the horses or something but I&amp;#39;ve &lt;br&gt;always pledged I&amp;#39;d get there. now, with a few days hole in the &lt;br&gt;schedule it seemed like an ideal opportunity to duck below the &lt;br&gt;border and see it first hand. Matt, being the intrepid traveller that he &lt;br&gt;is, took little convincing and we headed towards the border.&lt;p&gt;beyond Moose Jaw we headed south and made it as far as &lt;br&gt;Assiniboia, a little farming town of hard drinkers, pick up trucks and &lt;br&gt;grain bins. we were warned earlier not to go there because it&amp;#39;d be &lt;br&gt;an &amp;#39;indian town&amp;#39;. the fattened grain-fed white farmers that we found &lt;br&gt;there would have long sinced pushed any &amp;#39;indians&amp;#39; out in to the &lt;br&gt;shadows beyond the wheat silos and the moon drenched paddocks &lt;br&gt;that ran for miles and miles and miles. and if they hadn&amp;#39;t, the &lt;br&gt;110dB hard rock cover band doing soundcheck in the bar we &lt;br&gt;landed in would have been a handy fall-back position with enough &lt;br&gt;Creed and long haired guitar solos to drive anyone out of town. we &lt;br&gt;holed up there for the night, drank the local beer, played the local &lt;br&gt;pool rules and smiled at the pretty local girls with their local &lt;br&gt;boyfriends. it was a friendly enough place but one where you &lt;br&gt;watched your words to ensure no-one felt put out enough to want to &lt;br&gt;put you out of sorts any more. trading caps at the end of the night &lt;br&gt;with one of the harder drinking locals seemed like acceptance by &lt;br&gt;the time we stumbled out of there, watching out for the town&amp;#39;s local &lt;br&gt;shiny blue sedan with the lights atop. we never saw it.&lt;p&gt;we spent most of the next day driving around the Badlands near &lt;br&gt;the border, watching the prairie plains take on a new undulation &lt;br&gt;with gulches and gullies and breakaways. we saw almost no-one &lt;br&gt;all day. a family of wolves ran in front of us and then up to the far &lt;br&gt;ridge as we looked on from the road&amp;#39;s edge. it was just them and &lt;br&gt;us and a few distant horses.&lt;p&gt;crossing the border in to the US and Montana was easier than &lt;br&gt;anyone could have imagined. I get nervous any time I have to deal &lt;br&gt;with US officials and their collective inability to think for themselves &lt;br&gt;but after dealing with a pair of friendly homeland security folks I &lt;br&gt;was almost surprised when they didn&amp;#39;t offer us a beer for the rest of &lt;br&gt;the trip. it was all very straightforward.&lt;p&gt;and then it was in to Montana. soft overcast skies and long and &lt;br&gt;gently rolling plains of unfenced wheatfield stubble that felt like &lt;br&gt;slow smooth breaths. we drove like this for hours. past the &lt;br&gt;abandoned St Marie, down towards Glasgow and on towards &lt;br&gt;Malta. after seeing wandering calves and grazing deer in the &lt;br&gt;peripheral throw of the headlights we got a cheap room in a &lt;br&gt;roadside motel from a very friendly middle aged lady. our first post-&lt;br&gt;border-crossing conversation with an American went something like &lt;br&gt;this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;so where are you guys from?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Australia. we&amp;#39;ve driven down from Canada today&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;oh really? I couldn&amp;#39;t tell with the accents. so you drove all that &lt;br&gt;way?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;what, you mean did we drive from Canada? yeah sure, we crossed &lt;br&gt;the border this afternoon&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;no, I meant did you drive all the way from Australia? It must be a &lt;br&gt;long way to drive from there to here.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;we flew in to Canada&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;oh that&amp;#39;s ok then. that&amp;#39;d be a long drive otherwise&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;she was a lovely lady and ran a nice hotel with the best shower of &lt;br&gt;the trip. across the railway line we found a great little bar and a &lt;br&gt;counter meal and $2.50 premium beers and Montana was getting &lt;br&gt;better by the minute. a country band was setting up. the stetsons &lt;br&gt;were out in full force and the super friendly country folks were &lt;br&gt;buying beers with us round for round.&lt;p&gt;line of the tour - delivered by a forty-something stetson-wearing &lt;br&gt;man with a wry grin:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I used to miss my ex.... but my aim&amp;#39;s just getting better all the &lt;br&gt;time&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;sand was thrown down on the floor for the dancers and the tightest &lt;br&gt;country band you might hear fired up. impressed by the telecaster-&lt;br&gt;weilding guitar gun in the corner I went over in their first break to &lt;br&gt;talk shop with him and chew the fat about guitars. a few bars in to &lt;br&gt;chatting he nodded, pulled out some chewing tobacco and said,&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;so, you&amp;#39;re the lead picker then are you?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;me not being the &amp;#39;lead picker&amp;#39; meant that we obviously had a lot &lt;br&gt;less to talk about than I&amp;#39;d imagined and my cue to return to the bar &lt;br&gt;gracefully followed quickly.&lt;p&gt;the rest of the night was a pretty colourful affair but Matt and I &lt;br&gt;agreed easily upon a retreat to the motel when all the country &lt;br&gt;songs were sounding the same. we left the town in the morning &lt;br&gt;and headed further south and west to our destination of Whitefish, &lt;br&gt;Montana.&lt;p&gt;now that we&amp;#39;re north of the border again, we&amp;#39;re heading for a gig in &lt;br&gt;Kelowna, British Columbia tomorrow after having spent all day &lt;br&gt;being amazed by the Rockies. absolutely incredible. like a different &lt;br&gt;planet.&lt;p&gt;that&amp;#39;s it from me for now. there&amp;#39;s a guy on the television that Matt&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;watching who is quoting from 2 Corinthians while a text prompt &lt;br&gt;says:&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Call Now for your FREE, LARGER, Miracle Spring Water&amp;quot;... &lt;p&gt;(capitalisation his). it doesn&amp;#39;t make a whole lot of sense to me &lt;br&gt;either but it sounds convincing. I got to go and get me some. he&amp;#39;s &lt;br&gt;promising &amp;quot;a personal financial explosion!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;peace to all.&lt;p&gt;Simon.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220 [new number]&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-2687531201661290661?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/2687531201661290661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=2687531201661290661' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/2687531201661290661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/2687531201661290661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/10/notes-from-road.html' title='notes from the road....'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-5494948100692131602</id><published>2007-07-23T11:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T11:47:55.177+08:00</updated><title type='text'>from Kingsford Smith airport..</title><content type='html'>...a glorious day in Sydney. just drove up from the south coast of &lt;br&gt;NSW today - what a glorious part of the world.&lt;p&gt;heading back to Perth today to play the last metro show for the &lt;br&gt;solo WINTER TOUR - playing the MOON CAFE this wednesday &lt;br&gt;25th @ around 9pm. two dates remain then for that particular tour - &lt;br&gt;Denmark on the 4th Aug and Margaret River on the 5th Aug. In an &lt;br&gt;instance of beautiful synchronicity, I&amp;#39;m playing these last two dates &lt;br&gt;with Chris Edmondson - Spirits guitarist and partner in crime for &lt;br&gt;more years than anyone dare remember.&lt;p&gt;for the Bunbury folks, there&amp;#39;s a show this Friday 27th @ the Prince &lt;br&gt;of Wales. It&amp;#39;s free and it&amp;#39;s with the band and it&amp;#39;ll be a welcome &lt;br&gt;change to play with the fellas once again.&lt;p&gt;the WINTER TOUR has been just great. cold...as you might expect &lt;br&gt;- damn cold in fact - but there have been plenty of (if you&amp;#39;ll forgive &lt;br&gt;me a cliche for the moment) heart-warming moments. family time &lt;br&gt;in newport and my little nephew room-mate, hanging with the &lt;br&gt;Backwells in the south, a string of great shows in Melbourne, the &lt;br&gt;Manly boatshed, retreating to French&amp;#39;s Forest, the kind-hearted &lt;br&gt;folks of Nowra, the Bowlo and Jonno and Lana and that glorious &lt;br&gt;forgotten part of the world but a short drive from Sydney. my tired &lt;br&gt;and addled brain can&amp;#39;t put much of a poetic bent on the words that &lt;br&gt;might bring the experience to life for you - sorry - but suffice to say &lt;br&gt;it was a great tour and particular thanks for those who were a part &lt;br&gt;of it.&lt;p&gt;See you on the road.&lt;p&gt;All the best,&lt;br&gt;Simon.&lt;p&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9390 0220 [new number]&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-5494948100692131602?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/5494948100692131602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=5494948100692131602' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/5494948100692131602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/5494948100692131602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/07/from-kingsford-smith-airport.html' title='from Kingsford Smith airport..'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-4039520554554120950</id><published>2007-06-29T22:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T22:58:26.205+08:00</updated><title type='text'>..and how this country's lined, west to east by the highways I've plied...</title><content type='html'>greetings all.&lt;p&gt;PAST -&lt;br&gt;heartfelt thanks to those of you who&amp;#39;ve turned out for our recent&lt;br&gt;shows. the albany show was an absolute blinder and the freo one&lt;br&gt;was entirely enjoyable too. someone liked it enough to kindly post&lt;br&gt;two bits on youtube - view below - so if that person&amp;#39;s on this list&lt;br&gt;we&amp;#39;d like to say a big thankyou.&lt;p&gt;view one - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCbckrgZtQ"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCbckrgZtQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(sing to me)&lt;p&gt;view two - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaH0t5aOow"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaH0t5aOow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(essence)&lt;p&gt;PRESENT -&lt;br&gt;the big solo tour starts on wednesday 4th july @ mojos, joined by&lt;br&gt;Joel Barker, the Poetry Lounge and the Kronikles of Kink. I&amp;#39;m on @&lt;br&gt;8:45pm.&lt;p&gt;shows in WA, VIC and NSW with fellas like Joel Barker, Josh&lt;br&gt;Backwell and Austin - this is going to be a great tour and sure&lt;br&gt;hope to see you in a venue somewhere over the next month! -&lt;br&gt;dates run as follows -&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 04 -  mojos - fremantle wa - simon london (solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Saturday 07 - cape wine bar - dunsborough wa - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) + support (free entry)&lt;br&gt;Saturday 07 - bootleg brewery - margaret river wa - simon&lt;br&gt;london (solo) plus support&lt;br&gt;Sunday 08 - gnarabar - margaret river wa - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;+ support (free entry)&lt;br&gt;Tuesday 10 - esplanade hotel - st kilda vic - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;(free entry)&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 11 - bar open - fitzroy vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;austin + josh backwell $10&lt;br&gt;Thursday 12 - elwood lounge - elwood vic - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;(free entry)&lt;br&gt;Friday 13 - limelight lounge - geelong vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;austin + josh backwell&lt;br&gt;Saturday 14 - 38 degrees south - anglesea vic - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) + josh backwell&lt;br&gt;Sunday 15 - wesley anne - northcote vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;josh backwell $10&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 18 - manly boatshed - manly nsw - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo)&lt;br&gt;Thursday 19 - artichoke cafe - manly nsw - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;and joel barker (solo)&lt;br&gt;Friday 20 - the tea club - nowra nsw - simon london (solo) and&lt;br&gt;joel barker (solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Sunday 22 - orange grove hotel - leichardt nsw - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Sunday 22 &amp;ndash; scarborough-wombarra bowlo - scarborough nsw -&lt;br&gt;simon london (solo)&lt;p&gt;all the best folks,&lt;br&gt;Simon&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-4039520554554120950?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/4039520554554120950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=4039520554554120950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/4039520554554120950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/4039520554554120950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/06/and-how-this-countrys-lined-west-to_2518.html' title='..and how this country&apos;s lined, west to east by the highways I&apos;ve plied...'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-4229349265399752008</id><published>2007-06-29T22:49:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T22:51:48.053+08:00</updated><title type='text'>"..and how this country's lined, west to east by the highways I've plied.."</title><content type='html'>greetings all.&lt;p&gt;PAST -&lt;br&gt;heartfelt thanks to those of you who&amp;#39;ve turned out for our recent&lt;br&gt;shows. the albany show was an absolute blinder and the freo one&lt;br&gt;was entirely enjoyable too. someone liked it enough to kindly post&lt;br&gt;two bits on youtube - view below - so if that person&amp;#39;s on this list&lt;br&gt;we&amp;#39;d like to say a big thankyou.&lt;p&gt;view one - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCbckrgZtQ"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCbckrgZtQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(sing to me)&lt;p&gt;view two - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaH0t5aOow"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaH0t5aOow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(essence)&lt;p&gt;PRESENT -&lt;br&gt;the big solo tour starts on wednesday 4th july @ mojos, joined by&lt;br&gt;Joel Barker, the Poetry Lounge and the Kronikles of Kink. I&amp;#39;m on @&lt;br&gt;8:45pm.&lt;p&gt;shows in WA, VIC and NSW with fellas like Joel Barker, Josh&lt;br&gt;Backwell and Austin - this is going to be a great tour and sure&lt;br&gt;hope to see you in a venue somewhere over the next month! -&lt;br&gt;dates run as follows -&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 04 -  mojos - fremantle wa - simon london (solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Saturday 07 - cape wine bar - dunsborough wa - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) + support (free entry)&lt;br&gt;Saturday 07 - bootleg brewery - margaret river wa - simon&lt;br&gt;london (solo) plus support&lt;br&gt;Sunday 08 - gnarabar - margaret river wa - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;+ support (free entry)&lt;br&gt;Tuesday 10 - esplanade hotel - st kilda vic - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;(free entry)&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 11 - bar open - fitzroy vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;austin + josh backwell $10&lt;br&gt;Thursday 12 - elwood lounge - elwood vic - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;(free entry)&lt;br&gt;Friday 13 - limelight lounge - geelong vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;austin + josh backwell&lt;br&gt;Saturday 14 - 38 degrees south - anglesea vic - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) + josh backwell&lt;br&gt;Sunday 15 - wesley anne - northcote vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;josh backwell $10&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 18 - manly boatshed - manly nsw - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo)&lt;br&gt;Thursday 19 - artichoke cafe - manly nsw - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;and joel barker (solo)&lt;br&gt;Friday 20 - the tea club - nowra nsw - simon london (solo) and&lt;br&gt;joel barker (solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Sunday 22 - orange grove hotel - leichardt nsw - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Sunday 22 &amp;ndash; scarborough-wombarra bowlo - scarborough nsw -&lt;br&gt;simon london (solo)&lt;p&gt;all the best folks,&lt;br&gt;Simon&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-4229349265399752008?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/4229349265399752008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=4229349265399752008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/4229349265399752008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/4229349265399752008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/06/and-how-this-countrys-lined-west-to.html' title='&quot;..and how this country&apos;s lined, west to east by the highways I&apos;ve plied..&quot;'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-869787957935839877</id><published>2007-06-29T22:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T22:56:06.969+08:00</updated><title type='text'>"..and how this country's lined, west to east by the highways I've plied.."</title><content type='html'>greetings all.&lt;p&gt;PAST -&lt;br&gt;heartfelt thanks to those of you who&amp;#39;ve turned out for our recent&lt;br&gt;shows. the albany show was an absolute blinder and the freo one&lt;br&gt;was entirely enjoyable too. someone liked it enough to kindly post&lt;br&gt;two bits on youtube - view below - so if that person&amp;#39;s on this list&lt;br&gt;we&amp;#39;d like to say a big thankyou.&lt;p&gt;view one - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCbckrgZtQ"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCbckrgZtQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(sing to me)&lt;p&gt;view two - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaH0t5aOow"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaH0t5aOow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(essence)&lt;p&gt;PRESENT -&lt;br&gt;the big solo tour starts on wednesday 4th july @ mojos, joined by&lt;br&gt;Joel Barker, the Poetry Lounge and the Kronikles of Kink. I&amp;#39;m on @&lt;br&gt;8:45pm.&lt;p&gt;shows in WA, VIC and NSW with fellas like Joel Barker, Josh&lt;br&gt;Backwell and Austin - this is going to be a great tour and sure&lt;br&gt;hope to see you in a venue somewhere over the next month! -&lt;br&gt;dates run as follows -&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 04 -  mojos - fremantle wa - simon london (solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Saturday 07 - cape wine bar - dunsborough wa - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) + support (free entry)&lt;br&gt;Saturday 07 - bootleg brewery - margaret river wa - simon&lt;br&gt;london (solo) plus support&lt;br&gt;Sunday 08 - gnarabar - margaret river wa - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;+ support (free entry)&lt;br&gt;Tuesday 10 - esplanade hotel - st kilda vic - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;(free entry)&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 11 - bar open - fitzroy vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;austin + josh backwell $10&lt;br&gt;Thursday 12 - elwood lounge - elwood vic - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;(free entry)&lt;br&gt;Friday 13 - limelight lounge - geelong vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;austin + josh backwell&lt;br&gt;Saturday 14 - 38 degrees south - anglesea vic - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) + josh backwell&lt;br&gt;Sunday 15 - wesley anne - northcote vic - simon london (solo) +&lt;br&gt;josh backwell $10&lt;br&gt;Wednesday 18 - manly boatshed - manly nsw - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo)&lt;br&gt;Thursday 19 - artichoke cafe - manly nsw - simon london (solo)&lt;br&gt;and joel barker (solo)&lt;br&gt;Friday 20 - the tea club - nowra nsw - simon london (solo) and&lt;br&gt;joel barker (solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Sunday 22 - orange grove hotel - leichardt nsw - simon london&lt;br&gt;(solo) $10&lt;br&gt;Sunday 22 &amp;ndash; scarborough-wombarra bowlo - scarborough nsw -&lt;br&gt;simon london (solo)&lt;p&gt;all the best folks,&lt;br&gt;Simon&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-869787957935839877?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/869787957935839877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=869787957935839877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/869787957935839877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/869787957935839877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/06/and-how-this-countrys-lined-west-to_29.html' title='&quot;..and how this country&apos;s lined, west to east by the highways I&apos;ve plied..&quot;'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-6466513523800891870</id><published>2007-06-15T14:40:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-15T14:40:18.762+08:00</updated><title type='text'>two band shows, then the national tour</title><content type='html'>hey folks,&lt;p&gt;after a cranking couple of shows last weekend, the Spirits are &lt;br&gt;joining Simon for two more shows before he heads off on his &lt;br&gt;national solo tour - &lt;p&gt;Thurs 21st - Mojos - Fremantle&lt;br&gt;w-Ramble &amp;amp; the Sleepers, dB Threshold. &lt;p&gt;Ramble &amp;amp; T.S. - 830ish&lt;br&gt;SL + the Spirits - 930ish&lt;br&gt;dB Threshold - 1030ish&lt;br&gt;this is the Ramble&amp;#39;s last ever gig. done. finished.&lt;p&gt;Sat 23rd  - Tanglehead Brewery - Albany&lt;br&gt;free entry. 9-12pm.&lt;p&gt;the chemistry in the band seems to just keep getting better. Rip-In &lt;br&gt;magazine apparently did a glowing review of the band&amp;#39;s last show. &lt;br&gt;expect the unexpected.&lt;p&gt;attached is a flyer of the upcoming Winter Tour. It includes dates in &lt;br&gt;WA, VIC and NSW including shows with Josh Backwell, Austin &lt;br&gt;and Joel Barker. please circulate to get the word out about this tour!&lt;p&gt;thanks for your support,&lt;p&gt;AAM&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-6466513523800891870?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/6466513523800891870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=6466513523800891870' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/6466513523800891870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/6466513523800891870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/06/two-band-shows-then-national-tour.html' title='two band shows, then the national tour'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-1867675495035142209</id><published>2007-06-01T00:31:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-06-01T00:31:59.940+08:00</updated><title type='text'>thanks....and</title><content type='html'>Ok folks,&lt;p&gt;THANKS - &lt;br&gt;first up, it was great to see so many of you over the last week - &lt;br&gt;albany, esperance, bridgetown, pemberton and then freo!! thanks &lt;br&gt;for coming out in numbers and supporting a couple of troubadours. &lt;br&gt;joel and I had a real blast.&lt;p&gt;LONG WEEKEND - &lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;ve got the band with me this weekend for saturday 2nd @ &lt;br&gt;- bootleg brewery margaret river, 1ish - 4ish - free entry&lt;br&gt;- cape wine bar dunsborough, 8pm onwards... - free entry&lt;p&gt;...then more band shows through JUNE (mojos 21st / albany 23rd)&lt;br&gt;...a national solo tour through WA, VIC, NSW etc in JULY&lt;br&gt;...Canada in OCTOBER.&lt;p&gt;LIVE @ CLANCY&amp;#39;S CD - NO MORE&lt;br&gt;we&amp;#39;re happy to report that the Saturday Night Live cd recorded live  &lt;br&gt;at Clancy&amp;#39;s is now ALL SOLD OUT as of last weekend. the one &lt;br&gt;you have in your cd rack is now the only one that will be around! &lt;br&gt;the self-titled Simon London + the Spirits album is not far behind: &lt;br&gt;down to the last box. don&amp;#39;t forget you can buy cds through the &lt;br&gt;website via &lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt; if you have a credit card.&lt;p&gt;thanks for your ongoing support everybody.&lt;p&gt;have a great and safe weekend.&lt;br&gt;peace,&lt;br&gt;Simon.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-1867675495035142209?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/1867675495035142209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=1867675495035142209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/1867675495035142209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/1867675495035142209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/06/thanksand.html' title='thanks....and'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-8661903949906315018</id><published>2007-05-18T11:49:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T11:49:16.085+08:00</updated><title type='text'>town and country</title><content type='html'>hey folks,&lt;p&gt;if you live in western australia, this email is for you.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve got two different things coming up for both the metro and &lt;br&gt;country supporters.&lt;p&gt;SW TOUR - Roads to Home&lt;br&gt;next week I hit the road with the distinguished Joel Barker (of &lt;br&gt;Ramble &amp;amp; the Sleepers fame) to play shows in Esperance, Albany, &lt;br&gt;Brdgetown and Pemberton. Well distinguished might be pushing it &lt;br&gt;but it&amp;#39;ll be a lot of fun with both Joel and myself playing solo and &lt;br&gt;acoustic. details run:&lt;br&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;thurs 24th may - Albany - Tanglehead Brewery - from 8:30pm&lt;br&gt;friday 25th may - Esperance - Esperance Hotel - from 9:00pm&lt;br&gt;sat 26th may - Bridgetown - the Cidery - mid afternoon gig&lt;br&gt;sun 27th may - Pemberton - Mountfords Windery - 1:00 &amp;#39;til 5:00pm&lt;br&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;p&gt;METRO SHOW WITH STEVE TALLIS&lt;br&gt;then I come back to Fremantle to play a (FREE) show with local &lt;br&gt;music legend Steve Tallis at Clancy&amp;#39;s Fish Pub. for most, Steve will &lt;br&gt;require no introduction. for the uninitiated, he&amp;#39;s been on the local &lt;br&gt;scene since before I was born sharing his powerful music. whether &lt;br&gt;acapella field hollers or spirit-soaked melodies the over-used &amp;#39;one of &lt;br&gt;a kind&amp;#39; cliche really takes its true meaning with him. he&amp;#39;s heading &lt;br&gt;off to france to play festivals in europe so come down and catch &lt;br&gt;witness his music before he disappears north. he and I will both &lt;br&gt;play solo sets so it&amp;#39;ll be acoustic and intimate and one not to miss!&lt;br&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;wed 30th may - Fremantle - Clancy&amp;#39;s Fish Pub - from 8:30pm&lt;br&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;p&gt;see you out there. come up and say hello.&lt;p&gt;all the best,&lt;br&gt;Simon.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-8661903949906315018?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/8661903949906315018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=8661903949906315018' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/8661903949906315018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/8661903949906315018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/05/town-and-country.html' title='town and country'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-3018176310630942907</id><published>2007-04-25T21:41:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T21:41:46.613+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon London + the Spirits - MAY DAY (almost!)</title><content type='html'>Hey folks,&lt;p&gt;hope that this finds you well!&lt;p&gt;the band and I have been keeping pretty busy with our various &lt;br&gt;recordings both here and in melbourne. some great tunes are &lt;br&gt;evolving which you&amp;#39;ll no doubt be hearing in th fullness of time.&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;but the new news is that we&amp;#39;ve got a gig in WA!&lt;p&gt;we&amp;#39;re supporting melbourne band THE BOXCUTTERS on their &lt;br&gt;national tour at the ROSEMOUNT HOTEL this WEDNESDAY MAY &lt;br&gt;2ND. Doors open at 8, Stu Orchard is on first and then us and then &lt;br&gt;our long-travelling boxcutter friends. the door charge is cheap. $5 or &lt;br&gt;something like that.&lt;p&gt;this is the only perth metro band gig we&amp;#39;ve got scheduled for the &lt;br&gt;next few months. be great to see you there.&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;coming up - simon plays a solo clancy&amp;#39;s gig with local legend &lt;br&gt;STEVE TALLIS 30th May.&lt;p&gt;peace to you and yours.&lt;br&gt;Simon et al.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br&gt;artist and event management&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists"&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simonlondon.com"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits"&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;p&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-3018176310630942907?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/3018176310630942907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=3018176310630942907' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/3018176310630942907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/3018176310630942907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/04/simon-london-spirits-may-day-almost.html' title='Simon London + the Spirits - MAY DAY (almost!)'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-117402602250734205</id><published>2007-03-16T15:20:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T15:20:22.576+09:00</updated><title type='text'>one show in an island of.... other stuff</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Hey folks,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;resting after 40 shows in the last three months! things are a little  &lt;br /&gt;quieter in the Spirits camp now, but here's a bit of news for you...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;looking forward/looking back&lt;br /&gt;the last gig we did in perth - ramble &amp;amp; the sleepers cd launch - was &lt;br /&gt;a great way to wrap up an awesome few months of shows and &lt;br /&gt;tours. if you weren't there, the night ended with the venue shutting &lt;br /&gt;the power down on us whilst the audience kept demanding more... &lt;br /&gt;the encore - sans power - had us sitting with the audience on the &lt;br /&gt;chesterfield couches with Joel and Cam from the Rambles, Emily &lt;br /&gt;Barker (over from the UK) and half the audience singing through a &lt;br /&gt;(truly) acoustic number in a rousing show of voice. truly &lt;br /&gt;memorable! big thanks to Ramble &amp;amp; the Sleepers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;picnic gig&lt;br /&gt;we've got a one-off afternoon show we're doing for the Town of &lt;br /&gt;Vincent next Sunday 25th March 3:30-5:30pm at Banks Reserve in &lt;br /&gt;Mt Lawley. it's a 'bring a picnic' kind of arrangement and is free. &lt;br /&gt;come down and find a bit of park and relax. I'll have the band with &lt;br /&gt;me and we'll throw in some new tunes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;recording&lt;br /&gt;while taking a break between tours, I've been recording some &lt;br /&gt;overdubs for our new record - the one we started down in our &lt;br /&gt;farmhouse hideaway - which will be out by August of this year. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Tim Stacey and I are also heading to Melbourne in April to take up &lt;br /&gt;an offer from ThirtyMill Studios to do some free recording. ThirtyMill &lt;br /&gt;studios gave us a call and offered us the time after hearing one of &lt;br /&gt;our demos! we're pretty stoked about that. I've earmarked a bunch &lt;br /&gt;of new songs that we'll start capturing there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;maybe see you at Banks Reserve... if not, we'll cross paths some &lt;br /&gt;time soon. until then, follow your heart and do the things that make &lt;br /&gt;you feel good!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;peace,&lt;br /&gt;Simon et al.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br /&gt;artist and event management&lt;br /&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;br /&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;br /&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br /&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br /&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br /&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;The following section of this message contains a file attachment&lt;br /&gt;prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.&lt;br /&gt;If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system,&lt;br /&gt;you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.&lt;br /&gt;If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;   ---- File information -----------&lt;br /&gt;     File:  Summer Concerts  Simon London.JPG&lt;br /&gt;     Date:  9 Mar 2007, 13:57&lt;br /&gt;     Size:  80980 bytes.&lt;br /&gt;     Type:  JPEG-image&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-117402602250734205?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/117402602250734205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=117402602250734205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/117402602250734205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/117402602250734205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/03/one-show-in-island-of-other-stuff.html' title='one show in an island of.... other stuff'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-117160629842754775</id><published>2007-02-16T15:11:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T15:11:38.493+09:00</updated><title type='text'>a few quick notes</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;greetings all!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;before I head out the door to drive to Bunbury for tonight's gig, I just &lt;br /&gt;wanted to fire off a quick email to you to let you know about a &lt;br /&gt;coupla things....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;WAMI gig - don't forget this Tuesday's special solo gig at the Swan &lt;br /&gt;Hotel (upstairs) in Fremantle starts at 8 sharp, is FREE and is &lt;br /&gt;being filmed and recorded. Please come down if you're in the area &lt;br /&gt;and be part of a little bit of history...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;RAMBLE &amp;amp; THE SLEEPERS - are a great Freo roots band and &lt;br /&gt;they've asked us to play their CD launch - Thurs the 1st February - &lt;br /&gt;and have put a great line-up together. It's also at the Swan Hotel &lt;br /&gt;(upstairs) so pencil it in your diary now if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;I-TUNES - if you're an i-tunes type you might have noticed that the &lt;br /&gt;Spirits' latest album - 'Highway State Of Mind' - has been hanging &lt;br /&gt;in the 'JUST ADDED' section of the i-tunes store. If you've already &lt;br /&gt;got the album, you can always go and write a review!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i&lt;br /&gt;d=214213664&amp;amp;s=143460&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;We've got a shitload of gigs over the next few weeks... hope to be &lt;br /&gt;able to cross paths with you somewhere along the line...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Have a great weekend,&lt;br /&gt;Simon et al.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;upcoming gigs - &lt;br /&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com/2/liveshows/index.php&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br /&gt;artist and event management&lt;br /&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;br /&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;br /&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br /&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br /&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br /&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-117160629842754775?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/117160629842754775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=117160629842754775' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/117160629842754775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/117160629842754775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/02/few-quick-notes.html' title='a few quick notes'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-117065851716213036</id><published>2007-02-05T15:55:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2007-02-05T15:55:17.286+09:00</updated><title type='text'>note from the road...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;&amp;lt;italic&amp;gt;&amp;lt;color&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param&amp;gt;0100,0100,0100&amp;lt;/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;smaller&amp;gt;(forward from feb 1st)&amp;lt;/italic&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt;&amp;lt;bigger&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Hey folks,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Matty and I are killing time in the departure lounge of the Sydney &lt;br /&gt;airport awaiting the flight back to Perth at the end of a great tour. &lt;br /&gt;Sixteen shows in four states, meeting some great people, staying &lt;br /&gt;in some wonderful places and playing some fine venues has made &lt;br /&gt;the whole journey so worthwhile. Hope you managed to catch a &lt;br /&gt;show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;We had some great experiences. The drive north from &lt;br /&gt;Cootamundra left us both pretty stunned as we drove for hours &lt;br /&gt;through airborne topsoil and parched, spent country. Katoomba &lt;br /&gt;was a first for me - the blue mountains standing like heaven's edge &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;overlooking the haze of Sydney. Sea lice bite you when you swim &lt;br /&gt;at Breamlea, if you play on the same night as Paul Kelly in a &lt;br /&gt;regional town you'll play to almost no-one, Wagga Wagga has a &lt;br /&gt;beach yet is miles from the ocean (the Murrumbidgie) and the &lt;br /&gt;people in the pub are friendly but want to get on stage and sing &lt;br /&gt;drunken harmonies and tend to request cold chisel songs. &lt;br /&gt;Canberra's music scene is a lot healthier than it's soul, sushi &lt;br /&gt;buffets aren't as bad an idea as you'd think but go easy on the &lt;br /&gt;sashimi and Matt kicks arse at playing Big Buck Hunter - it's &lt;br /&gt;probably his Canadian heritage coming through - might be the only &lt;br /&gt;useful thing about being half Canadian he's got beyond the extra &lt;br /&gt;passport he bandies about from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;As usual, we came across some great musicians in our travels. &lt;br /&gt;Vic-local Josh Backwell is one you should know about - a nicer &lt;br /&gt;guy you couldn't find - he writes some clever and quirky songs in a &lt;br /&gt;uniquely australian-folk flavour in the vein of colin hay, paul kelly or &lt;br /&gt;that fella greg arnold from things of stone and wood. He gives away &lt;br /&gt;cds via his myspace site if you're interested.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;So I head back to Perth now to start up a WA tour with the Spirits &lt;br /&gt;in a few weeks to promote our next single and to play in the WAMI &lt;br /&gt;festival on TUESDAY 20th FEBRUARY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;We've got something a little different lined up for the WAMI show. &lt;br /&gt;Matt Irvin and I are both doing a solo show upstairs at the Swan &lt;br /&gt;Acoustic Lounge which we will be filming. You're invited. It'll be free &lt;br /&gt;entry, it'll be early and it'll be your way of being part of the WAMIs &lt;br /&gt;and getting yourself a little of that filmic immortality. Please come &lt;br /&gt;down if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;The dates for the next two months are currently as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;smaller&amp;gt;Thurs 15th Feb - Swan Hotel Acoustic Lounge - Fremantle - Simon London +Clem&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Fri 16th Feb - Prince of Wales Hotel - Bunbury - Simon London + the Spirits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Sat 17th Feb - Cape Wine Bar - Dunsborough - Simon London + the Spirits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Sun 18th Feb - Caves House - Yallingup - Simon London + the Spirits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Tues 20th Feb - Swan Hotel Acoustic Lounge - Freo - WAMI show - Simon &lt;br /&gt;London, Matty Irvin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Sat 24th Feb - Settlers Tavern - Margaret River - Simon London + the Spirits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Sat 3rd Mar - Tanglehead Brewery - Albany - Simon London + the Spirits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bigger&amp;gt;Good stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Simon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;DONT FORGET - you can buy any Simon London cds via the &lt;br /&gt;website http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;nofill&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br /&gt;artist and event management&lt;br /&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;br /&gt;http://www.sonicbids.com/SimonLondontheSpirits&lt;br /&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br /&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br /&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br /&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-117065851716213036?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/117065851716213036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=117065851716213036' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/117065851716213036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/117065851716213036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/02/note-from-road.html' title='note from the road...'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-116796773864502549</id><published>2007-01-05T12:28:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T12:28:58.690+09:00</updated><title type='text'>from the deep south - 'birds of a feather' national tour</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;hey folks,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;from my old man's office here I can see the southern ocean rolling &lt;br /&gt;in through the haze and the paddocks all summer golden. life is &lt;br /&gt;good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;just breaking holiday for a moment to offer a heads-up about the &lt;br /&gt;next tour. I'm teaming up with Matty Irvin (formerly of dusk) for a &lt;br /&gt;national tour we're calling BIRDS OF A FEATHER. It's the two of &lt;br /&gt;us armed with acoustic guitars playing our songs, telling jokes and &lt;br /&gt;doing our best to take the piss out of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;it'll be a lot of fun and we're doing 16 shows in 4 states so we're &lt;br /&gt;hoping to cross paths with you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;the shows run like this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' national tour - WA double bill &lt;br /&gt;- Simon London + Matty Irvin - solo and acoustic -  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Thurs 11th Jan - Clancy's Fish Pub - Fremantle WA - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Sat 13th Jan - Bootleg Brewery - Margaret River WA - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Sat 13th Jan - Cape Wine Bar - Dunsborough WA - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Sun 14th Jan - Cave's House - Yallingup WA - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Tues 16th Jan - The Vineyard - St Kilda VIC&lt;br /&gt;Wed 17th Jan - Limelight Lounge - Geelong VIC (w- Josh Backwell)&lt;br /&gt;Thurs 18th Jan - Idgaff Bar - Abbortsford VIC (w- Coby Grant)&lt;br /&gt;Sat 20th Jan - 38 Degrees Sth - Anglesea VIC (w- Josh Blackwell)&lt;br /&gt;Mon 22nd Jan - Phoenix Bar - Canberra ACT&lt;br /&gt;Tues 23rd Jan - Hotel Bondi - Bondi NSW&lt;br /&gt;Wed 24th Jan - The Boatshed -  Manly NSW&lt;br /&gt;Thurs 25th Jan - Artichoke Cafe - Manly NSW - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Fri 26th Jan - The Vic Hotel - Wagga Wagga NSW - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Sat 27th Jan - Gearin Hotel - Katoomba NSW - free entry&lt;br /&gt;Sun 28th Jan - Cat'n'Fiddle - Balmain NSW&lt;br /&gt;Wed 31st Jan - Oxford Tavern - Wollongong NSW - free entry&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;if you're coming down to a show be sure to come up and say hello!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;all the best..&lt;br /&gt;Simon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br /&gt;artist and event management&lt;br /&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;br /&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;br /&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br /&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br /&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br /&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;-- &lt;br /&gt;No virus found in this outgoing message.&lt;br /&gt;Checked by AVG Free Edition.&lt;br /&gt;Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.16.3/614 - Release Date: 2/01/2007&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-116796773864502549?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/116796773864502549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=116796773864502549' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/116796773864502549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/116796773864502549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2007/01/from-deep-south-birds-of-feather.html' title='from the deep south - &apos;birds of a feather&apos; national tour'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-116534485129632879</id><published>2006-12-06T03:54:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T03:54:11.360+09:00</updated><title type='text'>tour diary... in a fashion</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;hey folks,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;with four dates down and five to go, this tour with Nathan Kaye is &lt;br /&gt;fairly cranking along.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;from the sophistication of the floreat on thursday, a slimmish crowd &lt;br /&gt;in both number and figure we headed to the sticky carpet of players &lt;br /&gt;bar in mandurah on friday. when midnight happened and nathan &lt;br /&gt;finished the crowd turned not in to pumpkins but happy beam &lt;br /&gt;swilling bogans banging their heads to enter sandman. we  &lt;br /&gt;retreated to an estuarine hideaway where harmony prevailed. enter &lt;br /&gt;saturday, and with a sunny trip to dunsborough punctuated by &lt;br /&gt;conversations on how we might fix the world and all things musical &lt;br /&gt;we played under the dionysian glory vine of the cape wine bar &lt;br /&gt;resplendent with warm light and starlight through the courtyard &lt;br /&gt;ceiling. a great night had by all and then sunday, after dipping our &lt;br /&gt;limbs in to the aquamarine of eagle bay we reassembled at caves &lt;br /&gt;house atop our mini roman amphitheatre amongst the peppermint &lt;br /&gt;trees, lemon scented gums and dying golden sunlight we sung up &lt;br /&gt;to the nearly ashen sky, slide didge echoing out in to the ether. &lt;br /&gt;after a few days respite, the caravan rolls on to the metropolis now, &lt;br /&gt;and so it is that we'll be at:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;** the PADDO tonight - wed 6th - with Toby&lt;br /&gt;** CLANCY'S tomorrow - thurs 7th - with Martine Locke (US)&lt;br /&gt;** cranking @ the INDI BAR - fri 8th - again with Toby but with &lt;br /&gt;drummers and others for this one and only&lt;br /&gt;** the PRINCE in bunbury - sat 9th - hello Mitch!, and finally,&lt;br /&gt;** the CIDERY in bridgetown - sun 10th&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;it's a feelgood tour. warm and loving people everywhere we go, &lt;br /&gt;affirming life in all it's ugliness and sublime beauty. it's a journey. &lt;br /&gt;see you there with a beer in your hand. or a chardonnay of course, &lt;br /&gt;for those WCE supporters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;well wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;S.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br /&gt;artist and event management&lt;br /&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;br /&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;br /&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br /&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br /&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br /&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;-- &lt;br /&gt;No virus found in this outgoing message.&lt;br /&gt;Checked by AVG Free Edition.&lt;br /&gt;Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.9/571 - Release Date: 5/12/2006&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-116534485129632879?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/116534485129632879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=116534485129632879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/116534485129632879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/116534485129632879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2006/12/tour-diary-in-fashion.html' title='tour diary... in a fashion'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22940163.post-116479639969582378</id><published>2006-11-29T18:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-29T18:33:20.126+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nathan Kaye and Simon London SOLO tour</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;smaller&amp;gt;hey folks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;what an awesome weekend of gigs with the Spirits just gone! after our &lt;br /&gt;fifth encore at denmark our show ran past the four hour mark! thankyou &lt;br /&gt;good people. exhausting but so rewarding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;but now, the tour with Nathan Kaye (NSW) starts tomorrow night. 9 &lt;br /&gt;shows in 11 days. this is a must-see tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;for those who didn't catch him last time, Nathan is a unique performer. &lt;br /&gt;Nathan takes his six or twleve string guitar, layers over it his engaging &lt;br /&gt;vocals, slide didge, his beatboxing and stompbox to create a show like &lt;br /&gt;not much else. energy to burn.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Nathan and I have put this tour together ourselves so we've got some &lt;br /&gt;cracking venues and some great guests. Martine Locke is joining us at &lt;br /&gt;Clancy's while she's on tour from the US (remember the Velvet &lt;br /&gt;Janes?), we've got Toby (from Toby and Code Red) joining us at the &lt;br /&gt;Indi Bar and the Paddo and Chris Gibbs (guitarist extraordinaire - &lt;br /&gt;remember FULL?) with us at the Floreat tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Don't overlook too that we've got a one-off full band gig on at the Indi bar &lt;br /&gt;too on Friday 8th.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Thursday 30th Nov - Floreat Hotel&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Floreat (+ Chris Gibbs)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. free entry. from 8:30pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Friday 1st Dec - Players Bar&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Mandurah&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. free entry. from 9pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Saturday 2nd - Cape Wine Bar&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Dunsborough&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. free entry. from 8:30pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Sunday 3rd - Caves House&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Yallingup&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. free entry. from 4:30pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Wednesday 6th Dec - Paddington Alehouse&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Mt Hawthorne (+ Toby)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. free entry. from 8:30pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Thursday 7th Dec - Clancy's Fish Pub Fremantle&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Fremantle (+ &lt;br /&gt;Martine Locke (US) from the Velvet Janes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. $6-8 entry. from 8:30pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Friday 8th Dec - Indi Bar - Scarborough [as the Spirits]&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; (+Toby)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;band gig. $6-8 entry. from 8:30pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Saturday 9th Dec - Prince Of Wales Hotel&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Bunbury&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. free entry. from 9pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt;Sunday 10th Dec - The Cidery&amp;lt;/bold&amp;gt; - Bridgetown&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;solo gig. $10 entry. 3pm - 6pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;these will be the last shows for the year - band or solo. it's going to be &lt;br /&gt;HUGE!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;look forward to seeing you there. come up and say hi!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;regards,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;Simon&amp;lt;bigger&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;&amp;lt;nofill&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;ALLIED ARTISTS MANAGEMENT&lt;br /&gt;artist and event management&lt;br /&gt;http://www.iconmusic.com/alliedartists&lt;br /&gt;http://www.simonlondon.com&lt;br /&gt;http://www.myspace.com/simonlondonandthespiritsband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;a collaborative approach to artist management and development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;PO Box 712 Applecross&lt;br /&gt;Western Australia 6953&lt;br /&gt;Ph:  +61 (0)8 9414 7894&lt;br /&gt;Mob: 040 909 0429&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-post"&gt;No virus found in this outgoing message.&lt;br /&gt;Checked by AVG Free Edition.&lt;br /&gt;Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.19/556 - Release Date: 28/11/2006&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22940163-116479639969582378?l=www.simonlondon.com%2Fnewsletters%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/116479639969582378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22940163&amp;postID=116479639969582378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/116479639969582378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22940163/posts/default/116479639969582378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.simonlondon.com/newsletters/2006/11/nathan-kaye-and-simon-london-solo-tour.html' title='Nathan Kaye and Simon London SOLO tour'/><author><name>Simon London</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07881046703501099429</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09295499931571980892'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>