We are supporting Pulp!
Wednesday 27th July at The Hordern Pavillion in Sydney. Tickets here.
Thursday 29th July at Festival Hall in Melbourne. Tickets here.
News
Well the album has been out for a few weeks now and the response has been a bit overwhelming. Thank you to everyone who has bought it, told a friend about it, came to our instore shows or is planning to come to any of the album tour shows. Your support is humbling. Here are some of the nice things people have had to say about Crystal Theatre:
★★★★½ – THE MAG
8/10 – THE SUN HERALD
★★★★ – JUNIOR MAGAZINEFBI
94.5 FEATURE RECORD
2SER FEATURE RECORD
DRUM MEDIA ALBUM OF THE WEEK
BRAG ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Mess and Noise, On Rotation
18th May 2011
http://www.messandnoise.com/releases/2000872
“Crystal Theatre is a sprawling, moody animal. It’s deeply, inescapably cinematic, as drenched in B-movie Americana and murder-y vibes as it is in the ’60s psych-revivalism we know and love.”
“Sweet… and terrifying”
“deliciously unsettling”
“It’s an evocative and complicated album, put together by a band who work together as naturally as four limbs on the same beast.”
Three Thousand Album Review
17th May 2011
http://www.threethousand.com.au/hear/belles-will-ring-crystal-theatre-2/
“Crystal Theatre threatens to fulfil all my white-pantsed daydreams”
“a much less straight-forward, much more surprising ride. Get on board.”
The Weekley Review
13th May 2011
http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/article-display/Snowtown/3893
“the songs are simply stunning”
“Layered, beautiful and utterly absorbing, these are tracks to treasure.”
Drum Media – CD Of The Week
10th May 2011
“The result is just under 60 minutes of atmosphere and texture drowned in ‘60s suburban folk songs, topped with just the slightest hint of psych-out – think Brian Jonestown Massacre meets Fleet Foxes.”
“a nostalgically brilliant album that’s ironically way ahead of its time.”
SYN RADIO – ALBUM REVIEW
MAY 10 2011
http://syn.org.au/news/2011-05-10/crystal-theatre-belles-will-ring
“heart wrenching and uplifting”
“ the true marvel of Crystal Theatre is the perfect unison of sound and lyrical meaning resulting in an ability to transport you to a strange, peaceful place”
THE MAG – ALBUM REVIEW (4 ½ STARS)
“A huge leap forward for the band and a seriously impressive return”
JUNIOR MAGZINE
MAY 20 2011
http://junioronline.com.au/MUSIC/BELLES-WILL-RING-REVIEW.html
“This could easily be the next blockbuster Aussie release”
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We’ve got some really great bands to play alongside us for The Walking Soul Tour. Sydney in particular is going to be a big night.
THE WALKING SOUL TOUR
Presented by Street Press Australia and 2SER
Friday 1 July – The Workers Club, Melbourne VIC
SUPPORTED BY The Fearless Vampire Killers and Cuba Is Japan
Tickets available from Moshtix: www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX and Moshtix outlets
Saturday 2 July – Plus One at the Ed Castle, Adelaide SA
SUPPORTED BY Lady Strangelove and Steering By Stars
Tickets available from Moshtix: www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX and Moshtix outlets
Friday 8 July – Step-Inn, Brisbane QLD
SUPPORTED BY The Dune Rats and Lion Island
Tickets available from Oztix: www.oztix.com.au and 1300 762 545
Friday 15 July – The Clarendon Hotel, Katoomba NSW
SUPPORTED BY Richard Cartwright of Richard In Your Mind
Tickets available from the venue: (02) 4782 1322 and www.clarendonguesthouse.com.au
Saturday 16 July – Goodgod, Sydney NSW
SUPPORTED BY The Fearless Vampire Killers, Richard Cartwright of Richard In Your Mind, Kill City Creeps with Count Doyle and Brigadier Brickman on the decks
Tickets available from Moshtix: www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX and Moshtix outlets
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For a short time only you can listen to Crystal Theatre front to back on Mess and Noise. We’ve also written a track by track walk through for you which might flick the highbeams on the record.
Read MoreCrystal Theatre is in stores from today!!!! You can buy it from iTunes, Red Eye Records, Polyester Records in Melbourne, JB Hi Fi and any other retailer selling top quality music. It was a long road but we are hear now and we are very proud of this record…
2SER Album of the week
FBi 94.5 Album of the week
Drum Media Album of the week
4.5 Stars in The MAG
Album of the month in The Age
“Crystal Theatre is genuinely striking – a hazy mix of alt-country, folk and haunted psychedelics … this is a huge leap forward for the band and a seriously impressive return.”
4 1/2 stars - Music Australia Guide
In case you didn’t see it we are playing at Red Eye Records Friday 13th of March at 5pm. We will be playing new songs from Crystal Theatre and if you buy a copy of the new record, you will get a free copy of our mini album, Broader Than Broadway.
Todays album preview is a song called The Green.
From Joe: I threatened to punch Liam at three million o’clock one drunken night in Fortitude Valley when he told me he wanted to re-track The Green. I think I only popped a button off his shirt in the end (sorry mate), but I think I was right in insisting we keep it. I remember thinking the air pressure was dropping in the room around us during that outro… a sensation that became positively cyclonic when we reconvened to track The River later the same night.
And finally, as you would know by now we are playing some shows in July. Click here for tickets! Sonny and Biddy over at We Buy Your Kids, who are responsible for the album artwork, have crafted this stunning tour poster. Thinking about making them available for sale? Let us know if you would be interested in that…
Todays preview is number four on the record. Listen a few times and you’ll develop a swagger
Aidan: This song came out of nowhere while I was making demos for this record. I was in a particularly minimalist mood, and wanted to try to write a song with one chord. I originally sampled a jungle stomp beat fromHarry Connick Jr’s trio, and just carved out this dirty jump-step guitar line for it. Then I imagined Simon and Garfunkel singing over the top of it, and that’s more or less where we took it.
Street Lamp Swamp by belleswillring
Read MoreOne of the last tracks on the record.
Aidan: About as close as we wanted to get to soul on the record. I wrote this as a response to Come to the Village – in a way, it’s like you are driving far far away from the village, because of what had happened there.As the song progresses, you slowly shake off the heavy feeling.
Liam: Recorded the same night as “Deepwater” in the Portland house. It’sa continuation of the cinematic imagery that we were crafting for our “dark road movie” which became this album.
Bald Mountain by belleswillring
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