A nice little video of Jac doing his thing in the studio… and a sneak peak of what we’ve been recording!
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Brisbane Instrumental Rock Ensemble.
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Brisbane Instrumental Rock Ensemble.
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mrmaps (at) lofly (dot) com
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March = Free Bits / Free Ships
Hi friends,
We’ve been working pretty hard to pull some new material together and we’re planning to announce an exciting new release very soon!
In the meantime though, we wanted to give you all a chance to catch up on our back catalogue, perhaps even share it with your friends, enemies and in-laws. So we are making it all free. Yes, free to download in mp3 format.
If that’s not quite enough love, we are also offering free shipping on all orders through our bandcamp or the lofly store for the whole month of March. Even international. So if you’ve been tossing up the idea of snaffling one of those limited edition Wire Empire LPs, it’s pretty much your lucky day.
Get all the goods here: mr-maps.bandcamp.com
Generous, eh? If you’re in Queensland you can thank us in person this weekend as we support sleepmakeswaves at Miami Shark Bar (Gold Coast) on Friday, and at the Jubilee (Brisbane) on Saturday. More about that here.
Hold tight, more exciting news to come!
Mr. Maps
Our first shows back for the year! We have new songs - come and see whether or not we can play them yet.
March 2, Miami Shark bar Gold Coast
sleepmakeswaves, Mr. Maps, the Matador, theseashallnothavethem
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March 3, Jubilee Hotel Brisbane
sleepmakeswaves, Mr. Maps, Solkyri, Screens
Facebook event & details
Here it is. Wire Empire on white vinyl and an accompanying CD of remixes. The first batch have already been shipped to our pozible supporters, so if you are one of the many wonderful friends who pledged to help make this happen, your goodies are on the way. Thank you!
For everyone else, the rest of the super limited run is available to order via the Mr. Maps Bandcamp page. Don’t miss out!
In other news, in the obligatory flourish of end of year lists and rankings, Wire Empire has wound up at #40 on the Mess and Noise critics’ poll, Tennis Party has ranked #24 on 4zzz’s hot 100 tracks of the year, and various other Mr. Maps bits are scattered through the various staff lists of Rave & Time Off Magazine. So a big thank you is owed to those journos and critics who’ve had our back over the years!
Regardless of your belief of the importance of December 25th, we hope you had a mighty fine day, and may this mark the beginning of an exceptionally good year.
Friends,
2011 has been like that reckless friend who you’re excited to invite to your house, but then they just end up trashing the place before they leave. There have been plenty of disasters (both natural and musical), lots of political shake-ups, and we don’t even know if Einstein was right anymore! It’s an unsteady time.
For Mr. Maps it’s been an album release, a tour, a show on a tennis court (see the video!), an ambitious tangle of sound-triggered lights at Brisbane Festival, and our first vinyl pressing, funded by you guys (thanks!).
It’s just about time to give 2011 a cup of tea and call it a cab, but we have one final show to play, and we’re very excited about it!
lofly Showcase - Thursday November 3
That’s this thursday!
We will be launching our Wire Empire vinyl + remix CD package, and our good friends Re:Enactment will be launching their massive new single “Higher Duties”. Also on the bill are Nova Scotia, who may not be playing another show for quite some time, aheadphonehome who are gathering momentum with their recent single release Hunters Compete, and all this will be interspersed with hypnotic post-electronica from Restream.
It’s gonna be pretty excellent, and we’re very much looking forward to smashing out one last set for the year, and sharing the stage with some of our favourite Brisbane artists. Please join us!
If you got the the $30 or $60 rewards on our pozible campaign, your name will be on the door for this show! However, if you can’t make it let us know and we can find you an alternative freebie.
LP & Remix CD - Mail Order available
If you missed out on the goodies offered for pledging on our pozible campaign, you can still secure your copy of the LP & remix CD here.
That’s all from us for this year, thanks for all your help and support in 2011. Hope to see you on Thursday, or sometime in 2012!
All the best,
Mr. Maps
Mr. Maps - Tennis Party. A music video by Frank Casablanca.
To celebrate the release of the Tennis Party single, we took over a tennis court in New Farm and had a party, with help from Guerilla gigs, lofly, and Small Lakes.
Tennis Party is taken from the Wire Empire album, which can be purchased digitally here or physically (vinyl & CD) here.
See more of Frank’s excellent work here.
Get involved in Guerilla gigs here.
You Are Here. 20-24 September.
This starts next Tuesday. Please come!
Poster design by Anna Therese Harris
Help Us Get Wire Empire onto Vinyl!
Hi Friends,
So you may have heard about Wire Empire by now, the album we finished earlier this year. Well, due to popular demand, we’ve decided to press it to vinyl. It’ll be a true collector’s item, only 300 copies and on white vinyl. It will come with a bonus disc of unreleased Wire Empire remixes featuring Underlapper, Subsea, Oh Ye Denver Birds, Collarbones, Tara Simmons, Hunz, Restream, and more, as well as a high quality mp3 download of the album.
The thing is, we need your help to make it happen! We’re using Pozible - a site that helps artists source funding directly from fans - to raise the required dosh to get this thing pressed.
If you think it sounds like a good idea, head to our Pozible profile, where you can pledge money. You can pledge as little as $1, and you can get rewards depending on how much you’re willing to donate. A $20 donation works as a pre-order for the record.
Some footage from our last show at X&Y.
See more video stuff at our YouTube Channel.
