Our new single All Night Long is now available at BandCamp!
Listen to it for free, or download it for just $2 using a credit card or PayPal. You can throw in a few extra bucks if you want to help us get overseas - all proceeds go into the 2010 tour fund!
The Cabaret show we've put together is called Blokes Don't Sing, and we've turned the comedy element up to 11 for a raucous, relentless night of fun that went off like a frog in a sock at our preview show last month.
Adele from Breaking Even Reviews happened to drop by for the preview show - here's a little snippet from her review:
"Do you ever get that feeling, as you are watching or listening to a great performer, when your heartbeat increases and the bottom of your stomach falls away? The feeling that usually accompanies a Tim Minchin song or a great ballad at a rock concert? Well Suade can make you feel that way for the whole hour and 15 minutes they were on stage. Apart from my aching smile and laugh muscles, the hardest part about this show was picking a stand out moment."
Check out the rest of the preview review at Breaking Even Reviews. Hope to see you at the town hall!
So right at the end of April the lads took a trip up to the Gold Coast to do a bit of a workshop at Lindisfarne Secondary school and to compete at the first annual SingFest national a cappella competition.
In the small groups division alone, there were no less than 28 groups - many of which were sub-groups of the enormous and very impressive Blenders barbershop chorus. But at the end of the day, it was Melbourne groups in first, second and third place... Our buddies in Blue Notion took out third in a flurry of close harmony, and Ginger and Tonic took second in dangerously sexy style - their first public show after forming to have a crack at Australia's Got Talent.
We had to fly out before the results were announced... So when the Blue Notion guys rang us to tell us we'd won first place, there was all sorts of leaping and shouting and hugging at Melbourne Airport. Such a pity we couldn't stick around for the big ol' singalong session afterwards!
Apart from competing, we also took the chance to deliver a couple of workshops while we were there, and sang as much as we could in the open-air 'Chorditorium' - which gave us the chance to meet a whole bunch of other singers from QLD, northern NSW and around the country. Congrats to Brett Logan and the Blenders for putting on a sensational festival, and to all the other groups we saw for putting together a very high quality showcase of vocal music!
We've never played Spenserslive before, we're looking forward to it! Get your bookin' on by calling 1300 GET TIX (1300 438 849) or at the Moshtix Website.
We're starting off 2010 with a very cruisy Sunday afternoon pub show at the Workers Club on Brunswick St, Fitzroy. It's a laid-back chance to hear some of the new tunes we've been working on and have a few quiet brews on a lazy Sunday.
When? Sunday 21st February, doors at 4pm, we're on closer to 5pm.
In the face of some absolutely amazing competition, we were absolutely STOKED to take home second prize at the 2009 Taiwan International A Cappella Festival.
So stoked that Roy went absolutely bonkers. What more can we say? Onya Roy!
If you dig the massive, stirring sound of a Welsh Male Choir, then c'mon down and join us on Feb 27 as we get together with the enormous Melbourne Welsh Male Choir for a bit of a sing. We're doing a couple of feature sets, including a song in Welsh - so if anyone needs any consonants, we'll have plenty to spare.
Click on the image above for a larger size poster with all the details.
If you dig singing, sing in a group of your own, or would like to get involved with a cappella, you need to know about this: as part of our commitment to growing the vocal music scene in Australia, the Colonel has teamed up with Mealz from Vocal Folds 4 to start a new a cappella association - Vocal Australia.
The main aims of the association are to:
Develop and promote contemporary a cappella music in Australia
Build a solid reputation for Australian groups internationally
Get people in the Aussie vocal music scene working together
In this spirit, they're in the process of organising the Get Vocal festival - a contemporary vocal music festival in Melbourne. Get Vocal is a series of workshops, concerts, masterclasses and social events from May 5th-9th 2010 at Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. Suade and VF4 will be there, as well as a number of other great Melbourne groups - and the guys are set to announce some very special guests.
It's gonna be a great event for all sorts of singers - people in contemporary groups who wanna meet others in the scene, strut their stuff, swap ideas and learn from some of the best in the business - and even solo singers who want to experience a cappella singing, make some connections and maybe join or start a group.
Made in 20 minutes, and with a total budget of $3.95 for the rubber chicken, we present to you our first ever video clip - and we challenge you not to crack a grin.
The song, of course, is 'Giving you a Cuddle for Christmas,' and you can find it over in the MP3 store. Hope you have a great holiday season, with plenty o' cuddles!
Suade is a five-part male a cappella vocal group based in Melbourne, Australia. That's five guys singing, each with a microphone and nothing else. No band, no backing tracks. Vocal bands like this are big internationally but pretty uncommon in Australia. Read more.
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