WELCOME TO CANNANES ONLINE!

Here at cannanes.com you will find all sorts off stuff on, by, or about the band ~ history, music, photos etc. in a more user friendly virtual environment than our CannanesMySpace page but feel free to go there if that's your bag.

RECENT NEWS Well, we have just returned from a two month tour of the United States & MEXICO! (see below for details) and a couple of weeks recording for a new album with Explosion Robinson in New York. While we were away (on May 23) the WORLD PREMIERE! of the Cannanes documentary SHORT POPPY SYNDROME took place at the LIGHTBULB film festival in NEWCASTLE U.K. ~ Watch out for some Australian dates when we've recovered! no confirmed dates at the moment but sign up to to our newsletter list and we'll do our best to let you know if we're heading your way!   THESE WERE THE DATES FOR OUR MAY/JUNE 2008 TOUR ~ NB SEE GIGS PAGE FOR FULL DETAILS + LINKS TO BANDS & VENUES, WE'LL PROBABLY PUT TOGETHER SOME SORT OF TOUR DIARY WHEN WE GET A CHANCE. MAY ~10~ 2008 ~ Pop Mayhem Festival GAINESVILLE / FLORIDA [ fest ran 8-10th ] MAY ~15~ 2008 ~ House Party NORTH CAROLINA MAY ~23~ 2008 ~ LIGHTBULB FESTIVAL ~ WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING OF THE FILM SHORT POPPY SYNDROME: THE CANNANES STORY [ NEWCASTLE (U.K.) ] JUNE ~6~ 2008 ~ ST LOUIS / MISSOURI JUNE ~7~ 2008 ~ CHICAGO / ILLINOIS with MOTO JUNE ~8~ 2008 ~ CHICAGO / ILLINOIS with The Goblins [ ALL AGES ] JUNE ~9~ 2008 ~ CINCINATTI / OHIO JUNE ~11~ 2008 ~ BOSTON / MASSACHUSETTS with The In Out + Painful Dentistry JUNE ~12~ 2008 ~ HOBOKEN / NEW JERSEY JUNE ~14~ 2008 ~ NYC Popfest [ ACOUSTIC (SIC) SHOW ] JUNE ~15~ 2008 ~ NYC Popfest [ fest ran 12th-15th ] JUNE ~16~ 2008 ~ ARLINGTON / VIRGINIA JUNE ~20~ 2008 ~ MONTERREY [ MEXICO ] with Seekers Who Are Lovers + Abeja JUNE ~21~ 2008 ~ MEXICO CITY with Seekers Who Are Lovers JUNE ~25~ 2008 ~ MEXICO CITY LIVE TO AIR OTHER TOWNS WE PLAN TO VISIT SOON : ADELAIDE, ALBURY, BALLARAT, BENDIGO, BRISBANE, BYRON, CANBERRA, KATOOMBA and SYDNEY! OTHER COUNTRIES WE PLAN TO VISIT SOON : AUSTRIA, CANADA, CHINA, DENMARK, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, HOLLAND, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND, SCOTLAND, SOUTH KOREA, SWEDEN, TAIWAN, WALES...

RECENT NEWS
CANNANES PLAY PENNY LANE + 2008 SUMMER FESTIVALS ~ LDO V & APPLECORE + G-ROY BOWS OUT
26th of June we played our last Australian show for a while at the Brunswick Hotel in Melbourne. We thank large crowd that made it down on a rainy Melbourne night, as always the dancers + new mates The Zebras (who we hope have a fine time in Europe) and Deadbeat Club who got the night off to a lively start, the evening also saw the departure of long time Cannanes collaborator Gus Butler who announced his retirement from the stage after 30 years of rockin & rollin, we thank Gus for his input over the years and wish him well in his new endeavours (no time to recap now ~ see our history for the full story). 19th of June we played Bendigo with the excellent bill of ~ A Million Bright Ambassadors of Morning, Lucinda Scott & James Earthenware ~ those of you who live in Melbourne look out for them playing soon. Also if you're off to Appollo Bay be shure to catch New Estate and if you're ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD try and catch Rory McLeod.

Over May -June we'll be touring overseas so may not be able to update this website on the road. We'll do our best to keep our gigs page updated and also you can check out our myspace for recent & upcoming events ~ http://www.myspace.com/cannanes

We recently made it back to play our fifth! Little Day Out in Sydney which was as usual a top afternoon for all involved, once again Ian Moss and his missus Margeaux graced the Laurel Tree House stage (this year with their son on drums!) as well the Baby Bees and surprise guests Darren Hanlon & Sarah Blasco. The Cannanes were pleased by the level of audience participation (ie. use of maracas & tambourines) in the 1-5 age group, some of whome have no doubt witnessed the band live every single year of their young lives! and seemed quite hip to the rhythms.
On the 26th of January we played our first show for 2008 at Penny Lane! (Guildford/Victoria) followed by a fine day out at the APPLECORE FESTIVAL held in Brunswick (Melbourne/Australia) back in February, you can view footage of the show at YouTube if the link works? We are currently adding the finishing touches to the new album and look forward to playing Bendigo& Melbourne in April + of course our looming OS tour (see above~more dates to be added soon).

 

BONE CURSE STRIKES AGAIN!

Unfortunately on the 20th of October as The Cannanes were about to make an impromptu appearance at a birthday party in Bendigo G-Roy was smitten again by the mysterious Cannanes bone curse and currently awaits the doctors opinion on treatment. We're sure you'll join us in wishing him a speedy recovery. Also on that evening The Cannanes played their first ever live set without Stephen! Details still a bit sketchy at this point in time though seems it may have taken place while G-Roy and Stephen were at the hospital!

September 30th 2007: Just got back from two very enjoyable and well attended shows in Perth and an equally enjoyable HouseParty in Dunsborough WA ~ while over there we also managed to do a radio interview on RTRFM + Fran and Stephen made a live apperance on CH31s Wake Up WA programme, you can watch it stream at mefeedia.com ~ enormous thanks to Alexandra Glazov for making the tour happen! + everyone else who looked after us, came to shows and lent us gear, I think Fran has written a fairly extensive account of our time accross at MySpace/Cannanes, We'll try and get some photos + perhaps film up here soon.

August 2007 : We played three shows and continued work on the album.

Thanks to Summer Cats for asking us to join them at their 1st record launch! and Tom at The Toff for looking after us (definitely the Toffest rider we've ever seen) and the audience for all coming down (or up) so early.

Thanks also to Dallas at The Newie for once again making us feel so at home, great to see a booker dancing to a band and fantastic to have Francesca Bussey join us on bass for the evening. Thanks also to guest guitarist Lance Hillier for his spectacular guitar work and Bridgett Robertson for adding her as always lovely harmonies.

Fran and Stephen finished off what was quite a musical month with a short set in Bendigo with The Surrender Monkeys filling the roles of Bon, G-Roy, Jam-e and Penstir who couldn't be there for various reasons.

Our 2nd Annual Bendigo show with Cheese Excursion which went so well we've made a pact to do it again next year, if you're planning a trip to Regional Victoria in 2008 pencil in Bendigo for the Easter Weekend, plenty of "Side Show" events like the Easter and the night dragon parades, quilting exhibits etc. see you there!?

Thanks to all those who came along to the Newmarket show in January to play, dance, and party on later, herewith some shots of the festivities. Bendigo 130107 ~ At the show and at the after party ~ many thanks to Liam Thorpe for the photos

We had a ball at our three November shows and would like to thank everyone who came up to us with kind words after we'd played, makes us feel wanted! Was nice to play some all ages venues as well, the Melbourne and Sydney shows with Calvin and Woelv were all class & we also got to enjoy Sly Hats and Kiosk for the first time, both of whom were excellent, get out and see them when you can. The Little Day Out IV (on Nov 12th) was yet another fine afternoon of fresh air and top performances this year including Mossys missus hitting the stage and El Mopa making their LDO debut.

Click HERE to view 1.6MB Quicktime a short chunk of film of us playing some of the song Rock 2 from our forthcoming album This is what it sounds like at The Newtown Theatre on November 5th 2006 ~ soon we will have footage from our Japan tour up, we have the technology, just learning how to use it! + IF ANYONE who was taking photos at these shows would like to send us one we'd love to see em!

Praise to the hordes who braved the rain and turned up at the Hoey in Sydney for the Flywheel album launch a short while back, it was an impressive turnout for such an early show but those who arrived in time for Tim Kevin were richly rewarded by his very impressive solo act, The C's did a slightly acoustic set then Flywheel turned in a record launch worthy performance with some excellent Special Guests. The Cannanes (well 4 of us) then kicked on to the CAD factory in Marrickville for an unadvertised appearance where G Roy debuted on drums !

CANNANE ATTENDS EDINBURGH FESTIVAL !

To our trumpeter Penny Penny McBride and musical / theatrical cohort Viccy Wah Wah spent three weeks of August performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe ~ they returned triumpant and will no doubt be doing some shows here soon ~ they have a website: Police emergency ~ check it out.

2006 JAPAN TOUR DIARY

After a six date tour of Japan and some holidays in foreign lands, the band have all now returned to Australia armed with copious footage and some lovely photos and recordings of the tour, most of this tour diary should be up any minute now on our History pages, we'll put a link here when it's decent. If you are keen to know what went on you could check out our newish Cannanes MySpace page which gives a very brief account and some photos and things you won't find here. Whilst in Japan we were invited to play South Korea, Mexico and in the few weeks before we left, Germany, England, US, Canada and Perth! If we can wing it we'd like to be able to make it to all of these places and more in the next 18 months; fingers crossed. Also whilst we were in Japan our back catalogue started going up on iTunes ! yes eight Cannanes albums {including A Love Affair with Nature} are now up available in the high resolution iTunes format for the convenience of downloading to your home computer or MP3 or MP4 device without even leaving your chair! more info soon. Oh yeah and we've got a new CD release, see below + news just in the Grassy Flat EP should be arriving from the US in the next few weeks.

BENDIGO DOES US PROUD!
Easter weekend we played our first ever Regional Victorian show in Bendigo! [ the show was reviewed by Shane Moritz in issue 12 of the very fine English magazine planB ] A rather large crowd turned up and made us feel most at home, the after party turned into a Shoju fuelled Christian songwriting and dance extravaganza which went on till dawn. Big thanks to all who came, and stayed! Also to the brilliant, eclectic CHEESE EXCURSION words can't describe them, check em out live (if you live in/near Melbourne) or get hold of the Cheese Excursion Medical Journal and their for general exhibitionism CD release. Big thanks also to Steve Saxton for doing the doubly difficult solo+opener slot. Herewith as promised, a few photos from the night.

Bendigo 150406 ~ L-R: SO Meets CE, CE Bell song, CE Brass section, Fran and Guest tambo player (Boy Moritz)

CANNANES LIVE AND ON THE TELE!

Just before we set off for Japan we whipped down to Melbourne to play at The Old Bar in Fitzroy and The Noise Bar in Brunswick ~ the Noise Bar show was filmed for broadcast on Ch31 Melbourne and SBS Australia and screened at very short notice (to us) the following weekend

The Cannanes "This Is What It Sounds Like" Tour :  Co-organized by
*Office-Glasgow *Sunday Tuning *Moools *Imperial Sugar Daddy

Feb 10 Friday - 18:30 open / 19:00 start
 Tokyo, Sangenjaya Grapefruit Moon
 2,000 yen + 1 drink order
w/ Andersens & Suppamicropamchopp & Meme
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Feb 11 Saturday - 18:30 open / 19:00 start
 Tokyo, Koenji Penguin House
 2,000 yen + 1 drink order
w/ Saboten & Sekifu &  My Pal Foot Foot
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Feb 14 Tuesday - 19:00 open / 19:30 start
 Osaka, Shinsekai Bridge
 adv 3,500 yen / door 3,800 both + 1 drink order
w/ BMX Bandits & Tenniscoats
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Feb 16 Thursday - 19:00 open / 19:30 start
 Kyoto, Cafe Independants
 adv 3,500 yen / door 3,800 both + 1 drink order
 Sunday Tuning presents "SUNDAY FUN"
w/ BMX Bandits & Tenniscoats & Kazumi Nikaidoh
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Feb 17 Friday - 19:00 open / 19:30 start
 Nagoya, KD Japon
 adv 3,500 yen / door 3,800 both + 1 drink order
w/ BMX Bandits & Tenniscoats
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Feb 18 Saturaday - 18?30open / 19?00start
 Tokyo, Shimokitazawa Shelter
 adv 2,500 yen / door 2,800 : Ticket PIA & Lawson (L Code : 37109)
 Moools Presents "The 11th Moools Festival"
w/ Moools & Elekibass

 

OH the HORROR! ~ BONE CURSE SMITES 3 CANNANES IN THREE WEEKS!!!

Imagine yourself happily riding your bike to work, seeing a puddle of what seems like water in front of you, hitting it and realizing it's oil, then completely loosing control and ending up in hospital with TWO broken wrists! This was G Roys fate the morning before our November Melbourne show. The good news is he sustained no other injuries and next day was up and about and keen to enjoy the good weather ~ as the band had a show booked the following night and as all showfolk know "the show must go on" James stepped across to bass duties, also Miranda P-W of RazzMatazz fame joined us on guitar for a couple of searing rock numbers. The event was the Tugboat album launch (BIG thanks to the Tug crew for helping us through what could have been a difficult night), and a good time was had by all! (though our thoughts were with G Roy who sensibly stayed home). The following week week, Bon fell of his bike! (avoiding a pram ), ending up with a sore back, bruising, grazing and a few stitches. Two weeks later Stephen had a run in with some scarey stairs which resulted in a broken arm! All have now recovered and looking foreward to more shows.

AWESOME.....

Plug Uglies played.  Man, they blew the roof off!  They played all the favourites which I couldn't remember because if you remember the eighties you weren't there and I was there.  I can't remember the seventies either except for the episode of The Brady Bunch where Marcia gets her nose broken just before the big party.  That was cool.  I guess I mustn't have been stoned that day.  Yeah, I think that was the day Mum confiscated my bong but after the Brady Bunch I made one out of a plastic fruit juice bottle and got stoned again. 

If I wasn't a cool rock star and hadn't spent the time Plug Uglies were playing in my dressing room having cocaine blown up my arse by my roadie, Bum Crack Guy, then I might have something to say about the 2005 Plug Uglies. But I don't, so - whatever.

After the show we went to an exclusive club called Alice's House and drank Annabel's wine which was kinda cool.  Razz Matazz played a couple of songs which was mellow and groovy.  You know, some people get drunk and they kinda bellow which is uncool cause I'm a musician and my ears are my instrument.  You wouldn't bellow at a chisel or a scalpel and you shouldn't bellow at a musician's ear either. Uncool.

Next day we went home if we were cool or to Canberra if we weren't. 
Good times.
G Roy

Stop Press: Bum Crack Guy has been sent off to roadie re education camp for failing to plug in G Roys bass

The Oxfam show raised over $1000 which is pretty good for a Sunday night at the Hopetoun. Thanks to All

RECENT RELEASE NEWS

The new Grassy Flat EP has been pressed! Meanwhile new songs and albums under construction - 'all the words you say' but real title perhaps something about vipers or jewels. This pink is a bit revolting. Sorry!

and by the way WE HAVE A NEW RELEASE! ~ ie. our film clip for the You Name It from the Trouble seemed so far away CD we did a little while back with Explosion Robinson is now available on DVD on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records
the DVD also features such indie luminaries as Huon, New Estate, Boyracer, The Clientele, The Bright Lights, Architecture in Helsinki and Of Montreal.

The DVD is currently being screened at indie pop events throughout the U.S. you can order a copies from HHBTMR thanks to Jayme Guokas for putting it out, and Neil Thomas & Mollie for making the clip in the first place!

WHERE CANNANES AT?

Mid July 2006 we were up/down in Melbourne for a couple of shows + 3 days recording at the very cool Simon Grounds' Sub Zero Studios. Highlights of the week included Super Computers debut performance [featuring our old mates and traveling companion Scott Brewer & Scott Stevens ex-of The Earthmen] and The Boy Moritz Dancers at the Town Hall Hotel, playing The Empress with Man Bites God (celebrating 5 years in the business) and the very entertaining (and musical) Fred Astereo, & partying on with Francesca and her crew back in Coburg.

On Sunday 12th June 2005 we had the pleasure of performing live down the phone to Providence RI on 'Phoning it in' hosted by Nadav Carmel ~ we performed live in our kitchen in BENDIGO and the show streamed live from Rhode Island USA on BSR88.1FM ~ the show was archived and didn't sound too bad! you can check it out @ Phoning it in while you're there make sure you have a listen to other recent phone ins by Daniel Johnston, David Kilgour, Jad Fair, Little Wings, Corndawg and a host of other indie luminaries ~ some great stuff there!

RECORDING NEWS

Recording wise we've been quite busy, two new recording projects were begun last month which might seem a tad foolish as we have so many unfinished recordings (all slowly nudging their way forward though), a German 7", German comp, the "best of", 3" CDEP + several new albums, as is so often the case with this band they will probably all end up being released on the same day. Anyway to prove we haven't been idle of late we offer you a peek into Remembrance of Things Past, the Proust, "Rock Opera" Fran has been collaborating on with Matt Galloway of New York listen to a ROUGH MIX of Act 2 Scene 3 (be patient it takes a couple of minutes to start playing) this city is a dream-Albertine and Marcel in a happy moment in New York . Big thanks to Houseboy of music website fasterlouder.com.au for his touching tribute piece on the Cannanes a few months back (focusing on the Love Affair album in particular which he describes as "my Never Mind The Bollocks, That's Alright Mama, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Nevermind!" read it now
We are well aware it's been a while since we have had a full length release of our own but trust us! many things in the works and once we get rolling there will be no stopping us! for a taste of what lies ahead check out our mp3s page for a demo we recorded in a spare moment.

Slightly Older News Last time we played the Warren View Hotel in Sydney an old mate of Stephens turned up with some fantastic photographs of his first band with ex & now current Cannane G Roy (aka Gus Pipeline), the band were called Guthugga Pipeline and played a major role in The Cannanes Prehistory: check em out at the Pipeline Page 12th of March (well it was the 13th by the time we got on) we performed at "Woolstock" a sort of indie rockfolk fest held at the beautiful Rosnay organic Farm in Central Western New South Wales. We got to see (and get a note or two out of) the worlds largest playable guitar on route). Once there the camping was perfect, our hosts most warm and plenty of fine foods, organic wines and home grown music enjoyed by all, hopefully we'll be back next year. Big thanks to Andrew Wooldridge for organizing it. If your in the market for some top notch organic produce, check out their website for your nearest outlet, you may be surprised how close it is! Tis big! ~ SO 'N with the Worlds' largest playable guitar ! Narrandera New South Wales ~ March 2005 Finishing touches are still being put to the Dark Beloved Cloud 3"EP due for release any second now ~ in the meantime we were unable to resist the temptation to play some shows, including a lovely evening at The Empress in Melbourne and very strange night at The Warren View in Sydney back in December (including an Elvis sighting! ~ more details below); maybe it had something to do with putting that clown on the poster? (read even more about it on Frans' Vanity Page). T o m U p s t o n e w r o t e : H e l l o ! So there I was in the rooftop bar of the Sofitel in Phillip street, having been at a large Advertising lunch trying to persuade the printers I'm with to join me in kicking on to a pub in Newtown to see a gig - a rare free appearance by The Cannanes - a legendary indie Sydney band that have been going for 20 years. I fail, jump in a cab and start heading home. Sod it I think and decide that as the pub is only 10 minutes from home I'll stop off - just for a while at least. I enter the pub, the band's playing and sounding good ( the female lead singer is at least 45 now and looks like a teacher ). As the pub is so small, the bass player is standing in front of the fag machine and I've run out. So I go up to a girl who's smoking and ask to buy a cigarette. She kindly gives me one with a smile. The bloke who's just been talking to her taps me on the shoulder and says' I've got to talk to you, you could be my brother!'. I look at him - wearing a baseball cap, with glasses, slightly smaller and fatter than me ( but with better teeth ). "Do I know you - what's your name?" I ask. 'Reginald Dwight' ( Elton's real name ) he replies. 'Don't give me that, I'm a Watford fan - I know who that is - you're not who I think you are, are you?'. At which he takes off his cap quickly and puts it back on and fuck me sideways it's Elvis Costello. 'Do you want a drink?' he asks -'Just a Red Bull thanks I reply feeling myself sobering up with shock. He returns from the bar and says again how remarkable the similarity between the two of us is and I tell him I get it all the time and now I have a great story to tell them next time someone mentions it. He says he's in town for a couple of days before heading to Japan and is watching the Cannanes because he's heard them on John Peel and is still mourning his death. I tell him how I burst into tears after hearing a 30 minute tribute to Peel on the BBC World Service. He tells me how he's been to his house and to see Liverpool play with him. I tell him I'm making my radio debut the next evening on a Sydney local station playing all my old Punk 45's and that Radio Radio is one of them. We watch the band. The band finishes. I say - 'go on - play a tune' .He says 'I wasn't going to, but will for you' - starts walking towards the band, who are packing up but thinks better of it and backs off. I say to the bass player 'that's Elvis Costello' he replies 'I know! ! !'. Anyway - then he's off. I go outside, walk 2 minutes to the nearest 7-11, buy some fags and phone up the wife. She believes me - I'm still in shock and go back to the bar for a Red Bull with vodka this time. And then he's back at the bar - 'Just had to get rid of those record company people - want to keep drinking with my brother' he says' Meet Mick - he helps me out'. Mick appears to be his minder. 'Reg' as he insists on calling himself asks me about what I do. I tell him about work, the kids etc etc. He tells me his son is now 26 and he doesn't see enough of him. 'Let's go and find some girls' he says as the pub starts to close. So we walk down Enmore road, I tell him I didn't go to his Sydney shows as $120 a ticket was too much. We arrive at the Town Hall pub and me, 'Reg' & Mick are refused entry - 'you've all had to much' says the bouncer. I resist the urge to say 'don't you know who this is?' and take my new friends across the road to the Zanzibar, where they always let you in. 'Reg' goes and shouts the drinks again. Me and Mick sit at a table. 'Reg' goes off talking to girls. I'm now doing my best to persuade Mick to get Elvis along to FBI ( the radio station I'm appearing on ) the next night as a major surprise guest. Mick tells me that Elvis lost a brother whilst growing up. Anyway - 10 minutes later Elvis/Reg/Declan decides it's time for him to go & tells me that I'm a good, passionate, creative person and to go for my dreams. We shake hands and I give him my business card - I walk home on cloud 9 or 10. I wake up hung over and in shock - had this all been real? Thank god for the two phone calls to Amanda to tell of my evening's progress. I do the radio show the next evening, which is loads of fun but no surprise guest! As well as Radio Radio I finish with 'Watching the detectives' - just in case he's listening. It's my birthday on the Monday and I have a day off - as soon as I'm at work on Tuesday I check his website & his next gig is in Tokyo 8/12 - so he was hanging out in Sydney before going to Japan. What a birthday! Tom x x x . . A depressing result in the US election but I guess not our fault. If only it didn't make John Howard so happy. The Aussie dollar continues its climb though. Our idle claim that the Cannanes would go back to the USA when the Aust $ was worth 80c US is looking like a possibility. Oh frabjous day. We were most upset to hear of the death of John Peel on 28th of October. In our opinion the finest DJ to ever present music on air. Not just a champion of English "indie" but an incredibly open minded music lover as anyone who managed to catch some of his "Peelenium" broadcasts would agree. Though he played The Cannanes on numerous occasions, we can now only cry in our beers, never to be able to do a "Peel Session" which was very much on the cards when we toured Europe a while back. If you are not familiar with Johns work we'd suggest you check out his homepage at the BBC Bad/good news in September - a warehouse in Sydney where irreplaceable Cannanes master tapes were being stored recently leaked during a large storm, tape boxes were found covered in mould with some having made it's way to the tapes. Some tapes have now been baked! to remove moisture, the tapes were placed in the trusted hands of Troy Horse Studios who have had them transfered to digital formats i.e..(the good news?) Possible re-mix albums! Our Bon sits in with Dazza Hanlon & Mossy ! @ LDO 2005 The last Sunday in September we played The Little Day Out II ~ held at Laurel Tree House Child Care Centre in Sydney, the lineup included Aussie ROCK LEGEND Ian Moss + Aussie INDIE ROCK LEGEND Darren Hanlon. The Cannanes played minus our trumpet virtuoso Penny who was still hangin with her guru in India (and has since returned to us). Highlights of the afternoon included guest guitarist Yannick Caffarel-Slade making a spectacular Rock 'n Roll debut + Darren H and our very own Bon K joining Mossy for the second half of his set! If you missed it Fran made many cameo appearances in the long running TV documentary series Reality Bites screened on the ABC here in Australia. The four episodes titled Street Practice which aired over September watch out for a rerun some time soon. In August we had the pleasure of playing our first of what we hope will be many shows at Brunswicks Vic Hotel ~ great place ~ the band room is like a large kitchen with lounge chairs, tasteful 50's decor and a stage at one end. The new look Flywheel opened with a very mature set featuring the superb harmonies of James and brother Toby, Cannanes followed in "new wave mode" [Fran and Stephen joined by snappy Greg Wadley on drums, kinky Guy Blackman on electric organ and groovin James Dutton on bass] for a largely retro set of Cannanes classics, then we were all treated to a Supersized set by brilliant young Melbourne band New Estate who after exhausting their set list added a good half hour of improvised rock to satiate the crowds thirst for more! Our 7th of July show was a farewell to our wonderful trumpeter Penny McBride who was off for holls in India, many ex Cannanes were on the premises and the evenings sets were well peppered with Cameo performances including Andy Coffey up on stage with us for a raunchy rip through Last Resort Back in May we played occasional Cannane James Duttons 40th and were stoked to have Phil Moriarty step up to the microphone for an absolutely stunning impromptu solo on one of our newer songs Guilty MAGAZINE BLITZ ! ~ The Cannanes have recently rated good mentions in this Summers edition of The Rattler ( The magazine of NSW Community Child Care Cooperative ~ with a very fine photo of the band playing to some very cute kiddies) and the June issue of LaTrobe University Librarys' Library Link ! We were also are pleased to see Japanese glossie Pop & Independent Magazine Cookie Scene December / January 2004 issue has included not only a large article + tour review but also have put You Name It on the CD compilation that goes with it (which also include The Aluminium Group, Kid 606 + 18 other indie tracks) Our last show for 2003 took place at Sydneys famous Grosvenor Club aka The Taxi Club ~ a fun evening was had by all despite the unexpected arrival of 16 gloved police with two sniffer dogs! ~ thankfully no one was searched or dragged out though it was a very offensive intrusion. Musically The Rebel Astronauts were awesome Panel of Judges gave a peak performance Cannanes did their thing then all enjoyed the dj's till the early hours ! If you object to Sniffer Dogs in Venues or happened to be at the show and were as disgusted as us you might take the time to lodge a complaint with the NSW Council for Civil Liberties Sniffer Dogs Complaint Page The show was also a Re-launch for our Electro 2000 EP ~ Re-release with very snazzy hand printed lino cut sleeve art by Neil Michka ~ extremely limited edition ~ order now to avoid disappointment! JAPAN TOUR SEPT 2003 ~ TOUR DIARY ! Many photos + much video was taken of the tour as well as many words written ~ the diary is now up with photos + mpgs ~ check it out Beautiful origami adorned card ~ sent by Masako Enomoto of Tokyo ~ ~ ~ OTHER NOT QUITE SO RECENT EVENTS ~ ~ ~ SUN 16th Nov '03 we did a funny fundraiser for The South Sydney Herald then that evening a very sort notice a hilarious live to air on the final Crash Hot on 2SER FM SUN 2nd of Nov '03 we played a benefit for Laurel Tree House Child Care Centre in Glebe (Sydney). Much money was raised and a fine day was had by all and we'll get some shots of the day up here soon ~ in the mean time keep an eye out for the current issue of childcare magazine The Rattler The Sunday before we played the Back to Redfern Festival in Redfern Park (Sydney), a bit more of a "Big Day Out" with many local and Indigenous artist performing on the day, we got to close proceedings after The Stiff Gins and Christine Anu had done their thing and despite the rain managed to get quite a large portion of the crowd dancing! ~ thanks to the Mayor, the excellent stage crew and all involved in the organizing. We got back from Japan on the 28th of Sept '03 and played that very night at the Annandale Hotel here in Sydney ~ whew what a tour ~ two members of the band have described it as the best 10 days of their lives! ~ massive thanks to Shintaro for getting us there ~ and it all went so well looks like we'll be back there in 2005~ besides having great audiences and a fantastic time much video was shot which we hope to be able to include on the site when time permits Thanks to the huge crowd that turned up to our fridge magnet launch at The Warren View on 24th October ~ the publican told us it was the largest he'd seen there ! At last ! ~ Cannanes fridge magnets ~ get em fast! Also new photos taken by Sydney rock-photographer the legendary TONY MOTT now in Press Kit Photos Before we left for Japan we played a very well attended and received show at Ric's Bar in Brisbane then the University of NSW Expo here in Sydney, a fun day out where we had the opportunity to view the artwork To absent friends which is also the worlds largest hologram ! as well as watch robot dogs play soccer and many other informative activities Following another good rockin 3 sets at The Warren View the Friday before Japan we did a short notice Live to Air on excellent new Sydney radio station FBI 94.5FM ~ huge thanks to the wonderful Simon Aveling for asking us on his show

NON SHOW RELATED NEWS

KURTS JOURNAL Herewith as promised: "these are some of the Bands I like." ~ page 229 of Kurt Cobains Journals ~ Believe it or not! ~ WE WERE OVERJOYED TO SEE OUR SEE THAT OUR YOU NAME IT VIDEO WAS THE FIRST VIDEO FOR 2003 SCREENED ON AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TV PROGRAMME RAGE 11.25PM ON FRIDAY THE 3RD OF JANUARY ~ Naturally we cracked a bottle of Champers to celebrate the event ! RAGE continued the trend throughout January and showed the video every Friday night! Thanks rrrrrraaaaaaggggge! ALSO: back in February we got a four star review in Rolling Stone! (up there with Pretenders, George Harrison, Elvis Costello and Missy Elliott we were glad to note) GOING NATIONAL ! - National radio station triple J added our song You Name It to their 'net 50' not long before Xmas where it remained till some time around Easter long weekend ! ~naturally we were pleased about this also BEST ALBUM OF 2002 ? As well as You Name It remaining on the triple J net 50 - our latest album Trouble seemed so far away was a contender (one of 3,000,000) - for triple J album of the year ~ the results seem to have slipped past us at this stage Even stranger ! Trouble was also featured ! on the Radio National - Night Club programme, sharing the spotlight with Meatloafs' Bat Out of Hell - go figure ! You Name It - the video! The video clip for You Name It is a functioning part of this website NOW! ~ we would very much like to thank { Neil, Thomas and Molly for - shooting ~ editing ~ production } & good times ! If you would like to view it just click here and you will be transported to our video archive

Well the other BIG Cannanes news is the documentary being made about the band, that's right Rocumentary! and it's looking to be a pretty comprehensive one as well (currently clocking in at around 35 minutes with and estimated 50 mins for the DVD release) ~ to cut a long story short production is almost finished with broadcasting and a DVD planned for release some time in 2006 you can check what the the makers are up to at ether.com.au We won't give too much away here about what to expect but naturally we'll keep you posted. In the meantime anyone who is interested in participating e.g.. with reminiscences, photographs, or any live footage ( and we know there is a fair bit of it out there! ) you can still contact either us ( by clicking on the troll up topleft ) or better still the producers Neil, Thomas & Molly