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Hi everybody! The new CD by ARNO DE CEA & THE CLOCKWORK WIZARDS, featuring members of Antena Tres and Stef & Arno, is now available from DOUBLE CROWN RECORDS. It featues 11 original songs and 2 covers of Erik Satie "Première Gymnopédie" and Eddie & the Showmen "Squad car". Enjoy!

THE BREAK
A Double Dose Of Pounding Surf
with Martin Cilia (The Atlantics)
Manly Fisho’s – Friday, 1st April, 2011

When the three remaining members of Midnight Oil formed Australia’s most exciting new surf band last year with Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie, their first club date was at a packed-out Manly Fisho’s. The guys returned in November for sold out shows with mates The Hoodoo Gurus. With Fisho’s set to close its doors any day now, fans have one final chance to catch The Break’s incredible live performance at the venue. The Break have been busy touring their strange and wonderful brand of interplanetary surf since the April release of their hugely acclaimed debut album ‘Church of the Open Sky’.  With stand-out performances at major festivals across Australia, including Byron and Woodford and a now legendary appearance closing ABC’s Spicks and Specks, The Break is fully amped and ready to party. The band will be available for meet and greet/signings after the show.

The Manly show offers a double helping of surf with a bill that includes The Atlantics’  surf rock guitarist Martin Cilia, whose live set will feature fellow Atlantics Michael Smith and Jeff Cripps and will include classic favourites like ‘Bombora’ as well as tunes from Cilia’s solo surf guitar albums.

Kicking off the evening will be Central Coast singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Moldre whose swag of catchy indie pop songs are perfectly embellished by the impressive skills of percussionist Adam Lang on suitcase drums, lap steel and banjo. 

 
Tickets for this show are priced at $20 + b/f in advance and $25 on the door.
Pre-booking strongly recommended at www.moshtix.com.au,
300 GET TIX (438 849) mobile www.moshtix.mobi and all moshtix outlets

www.thebreak.net.au
www.martincilia.com        
www.markmoldre.com

Follow Martin Cilia on twitter for more news and updates.

Aloha, the new CD "Gimme Some Noise!" is out now and available at

iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gimme-some-noise/id421195950
Amazon http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004PF6T56
CD baby http://cdbaby.com/cd/razorblades4
guitar9 http://www.guitar9.com/gimmesimenoise.html
Flight 13 http://www.flight13.com/details/93667/razorblades-gimme-some-noise

und our webshop: http://www.therazorblades.de/shop/

19 Songs, tons of guitars, High Speed and even singers!
Vinyl on April 1st via Kamikaze Records .....

We will have a big CD Release Party on April 2nd in Wiesbaden, Germany at the Schlachthof. Hope to see you there!

The Noble Gasses finished their new CD "It's A Gass!" late last night after a marathon mixing session... Drop us an email if you'd like a free sample... thenoblegasses@gmail.com

Aloha, all.

I am looking for promo CDs of surf music bands to air on my "Island Time" radio show.  If you would like to send me anything, here's my address:

P.O. Box 1269, Kilauea, Hawaii 96754.

My show originated on KMXT public radio in October, 2000, and is about to be revived there. I frankly was unaware of how many bands are producing great music in the old style, and I would like to air your music to the "Island Time" mix.

Thanks!

You may have noticed SG101 has changed! Yes, that's right we switched over to all new software with a new design by Ken Dushane. As we settle into the new digs and squash the bugs, I have a request for all you graphic designers. 

I'd like to get a new set of "news topics icons" for the new site. I'm willing to pay you for your work, and give you credit on our colophon page. Please send me a quote and perhaps a sketch of your ideas or a pointer to existing work. 

You can see the existing topic icons on the news category page. 

For any one who has been asking when we are playing, and there are not many of you, here ya go.

For these shows, we will be playing the hits of Carlos Garde, Argentinas Tango maestrol, with a surprise appearance by Gauchito Gil.

Mel Phantom Surfers

New surf band straight out of Austin Texas - hope you guys dig it!

The Really Rottens

Free downloads

ODM will be playing at Columbine Lounge & Restaurant  on Wed. 3/2/11 from 7:30-8:30 pm.  CL&R is located at 7660 S Pierce, Littleton, CO.

Hope to see you there.

Gary

Dear SG101 Peeps -

As we approach the 5 year anniversary of the interactive version of this website, some changes are blowing in with the rising surf. As many of you know, I've been working (on and off) for almost 2 years on a new version of this dear website. The time has come to "go live" with this new software and new design. That time is tentatively going to be this coming weekend, starting on Friday, February 25th.

Most of the content we currently have here will follow us to the new site: user accounts, news stories, our Web links database, and our massive collection of forum posts. You won't need to re-register or anything like that, your current user name and password combination will continue to work.

Stuff I am not bringing over, at least right away: photo of the day, member map, calendar entries, avatars, and private messages. If you have some information in your private messages you want to keep, please save it yourself manually. You have been warned (although I do apologize for the short notice).

Since I'm just an amateur Web developer, and only one man, I have no idea what is going to go wrong during this process. I expect the site to go down sometime Friday morning for two to five hours. Depending on how things go, this may stretch into a day or even days. Please bear with me during this process. Play some guitar or listen to some great surf music. If you'd like to keep up on the progress, please check the @SurfGuitar101 twitter feed, or pop into IRC (I'll be there, swearing and panicking, most likely).

The current site has served us well, but it is very creaky and tedious to keep running. The new site will allow me to provide many more features for the SG101 community. I hope it will be worth the long wait.

Please discuss the upcoming transition in this forum thread.

Thanks in advance for your patience!
--BN