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Rising Talent Matt Joe Gow Checks In To Say Hi

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Hey groupie readers,
My name is Matt Joe Gow and I front a band called Matt Joe Gow and The Dead Leaves. We are a Country / Rock n’ Roll band and are about to embark on a nationwide tour of Australia to support the release of our debut album ‘The Messenger’.

Guest Bloggers: True Live Discover You Can’t Sleep In A 12 Seater Bus

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Friday
Up early for the flight to sydney. Perfect Check-in and we’ve got 3kg to spare, thanks to the ultra light electric double-bass that yamaha have lent us for the tour. goodbye excess baggage fees!

Waiting for soundcheck, we spend the day at thai restaurants, looking for shoes and running at the floor to ceiling windows of [...]

Guest Blogger: M.I.T. Documents Newcastle/Canberra Nightlife On The Purple Sneakers Tour

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

We hit Newcastle first driving up in PhDJ’s dad’s car (Papa Ph as I now call him). It was a pretty smooth trip for the first hour until the engine started spewing out black smoke!

Being the manly men that we are, PhDJ & I got out to inspect the damage only to realize that we [...]

Guest Bloggers – Dash & Will

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Hey guys!
So here’s a little taste of what’s been happening on the ‘OUT OF CONTROL’ tour lately…!

Dash & Will Out Of Control In WA

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Dash & Will hit Victoria this week on their Out of Control Tour and have just played their first ever WA gigs.

Here is what the girls have to say from the road:
We’re stopping into our home town Melbs for a few days before we head off again to rock your socks off thru Vic!!! We [...]

True Live On The Road

Monday, June 15th, 2009

The difficult to define True Live take their hip hop/jazz/rap/”art hop” arrive in Sydney this week with a show at The Basement this Friday.

The band have sent us some exclusive pics from the word – check out their tour diary after the jump.

Guest Blogger – The Temper Trap

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

The Temper Trap are back with more guest blogging for Groupie. Check out part 1 here if you missed it.
After getting over the shock of moving to a new city we set out on our first run of European dates.

Guest Blogger – Walkie Talkie

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Wollongong Uni gig.

Last night M.I.T. (Tim spelled backwards) and I got shipped down to the university of Wollongong for the first stop on the Purple Sneakers DJs national tour.

Guest Bloggers – The Temper Trap

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The Temper Trap have been kind enough to give Groupie Mag a couple of exclusive blog posts…

“Two Months of Madness”
So it’s been two months since we have moved from the Land of Oz and many things have happened while we’ve been here. We have played in five new countries, moved into a house, managed to [...]

Guest Bloggers: True Live

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

We had a maniacal week leading up to the beginning of the tour at the corner hotel (really great performance, and resounding success in the way only a sold-out hometown show can be).

Rehearsals, more rehearsals, printing t’shirts, chasing albums, culling guest lists and a whole load of running around meant no sleepy for us. We [...]