Our "Heavy Harm Launch" gig got reviewed as a the feature gig of this week in Drum Media.

Check it out! xxx 

Howdy!

Thankyou SO much to everybody came on Saturday night to our EP launch, we we're so happy to see it sell out. Not only that it was overflowing! It was nuts. That said i heard some people where getting turned back at the door, we are so sorry if this was you :( The whole show was captured on video so we will be posting that soon with photos as well. Good times :)

xxx

Here are some photos for the mean time. (All photos by the wonderful Metaxia Coustas)

That said, we're announcing new show dates! Hurah!

We're hitting the road with "The Holidays" in support of their Post Paradise album tour. Dates below. (all shows 18+)

We're also playing the ONE MOVEMENT festival in Perth inbetween the early tour dates, good times! 

see you all soon i hope, <3 - thr

Hey All!

Our Heavy Harm EP came out last friday, The 13th! 

We played a great set in Brisbane to a great crowd down at the Club House, and chatted to the nice folks at ZZZ Radio. 

Overall it was an awesome time, we're gonna start taking more photos of where we go too, words don't say enough about these places sometimes. 

Anyway, you can get our new EP from

ITUNES - > http://bit.ly/c61UaQ

or

JB Hi Fi -> http://bit.ly/afNAtG

Or at any "good" record shop :)

Don't forget to say hello to us at one of our Launches, this Friday we're hitting up Melbourne's Purple Sneakers night in support of the record.
On the 28th is our big home town show at the Infamous Spectrum, tix on MOSHTIX ->  http://bit.ly/b7s4H4

ALSO! We're featured on "New & Noteworthy" on Itunes, check it out!

xxx

Hello!

Good times!

Our "Heavy Harm" EP comes out this Friday the 13th of August.

We are launching the EP with the support of FBi radio down at Oxford Streets infamous SPECTRUM.

You can buy tickets at MOSHTIX or at the door -> http://bit.ly/dotGkN

We've worked very hard on the record so we look foward to see your faces :)

In other news we have been getting alot of love from MYSPACE in the upcoming week to the release, they are streaming the whole EP and featuring it this week. Go to www.myspace.com to have a listen. Or head straight to our myspace at www.myspace.com/papavspretty .

good times!

xxxx - pvp

We got a cool review from FASTERLOUDER from our Melbourne show with Surfer Blood.

"First to take the stage were Papa Vs Pretty, a young band down from Sydney for what was also their first Melbourne show. Through chunky riffs and tearing vocals, they opened their set ablaze with a fiery spirit. Reference points abounded thick and fast, mostly headed towards the heavy rock canon, with some early Radiohead in the mix. The most impressive thing about them was the conviction, which was so powerful that conviction doesn’t quite describe it so well: they were in the kind of place where it’s happening so natural, it’s just there, and it doesn’t have anything to do with self-confidence. Being extremely tight as a band obviously helps, and this fact was really exhilarating to begin with, but after a while became a bit mercenary. All that hammering forth looked over-serious, but then came the single, Heavy Harm, and that really shone. Definitely a band to watch."

Heres some photos from our support sets at their Splendour Sideshows. 

This is by far my favorite, us playing Marracas on stage with Surfer Blood at the Corner show in Melbourne.
Great band & great guys, we hope to tour with them again someday soon.

<3 xxx - thr

If you havent seen the Heavy Harm video by Melbourne graphic design team WE ARE SYNAPSE, you can now see it on Vimeo.

Ch - ch - ch - eck it out.
xxxox

Heavy Harm from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

Howdy!

As promised, here is the latest public performance gig. This one was by far the most nerve racking, shortly after stepping on the bus (after about 2 hours of procrastination) and heading up to the back seats, we realized we we're sitting next to two very tough looking lads. Just quietly this scared the hell out of us, we assumed as soon as we produced instruments and started singing we would get the life beat out of us. But to our surprise they where nice as pie and got into it!

It felt pretty nice to get an applause as well, this to me anyway is my favorite of these.

Again, filmed by the spectacular Nirrimi Hakanson (http://www.weliveyoung.blogspot.com/)

ENJOY! xxx

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (The Beatles Cover) - Live from the Bus from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

Hello!

As you know, we have finished our "HEAVY HARM" EP produced by Paul Dempsey , the first single "Heavy Harm" is on rotation on JJJ/FBi and our first video is exclusive to faster louder ( check it out here -> http://bit.ly/byDtta )
We thought it would be nice if we set out on the road and said a big hello to the Australian cities abroad.

First up, we're supporting SURFER BLOOD for the Splendor In The Grass sideshows, then we're heading out to play some club nights in Brisbane and Melbourne.
We will be finishing the mini tour with a headline show at Sydney's "The Spectrum". Which if you purchase the $16 Pre Sale ticket from Moshtix you get a copy of the "Heavy Harm EP" with the ticket. Party Times!


HEAVY HARM EP - OUT 13th AUGUST 
Pre order from JB Hi Fi now - http://bit.ly/c6aYcW
ON TOUR IN AUGUST. 

DATES (ALL SHOWS 18+): 



FRIDAY 30th JULY- THE CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE (w/Surfer Blood)
tickets from venue - Ph 03 9427 9198, or www.cornerhotel.com

TUESDAY 3rd AUGUST - MANNING BAR, SYDNEY (w/Surfer Blood) 
tickets from manningbar.com, www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545
(ACCESS tickets: In person from The Access Centre: Lvl 1, Manning House)

FRIDAY 13th AUGUST - THE CLUB HOUSE, BRISBANE (FREE ENTRY)
Tempo Hotel - Cnr Brunswick and maclachlan St, Fortitude Valley

FRIDAY 20th AUGUST - PURPLE SNEAKERS, MELBOURNE 
Miss Libertine – 34 Franklin St, Melbourne 
tickets on door - $12

SATURDAY 28th AUGUST
- HEAVY HARM EP LAUNCH, THE SPECTRUM, SYDNEY 
The Spectrum - 34 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst
Ticket Price: $10 (Pre Sale) $13 (Door) $16 (Pre Sale Ticket & EP) 
tickets from Moshtix 1300 GET TIX / www.moshtix.com.au 

Hope to see you there! xxx - pvp 

Hey Folks,

BIG NEWS!

You can now PREORDER our new "HEAVY HARM" EP from JB-HiFi. If you purchase the preorder you get a signed copy of the record + a free poster. 

But make sure you get your orders in soon, as they are in limited supply and will get snapped up quick!

Follow this link to place your order -> http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/pop-rock/heavy-harm-signed-copy/531743

Also Fasterlouder have been featuring our new videoclip for the title track off the "Heavy Harm" EP

It was directed by Melbourne graphic designers "We Are Synapse"

You can watch it here -> "Heavy Harm Video" 

Until next time :)

<3 <3 <3 xxx - THR

Howdy All!

We have had a very busy week, played at Sydney Sounds Like "Choose Your Own Adventure" gig at The Factory Theatre, which felt fantastic. It felt nice to play to such a full and responsive crowd, awesome atmosphere as well. Was great to see everybody out to support FBi, those guys do amazing things to create events like these and to bring some of the coolest new music to the world. Good people indeed! 

Our new "Live From ... " video is up, we played a rather spontaneous cover of Bryan Adams 80s classic super ballad, HEAVEN. Where else better to play such an EPIC song, than the gigantic escalator in the Sydney Domain carpark. We we're watched by a confused security officer who probably thought we where some kind of new breed of musical terrorists. 

The video comes complete with incorrect lyrics and awkward/confused onlookers. 

Filmed by the glorious Nirrimi Hakanson (http://weliveyoung.blogspot.com/) 

Enjoy! x

Heaven (Bryan Adams cover) - Live From The Escalator from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

Also some fine photos where taken from FBi's Factory gig, check em out! 

Hello everybody!

Apologies that this post is two days late, but as promised here is the video for our somewhat public (in Chinatown) rendition of Outkast's "Hey Ya".

Next week we ride the domain escalator and belt out an 80s pop ballad, the casio keyboard really rocks out on that one. Good times :)

ENJOY! xxx

Hey Ya (Outkast cover) - Live From Chinatown from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

Howdy!

Hope all is well,

we have some news for you. 

FIRST, we have been collaborating with the acclaimed Photographer Nirrimi Hakanson

(check her blog, its quite fantastic -> http://weliveyoung.blogspot.com/). We we're hanging out in Central Sydney a little while ago and we bumped into a busker who was playing his own music outside Central Station. He had these amazing lyrics written all over his guitar, so we started talking to him. He turned out to be quite an interesting guy, guess thats what happens when you talk to strangers. 

Anyway after a conversation a crane crew came up to us and started playing on the guitar, it started getting passed around. The rest is video history! 

After this happened I felt like anything is possible, so i talked to Myers and Gus and we decided we would hit the streets and play some of our favorite songs in strange locations out in public.

We will be posting a new video every week, but first up we're posting the video the started the idea.

ENJOY :)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles Cover) Live from the Park from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

ALSO

In other news, our song "Heavy Harm" which comes of our new EP of the same title is on rotation on both Triple J and FBi so if you want to request it, by all means go ahead. Otherwise tune in and you may just hear it by accident :)

We're also playing at FBi's Sydney Sounds Like... Choose Your Own Adventure" gig at the Factory Theatre and its All Ages! 

Cloud Control, The Holiday and a whole lot of great bands are playing, most importantly though its supporting great local radio.

So get your dancing shoes on and "make a purchase" on a ticket

at this link -> http://www.factorytheatre.com.au/events/2010/07/10/fbis-sydney-sounds-like-choose-your-own-adventure

Lots of love, stay good :)

xxx <3 THR 

HOLA!

Lots and lots of news! First of all our new EP is done, finished, completed, you will be hearing some news about it in the next few weeks, but for now you can have a listen of the new single"Heavy Harm" on our myspace (www.myspace.com/papavspretty).

Also as we mentioned in a previous blog we did a whole lot of filming during our time in the studio, which has now been edited into a 3 part series that we will release periodically on the run up to the EP's release, watch the 1st one here!

Recording EP with Paul Dempsey - VBlog 1 from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

ALSO, we took some photos with the photographer nirrimi (You should read her blog its quite fab http://weliveyoung.blogspot.com/).

Have a looksie, we love them, its tremendous. :) 

DONT FORGET! 

We are playing World Bar this Friday, we start at Midnight, join the Facebook group to get a discounted entry.

click here  -> (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126250164060537&ref=mf) 

<3 <3 <3 Stay tuned 

x THR

Yo!

Paul Dempsey's "Burning Leaves" tour is drawing to a close and we have had a ball supporting him along with Dan Kelly and his Dream band. We are playing at The Forum this Saturday (24th April) in Melbourne for the last show on the tour. 

We are pretty pumped because its our first time at The Forum and from all reports it seems to be an amazing place.

here is the website for the venue -> http://www.forummelbourne.com.au/

If you can't make it Do the 360* virtual tour and pretend your watching us, its like your there, thankyou technology! 

Anyway we have been filming the whole tour, so watch this space for our tour diary over the next few weeks.

In the meantime however here are some happy snaps taken on the road.

Airport fun timez. 

Tom in a trance like state whilst watching Avatar on the plane. 

Dinosaur VS Gus, the fight begins. (Adelaide/SA) 

Side of stage before doors open at the "Gov" (Adelaide/SA) 

Swanky sailboats parked on a shiny sea in Fremantle/WA

A mad hammond organ we found backstage at the Fly By Night. (Fremantle/WA)

One of the reasons "Fly By Night" in Fremantle is one of my favorite venues (besides the fact its a giant aircraft hanger), is this, we found a Tardis side of stage, its not every day an avid Doctor Who fan gets up close and personal with a life size Tardis. Awesome.

Here are some snaps of us playing at the Metro. (Photos by Ben Wilson) 

there's heaps more happy snaps up on our photo section as well.

Tremendous <3 xxx -THR 

Hello all,

We're delighted to announce that we're playing another show in Perth WA, at The Rosemount on the 8th of APRIL for the "SPACE SHIP THURSDAYS LAUNCH NIGHT".

If you are confused about the Space Ship reference, they are a tremendous WAMi-award nominated music website.

check it out -> http://www.spaceshipnews.com.au/

Doors open at 7.30, and you can get tickets there for $8.00.

wicked! ♥ , x THR

NEWS FLASH!

We are supporting Simon Carter for his show at Melt Bar on the 25th of March (next thursday).

Tickets are 10bux and we start at 8.45!

Melt Bar holds about 200 people so it'll be all close and personal. We will be playing new songs of the new EP, its not out yet so the only way you can hear them is live. Should be super dandy!

This is the venues website -> http://www.meltbar.com.au/blog/

Here is the poster for the show.

Good timez.

<3 , x THR

Thanks to all of you who came saw us last night,

we had a great time playing for you and hopefully you enjoyed some of the new stuff.

Many thanks to The Scare as well for having us, they were pretty amazing. Really huge sound, amazing energy as well.

Fantastic!

Here's some photo's taken by Mr Anthony Kitson before and during the set. Im not sure what the photo's where taken on, but i thought they looked really cool, very vintage! 

Before...

During...

On a completely unrelated note i saw this video on late night rage last night, it made me chuckle.

So i thought i'd share it with ya'll. It's pretty ridiculous, im not sure if its serious but its quality cleche 80s hip hop.

Many a laugh to be had, enjoy!

x , THR

Yo,

At 11am on Wednesday morning we got a pretty massive surprise, we got asked to support Phoenix for their show at Luna Parks "Big Top". I was at work when i found out, Myers was in Newcastle and Gus at Uni. So we suitably freaked out and prepared as best we could from our locations, anyway as they say a picture speaks louder than words. So heres a video and some pictures.

aw yeah.

This video has some footage some of the set, the bits we enjoyed the most + some backstage footage and a short interview.

Vlog 1 - Playing with Phoenix from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

This video is Sgt. Suffer live in its entirety. 

Sgt. Suffer Live @ Big Top Luna Park from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

The highlight of the night for us, was when Phoenix played "Playground Love", heres a video we took of them playing the song,  + some other side of stage footage, They we're AMAZING live. Coolest most classiest light-show i think i've ever seen. 

Untitled from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

and here are some photos, there are heaps more in the photos section and on our facebook.

GRAND!

We had a great night, we hope to play more of these gigs in the future!

<3 THR

Howwdy,

We have just finished tracking our new EP, so we thought now is a good time to shed some light on the record!

First of all the EP is being produced by "Something For Kate's" Paul Dempsey and is being recorded at Alberts Studios in Sydney. 

The EP has 6 songs, most of which you wont of heard before, the majority of which we have only played at two shows, but we've been rehearsing and writing intensely for the last 2 months and have found the direction we want to go in.  So we are pretty excited to release this EP! 

Working with Paul has been incredible as well, his experience as a songwriter gave us an invaluable second set of ears, that helped give the songs better shape and more impact. 

We took some photos while we where in the studio as well,

have a look! there's more photos in the photo section of the website. Hurah!

thanks for listening! and remember to sign up to the mail service :) <3 , x THR

Greetings!

The "Citizen #1" clip is also pairs with a thing we're putting out called the "Citizen" project.
This is how it works, Those of you who are interested in creative things can sign up to the "Citizen" mailing out. Its a separate mail out to the regular service. Once you sign up, you get free access to demos and other content free of charge. All you have to do is send us any ideas you have, if we like your idea, we'll chase you up, profile you on the site and collaborate with you.
We thought it could be a cool way to interact with you over the internet, all 21st century like. An example of something coming up is our new EP's artwork, if your an artist and want to share ideas just drop us a line!
If your interested in being on the "Citizen" list, send us an email to papavspretty@hotmail.com

Until next time!

<3 , x THR

Yo!

A while back, actually when this website went live, a film clip was made for the song "Citizen #1". The clip was directed by Ben Wilson for a film school experiment. Ben's the same guy who directed the "Ballad" film clip and the "From the Bunker" series. 

The film clip in a way is our farewell to our previous EP "EP2". Its the last thing correlated to that release.

So without further adieu here is the clip.

Citizen #1 from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

radical, in the meantime heres a photo-blog with photos taken from behind the scenes. (photos by Camille Bui Viet) 

1.

The clip was shot in empty primary school, we raided the canteen. Found a book with tasty entries such as this.

What?

2. 

Biiiiiiikkkkeees!

3.

Bikes at night.

4.

Group Therapy...

5. 

THE RESULTS!

6. 

BMX champ.

7. The shetland pony, that just never made the cut.

8. 

Our reaction to the shetland ponies absence in the clip. 

9. 

Impending band mutiny! Gus is HUNGRRRRY. myers is one step ahead. 

10.

I can see your SOUL!

11.

STEURHRRR  STRESS! 

12.  The set. 

We were lucky enough to have the entire process documented by some fantastic photography, the rest of the photos will be in our photo section via our fllllikr profile.

good timez

rad.

<3 , x THR

We are excited to announce we are supporting "You Am I", for their show at the Wollongong Unibar on the 26th of February (next Friday). 

You can buy tickets from the OzTix website -> http://bit.ly/9ZkEIs

We start at 9.00pm, doors open at 7.30pm

They recently did a really cool 2 part film clip, for the songs "Givin' Up And Gettin' Fat" & "Beau Geste" (off the album

Dilettantes", the cinematography is amazing, its like an adventure film, very cool.

here are the videos!

You Am I - Givin Up and Gettin Fat from soupkitchen on Vimeo.

You Am I - Beau Geste from soupkitchen on Vimeo.

<3 , x THR

I think i may of found my new favorite band!

I was watching late night rage recently and saw this, forgot about it, then remembered how awesome it is was, really kind of stripped back, fantastic playing and really fucking clever lyrics as well.

its this song by a band called "Field Music", called "Them that do Nothing". 

Do yourselves a favor and WATCH THIS.

This songs cool as well its called "If Only the Moon Were Up".
hope you like it as much as i do.



<3 , x THR

Yo!!!

Heres the official Tour poster for the "Burning Leaves" tour!

<3 , x THR

Yo, yo, yo

We're thrilled to announce that we will be supporting Paul Dempsey for his "Burning Leaves' Australian national tour, also playing on the tour is Dan Kelly and his Dream band (featuring members of Augie March & Ground Components). The tour is in April!

Here are the dates ->

7 - The Gov, Adelaide SA

9 - Settlers Tavern,Perth WA

10 - Fly By Night, Fremantle WA

15 - Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay NSW

16 - HiFi Bar, Brisbane QLD

17 - Metro, Sydney NSW

24 - The Forum, Melbourne VIC

Tickets are on sale now!

To purchase tickets head on over to -> http://pauldempseymusic.com/new/home.html

Hope to see you there!

<3 , x THR

Yo,

If you've heard alot of our stuff, you would of probably made the observation that we jump around genres alot, its never been intentional though, its kind of just how we've functioned, exploring every avenue trying to get our own sound. But after years of writing in different styles on different instruments in all different ways, we have finally started to get our own sound.

It has taken a long time, but it feels liberating to finally have direction. It's a bit of a heavier and stripped back sound, and has a big focus on vocal harmonies. All 3 of us are singing now. 

So in light of this discovery we are getting ready to record a new EP, we've been rehearsing, demoing and writing like crazy and it's starting to cement itself into something cool.

Heres some pictures of us rehearsing/demoing, sweaty timez! 

So keep your eyes and ears peeled cause we'll be documenting our progress and posting it up here.

Grande! 

thankyou for listening, <3 x thr

Yo!

Our Newsletter service is now up and running, you can sign up by putting your email in the "Join The Mailing List" box, its underneath our tweet feed.

HURAH!

ALSO, if you know what's good for you, listen to this band. There called Parades and are from Sydney, I heard their song "Hunter" tonight and freaked out, its very very atmospheric and builds up to just the right amount of awesome.

Listen to it here -> http://www.myspace.com/parades

On another note thankyou to all the people that came to the gig at the Beach Road Hotel last night, it was fantastic to play to such an appreciative audience for our first show in Sydney in ages, so thankyou everybody who came! 

x0<3 thr

Beach Road! Youre the best!

Good fun was had by all, and we hope you liked the new songs. This was our first show with most of these songs and it really meant alot to us that you guys seemed to like them... at least a little bit!

Good night was had by all. Now im watching david attenborough talk about Tortoises. David Attenborough, I like you a bit.

G

Hey hey hey!

Our song PIPER is in the voting list for this years JJJ Hottest 100 music poll,

show us some love and VOTE FOR US!!!

you can do so by going here

if you havent heard our song PIPER, you can listen to it on this video!

PIPER from Papa Vs Pretty on Vimeo.

Rad!

Hope ya'll well

<3 THR

Yo,

If you werent in melbourne for NYE, we wish you a late new years! to all of those who where, many thanks for sharing it with us at the espy, MUCH FUN was had. Was exellent to have the new years herelded in by Shark Fin Blues by the Drones. and by an awesome set by Paul Dempsey, very wicked indeed!

this years been pretty good, school was a thorn in our side but its finally over and it feels it feels exellent. we hope to get out a whole lot more this year.

We even made it on the ones to watch in 2010 list on the 2009 itunes rewind. at # 2!!!

check ch check it ->

SO many thanks for seeing us in the gigs we played in 2009 and we hope to see you in 2010.

Speaking of which, we are playing a FREE show our first show in our hometown of Sydney in like 3 months,

FREE FREE FREE, and on the 27th January at the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi.

So come and say hello, if your a friend on facebook, heres the fb event. HURAH!

--- > http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=229484977542&ref=ts

hope to see you there, we will be selling Tshirts and EPs

so come say hello.

<3<3<3<3<3 thr

We've finished our tour with the Howling Bells, and we had a BLAST, it was our first tour ever so it was good to learn the ropes and get to play so often and in so many different places. A massive thankyou to Howling Bells for having us along!

we will be releasing videofootage/photos that we took from the duration of the Tour soon, so keep your eyes peeled and we will keep you posted.

In the meantime here are some reviews we got from the tour from both Fasterlouder and Rave magazine.

Review from the Zoo show - > http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/18493/82/

Review from the ANU Bar show - > http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/21905/Howling-Bells-Canvas-Kites-Papa-Vs-Pretty--ANU-Bar-Canberra-171209.htm

Review from the Corner Hotel Show + some photos

Review - > http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/21740/Howling-Bells-Canvas-Kites-Papa-Vs-Pretty--The-Corner-Hotel-Melbourne-41209.htm

Photos. (the only ones we can find at the moment will upload more soon)

<3 thr

Last night was good, we played at The Corner in Melbourne. Some highlights of the day included:
 
-Tom R's comparison of the Oporto Strips and Chips meal to its Nando's equivalent. Consensus was reached that Oporto produces 'sweeter' chicken breast flavours, whilst Nando's culinary produce was described as 'more spicy', 'mature' and 'yum'. Chip seasoning was also discussed.
-Great sound, stage, and crowd at the Corner. We felt great after a slightly awkward gig in Geelong last night. 
-My energetic spell following a strong cappucino this afternoon. It was embarassing. Whilst no-one was adversely affected, I'd take this opportunity to point out to the population of Melbourne that scat singing and star jumps on footpaths are not usual activities of mine. 
-Ongoing profundity from Tom M. Seriously, that guy knows a bagful of facts about lions, fierce snakes and their movement, and is a specialist in voice imitation. If you ever want to spice up a car trip get yourself a Tom M. 
 
The gig was great tonight ! My cousin even came! Unfortunately we couldnt stay for Howling Bells since Tom M is only 17 so we still have to get kicked out straight after we play, but we caught their soundcheck and they're superb!
 
Esplanade Hotel tomorrow. Should be great! We're on very late at like 11:45 pm but someone told us that that is quite early for a band in Melbourne. Its the city that never sleeps. I dont dig it. I think it's the city that sometimes sleeps.
 
Hope youre all well and that if youve just found yourself on holidays or finished work for the year that you're having yourself some fun. thanks for reading!

Gus

HURAH!