beloved,

   we tease: the rumours were true.   

   we hint at revelation: we've never been to the west coast.   

   we reveal: In May/June, we're touring Adelaide, Melbourne, and for the first time, Perth and Fremantle.   

   we reflect: what can this mean? is it a sign that the end times approach and/or impend?   

   we opine in a way that seems at first remarkable, but then trite, but then just a little deep: yes, the end times DO approach, at the rate of approximately one day per day.     

   we provide show dates, locations and ticketing information: 

      Saturday May 26th - Jive, Adelaide

        Guests tbc,

        $15, tix available the door

    ... brief intermission for 12 consecutive rest days ...

      Friday June 8th - The Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy 

        w/ Meniscus, This is Your Captain Speaking and Lunaire       

        $15+BF from http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=56378

      Saturday June 9th - Rosemount Hotel, North Perth

        w/ Usurper of Modern Medicine, The Silent World and Craig McElhinney

        $19+BF from http://tickets.lifeisnoise.com/?regevent_action=register&event_id=27&name_of_event=LauraSaturdayRosemountShow

      Sunday June 10 - Mojos Bar, North Fremantle

        w/ The Long Lost Brothers and Race to Your Face

        $19+BF from http://tickets.lifeisnoise.com/?regevent_action=register&event_id=28&name_of_event=LauraSundayMojosShow

   we embrace you:

        ngggggh.

love,

laura

very excited to announce that we'll be accompanying boris up and then down the east coast on their australian tour in march!

three shows, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne.

  Sydney  - Thursday March 22 - w/Boris & sleepmakeswaves @ the Metro, tix here
  Brisbane - Friday March 23 - w/Boris & nikko @ the HiFi, tix here
  Melbourne - Saturday March 24 - w/Boris @ Corner Hotel, tix here

i would also like to take this moment to point out that you can purchase boris underwear via their website. i quote: "We hope you will secretly enjoy the comfort and rich color of the graphics from high-grade ink jet printing."

obviously, laura can't compete with that kind of full-spectrum, holistic care for your well-being, but i'd still like to point out that at http://lauraisnotaband.bandcamp.com/, you can buy our full back catalog of albums and EPs in both physical and digital forms. we hope you will secretly enjoy them.

love, laura

hi lovers,
  the twelve hundred time-related news continues...

  1) to launch twelve hundred times, we're playing melbourne, sydneyand brisbane in mid-november - dates and venues and tickets below, promo video right here: 

  these shows are going to be something new for laura - we'll be playing virtually the whole new album, which means we'll be hitting some mellower notes than usual for a laura live show, as well as coming over the table at you when it's warranted. we're really excited to be playing these new tunes live -

     friday 11th november - melbourne, corner hotel
        $15 + b/f

        tickets @ https://corner.ticketscout.com.au/gigs/14-laura

     friday 18th november - sydney, annandale hotel
        $15 + b/f

        tickets @ http://www.annandalehotel.com/anh/eventdetails.asp?id=2887

     saturday 19th november - brisbane, woodland bar
        $15 + b/f

        tickets @ http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=23512

  our wise and impartial counsel is to get your tickets ahead of time...

  2) to go with the new album, we've just released twelve hundredtimes t-shirts and hoodies on our online store - http://lauraisnotaband.bandcamp.com/. you can also get the album as a digital download or (and this is where it gets weird) a shiny disc of rainbow-y plastic enclosed in some cardboard emblazoned with a picture of volcanic ash that we will have delivered directly to your door.

love
laura

at long last, we've released our third studio album, twelve hundred times.

you can listen to it, or purchase it on CD/digital/both, at our new store. old stuff (shirts and back catalog) are still available on the old store.

we want to say thanks to everybody who helped make the album happen, especially Nao Anzai and Bart Kowalski.

we loves you.

it's done.

the carrier pigeons have been dispatched, we lit a special fire in the upstairs fireplace, and i'm wearing a white camellia for the first time in five years. hello, metaphorical boys.

the new laura album, Twelve Hundred Times, will be released on october 14. here's a sampler video to whet your carbon-steel appetites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7H97kRx9w

as near as i can say, it'll have been 191 million heartbeats since our last full-length studio release. for that, we're truly sorry. for what it's worth, all of us here think you should be very proud of your heart; it just keeps going, and you never give it a break.

we'll let you know as soon as the album's available for order on our website. in the meantime, check out the first two singles from the album on youtube:
  mark the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwtgMQ8dwIc
  this grey earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Vuc12Q_8I

love,
laura

the clip for our newest single, This Grey Earth, is out now - check it out on youtube

thanks to everyone who gave so much time and energy:

      Dave Dreimann - Director

      Darius Family - Editor 

      Sydney Smith - Dancer 

      Cam Zayec - Camera (DOP) 

      Timothy Eyles - Camera 

      Ash Koek - Camera 

      Alex Burgess - Production Assistant 

      Thom Feenan - Production Assistant 

This Grey Earth's available right now on vinyl 7" and CD as a double a-side with Mark the Day - you can get them here.

We had a great launch/thank-you party last week at Screenspace gallery (thanks for hosting!) - thanks to everybody who came down to check out the clip and act all civilised and stuff.

re: the album - we are getting to know her much better now. the album is a she as it turns out and she is nearing completion and/or fruition and is quite different to her older sisters - she knows a lot of things they didn't seem to know, which seems backwards but makes sense i guess.

our unlimited love to you,

laura

big news #1 (important stuff)

   laura is looking at you like you are food.

   i think maybe she's making a complicated silent pun to do with TB and consumption and implying you're sick. or the disease. or a vector.

   maybe she's just hungry. she has lost weight. i can't tell any more.

big news #2 (THIS GREY EARTH)

   as of seconds ago, you can stream THIS GREY EARTH, the second single from our upcoming album from basically any site on the internet, by which i mean any of these four:

       facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lauranoise
       youtube: http://www.youtube.com/lauraisnotaband
       myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lauranoise
       lastfm: http://www.last.fm/music/Laura

   or if you want to go to the source:

       laura: http://www.lauratheband.com/

   we are more ourselves than we have ever been, and so are you. i would like to say at this point that it's nice to be putting tunes out there again. we luvs yoo.

big news #3 (march tour dates):

  we are touring in march; free the entire month in your calendar. start in on jumping jacks. ask for clarification of straighforward orders. cry for no apparent reason in meetings. allow sharp-edged tools to become blunt.

  we are touring on the back of our free single mark the day, about which people are saying nice things like:
     "it's enough to darken the sun at midday" - inpress magazine (single of the week)

     "It's spectacularly cinematic; the mournful strings and heroic climbs are full of tragedy, but the vocals give a gentle human heart" - beat magazine (single of the week)

  we like people. we no longer count laura as a people, just to be clear.

  here are the dates for the shows:

  friday 4th march @ enigma bar, adelaide
    - tix: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=44068

  saturday 5th march @ east brunswick club, melbourne
    - tix: https://www.cornerhotel.com/boxoffice/?venue=EB&gig=1299317400

  friday 18th march @ sandringham hotel, sydney
    - tix: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=44084

it’s free! take it, we want you to have it!

download the mp3 here

it’s from our forthcoming album, which we’re finishing off as i write this.

we have a new song for you. it’s called mark the day. we are very proud of it. sure, we love all our children, but this one has lovely white teeth, stands up straight, and worships the same gods as us. also, it mutters things like “i taste ash” and “elegantly choke” whenever the sun goes behind a cloud or a crow lands on the back fence.

it’s going to be a free radio/web-only single.

on the one hand, we’d like to release it right now, but on the other hand, we’re not going to until next week, because it still needs to be coated in a thin layer of opalescent moth-wing dust or something.

i could make a long series of true statements about it, but they wouldn’t make anybody happy, so i’m not going to do that.

so my recommendations are:

1) keep an eye on the website. and the laura facebook. and the laura myspace.

2) in the mean time, bone up on some recent laura history.

appendix 1: legend to symbols:

   moth-wing dust (literal): a thin layer that protects and insulates the moth’s wing and incidentally makes it aesthetically nicer.

   moth-wing dust (figurative; musical production): a thin layer of subtle but noticable adjustments that protect broadcast and playback equipment and incidentally make the music sound much more gooder.

    ash: a thin layer of post-apocalyptic volcanic cinder which covers and protects the land, insulating and protecting it from the corrupting influence of light which would otherwise fuel assorted biological and meteorological processes that would ultimately lead to detestable erosion of stone by weather and the mechanical action of plant and animal life.

exercise for the reader:

   given the above, what does it mean that your light-fittings are full of moth-wing dust?