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DEBUT ALBUM 'A THIEF'S
JOURNAL' OUT 5 MAY O7
January 08 - Zulya support Floyd is very proud to kick off 2008 with a solo support slot for one of Melbourne's finest live acts, ARIA-award-winning Tatar songstress Zulya Kamalova and her band the Children of the Underground: Thursday 31 January 2008 at Manchester Lane. Make sure you catch this very special show. Click here for details. July 07 - Australian retail outlets The new album is available at the following record stores: JB
Hi Fi stores nationally Redeye Records in Sydney Polyester Records, Basement
Discs, Greville Records & Readings
in Melbourne Aroma Records in Hobart Big Star Music & Mr V Music in Adelaide 78 Records & Borders in Perth
June 07 - Album of the week:
PBS FM Melbourne's PBS FM have nominated A Thief's Journal as the station's album of the week for 11-17 June. Thanks PBS! June 07 - BMA Magazine review: From Canberra's BMA magazine (June 2007): FLOYD THURSBY & THE DEFINITE ARTICLE May 07 - Rave Magazine review: 'a masterpiece' From Brisbane's Rave magazine (May 2007): FLOYD THURSBY & THE DEFINITE ARTICLE A journey of powerful lyrics and easy listening melodies For me, this album demonstrates a bundle of talent and an intriguing sketch of brilliant songwriting. The LP exhibits a cruise-y, darkly poetic voyage, passing through smooth acoustic rhythms to heavier serrated riffs. Together with Thursby's distinctive, soothing voice, Richard Wilson's precise drumming and Mark Hilton's unique strumming, the trio create a fascinating blend of original Australian folk rock. With a dash of alt-country and a splash of Grease-style swinging beats – illustrated in the final track, the band has delivered a masterpiece. With his father a poet and mother an author, it is no wonder Thursby was blessed with such effortless flair in singing and songwriting. A Thief's Journal goes straight to the poolroom, being a must-have on the iPod for taking the bite out of reality or even just setting the scene for a relaxing stroll. ROSIE KING Rave Magazine #792:
May 29 - 4 June 2007 May 07
- Album of the week on Radio
Adelaide We are delighted to announce that 'A Thief's Journal' is featured as Radio Adelaide's feature CD for the week beginning Monday 14 May. Also, Floyd will be launching the album in Adelaide with a solo show at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Friday 8 June, with support from Cloudy Davey. May 07 - Melbourne CD Launch date announced The new album will be launched at a special show at the East Brunswick Club on 25 May, with support from our good friends The Unusual Suspects, and Hugh McGinlay. More info here. May 07 - Rhythms magazine review: 'endlessly rewarding' Got a great review in the most recent Rhythms magazine,
Australia's leading blues and roots music publication: Gee it's great to come across a singer who's discovered their own voice and learned to trust its idiosyncrasies as a strength, not something to be ashamed of. Floyd Thursby has a fascinating voice – somehow it reminds me of a young Bryan Ferry with perhaps a bit of Jonathon Richman thrown in. The fact that Thursby is an engaging lyricist and sings with ingenuous ease, makes his voice a treat to listen to. But of course, all that would be insignificant without great songs as vehicles for that voice. Thursby has armfuls of them. There's not an uninteresting moment on this debut LP. The sparse, acoustic instrumentation, punctuating stabs of violin and convulsive guitar, and ¾ time signatures will remind some of Tom Waits. However, Thursby also consistently exhibits a penchant for striking, structured melodies – there are memorable pop songs at the core of many of these twisted bits of folk music. For all its dark lyrics, for example, 'The Lover's Twist' is musically beautiful, its chords falling exactly where you hope they will. It is rewarding to hear younger bands discovering the aural richness of vintage tones and textures like reverb and tremolo. Floyd and his band Mark Hilton and Richard Wilson team with producer Marty Brown, to employ tone and, more importantly, space with acumen on A Thief's Journal. That, along with a set of strong songs and Thursby's unique vocals, makes for an endlessly rewarding recording. Rhythms Magazine, May 2007 April 07 - Debut album out 5 May 07 on Ang Fang Industries through MGM We here at Ang Fang Industries are very pleased to announce that we have finalised an agreement with Australian distribution company MGM, which will ensure that the new album by Floyd Thursby & the Definite Article 'A Thief's Journal' will be available at record stores across the country. The record is being sent out to radio in the coming weeks so keep an ear out, and head into your favourite record store any time after 5 May and ask for a copy - if they don't have it, they should be able to order it in for you. Floyd is getting on the road for a tour of Tassie to promote the new album, and will be back for a Melbourne launch in late May. REQUEST A FLOYD SONG Request a Floyd song of your choice from any of the following esteemed broadcasters: ABC Radio National 'The Daily Planet' with Lucky Oceans RRR FM: send an email to breakfasters@rrr.org.au 'The Thief' Music Vid Request - Rage March 07 - Music video for 'The Thief' The new music video for 'The Thief', taken from the upcoming album 'A Thief's Journal' and directed by Cris Jones, is now available on You Tube. January 07 - Track from the new album, now on MySpace Howdy folks. We can now proudly unveil the first track from the brand new as-yet-unreleased Floyd Thursby and the Definite Article album 'A Thief's Journal'. Visit Floyd's new MySpace page to have a listen to the brand-spanking new recording of 'The Thief'. It won't be released to radio for another month or more, but look out on ABC TV's Rage for a video clip (directed by Cris Jones) which should be out some time in February. November
06 - CDs available at chaos.com Floyd's debut self-titled EP is now available to purchase online through chaos.com's independent artist initiative The Can. Check out the site here. The disc is retailing for $12.00. November 06 - Floyd on Myspace Floyd Thursby has bowed to the inevitable and has joined the world's fastest growing and most brutal popularity contest: www.myspace.com/floydthursbymusic September 06 - Back from Russia, ready to rock - polka-style Floyd Thursby and his band the Definite Article celebrate a return to Melbourne with a big show at the Empress Hotel on Saturday 7 October. Joining him will be kick-arse country rock ratbags and joint headliners, Clinkerfield, and the mysterious cowboy bard Lindsay Phillips. Click here for more info. Floyd has been in Europe for two months, performing special shows at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and at Café Rosa in Berlin, and tramping the back roads of Romania, Moldova and Russia, searching for weird and wonderful polka-esque inspiration. His travel diaries will be posted on this site in the coming month, featuring tales of the summer snows of the Slovakian mountains, Russian ska-polka clubs and hat-thieving forklift salesmen from Romania. Floyd will also tell all about the forbidden pleasures of the non-existent state of Transdneister, Europe's illegal arms-dealing capital, and one of the only Soviet Communist enclaves left in the world today. Floyd will be performing a series of gigs over Melbourne's summer
and spring, leading up to the launch of his debut album A Thief's
Journal in early 2007. July 06 - Europe 2006 Floyd will be in Europe for August and September to track down the best of contemporary and traditional Russian and Eastern European music and has also lined up a few solo shows while he's over there. Click here for more info. June 06 - photos and audio uploaded Click here for photos. Click here for audio. June 06
- Floyd and band in the studio May
06 - S.A Tour 2006 April
06 - Good Friday Eve at the Empress November 05 - Grand Finalist - 2005 PBS Festival of Song songwriting competition News this month is that Floyd reached the grand finals of the PBS FM Festival of Song songwriting competition, and is officially the only performer to get that far relying significantly on polka and polka-related material. While Floyd was ultimately not successful in taking away the grand prize, all involved agreed that it was, in the end, a victory for polka. Other grand finalists that Floyd was privileged to go head-to-head with were Khancoban, Lindsay Phillips (congratulations to the winner!) and Lucie Thorne. Make sure you check out these amazing acts some time soon. Thanks heaps to PBS for running such a great competition. October 05 - EP available at Polyester Records, November gigs Ang Fang Industries is pleased to announce that we now have a bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Floyd Thursby's debut self-titled EP. Polyester Records (387 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Ph: 9419 4961) has copies of the EP available for $12.00. Floyd and the band also have a bunch of gigs coming up in November: gigs September 05 - 'Babylon gate' charting at no. 4 on www.weedshare.com Thanks to all of you out there who checked out www.mazar.com.au and listened to Floyd's tunes. Mazar is a music download site for Australian indie bands which runs on a legal file-sharing protocol called 'Weed'. Weed allows users to listen to a track up to three times free of charge, before purchasing a download of the track for US$1.00. Floyd's song 'Babylon Gate' was featured on www.weedshare.com , the main worldwide site for Weed-based downloads, and reached No. 4 in the world-wide Weed charts, which is currently also featuring tracks by US pop and rock powerhouses Kelly Clarkson (No. 10) and Dave Matthews (No. 7).
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