May 2012
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Album Launching Australian Tour
Australia, I am coming to your venues to destroy them, in aid of launching my new album. AKA, this:
<a href=”http://music.tomasford.com/album/an-audience-with-tom-s-ford” data-mce-href=”http://music.tomasford.com/album/an-audience-with-tom-s-ford”>An Audience With Tomás Ford by Tomás Ford</a>
It’s also avaliable on the freshly-launched Spotify - just...
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Pre-Edinburgh Explosion
It’s been a surprising week. So surprising, I haven’t really had a chance to take stock and blog about it.
Last Friday, I put up a post on my facebook wall about my Pozible campaign; oddly enough, I haven’t had time to post it here as I’ve been so busy promoting it on the social media sites!
The initial goal for the project was $2000; thanks to the support of my...
April 2012
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Eddddinnnbuuurrrrgghhhhhh
Woah. Things have been hectic since I got back from Adelaide Fringe. I’ve been busily plotting an Australian tour, playing a million Perth shows and setting up my first international tour to play Edinburgh Fringe.
To get all George Harrison on you for a sec, something really clicked in my head around the time of the Adelaide Fringe about the kind of performer I am, and I’ve found...
March 2012
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Adelaide Bender Weekender
This is the this year’s iteration of the Tuxedo Cat (photo stolen from Renew Adelaide because my cameraphone wasn’t working, so all these photos are from other sites - should’veaskedbutdidntbutthxtoeveryone), a venue that moves to take over a different abandoned old building for Adelaide Fringe each year. Last year’s was a beautiful, decaying superold building; this one...
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Adelaide! I Come For You!
This is happening. I’m a bit excited about it as not only will it be a good excuse to roll around Adelaide Fringe for a few days, but the Tuxedo Cat is a GREAT place for my show. This will be HUUUUUUGE!
He might be notorious in Perth, but Adelaide, you’ve gotta understand, this man is your fault. He was born here. Now he’s a quadruple WAMi-winning, national touring, audiovisual,...
February 2012
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Maximum Geraldton Fever Party Yeah
Last weekend, I took a kickarse roadtrip up to Geraldton, about five hours north of Perth, to play a bar called The Provincial. It was a blast; I was just happy to be taking my show to a town I hadn’t played for six years, but it turned into a really satisfying, super-fun gig and weekend.
This is me on the way up, slightly seedy from the night prior and in the midst of attempting to give...
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A Life In Vice
During a break in shooting in Kellerberrin, John Aliaga and I did this.
If you’d like to see me roll a whole set like this, I’m playing with Dave Graney (!!), Odette Mercy and Adam Brown at Mojo’s in North Fremantle, WA from 6-10pm on Sunday night. It’s going to be a rad night, so do come down. Simply do.
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Amazing Maelstrom Of Amazing Press
If you’ve been in Perth, you’ve probably noticed that I have been in a spectacularly busy patch of shows of late and have been all over the local music press. Half for the sake of keeping them somewhere I won’t lose them, and half in case you want to have a wee look, here’s some of what’s been around. We’ll start with the album review, because if you’re...
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Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.
With great delight and fanfare, I present to you two new, shiny, FUCKING EXCITING things. My new album and a music video for its’ lead track, Nice. Let’s watch the video together first, yeah?
You may recall I launched my album An Audience With Tomás Ford a couple of weeks ago at Amplifier Bar. Since then, I’ve been on a rollercoaster of amazing shows including a support spot...
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I Am Excited About This Show
I’m sitting here, hammering my songs into acoustic guitar-able shape so that I may be in good form for this gig with one of my favourite performers ever…
I’m promoting this one, and I’ve hand-picked a bill of some of the best performers in town. If you’re the Perth/Fremantle area, mark this in your calendar as it’s going to be a hell of a show. Here’s...
January 2012
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WILLY WONKA RAVE PARTY! THIS MONDAY NIGHT!
Come with me! Take an E! It’s a world of pure imagination! I’ve been having a blast playing at the Fringe World’s Treasury, it’s a beautiful outdoor venue with an enjoyably odd crowd and lots of things for me to jump on. And I want to do something special. So bring down your glowsticks! Obtain lollypops! Pair your best Cross Colors hammer pants with suspenders!...
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Fringe World
I’m playing a free show tonight at Fringe World’s Treasury outdoor venue in Perth from 8:30pm-10pm. I played a dj set there on friday night (pictured) and it got a bit out of control, so I definately reccomend making your way down.
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Somehow, In The Madness
So the launch was AMAZING. I’m going to do a post full of pictures and some of the grand bits of press that ran around it, but first I’m going to go to bed. Here’s a rap battle I did with Boys! Boys! Boys! on the Youtubes last week in advance of the gig. They caned me, but I think both of our efforts were valiant.
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eWorst / Dirtiest EP Out Now! New Album out...
In the leadup to Simo Soo coming over to play the launch of my new album, I’ve just released a free download EP with him that you can get a copy of right now at http://tfvsss.bandcamp.com . I’m really proud of the remix I’ve done, it’s probably the best remix I’ve done yet, and Simo Soo amps the energy up on I Feel Dirty to a huge level AND THEN ADDS AWESOME RAPS...
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And Lo! It Is Time For The Album Launch!
Finally, An Audience With Tomás Ford is coming out. I think that’s cause for a party, no? Well I’m throwing one. A big one. On January 27 at Amplifier Bar, Perth.
If one were to take six years between albums, one had better make sure that the album one is putting out is fucking awesome. One would probably also want to make sure that when one launches said album, one does so with a...
December 2011
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Tomás Ford's 2012 Erotic Adventure Calendar
Oh dear, between the last post and this one, things are a little bit smutty around here at the moment. In a Benny Hill way though, so it’s all good. Anyway… bit of a fun announcement today. This thing was a blast to make and it makes me laugh every time I look at it…
Virility: Tomás Ford has it. As he is finally releasing his new album An Audience With Tomás Ford in January...
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DILDOS4GW
My tour buddy DOS4GW is so helpful, he’s provided the perfect Xmas recipie. If you want to bring something a little more exciting than fruit mince pies to your party, check this out:
#DILDOS4GW from DANKCITY on Vimeo.
It is the most amusing thing I have seen in the last 39 hours.
Next week will be a bumper week of posts; got some big announcements up my sleeve and my end of year top ten...
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Let's Go Surfing Now, Everybody's Learning How..
Though you’d like this photo (by Mat De Koning) from the Film & Television Institute’s 40th birthday on friday night. Di has worked at the institute for about twenty five years, so when I saw her up the front I thought I’d cede my crowdsurfing privelages for the night. Splendid.
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Raw Hyde'in
Last week was superintense but rather rad. Tuesday night I hosted the Amnesty International edition of Cottonmouth, which was full of pretty flooring spoken word. Then the Alternative Edition of my monthly Pop Quiz at Ya Ya’s. Thursday night was Raw Hyde (more on that in a sec) and Friday night I had a blast running amok at the FTI 40th Birthday Party in Princess May Park in Fremantle....
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Prerelease Strangeness And Pent Up Oddity
What a strange little time I’m having at the moment. Slowly bringing together the bits and pieces of my album release (and calendar, which is a really stupid but awesome thing that I’m going to be announcing properly soon). It’s a lot of emailing back and forth with a lot of people, a lot of photoshopping and a lot of, to be honest, pretty boring shit. But it’ll be worth it...
November 2011
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Kelleberrin Road Trip
Last sunday, I set out on an epic adventure with my long-time collaborators Shaun Ferraloro (photographer of virtually every press shot you’ve ever seen of me) and John Aliaga (directed my ‘Til Death Do Us Part clip and shot the footage for my background visuals with me) to the sleepy WA wheatbelt town of Kelleberrin. If you’re not from Western Australia (or simply have no idea...
October 2011
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White Sugar Is The Motherfucking Devil
One of my Perth favourites Mathas has just released a rad single called White Sugar. His live show has really hit its’ straps this year, so if you get a chance to see him, go out and do it. This single is avaliable as a Radiohead-style name your price download from his website.
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The Future! Now!
I’m working on a new live setup that I’m hoping to have ready in time for summer. There’s a few changes to how I do things I want to make - my current live setup is awesome but I want to be able to interact with it more, and I want to go back to having each song as its’ own song rather than as a continuous set. Plus I generally like to go over my arrangements at least once...
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Zombies Do Not Officially Make Up Part Of The 99%...
Quite unintentionally, I created a costume for this years’ Thrill The World that could be a character from the universe of You Have Nobody To Blame For This Apocolypse But Yourself. Thrill The World, if you’re not familiar, is an annual attempt to set a world record for the most people simultaneously dancing the zombie dance from Michael Jackson’s Thriller. ‘Tis fun.
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Zombies ≠ Armies
Short post today but I thought this was hilarious; while rehearsing my Injured Ninja remix with the band for their launch on the weekend, I discovered my version is based entirely on a misheard lyric. What I heard as “We move as zombies that live through the chaos and blood” is actually “We move as armies that live through the chaos and blood.”
Lucky I like my misheard...
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You Have Nobody To Blame For This Apocalypse For...
It’s a releasey kind of month for me, between my new single with Ze!, the little free tidbit a couple of days back, not to mention last month’s I Feel Dirty single still doing the roundsand now this…
Injured Ninja asked me to do a remix several months back and I’d been slowly piecing together an instrumental, beats-oriented remix, using a few grabs of their vocal. It was...
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I Made A Thing From A Different Thing By Some...
I found this in the depths of my archive. I figure you may as well have it if you want it. It’s a bootleg remix; if you like it, head over to Beatport and buy his amazing Make It Yellow EP.
Roof Hopping (Tomás Ford’s Parkour Injury Bootleg) - Montoru by tomasford
September 2011
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Raw Hyde
A bit of a good week for announcements this one. If you haven’t seen the new video clip, scroll down IMMEDIATELY, but otherwise;
This is my new weekly night at The Hydey in Perth every thursdady; I’m excited about it because there’s not much else like it around and it will be FUN. The presser looks a bit like this:
Comedians? Performance Art? Cabaret? Acoustic? Yep....
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New Video Clip With Ze!
It’s a been a few months of clicking around with my good pal John Aliaga on this one, but it’s finally done. May I present to you, the finished video clip for my collab with Ze!, ‘Til Death Do Us Part…
This was a blast to work on - following an enjoyably chaotic shoot that incorporated an op-shop shopping spree, we ran around my managers’ house following a heavily...
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Because He Didn't Want Anybody To See This
This is my manager and soul boy Turin Robinson. Late at night, drunk, hammering out one of Turin’s songs on guitar and piano. It’s kind of nice. But really, the real reason I’m posting it here is that he probably doesn’t want me to post it here. I bet he gets me to delete it. But it will amuse me either way.
If anyone should feel shame about this video it’s me, with...
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Big Sound, Bigger Hangovers
I’m back home from tour and slowly sorting through a million e-mails and art-type-deadlines. I’m writing a big blog on the whole tour but this weeks’ Drum Media Perth already features a full tour diary, so I figured rather than repeating myself, you can check it out here.
HANGOVER #1: WEDNESDAY I arrived in Brisbane last night to play a pre-conference showcase with Queensland...
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Weird Open Road
The tour is ridiculously close now. I’ve just had a pre-tour holiday in sunny Indonesia (in case you’ve been wondering why I’ve gone all quiet all of a sudden) and I’m heading to Brisbane early on Tuesday morning for a show and “artist interview” that night going vs with Brisbane cabaret superstar Ghostboy at Room 50, before an epic...
August 2011
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Tomás Ford Makes The Entire Country Feel Dirty
I’m touring! We kind of announced this alongside the single a couple of weeks back, but 1:22am this morning seems as good a time as any to call the OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. I’M COMING TO WHERE YOU PROBABLY ARE UNLESS WHERE YOU ARE IS NOT IN AUSTRALIA (in which case, seriously, hit me up on facebook or twitter or something, I would love to chat about where I could play in your town...
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Voltaire Twins! In Video Form!
I posted the streaming version of this single a few posts back, but given how flat out amazing it is, I really have to post this video now that it’s out. It’s too good. This is my Perth electro home-people the Voltaire Twins’ new thing, Animalia.
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Je ne sais pas ce que je ferais sans Sébastien...
Since seeing on Eurovision this a few years ago, I have been deeply in love with Sébastien Tellier’s ouvre, in particular the record this song is from, Sexuality. Yesterday I finally got a physical copy of the LP and it arrived on beautiful, appropriately ludicrous white vynil.
It’s an amazing record, the kind you can put on and nobody hates. I love how it approaches the idea of...
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While We Are Rolling Like That
I just realised after I posted about two of my favourite spoken word types yesterday that something else rad is happening in that side of things, the astounding Belowsky has himself a Downstairs At The Maj season coming up from wed-sat next week that if you’re in Perth, I thoroughly suggest you go check out. This guy is the kind of performer who appeals to all kinds of people - his spoken...
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Spoken Word Awesomenitude
Long term Fordwatchers will know I’m a sucker for spoken word, having had my solo start in it myself. I’m still very committed to it as an artform, helping co-promote and MC the monthly Cottonmouth gigs and the odd one-off like the superspecial Spokenworld gig I put on a while ago.
Australia has a great scene for this stuff, that functions in the kind of truly underground way that I...
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Hard Work
I’m working on a remix of Injured Ninja’s Our Bodies as I type this. I’m not going to lie, it’s hard work. That band straddles a very fine line, managing to stay on the awesome/avant-garde tip, but if the elements are mixed together in the wrong way, you end up with Linkin Park.
Which is where I’m at right now.
Being as though the guys in the band are pretty much my...
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Sail Away Sail Away Sail Away
I had a ludicrously awesome time last night at Abbe May’s LP launch. MC’ing comes pretty naturally to me and the backstage area was STUPID AWESOME, so it was a bit like a house party where one of the rooms happened to be a stage with about 700 people in front of it that I got to have a chat to every so often. I dressed in my new cloak (which smells of putrid community theatre backstage...
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Now Back To The Serious Business Of Blogging
So, obviously, if you haven’t gotten yourself a copy of my single I Feel Dirty or checked out the life alteringly amazing video clip, you should do that. It’s one of them, whaddyacallit, viral sensations, innit.
But onto other things now. My longtime gigging buddies in the Voltaire Twins are also unleashing their new single Animalia and it’s killer. More of a late night sway-er...
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I Feel Dirty Single: Free Download OUT NOW
THIS IS A HAPPENING THING.
You need to go to http://ifeeldirty.tomasford.com, like, RIGHT NOW. You can get a free copy of the single over there. As of right now. I’m a little bit excited.
Here’s the video, in case you need convincing to click over to the subdomain…
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Let's Just Completely Reimagine This Interior
Dear Future Me,
This is what your website used to look like. Now it is slightly more colourful.
Much love,
Current Me
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Tomás Ford Finally Got A Chance To Interview Tomás...
Drum Media Perth, who I write for, decided that the best candidate for interviewing me was myself. They were probably wrong; chatting to myself was laughably torturous. I’m still reeling. The finished result is one of my favourite bits of press ever. Check it out:
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FRIDAY
The new single cometh.
Tomorrow.
Here.
July 2011
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I FEEL DIRTY Single Launch & Karaoke Throwdown!!!...
Hey you,
Do you like fun? Do you like amazing live dance music shows? Do you like karaoke?
If you have answered: A) Yes. B) I guess so, or C) Oh my god, what kind of fabulous party are you throwing! You’ve got to tell me. Tell me! Do it! Tell me!
… then please accept my invite to join me for THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE.
Given the awesomeness of my new single I FEEL DIRTY...
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Night Of The Triffids
It’s been a while since I did a music post on here - actually, it’s been a while since I posted; I’ve been hard at work on the I Feel Dirty single (announcement tomorrow about that, actually) and redesigning my online stuff and haven’t had time to use my typing muscles.
BUT, I scored a bunch of records from the second hand shop around the corner from my house today. All...
June 2011
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SPOKENWORLD!
I’m putting on this spoken word show that I think you should come to if you live in Perth. It’s many of my own favourite local spoken word performers alongside the brilliant Randall Stephens from Victoria. I’ll be MC’ing, entry is free and… well… you have no excuse really. C’arn.
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Get Back Into The Storm.
The Painkillers’ launch last night was a blast. They invited me to howl out their classic Love Cancer, as posted below. It looked and sounded something like this:
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Grand Plans
So, my collaboration with Malaysia’s Ze!, ‘Til Death Do Us Part, is still a free MP3 download at http://death.tomasford.com - go check it out! The video clip is being finished up at the moment and shouldn’t be too far away. She’s also just released a bit of a club electro-house bang0r, In The House which you can see the video for here. The outro is totally off the hook.
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May 2011
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Ancient History
Had a bit of an afternoon of archival uploading today. So I thought I might share some really old stuff with you from aaaaaages ago.
This is my old two-man-band Descend Here performing our smash hit Domestic Utopia (which also appears on my 2006 LP Nobody Wants To Be You. The vid was directed by my then comedy collaborator Shane Adamczak - I don’t work with either of these guys much...