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 killer party. Tomás Ford agrees with these sentiments entirely and so is pleased to simultaneously announce both an awesome album and a killer party.

THE RECORD IS AWESOME
First, the record; An Audience With Tomás Ford. It’s a wierdo masterwork; twelve slices of skewed electro-pop that catalogue the weirdness of Ford’s live show. The album takes listeners on a strange and twisted trip, from messy Youtube hit I Feel Dirty, through the crowdsurfing love-in of Cuddle and deep into the dark industrial disco of Five Times… this isn’t the kind of pop record that you can play at a dinner party, unless your friends are really messed up. But Tomas Ford isn’t meant to be easy to take.

Recorded in isolation before being mixed and vocalised at Soniclolly studio in Margaret River and mastered to perfection by Forensic Audio, the album sounds rather splendid. It will be released in an initial limited run of 100 handmade copies on January 27, before hitting stores nationwide via Firestarter Distribution to accompany national touring in March and April. The launch edition will feature a beautiful fabric cover, a bonus disc of demos and alternate versions of songs from the record and a zine that’ll give you a bit of background to the songs. This is going to disappear quickly and if you don’t
pick up your copy at the launch, you won’t be able to get one until March.

THE LAUNCH PARTY WILL BE KILLER
Luckily you’re coming to the launch then, right? For one night only, Amplifier Bar will be transformed into two rooms of underground music, barrier-smashing performance and unmatchable debauchery. Obviously TOMÁS FORD tops the bill in the main room with his full live experience, plus Sydney’s 8-bit firecracker SIMO SOO will be along for the ride, Nintendo-popsters BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!, post-everything destructionists INJURED NINJA, all-star collaborators DIGER ROKWELL & FELICITY GROOM, BRASH AND SASSY’s GENNIA FEBBRAIO in her solo debut and Melbourne hip hop mixtape masters L-BURN DJ’s between sets.

The Beer Garden Cabaret Spectacular is going to be even more debauched, with SCHVENDES’ sultry songstress RACHAEL DEASE playing a rare solo show, circuit bending avant-pop ludicrousness from THE GIZZARDS, comedy cabaret from freewheeling freaks LADYBONER and a never-to-be-repeated audiovisual spectacular from LEON (aka LOON-X-WING aka LEON EWING aka THAT GUY FROM BEAVERLOOP) and partystarting blueslooping from ADAM BROWN.

Plus you can expect performances and intrusions by Fringe favourite HOT PINK BITS (NZ), ukulele genius JOHN ROBERTSON, the walking confuse-o-rama that is JOHN CONWAY, splendid character comic ZACK ADAMS, spine tingling storytelling from ANDREA GIBBS, the comedy debut of LAITH TIERNEY, elegant phrases from Perth’s poet laureate BYRON BARD, DOSH LUCKWELL’s salacious sex poems and Perth’s legends of underground drag, VOIX DE LA VILLE.

COMBINE BOTH PRODUCTS FOR MAXIMUM ENJOYMENT
Don’t fret, you don’t have to choose one or the other – you can come to the party AND obtain an album! Everything will be available at Amplifier Bar on Friday January 27 between 8pm and 1am. Tickets are available for $15 (or $25 with a copy of the album) from Moshtix online: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=53631&ref=tomasfordamplifier

AN AUDIENCE WITH TOMÁS FORD
TWO ROOM ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY

AMPLIFIER STAGE SUPER-PARTY:
TOMÁS FORD
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!
SIMO SOO (SYD)
INJURED NINJA
DIGER ROKWELL & FELICITY GROOM
GENNIA FEBBRAIO (EX - BRASH & SASSY)
L-BURN DJ’S (MELB)

BEER GARDEN LOFI CABARET SPECTACULAR:
THE GIZZARDS
RACHAEL DEASE (SCHVENDES)
LEON (AUDIOVISUAL SPECTACLUAR)
ADAM BROWN
LADYBONER

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS ALL NIGHT:
HOT PINK BITS (NZ)
JOHN ROBERTSON
JOHN CONWAY
ZACK ADAMS
ANDREA GIBBS
LAITH TIERNEY
BYRON BARD
DOSH LUCKWELL
VOIX DE LA VILLE

AMPLIFIER BAR, PERTH
FRIDAY JANUARY 27
8 PM TO MIDNIGHT
BOOK NOW VIA MOSHTIX
More information at HTTP://TOMASFORD.COM