Tomás Ford

Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:22:47 +0800

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 for Regurgitator, a rave party at Fringe World and all kinds of other craziness, which continues this Saturday at The Provincial in Geraldton (!!!!!!!!!), if you’re in town.

The album is now avaliable to stream and purchase online; there’s a few packages avaliable. If you just want the MP3’s, it’s $12. The album by itself is $19.95, or with a copy of my 2012 Erotic Adventure Calendar is $29.95. Or you can buy (nearly) EVERYTHING I’VE EVER MADE EVER in a deluxe $45 package. Stream the record below and click through if you’d like a copy - go on, get yr purse out. It’ll make us both feel better about being in the world.

<a href=”http://music.tomasford.com/album/an-audience-with-tom-s-ford” _mce_href=”http://music.tomasford.com/album/an-audience-with-tom-s-ford”>An Audience With Tomás Ford by Tomás Ford</a>

I Am Excited About This Show

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:25:45 +0800

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 one of his tunes to get you in the zone for it:

WILLY WONKA RAVE PARTY! THIS MONDAY NIGHT!

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:43:46 +0800

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! It’s time for a RAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!

For one night only, I will be performing the songs from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory as a rave party. You might have seen this at the Showtunes gig a few months back; I haven’t done it since, so this should be a special gig. After the Wonka set, join me for a special run through pretty much every cover song I’ve ever played. I’m going to try to play none of my own songs. Expect Bowie, Bjork, Radiohead, Hedwig & The Angry Inch and more… It’s going to be fun.

The rave-ier we can make this, the better. Let’s really get into this and make it the BEST MONDAY EVER!!!

Fringe World

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:05 +0800

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.

Somehow, In The Madness

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:45:19 +0800

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.

eWorst / Dirtiest EP Out Now! New Album out FRIDAY!

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:30:00 +0800

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 THAT HOLLER OUT T.S. ELIOT.

Anyway, I wouldn’t release it if I didn’t think you needed it, and you do, so please get it and share it with your friends as that’s the only way these digital releases are worthwhile.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://tfvsss.bandcamp.com/album/worst-dirtiest” _mce_href=”http://tfvsss.bandcamp.com/album/worst-dirtiest”&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Worst / Dirtiest by Tom&amp;amp;amp;amp;aacute;s Ford vs Simo Soo&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

And Lo! It Is Time For The Album Launch!

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:05:34 +0800

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

Tomás Ford's 2012 Erotic Adventure Calendar

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:53:13 +0800

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 after working towards it for SIX YEARS, Tomás is feeling spectacularly virile. Being as though he’s not entirely sure what to do with that sensation, he has channelled it into the production of a hilarious erotic calendar.

Shot in retired art deco theatre Aurora in WA wheatbelt town Kelleberrin with photographer Shaun Ferraloro and filmmaker John Aliaga, the calendar is a byproduct of an intense fourteen and a half hour shoot that also spawned the sprawling album artwork and performance videos for album tracks Nice and Vice.

Each calendar comes with a streaming preview link for his forthcoming album, scheduled for launch on January 27 at Amplifier Bar, featuring a huge two-stage multi-arts megacabaret lineup to be announced in the new year.

Oh, OK. I can tell you that it will feature Sydney 8-Bit lunatic Simo Soo whose recent self titled album on Lesstalk Records is a frantic burst of digital punk and distorted funk, with a hyperactive live show to boot. And there will be comedy, dance music, circuit bending, punk rock and all kinds of amusements. BUT NO MORE CLUES, ALRIGHT? JUST CALENDARISE IT ALREADY.

In the meantime, you need to get yourself a calendar to mark the 27th into. Tomás can help you with that. For $19.95, you can have a splendid A5 calendar (plus $3 P&H - international rates by request) on sumptuous card. They’re printed on glorious thick A5 card in full colour, and look sumptuously delicious.

The only place to get them is by emailing management AT tomasford.com with “I CAN HAS CALENDAR?” in the subject header. Payment can be made by bank transfer or Paypal and you will get your beautiful date-keeping object in the mail as soon as Australia Post can get it to you.

DILDOS4GW

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:18:00 +0800

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 records list, which will be fun because while this year was a pretty shitty one, there have been so many amazing albums that I want to share with you.

Let's Go Surfing Now, Everybody's Learning How..

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:44:00 +0800

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.

Raw Hyde'in

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:50:37 +0800

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. I’m kind of in recovery mode at the moment but mostly working on the design for the packaging and a 2012 CALENDAR we shot pictures for during the album shoot, which is going to blow your miiiiind.

Back to Raw Hyde though, which has been going excessively well. It’s an “Open Mic Saloon” but we supplement the format with feature comedians, bands, spoken word and whatever performance art wierdness that comes across our desk. It happens at the refurbished Hyde Park Hotel, and any readers from Perth will know the significance of the Hydey before it’s refit; it’s actually been a great experience, the venue have been fantastic, but I’ve wanted to do an oldschool punk rock hydey night there for a while. So the last one was a bit of a pet project of mine; The Bible Bashers, Joe Bludge from The Painkillers, The Spitfires and Frozen Ocean tore the room a new arsehole with blistering sets. It was most pleasant. I took some crap photos:

Laith Tierney from The Bible Bashers, who have just launched this double A-Side:

&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://thebiblebashers.bandcamp.com/album/cray-bait-swan-dive” _mce_href=”http://thebiblebashers.bandcamp.com/album/cray-bait-swan-dive”&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Cray Bait / Swan Dive by The Bible Bashers&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

The Spitfires who have just released this vid for their single Smile:

Frozen Ocean who have just released a great LP called Snoises:

Joe Bludge from The Painkillers, who have let me have all kinds of wierd ways with their song Love Cancer. This was one of my favourite ways:

Anyway, it was a rather satisfying night. You should come down if you live in Perth, every thursday night we program some kind of awesome fun wierdness. Good things happen at about 9pm.

Prerelease Strangeness And Pent Up Oddity

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:40:49 +0800

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 when I can give it to you early next year in exchange for your coins.

The roadcase I talked about a few posts ago finally came, along with a whole stack of new equipment, and it’s beautiful. I’m really excited to get into reworking the show; I’m going to be spending some time on it over December, hopefully I can get something fresh together for the new year, but I suspect it will be a longer process. I’m actually really enjoying my current setup at the moment anyway so I’ll be happy to play around a bit more on that. It’s fair to say that what I’m putting together is going to really take the live show to the next level though.

Absolutely dying to get out on tour at the moment. Tomorrow night I play Fremantle Town Hall for the Big Swingin’ Ball as part of Fremantle Festival. The Town Hall is a one of those fantastic big old rooms that’s going to be a fucking blast to desecrate with my antics. It’s an unusual bill for me too, which always means things will be a bit more interesting; it’s pretty much a guarantee that there will be a fresh batch of punters that won’t have seen me before along with the (always welcome) veterans.

While I’m writing, can I draw your ears to the Naik remix of I Feel Dirty? I love it and I think you should download it if you haven’t already. It makes my shitty car stereo sound AWESOME.

<a href=”http://music.tomasford.com/track/i-feel-dirty-naik-remix” _mce_href=”http://music.tomasford.com/track/i-feel-dirty-naik-remix”>I Feel Dirty (Naik Remix) by Tomas Ford</a>

Kelleberrin Road Trip

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:15:00 +0800

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 what I’m on about), it’s about three hours east from Perth. Australia being Australia, the geography is completely different out there. Huge cornfields, distant trees and shrivelled lakes. The town itself is basically a main street with a small patch of houses surrounding it. In the middle of the main street is this:

I don’t want to show you the inside yet, but inside this is a big, run down art deco theatre called Aurora. An amazing woman named Janelle Cugley runs the space, and we were lucky to be allowed to shoot in there. Especially at night, the building is the perfect setting for the person I become onstage as it basically looks the way the inside of my head must look.

We did 25 shots, plus a music video over 14 hours. It was a long, long shoot, starting at 2:30 in the afternoon and going laaaaaate. This is me just after 4:30, after shooting what I think will be the cover shot:

At this point, this was as far as I could open my eyes.

I can’t wait to share these shots with you and the film clip we shot… and THE ALBUM THAT THEY’RE FOR!!! All of these things are going to be coming out incredibly soon. I don’t know about you, but that makes me very excited.

Back to Aurora, I’m hoping to do some work out there next year, it’s an amazing space that’s perfect for me to work in. And, without being a tool about it, being out there sparked a whole different set of musical ideas that I’d like to explore. Not that I’m short on them at the moment, I’ve got songs for about five different album ideas spewing out of my brain. I don’t think it’ll be long until I’m making LP #3…

White Sugar Is The Motherfucking Devil

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:57:22 +0800

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.

The Future! Now!

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:00:40 +0800

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 a year and give them a bit of a spruce up.

Not to mention that everything in my rig is broken and needs to be replaced, so what better time.

As part of that, I’ve just ordered a roadcase to fit my new setup. It will look a bit like this, but with more flashing lights and less boxes and mathematic things.

Zombies Do Not Officially Make Up Part Of The 99% But They Have Just As Many Economic Issues

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:39:00 +0800

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.

Photo courtesy of Gillian Berry.

With CHOGM happening in Perth this weekend, the #occupy stuff happening everywhere and momentum building around the idea of having a look at how corporate interests are allowed to behave… this kind of stuff is just kind of floating around my head a lot at the moment. And, as is usually the case with me, it seems to have manifestated itself in the form of something rather, uh, silly.

Unfortunately only about three people got the joke. Most were confused by it and two people were grossly offended (which either far too few or too many). So it could be considered a bit of a costume misfire, if I were to think that way. Which I don’t. I think it was awesome.

Was it better than last years’?

PS: I have just been announced for the zombie themed (!!!) NEW BEGINNINGS festival on the New South Wales central coast (just south of Newcastle). Headliners are lovely gents Grafton Primary, Peter Coombe and the Vengaboys. Tell me that’s not awesome. You can’t. Because it is.

Zombies ≠ Armies

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:13:48 +0800

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 version better, innit.

In other news, Sydney’s Simo Soo has just released his new record and it’s the wierdest thing you can do to your stereo. His music is so hyperactive it makes red cordial seem like NOTHING. He’s unleashed some totally uncomprimising wierd pop strangeness.

&lt;a href=”http://simosoo.bandcamp.com/album/simo-soo-lp” _mce_href=”http://simosoo.bandcamp.com/album/simo-soo-lp”&gt;Simo Soo LP by Simo Soo&lt;/a&gt;

Speaking of uncomprimising musical awesomeness, I played Like Junk’s launch show for their new 3” floppy disk single Faceache on the weekend and they totally slayed it live. They really are one of my favourite live bands in Perth, on record they sound leftfield (which I like too) but they really hammer it home live. I hope they put out an LP, I think once they have an album full of this stuff together they’ll start to connect with the kind of audience they’re looking for.<a href=”http://likejunk.bandcamp.com/album/faceache-floppy-disc-single” _mce_href=”http://likejunk.bandcamp.com/album/faceache-floppy-disc-single”>faceache floppy disc single by Like Junk</a>

You Have Nobody To Blame For This Apocalypse For Yourself

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:32:45 +0800

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 good but to be honest I wasn’t really feeling it much as there’s a very fine line to be walked with using heavy music in electronic stuff; it’s very easy to sound like Limp Bizkit.

&lt;a href=”http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/track/puppies-in-fish-tanks-mathas-rap-redux” _mce_href=”http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/track/puppies-in-fish-tanks-mathas-rap-redux”&gt;Puppies in Fish Tanks (Mathas Rap Redux) by Heartless Robot&lt;/a&gt;

I saw Mathas perform his remix (above, totally amazing) for this LP at Abbe May’s album launch and his remix saw him rapping over a beat that stayed very faithful to the original. It opened up the idea of doing a song using their samples instead of a beats thing; with the track this is based on, Our Bodies, it’s been through two quite different recorded versions already, and it seems to be one of those songs that evolves to suit wherever the bands’ headspace is at the time. So I felt like I had a bit of liscence to take some choice elements from the album mix and push them in whatever direction I wanted, though I also wanted to maintain some of the thrashy intensty of the original (below).

&amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/track/our-bodies” _mce_href=”http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/track/our-bodies”&amp;amp;gt;Our Bodies by Injured Ninja&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

By the time I made it, I didn’t have a lot of time of overthink things, so this kind of just exploded onto my Ableton Live screen. The first night, as I was putting the basics of the track together, I scrawled lyrical notes that I pieced together to lay down as a vocal at 3am in one take (hi neighbours! Hope you like blues howling!).

A couple of nights’ editing later and here it is. One of the strangest songs I’ve made in a career built on some admittedly pretty wierd shit. Have a listen and click the “buy” link to pre order a CD copy of the remix album with an awesome bonus poster for $13 aud.

<a href=”http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/track/ou-have-nobody-to-blame-for-this-apocalypse-but-yourself-tomas-ford-mutliates-our-bodies” _mce_href=”http://heartlessrobot.bandcamp.com/track/ou-have-nobody-to-blame-for-this-apocalypse-but-yourself-tomas-ford-mutliates-our-bodies”>ou Have Nobody to Blame for this Apocalypse but Yourself (Tomas Ford Mutliates Our Bodies) by Heartless Robot</a>

I Made A Thing From A Different Thing By Some Other Person

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:32:55 +0800

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

Raw Hyde

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:47:00 +0800

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. We’ve got all that covered.

Welcome to Raw Hyde at The Hyde Park Hotel.

Every Thursday kicking off on the 28th of September will see your host Tomás Ford showcase the newest and most diverse talents from Perth.

Open mic nights have never looked so different. Free entry, and at the Hydey from 7pm EVERY Thursday evening, starting this one.

Our opening lineup is a cracker, with appearances from Bonnie Tessa Davies (fresh from Edinburgh Fringe), Belowsky (straight off an amazing Downstairs At The Maj season), tunes from Taun Band, Mike Cardy and Peter Bibby (Frozen Ocean).

Plus 5 minute open mic slots all night. Rego for Open Mic will fill up fast, so get down before 9pm to ensure your place.

It’s going to be a blast, make sure you come check it out sometime as I’m hoping it becomes the kind of place where performers can try out pretty much whatever you’ve ever wanted to try out. It’s going to be crazy fun.