Monday 15th September 2008
The difficult second update.

Hello there in internet land. Sorry it's been a long time between updates on our new improved official website. Does anyone read official websites anymore? If we had a guest book I suppose we could find out. Anyway we have been so busy since Junk came out earlier this year.. travelled to the USA, played Splendour in the Grass and Gympie Muster, as well as found time to go and record some new demos up at Prior Park. You can have a listen to some new songs at the MySpace site - www.myspace.com/theginclub.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us this year, we appreciate it, and things are certainly looking up. We're off on tour with the Drones in October/November to help them launch their amazing new album Havilah - having heard it a couple of times drunkenly we can guarantee it's all that. Check the gig guide for dates. We're playing a free show at the Cascade Court at QPAC very soon with Tim Steward and his band. Come along and watch, it's a great setting and best of all it's free! That's on the 27th of September. We also have the TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY BOAT CRUISE this Friday evening from about 6.00pm. Get your tickets from Rockinghorse Records.

We also have a very special show coming up at the end of the year at the Old Museum in Bowen Hills.. it will act as our XMAS party also.. it's on December 6th. Still deciding what to do and who to play with so stay tuned, but it's sure to be a special event. We're using their giant organ I think! We've had to bid a very sad farewell to Mr Ola Karlsson a few weeks ago .. he's had to go back to Sweden to re-acquaint himself with the language and his family! Hopefully we'll get to see him when we travel over to Europe next year.. fingers crossed. Anyway we're sure he's causing trouble over there already. Check out his awesome Swedish band O BAND, I'm sure they'll be busy pretty soon.

Anyway, we've got Travis Macdonald playing a bit of bass and what not for us at the moment, and Matt Schneider filling in on drums. Travis is of course Conor's brother and an all round righteous dude. Matt is a dapper man of mystery, recently tamed.

What else. We're playing the inaugural SOUNDS OF SPRING Festival on October the 11th.. should be a hoot. Lots of awesome bands playing including The Vandas, Rocket Science, Butcher Birds and Smudge. Tickets selling fast, more info at (a href="http://www.soundsofspring.com.au">www.soundsofspring.com.au

I think that's it for the time being. Drop by the MySpace site regularly for updates, and please join our Facebook group here as we don't have a proper mailing list, and you know, hope you're all okay. Stay in touch.

Love

The Gin Club

Tuesday 1st April 2008
First news broadcast.

Well it's been a long time between drinks but we finally pulled a fingah out and have got this webpage updated. As it is a work in progress, please feel free to visit our OLD SITE HERE

The most pressing news is that our fantastic new album JUNK is OUT NOW! It's a double album, 12 months in the making, our magnum opus, our Kind Of Blue crossed with our Reign In Blood with our Music From Big Pink and our White Album thrown in for good measure. 

It's got a string quartet, a horn section, some beautiful guest singers including Tim Rogers, Kate Jacobsen (Texas Tea), and Sue Ray. It's got lap steel by Chris from the Vandas. It's got Bridget's first composition, the title track Junk. It's awesome.

You can buy JUNK here at JB Hi Fi. To promote the album - and cause no one buys CDs anymore - we're off on a tour. You can find the dates here. Come along. That way when heaps of people jump on our bandwagon - which is quite large - you can sniff, sell all your Gin Club CDs an say "I preferred them when they were poor."

The album has already garnered one rave review from local scribe Noel Mengel. Writing in the Courier Mail last Thursday, Noel had this to say...

"With (their) third album they've harnessed all (their) creative energy and ambition and crafted a recording with all the beauty and terror and inexorable force of rock music at its finest. Don't miss it." **** 1/2 (Courier Mail, 06th March 2008)

Four and a half! Out of five! We must have done something right. Thanks Noel. Check out the full review in our Press section here.

The inimitable Kellie Lloyd has done a filmclip for what we hope will be the first single, her estranged husband Salty's "Ten Paces Away". It will be here soon.

We recorded the new album at various locations throughout 2008 including a cattle property near Rockhampton, a Church near Fernvale, a Foundry near Red Hill and a basement near Sunnybank. We mixed it all at a worker's cottage near the Booradabbin Bowls Club on a big fuck-off desk with heaps of knobs. There was one huge one behind the desk, ha ha! Anyhow, there's photos of the recording and more here. 

We've had a few shuffles on deck also. Dale Peachey and Jacob S. Harris are no longer with the serving crew of the good ship "This War's Gonna End", but have been instead awarded indefinite shore leave. Harris has taken the opportunity to travel the world independently and has opened a chandlery in Montreal. Peachey is currently working on his memoirs. Both however are still fully fledged members of our little tribe, and they'll show up again soon, no doubt. In the meantime check out Jake's awesome solo work here.

Coming in to fill their places on an already crowded stage we have a couple of drummers. We can't get enough of drummers in the Gin Club. We're like one of those performance percussion bands from the nineties who played crap on bin lids and stuff.

Firstly, Mr. Angus G. Agars of Melbourne Town. He also plays in the Vandas and Mike Noga's Gentlemen of Fortune. He manned the kit at various stages on the album as well as kicking our arses, making us laugh till we puke, being annoying and motivational in equal amounts, and generally being a sexy bitch.

More recently, since bloody Gus hasn't realised that Brisbane is the greatest city on earth, we have recruited long time Club associate and all round nice guy Matthew Schnieder to fill in on some drums locally. You can check out some info on these new members, as well as some updated info on the other ones, at our revamped crew quarters here.

The Gin Club also recently compiled a collection of demos, live tracks and piss farting to coincide with their Xmas party show. It's called "Hissy Fit Vol. 1" and you can check out the art and tracklisting and order a copy from them at the new improved Booty section here. If you're not familiar with the concept of paying for something someone has worked on and for, you can download a couple of the tracks from there as well.

Well that's about it for now. Please check out our new record. We're extremely proud of it.

Someday This War's Gonna End.