so busy, in fact, that i went to the trouble of creating a separate poster…so regardless of your style, you can’t help but be hooked!

it should be a great night…and between now and then (two weeks away, yay!) i’ll be sure to work my poor little body into the ground, recording in the studio and rehearsing Cowper and Surface Paradise material. Show your love at the facebook page if you plan to come!

lots more have been happening, including another photo shoot to add to the first one; and my personal favourite…a new music video for Ben Stewart.

Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy from Jaymis on Vimeo.

after the gig (literally, the next day), i’m heading off to europe for a 4 week holiday/tour. if you want to know where i’ll be and maybe even have me in to play, then you can see my itinerary here.

it’s only 4 weeks, but i’m secretly hoping i fall in love in a small spanish village, never to return

well, at least for the odd tour!

cheers,
rowley

i thought i’d put out a quick little update. in between sessions to record the new album, i’ve also been working on a few other projects, including filming a new music video with Jaymis for Ben Stewart of Angry Birds fame. the video will be released soon, but we had so much fun making the video, that i thought a small teaser would be in order.

it involves over 400 party poppers, 6 cameras, and 200 frames per second. Oh, and it’s COOL.

that’s all the hint you’re going to get, missy

(awesome photos by jen dainer of madhouse studios brisbane)

as i sit here in bed listening to music, after a night out listening to music, after a day playing music, i hope you too found a great mood and a tune to bob along to today, be it Muse, Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber. i hope for my sake, and the people within earshot of you, that it is more the former than the later…but i guess that’s kind of my point.

good night!

that was before i tried to make my own. unlike the rather talented sister in the family, i’m no musician, which means that this shit is doubly hard…decision to record album: january 2009. first track (nearly) complete: july 2010. eek!

“oh, but the material is so much more refined now, and there is so much on the cutting room floor…” blah blah blah!

however, all this seems to detract nothing from the fact that getting to this point has been a lot of fun.

a successful night in the studio is certainly a great start to the weekend which is going to be great fun because i’m helping jaymis and his Lady move into their new home. this means lugging heavy stuff, but also means a lot of laughs. and now, for a word from our sleep sponsors!

and so we continue…

a second home is a place you long for; somewhere you’ve banked a small piece of your heart for safe keeping because you loved it so. once you do this, you cross a line – you have traded eternal contentment for a higher level of happiness, and subsequently a higher level of yearning. for me it was 8 years ago in a cold swedish lakeside town when i cut my heart and gifted fragments; not to places, but to the people of my kind.

now, at last, it is time to return. not to reclaim, but to visit the fragments and their keepers.

i am so excited.

i’ll be in switzerland, italy, germany, spain and anywhere else possible for 4 weeks from the 16th september. if you’d like a visitor, feel free to say hello.

i’d love it if anyone has a little bar or bookstore (better!) that they’d like me to play in…i promise to smile every minute of the way.

(p.s., the picture is a teaser of more to come…an amazing weekend project with the lovely jen dainer and jasmine whelan – so much fun!)

it’s actually a cleverly disguised CCTV security system designed to work out who’s been stealing all my m’n'ms.

turns out it was me. video doesn’t lie.

the song the video plays out to is called “i,robot”. it’s not entirely finished, but it’s pretty much confirmed as ending up on the album cutting floor. but that doesn’t preclude it from being freely available for download, and also doesn’t stop me from throwing together a video for it. i hope you enjoy.

cowper – i, robot from Cowper on Vimeo.

it was so much fun.

today i am getting these albums (one is free for goodness sake), because these guys, HUNZ, rocked my world last night…it the most fun i’ve had running cameras for live visuals in over a year.

today i’m looking forward to…to…to…shit. everything really.

more unconvention.
more music.
another gig for us tonight at the free after party.
and then on a slightly less musical note…australia vs germany in the football tomorrow morning at 4am. i plan to still be awake.

it’s going to be a good day.

cowper – The Kite Song – live at The Edge – 30th April 2010 from Jaymis on Vimeo.

cowper – Capulet – Live at The Edge – 30th April 2010 from Jaymis on Vimeo.

after a whirlwind day trip to sydney, i had planned to crawl into bed and succumb to the weight of the qantas complimentary beverages ebbing through my blood stream. that was until i received this email from jaymis about rehearsal tonight:

Hey man. I’m totally destroyed, so I’m going to have an early night. Been busy though. Uploads:
Vids:
http://vimeo.com/12336652
http://vimeo.com/12336894
Audio:
http://cowper.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-edge-30th-april-2010

Wanna make a blog post?

when a friend this talented goes out of their way to create for you, how can you possibly say no?

i’m sitting here writing with a beer to my right and a pile of minties and fantails to my left, in a vain attempt to calm my racing brain after a coffee fueled day of amazing people and events. these past few weeks have been a rollercoaster – new toys, new gigs, new people. fantastic. today just happens to be a particularly fine example:

5am – on the road down to the coast for my first surf in a month after four consecutive weekends spent either interstate, locked up in a studio, or celebrating winter with friends
10am – kingscliff finally delivers a breakfast they can be proud of, supported by some of the best banter seen so far this year.
11am – the obligatory weekly this american life roadtrip back to brisneyland
12:30pm – power nap.
12:50pm – helter skelter shower and pack before heading to the edge for a few hours of reading up, setting up and playing with my new toys.
4pm – hit it off to the tune of some great laughs with new found creative friends Jen and Jasmine to kick off a fun new creative project for later this month. VERY exciting, and involves a new physical challenge for rowley, which we do like.
6pm – raced home to HQ for a dinner of home made spicy fishu with Jaymis and Rach. These are the only people I know who hand make an amazing dinner, and then wait until after dinner to decide what they want for dessert, and then head back into the kitchen to make that too. (it was affogato, and sticky date pudding…yum)
9pm – head back out in the car to head to a friend’s birthday party for another round of new and interesting people, including some great kids from the creative fold of map magazine, one of my favourite (and few) regular reads.

and that takes me to 12am, where i’m kicking back with the aforementioned beer and fantails (don’t knock it ’til you try it) and trying to finish the poster for next Sunday’s Unconvention Afterparty Spectacular with Tash Parker at the JOYnt, which EVERYONE should come to seeing as though it’s a Long Weekend and all.

these are EXCITING times, people!

i hope you’re having an awesome weekend too.

cheers,
rowley

i can’t wait for the “exhorbitant record contract” add-on for the game.

http://vimeo.com/11897070