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Here’s the video I made for the Whtsqr song Look Me in the Eye.
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Here’s the video I made for the Whtsqr song Tiny Henchmen.
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Here’s the video David Nichols made for the Whtsqr song No Mystery.
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Here’s the video I made for the Whtsqr song Polythene Sky.
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Here’s the video I made for the Whtsqr song Calm and Defenseless.
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Here in Australia we have a horrible leader of the opposition called Tony Abbott. He is all black and rotten on the inside, as you can see here.
Whtsqr launches an album you’ll be playing over and over again – ‘The Things She Never Owned’ at Bar 303, 30 June.
Ladies and gentlemen,
It’s not every day someone just comes out of the shadows and hands you a collection of jewels. Rejoice, for this is such a day.
Listen once and be reminded a bit of break through ‘break-up’ albums like Sea Change or Blood on the Tracks. Listen twice and the songs are under your skin for good.
‘The Things She Never Owned’ is the work of Whtsqr (“White Square”), the disemvowelled alter-ego of bedroom musician Guy Morton
“Recording each of the songs on this album has been satisfying in itself, but I’m incredibly excited to be bringing this album to life by playing it with a fantastic band. There’s a magic to playing live that’s hard to beat.”
There are 12 original songs on the album – from the almost Astral Weeks-like Polythene Sky through the startling imagery of Melted Woman to the Countrydylanesque Midnight Souvlaki and the sparkling pop nugget No Mystery.
“These are beautiful songs, superbly delivered each and every time.” – Charles Jenkins
“The songs were so realised, melodic and confident that I started to wonder if this was actually a covers night of covers no-one knew” – David Nichols, Presenter 3RRR
“Great production quality, great song writing, great strings, just great. Love the lazy groove that is ‘Calm and Defenceless’. ‘No Mystery’ just doesn’t go long enough for mine. A masterpiece.” – Stephen Anderson, Presenter 3RRR
Whtsqr album launch:
Guy Morton, vocals, rhythm guitar
Bob Spencer, guitar
Kevin Hunt, bass
Graham Maddicks, drums
Dave Milne, keyboards
Support act Dave Milne solo at 3:30pm, Whtsqr 4:30pm.
New album – The Things She Never Owned
http://www.whtsqr.com/
http://www.whtsqr.com/itunes
http://www.facebook.com/whtsqr
http://whtsqr.bandcamp.com/
‘The Things She Never Owned’ will be launched at Bar 303 on June 30, 3:30pm.
For interviews/hi-res pics or a copy of ‘The Things She Never Owned’ for airplay or review please email Karen@karenconradpublicity.com or ring 0400 527 365.
I’m always ambivalent about Anzac day.
Unthinking jingoism sucks, but at the same time I do respect people who fight bravely for things they believe in. Even when those things later turn out to be based on lies, the good intentions and bravery are still worth recognising.
We should have a rule, though, that the only politicians who are permitted to mention Anzac day, or speak at a dawn service, are ones who have personally fought in a war. That’d clear the air of a lot of patriotic bullshit.
…a fundamental one, and it’s one that the Catholic church really can’t resile from.
The trouble with the Pope is that the whole concept is so ludicrous, that it’s only the simplest and least educated people, concerned almost solely with survival and with no scientific knowledge to draw upon, who could let it through their plausibility radar. I doubt there is a single Cardinal in the Catholic church who genuinely, in their heart of hearts, really truly believes that God is personally choosing the Pope through them, but that’s what Catholics are supposed to believe.
If God is really personally nominating a human to be his “King on Earth” – to basically be him on Earth, then isn’t he making a bit of a balls-up of the whole thing? Why would he work through the Cardinals to elect Popes who have been shown throughout history to be very bad men? How does that make sense? What is God saying? That He himself can sometimes be a corrupt philandering homosexual paedophile, in direct contravention of the words in the Bible?
And that’s the problem. The vast majority of sane people don’t really think the Pope is God on Earth – they think he’s a senior Catholic who, for whatever reason, won enough support from other senior Catholics to be elected into the role. Even most educated Catholics, I think, would probably say that if asked. BUT, the Catholic doctrine says he’s God on Earth for Catholics…so if you’re a Catholic, you have to believe that and do what he tells you to do as you would if God himself were to descend from the heavens and tell you.
In reality, what happens is Catholics cherry pick the things the Pope says or does that they are prepared to go along with. An example is birth control, where Pope John Paul II decreed that no Catholic was allowed to use a condom – an appalling decree in the face of the HIV epidemic at the time. How many Catholics ignored that decree? My bet is plenty did.
And the whole underpinning of the Catholic church is built on this foundation, of an infallible “God on Earth” Pope. In truth it’s a farcical lie and we see it unravelling bit by bit, as education spreads and inoculates people against such primitive and implausible beliefs.
I give Catholicism 50 years before it’s consigned to the rubbish bin of history. Less outlandish, and dare I say it, hubristic religions may last a little longer.
