‘Unearthed Artist of the Year’ on Triple J!

http://triplejunearthed.com/
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jawards/09/

Twitter etc

…in which The Middle East (or at least their publicist) gets their social media sorted

http://twitter.com/TheMiddleEast

http://www.facebook.com/visitthemiddleeast

http://www.youtube.com/themiddleeast

http://www.themiddleeastmusic.com/

http://myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast *

…thereby giving this blog a little less reason to exist…

* of course this has been around forever

TME on ‘Secret Millionaire’

They played a few seconds of ‘The Darkest Side’ on this week’s episode of Channel Nine’s ‘Secret Millionaire’ right before a commercial break. Believe it or not.

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The website gets a proper launch:
http://www.themiddleeastmusic.com/

Official website for TME

http://themiddleeastmusic.com/

Twitter buzz

I thought I’d share some tweets from a couple of twitter users:

From http://twitter.com/SALJmum

• Eva heard a song & felt that u couldn’t live another 2nd w/out that CD in ur hand??Just had that moment….it was beautiful! 8:28 PM Oct 13th from web
• …& no it wasn’t The Script’s ‘Break Even’ despite the fact the ad plugging their album is on high rotation b/ween hrs of 12 & 3am… 8:32 PM Oct 13th from web
• ..on t.v,sending subliminal messages to brain whilst I’m asleep on the couch so I end up singing song about 15times during course of the day 8:38 PM Oct 13th from web
• http://www.myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast 9:01 PM Oct 13th from web
• Thank god JB’s open till 9pm,now proud owner of The Middle East’s EP.There’ll b no Break Even for me 2night! That’ll do Script…that’ll do. 8:44 PM Oct 13th from web

From http://twitter.com/elliegiles

• when i was in oz i saw a band called middle east. the ep keeps living. check em out. www.myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast. TREMENDOUS about 2 hours ago from web
• listen to blood, its a tune. live they are delicate, intense, blissful and emotive about 2 hours ago from web
• 4 part harmonies, fragile but epic all at the same time. about 2 hours ago from web

Farewell Tim

The band has a new bass player. His name is Jack and he is probably not Bree’s little brother.

Pitchfork feature and US release date

The Darkest side is featured on Pitchfork’s Forkcast today which claims a US release date for the five track EP of 27 October.

Read the article here.

Greedy Hen

A little bit about Greedy Hen the creators of the video for Blood. You can also see their myspace, facebook and coming soon web site.

New management?

From a business-like blog post on myspace:

Bookings
Evan Davis for Village Sounds (Aus/NZ)
e: evan@villagesounds.com

Management
The Artists Organization (Worldwide ex Aus/NZ)
e: rich@taorganization.com

Mel Lake for Bird Music (Aus/NZ)
e: mel@birdmusic.com.au

So let’s look those guys up:

The Artists Organisation, see http://taorganization.com/ – The web site is empty, but they are in Santa Monica, CA

Bird Music could be at http://birdmusic.com.au/ – I guess they haven’t set that one up yet.

Village Sounds don’t seem to have a web site but they are in Byron Bay and are one of the organisers of Splendour in the Grass. See here.