New song live at Princess Theatre

Update:
A closer view (thanks Sally):

And there are some other videos from that show available here.

Sydney Festival Trailer featuring ‘Blood’

Full Video for ‘Blood’

A repost in case you missed it before. This time it’s on Youtube:

Some videos from a recent myspace gig

Blood

The Darkest Side

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 video for Blood

Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast

Or here is a direct link to the video.

By request, some videos

Two newer ones:

Blood, Sydney, ?, 8 Aug 2009
Does anyone know what show that was?

The Darkest Side, The Old Museum, Brisbane, June 4 2009
(I saw this one…)
Please enjoy the comedy variations to the lyrics…

And an old (but very, very good) one:
Pig Food, Townsville, CD Launch at the Riverway Arts Centre, April 24, 2008.
Actually the last part of this video is from the song “Tsietsi”.

(Find more videos via the Videos category).

Probably more than you wanted to know about “Fools Gold”

So the version of “Gold” aka “Fools Gold” aka “Good as Gold” on The Middle East/Sleeping in Trains split EP is quite a bit different to the version on The Recordings of the Middle East. I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing it’s an older version of the song. The vocal melody is the basically same, but there are some extra sections and some parts are a little different. The multiple vocals breakdown part is kind of not quite there. However there is the beautiful amazing outtro that didn’t make it into the Recordings… version.

Now if only there was a version of this song with the more stripped back guitar and the multipart vocals section from the Recordings… version PLUS the amazing outtro from the Sleeping in Trains EP.

Wait.

There is. Please enjoy:

It’s from the EP launch show in Townsville on April 24, 2008. From what I can tell they aren’t playing the outtro in the live set any more, but if they ever did I believe it would be something you would not want to miss.

Cairns students to make videos

Film and Television students in Trinity Bay State High School are going to make some videos for The Middle East. Perhaps we’ll see them on rage before the end of the year.

From the myspace wall:

im in year 12 at trinity bay state high school in cairns
im really looking forward to doing a music video with your music.

and:

hey, don’t know if you read the message that went with my friend request, but I’m in the ftv class at Trinity Bay that’re going to make you lads some music videos

Blood featured in the movie “Accidents Happen”

Take a look at this:

The movie stars Gina Davis. It’s an independent film made by an Australian director. It premiered at Tribeca in New York and showed at the Sydney Film festival last week. Here’s the IMDB page and here’s the official site for the movie and the Facebook page where you can find a few people talking about the soundtrack.

Apparently the song plays during the closing credits. That’s pretty cool. And not bad career-wise either I would guess!