Former Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon, Charlie Owen, Boris Sujdovic, Tony Pola and Tex Perkins reinvent themselves in a recorded project entitled ‘The Beasts Still Here’ and will be touring nationally performing tracks from the new album ‘Still Here’ and the Beasts Of Bourbon classics.
After an extremely emotional final performance with the Beasts of Bourbon, Tex Perkins hit upon the idea of getting all of the band’s members, past and present into a recording studio with no particular agenda other than to do just that. It was more of a celebratory thing he had in mind than anything. Sadly, bassist Brian Hooper didn’t make it along as he passed away a week after the Beasts last show.
Assembled in Soundpark Studio a couple of weeks later were, Charlie Owen, Boris Sujdovic, Tony Pola, Spencer Jones, Kim Salmon and Tex Perkins. They were unprepared save for some some sketchy ideas, loose ends and a couple of covers. With limited time the band knocked together a collection of jams pretty much true to the crazy M.O. employed back when The Axeman’s Jazz got laid down in that fateful eight-hour session in 1983.
Songs weren’t so much learned as ideas thrown together and recorded the moment they began to coalesce.
Captured were: Brian Hooper’s What The Hell Was I Thinking, James Baker’s Drunk On A Train, Boris’ Don’t Pull Me Over, Kim’s Pearls Before Swine, Tex’s On My Back and Just Let Go and Spencer’s At The Hospital……
There was Zappa’s The Torture Never Stops, Warren Zevon’s My Shit’s Fucked Up (was there ever a more appropriate cover for the Beasts?’). Add to that some untitled jams that became the hilarious Your Honour and Its All Lies.
Sound like an Album? You Betchya! Deeply sad is that Spencer was only around long enough to make it onto one track. Absolutely wonderful is that he did make it onto the recording. And with such a funny and typically Jones style piece of observation as At The Hospital.
With respect, this isn’t the Beasts of Bourbon. It would need to have Jonesy on every track to be that! But loudly and proudly this is: The Beasts Still Here.
TRACKLIST
01 On My Back
02 Pearls Before Swine
03 My Shit’s F*cked Up
04 Just Let Go
05 At The Hospital
06 Drunk On A Train
07 The Torture Never Stops
08 It’s All Lies
09 What The Hell Was I Thinking
10 Don’t Pull Me Over
11 Your Honour
PREMIER ARTISTS PRESENTS…
‘THE BEASTS STILL HERE’ NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2019
Performing tracks from the new album ‘Still Here’ and the Beasts Of Bourbon
classics.
With Special Guests
Thursday 21st February 2019 – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – Tickets
Friday 22nd February 2019 – Prince Bandroom, St Kilda – Tickets
Saturday 23rd February 2019 – Croxton Bandroom, Northcote – Tickets
Friday 1st March 2019 – The Northern, Byron Bay – Tickets
Saturday 2nd March 2019 – The Triffid, Brisbane – Tickets
Thursday 7th March 2019 – A.N.U. Canberra – Tickets
Friday 8th March 2019 – Metro Theatre, Sydney – Tickets
Saturday 9th March 2019 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – Tickets
Thursday 14th March 2019 – Rock Rover, Fremantle – Tickets
Friday 15th March 2019 – Rosemount Hotel, Perth – Tickets
Saturday 16th March 2019 – Rosemount Hotel, Perth – Tickets
Sunday 17th March 2019 – The Gov, Adelaide – Tickets
Tickets on sale 9AM AEDT Friday 30th November 2018
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