Basement Birds Tickets

Short Biography
Basement Birds are preparing to take their Indie/Folk sound to the masses with their Good Evening & Good Night Tour starting August 12. The first single, ‘Waiting For You' achieved Single of the Week upon its debut on the Australia iTunes Stores and the powerhouse collective is now set to hit the road for their only National Tour, bringing plenty of special guests and surprises. After debuting their live stylings on Sunrise, Basement Birds did it guerrilla style for Channel [V] in Sydney and performed an amazing cover of The Presets "My People" for Triple J's Like A Version.  Now they are set to tour with the support of Old Man River. The first four songs are available to buy and downl...

Short Biography
Basement Birds are preparing to take their Indie/Folk sound to the masses with their Good Evening & Good Night Tour starting August 12. The first single, ‘Waiting For You' achieved Single of the Week upon its debut on the Australia iTunes Stores and the powerhouse collective is now set to hit the road for their only National Tour, bringing plenty of special guests and surprises. After debuting their live stylings on Sunrise, Basement Birds did it guerrilla style for Channel [V] in Sydney and performed an amazing cover of The Presets "My People" for Triple J's Like A Version.  Now they are set to tour with the support of Old Man River. The first four songs are available to buy and download from iTunes, with another two bundles to follow in the lead-up to the tour.  Acoustic versions of most tracks will also be available exclusively on iTunes over the coming months. In addition to the exclusive iTunes releases, Basement Birds will release a physical album with a bonus, never before heard track!

In-depth Biography
Basement Birds represents a meeting of the minds between four of Australia's leading singers and songwriters -- Kevin Mitchell, Steve Parkin, Josh Pyke and Kav Temperley. Mitchell was the guitarist and lead vocalist with the rock group Jebediah, and subsequently recorded several solo albums under the name Bob Evans. Parkin has worked with the band The Foreign Films, Autopilot and Vinyl, as well as recording several solo albums and touring as a member of Bob Evans' live band. Pyke has enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success since releasing his first EP in 2004. And Temperley is best known as the singer and bassist with the group Eskimo Joe; he was also the one who got the idea of the four musicians working together when Pyke was booked on a tour with Eskimo Joe. Given the busy schedules of the four artists, it was three years after Temperley and Pyke first proposed the idea that they were able to meet up with Mitchell and Parkin for a writing and recording session at Temperley's home studio. Once the schedules were worked out, the foursome was productive, and Basement Birds' debut album was recorded during four week-long sessions in 2009 and released in 2010. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi