The Tea Party Tickets

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Australian fans of THE TEA PARTY can rejoice at the news that the
iconic rock trio will hit Australia to tour Nationally in July 2012.
The Multi-Platinum selling Canadian band has had a long history and love affair with
Australian audiences, which began with the band's first major label album recording - 1993's
Splendor Solis (The River, Save Me, A Certain Slant of Light). Picked up & championed
by Triple J, this album achieved Gold selling status. This early success was followed by the
critically acclaimed and Platinum Award selling release The Edges of Twilight (Fire in the
Head, The Bazaar, Sister Awake, Shadows on the Mountainside). The success of these
albums cemented the band's fan base and saw The Tea Party tour Australia 12 times
between 1994 and 2004.
After 15 years together, with 8 albums under their belts (1.6million + sold), and countless
tours through Canada, the United States, Europe & Australia, The Tea Party went their
separate ways in 2005. Creativity amongst the members continued with Jeff Martin
(vox/guitar) basing himself in Australia & touring consistently in solo/band mode with The
Armada & 777. Stuart Chatwood (bass/keyboards) took to composing video game
soundtracks, including all 8 titles in the series of The Prince of Persia which have gone on to
sell over 10 million copies, and Jeff Burrows (drums/percussion) continued to perform (with
band Crash Karma) whilst maintaining a Radio career.
Reuniting for a series of Canadian shows and festivals in 2011, The Tea Party's renowned &
powerful blues - rock - Indian/Middle-Eastern sound (utilising 12 string guitars and exotic
instruments such as sitars, sarods, harmoniums and goblet drums etc) received an
overwhelmingly positive response from fans & media alike which reignited the fire that once
was;
"That they could come back after the better part of a decade apart and still sound so fresh,
vibrant, powerful and relevant is a testament to the enduring power of the music, a sound that
seems to exist in a separate universe than temporal or stylistic concerns. These guys just
simply came back and reclaimed the majesty and grandeur of the best guitar-driven rock
throughout the post- 60s era." BUFFALO NEWS (New York) - July 2011
As Jeff Martin himself states, "The seven years apart has done wonders for The Tea Party.
With a renewed sense of purpose and vitality, the band is more powerful than ever with our
collective eye firmly on the future."
July 2012 will see The Tea Party return to Australia for a handful of shows around the
country on their Reformation Tour. In what will be their first National tour in 8 years, fans can
expect the fire to explode the very best of The Tea Party once again ... don't miss!

With their organic, low-key harmonies and sophisticated, acoustic folk-pop, Newport, NSW, outfit Georgia Fair have delivered upon the promise of 2010's Times Fly EP with an evocative, winsome debut album. Recorded in the snow-covered mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, All Through Winter is an album which immediately announces itself as one of 2011's most impressive local offerings.
For their first full-length LP Georgia Fair found a firm friend in All Through Winter producer Bill Reynolds - bassist with acclaimed American outfit Band of Horses.

It may be a relaxed, gentle listen, but there's nothing lightweight about the songwriting behind All Through Winter - like rollicking first single "Where You Been"; the jaunty, cheerful swing of "Remember Me"; the heavy, dramatic unleashing that is "Blind"; the back-to-basics, folk lovin' dreams of "Simple Man". "This record feels like our first true, honest offering," Ben insists "we certainly feel that Bill really helped capture that."

Already long-time fans of the acclaimed Southern rockers, despite enduring an uncomfortable delay over the telephone during their very first conversation with Reynolds, Jordan and Ben knew instantly they'd found their man. "We love Band of Horses," Jordan enthuses. "It was one of those lucky things that worked out. We had a connection from the very beginning - Bill was our kind of guy. That first conversation there was a lot of us asking questions like, ‘Do you love Dylan?' Yeah man, I love Dylan!' That sort of music fandom we had in common really cemented it."
Having demoed their new material in a friend's attic on Sydney's Northern Beaches, after crossing the Pacific for the very first time Georgia Fair holed up for five weeks in a small, mountain-top cottage in Asheville. It was an experience of many firsts: the first longplayer, the first time they'd seen snow. Reynolds moved in - there was plenty of stir-fries - and the trio began work, tracking in the converted church studio of Echo Mountain Recording.

"Band of Horses had just recorded their third album [Infinite Arms] there," Jordan explains. "It was very chilled, a totally relaxed vibe. Being an old church, the surroundings were very inviting, warm and welcoming. Not an intimidating at all."

While they fell in love with the myriad of gear on offer at Echo Mountain - "amazing guitars I loved using," Ben grins - the ethos was: keep it simple, make it direct. Reynolds brought in a variety of close musician friends to add colour to each song Georgia Fair unveiled, including fellow BOH alumni Tyler Ramsey, while instruments such as piano, Mellotron, mandolin and Omnichord were run through endless pedals. "Bill was always going, ‘You have to get the magic, man!'" Jordan laughs.

For Reynolds, the appeal of working with the talented newcomers was impossible to resist. "It's once in a blue moon that I come across a group with such great harmonies and great songs," he attests. "When my manager sent me the demos for the LP I knew I had to find a way to work with them."