ASHTRAY ELECTRIC

Last JHB/PTA shows for the year.

2009-11-23T08:36:00.000-08:00

We just had our last couple of shows up-country with Taxi Violence, Fire Through the Window and some other be-fuck cool bands.

If this was anything to go by, the December trip with Taxi Violence is going to get out of hand.

Tings an Times (Photo: Lucien MM)

Tings n Times (Photos: Sean Brand)

CCHQ (Photo: Anton Botha)

Preliminary end-of-year tour dates.

2009-11-09T06:52:00.000-08:00

It's that time of the year again.

Here are our tour dates:

19 Nov 2009 CCHQ (Cellar Door) Johannesburg

20 Nov 2009 Hotbox Studios Pretoria

21 Nov 2009 Cool Runnings Fourways Johannesburg

9 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Durban

10 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Durban

11 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Durban

11 Dec 2009 Willowvale Hotel Durban

14 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Margate

15 Dec 2009 Pool City Port Elizabeth

16 Dec 2009 The Lounge Jeffrey’s Bay

18 Dec 2009 Mercury Live Cape Town

19 Dec 2009 Cape Farmhouse Cape Town

27 Dec 2009 Old Mutual Summer Series at Kirstenbosch Gardens Cape Town

28 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Cape Town

29 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Cape Town

30 Dec 2009 Nokia - Comes with the Music Party Bus Cape Town

31 Dec 2009 Kenton-on-Sea Music Fest Kenton-on-Sea

Unfortunately, as with most things, they are subject to change so keep an eye open.
We'll be joined by good mates Wrestlerish, Fire Through the Window, Pretty Blue Guns and fresh from a tour in Europe, Taxi Violence along the way.

Check local listings etc.

See you there.

Peace and love,
AE.

Recording Drums

2009-10-28T09:14:00.000-07:00

We recorded the drums in a different studio this time. We used a Brady drumkit. It was the first time I saw a Brady kit. It plays like a dream and it sounds amazing. Check it out on the net if you like.

Rupert

Recording time

2009-10-25T03:31:00.000-07:00

We just spent some time in studio to record a song for something we can't tell you about yet...
The song should be going for Mastering this week.

(All photos Adriaan Louw)

2009-10-19T14:43:00.000-07:00

Hi all.

We've been a tad quiet here on the blog - promise it'll be different from now on.

So much has happened since we launched the album. Another tour up-country, 2 Oppikoppi's, Rocking the Gardens/Daisies, writing and recording some new music, getting booked for our first Kirstenbosch Summer Series show, and a massive tour schedule poking out its pretty face on the dusty December horizon.

One of the band-playing perks in life was that we got to take a week off in Umhlanga before our first show in Durban with Jack (who does our sound from time to time) and his missus.
It felt like a Christmas holiday at the beach – sans crazy family and presents - even though it was only the beginning of September. Fuck, I mean when last did you see palm trees like these?

For some reason, everywhere we go in SA, we seem to get followed by a table tennis table. Barring the fact that everything about the previous sentence seems so wrong, cause it would just be ridiculous thinking that a table tennis table would sneak around and follow us, we have internally become extremely competitive to find the Ashtray Electric Table Tennis Champion (aka The AETTC). At the moment it looks like Andre - or AGMP as he is known these days.
It has gotten so out of hand that we get out of bed, in our underwear, and challenged each other in the middle of the night at Jacques’ (from Wrestlerish) house.

Talking about new friends, we’ve made some pretty cool (and some seriously kak ones) down the line in the last while. Jacques (as mentioned above) and the rest of the Wrestlerish guys and us had a memorable trip down to Bloemfontein. After copious amounts of Jagermeister and an awesome show, the Nel Brothers went for ‘a little lie down’ in the tour van whilst the rest of us still raided the Mystic Boer bar.

When the rest of us got outside to leave, the van was nowhere to be seen. After a long debacle and convincing Reg over the phone that he should wake up, get out of the van (which they were sound asleep in all this time) and see that they were not in front of the venue anymore, we realised someone (not the Nel brothers cause they were paralysed so to speak) had moved the van two blocks down the road. Thank fuck nothing, except a bottle of Jager, had been stolen.

On a little more serious note, we have some off time now before the end of the year chaos starts. The new track is in the final stages of mix down and should be done soon. You’ll have to wait for release unfortunately… It should hit our setlist soon though.

Keep an eye on this here blogger thingey for the latest updates and silly photos from us.

Alternatively visit our
website, follow us on Twitter, check out the Myspace site, for the latest gig and tour updates or become a fan on Bookface or buy ‘Bonjour’ online at Rhythm Records Online.

Till next time.

Peace and love,
AE

Ashtray Electric and THIEVE Party Pics.

2009-05-18T02:56:00.000-07:00

Click Here for Pics By We-Are-Awesome

MAY TOUR DATES.

2009-05-04T16:05:00.000-07:00

6 May Tings ‘n Times Pretoria - with Wrestlerish

7 May Pablo’s Potchefstroom - with Die Rebellie

8 May Back2Basix Johannesburg - with Farryl Purkiss

9 May Woods Johannesburg - presented by PixelPop

10 May Cool Runnings Pretoria (Acoustic) - with Soil 7t7 and Fake Leather Blues Band

12 May Mystic Boer Bloemfontein

16 May Assembly Cape Town - with Thieve

FULL LENGTH ALBUM COMING SOON.

2009-05-04T16:03:00.000-07:00

2009-05-04T15:43:00.001-07:00

BONJOUR. ALBUM TEASER

2009-05-04T15:30:00.001-07:00