New Red Paintings Track, Tour 2009-02-08 by Jom | 8 Comments | Aussie art-rockers The Red Paintings have a full Q1 2009 on their plate with an anticipated LP, but now they have been handpicked by electro-punk-rockers Mindless Self Indulgence for their forthcoming tour of Australia in April.
Meanwhile, The Red Paintings have been heavily involved with The Sea Shepherd's Operation Musashi, a whale conversation effort (see italics at the bottom of news post).
Aside from helping raise awareness of The Sea Shepherd's whale-saving efforts, the band has altered Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" with frontman Trash McSweeney's co-authored re-write, entitled "Whales are Dying" (the other author is Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society).
According to both men, "The recording is an important statement for the Sea Shepherd's Operation Musashi campaign made through song and it is a statement that [we] want the whole world to hear."
The best part about this is the delicious heap of irony that McSweeney and Watson are laying down on Peter Garrett, the lead singer of Midnight Oil. Garrett is an Australian politician - specifically, the Minister for the Environment - who is allowing the Japanese to kill whales in the Australian Antarctic (as McSweeney calls it, "Our own backyard"). Using Garrett's own song against him is very coy.
Stream the track at The Red Paintings' Bandcamp page:
http://theredpaintings.bandcamp.com/
A lower-res video has been posted to Vimeo and Youtube (OBVIOUS NO-DUH HINT: click on "Watch in higher quality" at the bottom right for superior viewing quality):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Df4Z6OOPCo
A video of the Sea Shepherd "in action," with "Whales are Dying" set as background music, can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQgp87qeMo
More dates are being added daily, but four scheduled dates with MSI are:
Wednesday 8 April
Billboard The Venue, Melbourne
18+ | 8:00 PM
Thursday 9 April
Billboard The Venue, Melbourne
Under 18s | 2:30 PM
Saturday 11 April
UNSW Roundhouse, Sydney
All Ages | 7:30 PM
Sunday 12 April
The Tivoli, Brisbane
All Ages | 7:30 PM
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are the ONLY non-profit animal rights organization that is actively involved in the protection of sea wildlife. They are currently out at sea intervening with the Japanese whaling ships with the hope of saving whales and stopping the illegal trade altogether. Their previous campaigns have cost the whaling trade millions of dollars, and their recent campaign has successfully prevented the death of any whales.
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Great song, pretty stoked for this.
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Awesome, i really look forward for their next album.
Song is ace.This Message Edited On 02.08.09
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Fantastic song.
Bands interested in saving wildlife are the shizz.
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Captain Paul Watson!
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cant wait. love this band
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Oh hey the bass player is like, doing stuff.
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Pumped.
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Posting a comment to state the fact that I love how they're using Garrett's song against him.
The Red Paintings are fantastic.
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COME TO PERTH YOU FUCKERS
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