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Stirring The Christmas Spirit by belleswillring
It’s available as a free download and a gift from Belles to everyone who wants it. Listen to it on Christmas day while sipping on a cherrie.
Belles Will Ring have successfully crowdfunded $6705 to print their incredible album, Crystal Theatre, on vinyl.
The campaign lasted three weeks and offered some fantastic incentives including private concerts, contributors names printed in the liner notes and specialised cover songs.
The band are over the moon and we’re all very grateful to the 68 people who contributed.
It’s been a great year for Belles Will Ring and this is the icing on the cake. The band are over the moon and we need you all to go and vote!
It’s that time of year again! Cast your vote for Belles Will Ring and Fishing in the FBi Sydney Music Arts and Culture awards (SMAC!). Nominations close tomorrow and we need y’alls to help out!
Simply head here and do what you know to be the right thing. Vote for Belles Will Ring in the Best Live Music Act and nominate Crystal Theatre Album Of The Year.
Fishing can go in for Best Live Act, you know it!
Click here to do as we tell you!
Belles Will Ring have launching a crowdfunding campaign to release their critically acclaimed record, Crystal Theatre on vinyl.
Through crowdfunding website Pozible, the band are offering fans the chance to contribute money to the project and help fund a small print run of Crystal Theatre on 180gsm vinyl, presented in a delux doubel gatefold package. In addition to this, high contributors will have the chance to earn a range of different incentives including the Belles Will Ring back catalogue, their name in the liner notes, private listening parties and exclusive concerts.
The campaign ends on December 8th and the band hope to raise over $6000. To contribute or view a full list of incentives, head to belleswillring.pozible.com.
It’s a double Umbrella party!
Saturday October 1st 2011
GOODGOD Small Club - 53-55 Liverpool Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Fishing are on at 10pm in the Front Bar and Belles Will Ring are on at 11.30pm in the main room.
More info can be found here
Wednesday 27th July at The Hordern Pavillion in Sydney. Tickets here.
Thursday 29th July at Festival Hall in Melbourne. Tickets here.
The response to Belles will Ring’s stunning new record Crystal Theatre has been overwhelming. Here are just some of the nice things people have had to say:
★★★★½ – THE MAG
8/10 – THE SUN HERALD
★★★★ – JUNIOR MAGAZINEFBI
94.5 FEATURE RECORD
2SER FEATURE RECORD
DRUM MEDIA ALBUM OF THE WEEK
BRAG ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Mess and Noise, On Rotation
18th May 2011
http://www.messandnoise.com/releases/2000872
“Crystal Theatre is a sprawling, moody animal. It’s deeply, inescapably cinematic, as drenched in B-movie Americana and murder-y vibes as it is in the ’60s psych-revivalism we know and love.”
“Sweet… and terrifying”
“deliciously unsettling”
“It’s an evocative and complicated album, put together by a band who work together as naturally as four limbs on the same beast.”
Three Thousand Album Review
17th May 2011
http://www.threethousand.com.au/hear/belles-will-ring-crystal-theatre-2/
“Crystal Theatre threatens to fulfil all my white-pantsed daydreams”
“a much less straight-forward, much more surprising ride. Get on board.”
The Weekley Review
13th May 2011
http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/article-display/Snowtown/3893
“the songs are simply stunning”
“Layered, beautiful and utterly absorbing, these are tracks to treasure.”
Drum Media – CD Of The Week
10th May 2011
“The result is just under 60 minutes of atmosphere and texture drowned in ‘60s suburban folk songs, topped with just the slightest hint of psych-out – think Brian Jonestown Massacre meets Fleet Foxes.”
“a nostalgically brilliant album that’s ironically way ahead of its time.”
SYN RADIO – ALBUM REVIEW
MAY 10 2011
http://syn.org.au/news/2011-05-10/crystal-theatre-belles-will-ring
“heart wrenching and uplifting”
“ the true marvel of Crystal Theatre is the perfect unison of sound and lyrical meaning resulting in an ability to transport you to a strange, peaceful place”
THE MAG – ALBUM REVIEW (4 ½ STARS)
“A huge leap forward for the band and a seriously impressive return”
JUNIOR MAGZINE
MAY 20 2011
http://junioronline.com.au/MUSIC/BELLES-WILL-RING-REVIEW.html
“This could easily be the next blockbuster Aussie release”
We’ve been promising it for a while, but Belles Will Ring’s long awaited second LP is due on Friday 13th of May. It’s called Crystal Theatre and I can comfortably say that it’s one of the best records I’ve ever heard. By far the bands best to date and an easy contender for album of the year.
To say I’m excited would be a dramatic understatement. I’m thrilled, exhilerated, electrified, enraptured. Aflutter.
From the media release:
“Crystal Theatre is a striking collection of hazy, sun-drenched songs laced with the bands signature psychedelic style and a deeper, darker tone. Recorded throughout 2010 in the tiny town of Portland in central western NSW, the band left the city behind and escaped to the country to record the album.
And to top it all off Belles are embarking on a national tour to play the record live to everyone. Dates and details are:
