24 February 2010

Ain't Telling The Truth Tour

Bluejuice are dainty fellows. They know how to set a dining table, and they know the call of a rainbow lorikeet when they hear one. They're too polite to take the last hors doeuvre, and they walk on the outside of a footpath to protect their lady-friends from a vehicular drenching on a rainy day. Bluejuice are your seats down, coats around, and doors open type of guys.

Its a shame then that these suggestions of good manners boil away to nothing in the face of a deep-seated psychological need to lie. They lie to their grandmothers. They lie to their Chihuahuas. They lie to their manager about writing relevant press releases.

Bluejuice's new single Ain't Telling The Truth is an homage to their passion for the lie. The only thing truthful about the song is the title that it ain't telling the truth. Its one of those songs with a descriptive title (much like Stevie Winwoods Valerie was most likely about someone named Valerie). It is the second single from their second album Head Of The Hawk.

But the real truth is that the single follows the giant success of Broken Leg which picked up an ARIA nomination for Breakthrough Song of the Year and hit the #5 slot on the worlds biggest music poll Triple Js Hottest 100. The video scored Video of the Year nods from Rage, Myspace and iTunes and it has sold more than a whopping 50,000 copies and still going strong.

And from March 31st through to until May 9th the band will take that mix of manners and miss-truths and The Holidays on the road with the Ain't Telling The Truth Tour proudly presented by Nova, Video Hits, and Myspace.

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WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH – UNI OF NEW ENGLAND, ARMIDALE

THURSDAY 1 APRIL – METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY

FRIDAY 2 APRIL – NEWCASTLE PANTHERS, NEWCASTLE

SATURDAY 3 APRIL – DOYALSON RSL, DOYALSON

WEDNESDAY 7 APRIL – ROI BAR, ALBURY

THURSDAY 8 APRIL – EUREKA HOTEL, GEELONG

FRIDAY 9 APRIL – PRINCE OF WALES, MELBOURNE

SATURDAY 10 APRIL – KAROVA LOUNGE, BALLARAT

SUNDAY 11 APRIL – THE SOUNDS LOUD ALL AGES FESTIVAL, MOONEE VALLEY (ALL AGES)

THURSDAY 15 APRIL – ANU BAR, CANBERRA

FRIDAY 16 APRIL – UNI OF TASMANIA, TASMANIA

SATURDAY 17 APRIL – HOTEL NEW YORK, LAUNCESTON

FRIDAY 23 APRIL – HI FI, BRISBANE

SATURDAY 24 APRIL – COOLONGATTA HOTEL, COOLANGATTA

SUNDAY 25 APRIL – GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON BAY

THURSDAY 29 APRIL – WOLLONGONG UNI, WOLLONGONG

FRIDAY 30 APRIL – KATOOMBA RSL, KATOOMBA

SATURDAY 1 MAY – PANTHERS, BATHURST

WEDNESDAY 5 MAY – THE GOV, ADELAIDE (ALL AGES)

THURSDAY 6 MAY – NEWPORT HOTEL, FREMANTLE

FRIDAY 7 MAY – PRINCE OF WALES, BUNBURY

SATURDAY 8 MAY – CAPITOL, PERTH

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01 February 2010

New film clip for Ain't Telling The Truth

27 December 2009

SIZZLING 2010

Having attained a well-earned ARIA Award loss for Top 40 hit, Broken Leg, Bluejuice have big plans for 2010. Despite their pasty complexions, their complete rejection of shorts as a fashion item, and their general reluctance to go outside for any reason, the band have decided to spend summer touring the sizzling Australian countryside.

"Sizzling 2010" is a mini music fiesta also featuring their pals Yves Klein Blue, The Jezabels, and White Birds & Lemons, which will allow all members to throw off the shackles of their debilitating inner city paranoia and embrace the sunny delights of regional Australia.

Check out the 'tours page for details.

30 November 2009

Vote for Broken Leg in the Rage Top 50

rage always celebrates the end of the year by programming the best music videos of the year and in 2009 you decide what gets played! Introducing, the very first rage FIFTY!!!

rage will be playing 2009’s fifty most popular music videos on the last Saturday of the year as voted by you! If you have a moment, it would be great if you could vote for "Broken Leg".

24 November 2009

Bluejuice vs RODE

We took the RØDE M1 live dynamic mic on the Head Of The Hawk tour to give it a thorough workout. This is how we got on...

30 October 2009

Vote for us in the SMAC Awards

We've been nominated in FBi Radio's SMAC Awards! We're nominated for Best Live Act and Best Sydney Song. Please vote for us as smacawards.com

Everyone who votes goes in the draw for

6 months wireless broadband from Unwired.

Tickets for you and 3 mates to the SMAC Awards in December.

One year's membership to FBI 94.5FM.

One year's subscription to Time Out Sydney.

A CD prize pack from the SMAC Awards music nominees.

While you're voting, please consider Jake's sister Yael, who's nominated in the Best Performer category!

26 October 2009

Sydney Halloween show

Just a reminder for Sydney folk going to our Metro show to dress up on Saturday night as our show is on Halloween! Please email photos of yourself in costume to bluejuice@dew-process.com and we'll add them to the site!

08 October 2009

We've been nominated for an ARIA!

Bluejuice have spent their few weeks off arguing about who they'd prefer to take out for a meal: Hulk Hogan or Kenny Sutcliffe. The Hulk would have some great tips on kneading a man's face, but one gets the impression that Kenny is a real smooth dancer. You see where the conundrum lies.

Anyway, in case you were unaware, the band just released their second album, 'Head Of The Hawk', which debuted at #37 on the ARIA charts! It's full of melody and rhythm and harmony, and most other things found in anthropological studies of Western popular music (like the rhyming of 'baby' with 'maybe', and 'fly' with 'so high'). The band are very proud of this album. It's a "ball-tearer", as Jamie's Dad might say. Anyway, the music industry folk seem to agree as we've just been nominated for a couple of ARIAs! We're nominated for Best Breakthrough Single for 'Broken Leg', as well as Best Video for 'Broken Leg'. You can watch Channel Nine on Thursday 26th November to see if we've won.

Bluejuice are SO proud of this album that they're putting up with each other's vile body odours and increasingly obvious mental deficiencies and hitting the road in honour of 'Head Of The Hawk'. Each gig will begin with a sombre prayer session and an animal sacrifice to a 10x10ft CD art mockup, and the band will perform in a boiling cauldron*, the contents of which will be served to the non-vegetarian members of the audience at the end. The band members, of course, will be dead after one show, but for such a cause! It's going to be religious, motherf*ckers. For all the dates, visit the Tours page.

Pagan holiday fans also will have noticed that Bluejuice's show at the Metro in Sydney falls on Halloween. Given that drummer James Hauptmann is the son of both an exorcist and a pirate, the band feel it would be appropriate if the audience dress up in their finest Zombie French Maid regalia (or approximations thereof). So if you have any Mummy bandages, feel free to don them.

See you at a show!

*animal sacrifice and boiling cauldron subject to local animal welfare laws and water restrictions

18 September 2009

Head Of The Hawk is out now!

Our new album Head Of The Hawk is finally out today. Buy it now.

18 September 2009

Do you like animals?

FasterLouder are running a comp at the moment where you can design a poster based on the animals in the Head Of The Hawk booklet. What are we talking about? See here.

15 September 2009

The Philosophy Of Roping

You've got to fail...but you've got to win!

04 September 2009

Broken Leg Youtube competition

Think you've got what it takes to take on "Mr Invisible" and "Venom"? Bluejuice are looking to expose Australia's best skipping talents, in the hope that one day, they'll be good enough to skip with Team Bluejuice. To go in the draw to win some great Bluejuice prizes, all you need to do is:

1. Recreate the Broken Leg video, or show us your roping tricks
2. Post your video as a video response to the Broken Leg film clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAX_I6eKlnU
3. The band will pick the winner, who will score a double pass to see Bluejuice live and meet the band, 2 x copies of the band's new album "Head Of The Hawk" and a Bluejuice tracksuit, as worn by the band in the "Broken Leg" video.

What you waiting for, foolz?

27 August 2009

The Team

There's no 'I" in "Team". The media glare has so far focused on "Mr Invisible" and "Venom", the star skippers of Team Bluejuice, the rock stars of the skpping world, famous for their musical side projects, fragrance and apparel lines and turbulent love lives. Now, we introduce the other members that make Team Bluejuice so great - Jerry "The Hammer", aka "Pistons", James "Wizard" Jackson and Lawrence Mailer aka Larry Lightfoot aka The Golden Pony, thought by some to be the greatest skipper to ever live.

17 August 2009

The Leg Move

It is the most difficult move you can ever perform in skipping. Allegedly invented by skipping legend Spiradon "Mr Invisible" Savvas in Cyprus, the move has stumped even the best skippers in the world. It was also the downfall of Team Bluejuice in the 1985 World Skipping Championships. For their final routine, Team Bluejuice pulled out the big gun - The Broken Leg. Unfortunately, it didn't quite go to plan...

05 August 2009

The Story of Mr Invisible

What drives the man that has turned the skipping world upside down? How did he become so great? In this telling behind the scenes look at the life Spiradon Savvas, the viewer is given some indication of what it takes to achieve such greatness. A must watch for any aspiring skipper.

05 August 2009

The Arthur Penington Story

He's a kid from the streets, saved by the world of skipping. As a kid hanging out at "The Jump" in western Sydney, Arthur "Venom" Penington discovered skipping, and it was to change his life. As a child prodigy, he succumbed to the fast life of a champion roper - the women, the drugs and the hedonistic lifestyle. He triumphed through it all, introduced his street-style roping to the conservative skipping world, and became one of the most famous and accomplished skippers in the world.

21 July 2009

World Skipping Championships

Two of Australia's premiere skip ropers, Spiradon 'Mr Invisible' Savvas and Arthur 'Venom' Penington, put aside their dislike of each other and united to lead Team Bluejuice into the World Skip Rope Championships. Their opponents - Shimmer Extreme, the young guns. It was a battle for the history books, one that is still spoken about to this day.

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