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Where: The Evelyn
When: Thursday, July 2, 2009 20:30
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A sight for sore eyes
The good people behind the multi-faceted endevours of the bastard children are proud to present to you and yours, a brand spankin' new website! Make yourself at home and feast yourself senseless on the varying plethora of stimuli laid out before you. We’ll be adding plenty of junk and constantly elvolving as is only fitting for young gentlman of questionable repute so stop by anytime.
Single Launch
The Bastard Children bring their multifarious nine piece line-up to the Toff to launch a taster of brand new material with from their eagerly anticipated new album. Sordid, scandalous and superbly attired, it’s twisted folk with a smattering of gypsy, a little old-world jazz, part junkyard blues, part celtic-Australian with a bit of swampy rock thrown in for good measure. Its a multi-instrumental style-hopping jaunt featuring a huge line-up including wheezing accordions, bleeding harmonicas, tearing guitars, scraping mandolins, banjos drums, whistlers, fiddles and The Bastard Horns.
The Story
The twisted offspring of junkyard folk, old-world gypsy, ragged celtic & dirty blues. A multi-instrumental globe-hopping jaunt through the Australian musical landscape.
Fresh from a triumphant season at the Edinburgh Fringe, CWQ bring The Bastard Children back home to Melbourne. Sordid, scandalous and superbly attired, it’s twisted folk with a smattering of gypsy, a little old-world jazz, part junkyard blues, part celtic-Australian with a bit of rock thrown in for good measure.
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What's in a name
Upon returning from an extremely succesful season at the internally renouned Edinburgh Fringe. CWQ indeed decided a change of name was in order. Performing their show ‘The Bastard Children of Australian Folk’ to sell out crowds made a name change almost inevitable for the band. And when they started getting called bastards by complete strangers on the other side of the world it seem that fate had spoken. (or perhaps they just thought we were bastards).
We could go into depth about the symbolic nature of the name presenting their music as an illegitimate child of various musical and cultural influences from all over the globe, but what’s in a name that isn’t in a smile. What’s wrong with nothing if that’s all there is to be said?
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They said
"Pleasing contradictions abound. Slick and smooth one song, rough and jagged the next, delicate jazz-based instrumentals sit comfortably alongside hardcore blues. The tunes (all penned by Winterton) range from the jaunty and folksy to the melancholic, personal and political.”
Lily Bragge, Melbourne Age Newspaper
“Word Rustlin’ Five stars.
A gorgeous, catchy tune! These guys have a great sound, and an awesome rootsy feel...”
Sarah Howells, Triple J FM
“A rocking and thought-provoking accompaniment to a mid-evening beer with a band that’s not averse to a toast or two of its own.”