Steve Kilbey will be performing the Wide Open Road onstage with The Triffids for The Triffids induction into the 2008 Hall of Fame this week. Steve will be joined onstage by the remaining Triffids, a proud and humble honour for our frontman. Steve was part of The Triffids concerts earlier this year stepping into the shoes of the late David McComb for rousing productions of this and other Triffids songs.

Steve and Tim Powles have also been proudly invited to perform The Real Thing, an Australian psychedelic mind-blowing tour de force, for the induction of Russell Morris. This spectacular song (written by Johnny Young and produced by Ian 'Molly' Meldrum) will be performed with Steve on vocals, Tim on drums, Clayton and Lachlan Doley on hammond and piano, and Jack Housden and David Skeet both on guitars.

Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes are both presently overseas and were sadly unavailable.

These two songs Wide Open Road and The Real Thing are ultimate Australian classics, masterpieces in their time and to this day will live on as songs that captured our imagination.

Julia Zemiro will host the ceremony this Tuesday night 1st of July (at the Melbourne Town Hall) and it will air on VH1 at 9pm Saturday 5thJuly 2008

Limited tickets for the general public are available from Ticketek for $87 + booking fee.

Steve recently appeared in a memorable performance with Jimmy Little at the Peace & Compassion, Concert for Tibet.

Limited tickets for the public are available from Ticketek for $87 + bf

"Press Release: “From across the Atlantic, 2007 ARIA HALL OF FAME inductee NICK CAVE will pay tribute to his former UK touring mates THE TRIFFIDS. The BLACK EYED SUSAN's golden voiced ROB SNARSKI and THE TRIFFIDS will perform Red Pony while STEVE KILBEY (THE CHURCH) will join THE TRIFFIDS on stage to perform the glorious Wide Open Road, arguably the band's signature tune.

MIDNIGHT OIL and GHOSTWRITERS' founding member, ROB HIRST, will take out induction honours for the incomparable RUSSELL MORRIS while a supergroup featuring special guest musicians including members of THE CHURCH (Steve Kilbey, Tim Powles), THE WHITLAMS (Jack Housden), JIMMY BARNES BAND / THE HANDS (Clayton Doley) and POWDERFINGER / THE HANDS (Lachlan Doley) will team up to perform The Real Thing, a song that was described by Cashbox Magazine at the time as a "Mind-boggling electronic blast, hypnotic spell caster ... compelling at first listen and impossible to ignore". How right they were!”
http://www.ariahalloffame.com.au/

Peruse the church shopping mall for a wide selection of church products, all their cds and tracks incl. the Starfish cd with the song Under The Milky Way that featured on the Donnie Darko movie soundtrack.

The Church cd albums – including studio, remastered versions and compilations
Solo and side projects (incl. Spacejunk productions)
Video and DVDs
T-shirts
Occasional random items including quality artwork by Steve Kilbey

Payment can be by online credit card and money orders are also accepted by snail mail. Visit Churchmerch to check it all out and bookmark the link below. If you have any general Churchmerch enquiries, send an email to: thechurchmerch@thechurchband.com




LATEST NEWS: The new Marty Willson-Piper album NIGHTJAR, Pegasus ep and t-shirt to match are now available
http://merch.thechurchband.com/

There is going to be an exhibition of Steve's art this June 1-30 in Yellow Springs, Ohio USA. Here are the details:

Title: THE EMPTY PLACE: A Modern Australian Psychedelic Vision

Date: June 1-30, 2008
Location: Village Artisans
100 Corry Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387 USA

Hours: Monday-Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm
Receptions: June 7, 2008 (Saturday) 6-9 pm
June 20, 2008 (Friday) 6-9 pm

Steve will not be able to actually come to the exhibit, but during each of the receptions will join us by phone to discuss his art. In addition to the exhibited artwork being for sale, there will be older original paintings and a selection of prints and cards for sale.

One additional thing to know about is on June 14 the town has a large street fair which can be great fun, but also brings a lot of people into the town (which is pretty small) so it can be tough to find parking and it's quite crowded. Of course the exhibit will be open that day also.

There are now nine new paintings up on www.stevekilbeyart.com (click on the Original Paintings link) These are going to be part of the exhibit in June so you can get a bit of a preview of the show. The new original paintings will not be for sale until the exhibit, although earlier originals are still for sale.

Prints and cards of the exhibit paintings are available for purchase now and are can be mailed right away.

And Steve is still accepting commissions for custom portraits. More information on commissions can be found by going here: http://www.stevekilbeyart.com/mbr_purchase.php

Please contact Holly at hejstudio@gmail.com if you have any questions.
http://www.stevekilbeyart.com

Steve will be onstage at 2.15pm at The Vegan Expo 2008 in Sydney next Sunday and then 8pm at the Peace and Compassion - A Concert for Tibet - singing with Jimmy Little. This show commences at 7pm.

Sunday 15th June 2008


http://www.myspace.com/stevekilbey

The PEGASUS EP is the bridge between Music and Arts and Crafts. It used to be Indie and Major. Now it's Indie, Major and Homemade. This is Homemade.

Three MP3's featuring two tracks from the MWP album NIGHTJAR: No One There & Lullaby For The Lonely, and one track not available anywhere else, Dressed Up As You. From my own computer onto a CDR and numbered. The cover art is a print of one of my drawings and printed out on a Canon colour printer and glued onto a paper CD sleeve with credits on the back. The layout is designed by Tiare. The disc is a white disc with the title, hand written with a texta.
The first fifty people to buy NIGHTJAR (from Churchmerch) get one free and autographed. Thank you to the first 50 for ordering my record before you knew of this offer. But for everyone else it is only $5 and I suggest you pick it up with the Limited Digipak, otherwise, the postage and handling may make it pricey on its own. It will be available at shows as well. If you would like a JPEG of the cover art for your own High Quality Digital print out please email Tiare at management@thechurchband.com

All the best
MWP
http://www.myspace.com/martywillsonpiper

MWP’s album Nightjar tour is continuing after Australia to the USA and onto Europe. Joining Marty along the way will be The Electric Mood Maidens appearing in different incarnations, as well as special guests.

APRIL 2008
4/30 - Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe Doors open 9pm. Ages 21+

MAY 2008
5/2 - Temecula, CA - Wiens Family Cellars - tix Doors open 5.30PM Showtime 7PM
5/3 - Guerneville, CA - private house concert
5/4 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall Doors open 7.30PM Showtime 8PM Seated show - general admission
5/8 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern - -Tix Showtime 8PM Seated show. Ages 21+
Support - The Transmissionary Six
5/9 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theatre All Ages - Doors at 7PM, Show at 8PM
5/11 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry Doors 8PM / 21+. With special guest Don Dixon
5/13 - Chicago, IL - Martyrs 8PM. With Don Dixon
5/14 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall 8PM. With Don Dixon
5/15 - Ferndale, MI - The Magic Bag Doors open 8PM. With Don Dixon
5/17 - Cleveland, OH - Winchester Tavern 9PM
5/19 - Vienna, VA (DC) - Jammin’ Java 8PM
5/21 - NYC, NY - Joe’s Pub 9.30pm. Juliana Hatfield on at 7.30pm
5/22 - Philadelphia, PA - Tin Angel 8.30pm
5/23 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s 7.30pm. With Dave DeCastro.
5/24 - Londonderry, NH - Tupelo Music Hall 8pm est. Support - Dan Cloutier
5/26 - Woodstock, NY - Colony Café 8pm

JUNE 2008
SAT 7th - Gothenburg, SWEDEN - Restaurang Trädgår´n
Doors open 5pm Onstage approx 9pm. Nya Allén 11
411 38 Gothenburg
Tel. 031- 102080

WED 11th - Oslo NORWAY - Cafe Mono Pløens gate 4.
Support - Marte Heggelund





The album can now be pre-ordered from the online Churchmerch shop.

"www.myspace.com/theelectricmoodmaidens"

"Much praise must be given for Willson-Piper's vocals; his warm troubadour burr is perfectly suited for the rich canopy of violins, cellos, and woodwinds which frequently surround his engaging meditations and rousing folk-rock ... "Lullaby For The Lonely"--- a gentle violin-filigreed lilt offering the wistful refrain "can't you feel yourself falling apart"--- almost makes teary-eyed solitude sound like a lovely place to be, thanks to its ravishing orchestration" - Review of NIGHTJAR Noise - SFBG

http://www/myspace.com/martywillsonpiper