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the cashews

About Me


New Album "SMALL PONDS" available in stores (in Canberra) - Landspeed Records; the Front; and Smiths Bookshop (across the road from the post office near the Jolimont Centre)...
AND ONLINE @
www.cardboardcharlie.com
AND
CDBaby

The cashews take themselves very seriously...
You can tell how serious they are by the array of childrens toys they like to incorporate into their songs...
You can tell how serious they are by the number of songs they write about their soulless home town, Canberra...
You can tell how serious they are by the way they like to give their audiences only one hour of notice before descending - guerrilla style - upon a public space (like the side of a mountain) and playing a free unamplified gig...
You can tell how serious they are by their three music-related goals:
(1) to program Rage;
(2) to play a national tour of public library foyers;
(3) they've forgotten the third one...
You can tell how serious they are when you ask them about their favourite gigs which have included playing at the Southern Hemisphere Felters Convergence and the National Sound and Film Archives...
They invite you to take them seriously too...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/08/2006
Band Website: thecashews.com
Band Members: Click here to see footage of us playing at the Walk Against Warming that the lovely Dave turned into a video clip - how cool!

Usually it's just Pete and Alison...

...but when we're really lucky we have Emily and Dan too!

you can email us if you like
(only if you're a nice person)

thecashews [at] thecashews.com

Influences: Darren Hanlon

The Go Betweens

Clare Bowditch

Sufjan Stevens
Sounds Like:

Here's a lovely account of loadedog's experience of one of our recent guerilla gigs - with lots of fun photos, including a couple of our roaming instrumental solo and some of our fellow performers, Matty and Nick.

Here's a little video of Sanji escorting people with song to thier cars, as they leave our first guerrilla gig.

Here's an interview with Andy on 2XX's "In the Can" in which we play NEW songs (pencil and pad, headliner, felting), where there is trumpet and we unsucessfully try to limit our silly talk.
Many thanks to johnboy of the theconcat.com.au for posting this up.

Here's our Insatiable Banalaties Podcast in which we play songs and talk about lots of silly stuff like getting to third base for the first time on the banks of sullivan's creek.

Here's an interview with Rafe on 2XX's "In the Can" in which we play songs and talk about lots of silly stuff like "cash-shoes".
Many thanks to johnboy of the theconcat.com.au for posting this up - give it a minute to load.

Here's the Insatiable Banalaties 50th Celebration Podcast in which we (and many other much more talented folk) play songs and talk about lots of silly stuff and Sophie states her preference for Pete.

Record Label: L.A.M.E. (Light Acoustic Musical Entertainment)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

ALBUM LAUNCH - Sat 16th August 2009

...so, it seems the cashews have finally got around to making a proper album. it's very exciting and we're very excited. we don't think it's going to happen again for a while... and in the spirit of o...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:25:00 GMT

here are some photos from this summer's first guerilla gig!

The Cashews... Sanjiva de Silva... Merry Guerrillas...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:13:00 GMT

It's guerrilla gig season!!!

Daylight savings have arrived! It's guerrilla gig time! if you're wondering what a guerrilla gig is... In a nut, guerrilla gigs involve muso's and audiences (and everything in-between) descending u...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:02:00 GMT

would you like to join our mailing list?

hello, if you would like to join our mailing list, then send an email to: [email protected] or [email protected] (just one or the other, not both emails)  (they are effectively syno...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:53:00 GMT

yesterday's radio spot

...so we got to be a part of "satan's radio" station - ABC 666 - yesterday... ...ooo, spooky...   ...the glockenspiel felt at home in the colourful décor... ...pete looked a little less comforta...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:32:00 GMT

rain!

Oh drat, it seems that the rain which prevailed in O'Connor today was a good thing for the trees who were being planted and who were keen to get their little roots plugging through the ground, but was...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:30:00 GMT

It begins!

Orl-rrrrite! So we've finally joined the Myspace bandwagon... What happens now? Big hugs, From the cashews
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:27:00 GMT