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LONELY PLANET VIDEO CLIP:


LIVE ACTION:
We've put up a tune or two on the youtube machine...they all tend to look like this (you know cinematic and highly polished though not all feature scott dancing!)
BUYING TREATS:
We finally have our first 7" here for people to buy! That's a picture of it over there on the left, it is a split 7" with Eux Autres, from Portland, OR. We're very excited by it. We do a nice rendition of "Hush Puppy", Eux Autres do "Other Girls". You can buy it from us for $10 Australian, shipped within Australia, or $9 US shipped anywhere else in the world. Just simply click on the button of your choice:
Australian shipping:
Worldwide shipping:
'scratching post' our first australian release is now out on popboomerang. you have at least two choices if you plan to use some form of currency to grab the ep: digital or a tasty compact disc!
for more info (you know where to buy, how to buy) go to the popboomerang website or just head straight to your favourite store and confuse them by asking if they have the smash hit ep 'scratching post' in stock!
Or purchase it from CD Baby. Or purchase it on itunes!
SOME REVIEWS:
Pitchfork review: 'Summer Cats “Hush Puppy” [unsigned; 2006]
I'm actually not sure unsigned Australian band Summer Cats' "Hush Puppy" has much to do with either cats or dogs, but it's way better than goldfish. Played by three boys and three girls, the song's fizzy guitars, dreamy keyboards, and straight-ahead drums melt together in a happy lo-fi haze that makes it hard to pick out instruments. "Get lost," singer Scott Brewer suggests. Thankfully, that's much easier.
"Hush Puppy" started circulating on indie-pop mailing lists in mid-November, but so far only a pair of Spanish-language blogs (and lucky Victoria concertgoers) seem to have caught on. That, like Brewer's maturing narrator, could change, as new listeners discover the band's sound: a messy melange with hints of countrymen the Go-Betweens as well as the post-C86 bands. As for Brewer, he sounds almost giddy in his lovesickness. "Disappointment turns to laughter now," he sings. It's almost summer Down Under, and I'm a cat person.
Stream: Summer Cats: Hush Puppy Posted by Marc Hogan in indie pop on Fri: 12-01-06: 04:00 AM CST | Permalink'
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2006
Band Members: Hugh - Bass, Guitar, Vox and jogging on the spot.
Irene - Keys, Shaker, Vox and doing the arm dance.
Julia - Drum, Beer and sweet sweet Cowbell.
Scott B - Guitar, Bass, Vox and lots and lots and lots of pedals.
Scott S - Vox, Tambourine, Handclaps and a distinct lack of understandable onstage banter.
Influences: the formula works like this:
strong coffee + fringes + cheese
divided by: truckin’ cassettes, closely followed by c86 mix tapes and sweet sunshine pop compilations.
times: peppermint trolley company, the modern lovers, the dream syndicate, p.f. sloan, the bats, mccarthy, stereolab, the cannanes, galaxie 500, the go-betweens, the left banke, talulah gosh, france gall, rondelles, the chills, cub, zombies, razorcuts, the sea urchins, the byrds, saturday looks good to me, the pastels, the feelies and, of course, the cat’s miaow
Sounds Like:

Record Label: preferably one that supplies snacks...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

cat years vol. 18

ah, good times indeed.  it feels a little like we seperately ordered some groovy treats and they have arrived via seamail...all at once.  so, in our world first up was the great news that a...
Posted by summer cats on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:00:00 PST

cat years vol. 17

meeow all! so let's get straight to the nitty gritty...our new 7" single is out right at this very moment on cloudberry! we have been talking talking talking about it for ages but the ever lovely roqu...
Posted by summer cats on Wed, 21 May 2008 06:54:00 PST

cat years vol. 16

meeow allwell we've been sorta up to mischief what with the making of a video for 'lonely planet' and the recording for the upcoming WeePOP! rekud.the WeePOP! is still being mixed and it started with ...
Posted by summer cats on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:40:00 PST

cat years vol. 15

meeow all! so it’s that special time again where we can delve into the wonderful world of language tools!  we got a swell write up in a french blog called: http://kingem.blogspot.com/ the w...
Posted by summer cats on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST

cat years vol. 14

meeow all!hey if you're interested we've got a 7" giveaway with one of our favourite blogs!it's the humansbeware blog located here:http://humansbeware.blogspot.com/2008/02/summer-cats-gi veaway.htmlso ...
Posted by summer cats on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:16:00 PST

cat years vol. 13

so after the glory of a picture blog this may seem a little...vanilla... anyway...two things! first up we had a really cute write up (mostly about julia's fantastic record sleeves) on this lovely fash...
Posted by summer cats on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:41:00 PST

cat years vol. 12

what we saw sometimes hurt our eyelids:sometimes it made our pants feel liberatedsometimes things were made not as the people knew themevidently what we see has no subtext sometimesgoing to the ladies...
Posted by summer cats on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:24:00 PST

cat years vol. 11

meeow all! so a quick one... take a look over at our flickr site for some adelaide pics...some are almost on the witty side...now that is an endorsement!  also if you're not from australia it's l...
Posted by summer cats on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:13:00 PST

cat years vol. 10

ah, so this is really more about cloudberry i guess but we were part of a write up on an italian blog which if we could read italian we would most certainly be reading regularly as it 'looks' pretty ...
Posted by summer cats on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:53:00 PST

cat years vol. 9

meeow all so we did that ol' sydney trip and it actually got reviewed...i know we were surprised too! it's on a site called luckybuster.blogspot.com so perhaps check it out.  anyway as we do the ...
Posted by summer cats on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:51:00 PST