Music:
Member Since: 3/2/2007
Band Website: http://thesteadfastshepherd.blogspot.com
Band Members: Nathan & Fairlie Collins
with help from David Moorhead (Soundtracks for Train Windows) , Jacob Pearce & Domenic Stanton (Because of Ghosts) , Lance Van Maanen (Broken Flight) , Peter Boyd (Adlerseri) , Mark Dove, and Ben Collins (Fieldlings) .
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Releases:
Title The Open Sky
Format CD EP Printed Card Gatefold Wallet
Track Listing:
Disaster! (4.01)
Would you tremble? (2.09)
The open sky (2.53)
Recurring dream (1.02)
Painting the leaves back on the trees (4.12)
Thou art my son... (3.18)
Release Date June 2008 - Now Available!
To buy the cd:
Directly from us (and get a free badge!) click the button below to buy via Credit Card/Paypal for $10AUD + $2 postage worldwide:
Or from your local record store:
Hobart: Tommy Gun Records (Elizabeth St)
Melbourne: Missing Link Records
Or online -US/international: Cd Baby
Sounds We Like:
a quick selection from our itunes:
alela diane, augie march, beach boys, beach house, because of ghosts, beirut, benedict moleta, besnard lakes, bill callahan, bluebottle kiss, bob dylan, boduf songs, bonnie prince billie, broken flight, califone, cat power, daniel martin moore, dirty three, the drones, fleet foxes, gaslight radio, gillian welch, grand salvo, grandaddy, helios, jason molina, jens lekman, jim o'rourke, joanna newsom, josephine foster, kingsbory manx, kneivel, little wings, loney dear, machine translations, magnolia electric co, mazzy star, mi and l'au, micah p hinson, the microphones, midlake, minimum chips, the national, new buffalo, nick cave, nina nastasia, oliver mann, papa m, ron sexsmith, sandpit, skygreen leopards, smog, songs:ohia, stars of the lid, sufjan stevens, tamas wells, tara jane o'neil, the twilight sad, vashti bunyan, yo la tengo
writers that inspire us:Patrick White, John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Rabindranath Tagore
Recent Shows we've played:17/1/09@Melodica, South Hobart, with Transcriptions of Organ Music, Her Last Unicorn, Billy Whims, Alex Gouldthorpe
3/1/09@Glitch Cinema, Melbourne, with Matt McBeath and Alice Hutchison
15/8/08@Northcote Uniting Church, Melbourne, with Tamas Wells (Album launch)
June 2008 Japan Tour (all shows with Tamas Wells)
28/6/08 @Cafe Dufi, Nagoya, Japan
29/6/08 @Flowing Karasuma, Kyoto, Japan
30/6/08 @Shiroshita Kokaido, Okoyama, Japan
4/7/08 @Ivy Hall Glory Chapel, Tokyo, Japan
5/7/08 @Cafe Vivement Dimanche, Kamakura, Japan
24/5/08 @Northcote Uniting Church, Melbourne, with support from Broken Flight, & Young Werther
2/5/08 @The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, with support from Beatrix Bae Bouwman, Liam Constable
20/4/08 @The Alley Cat, Nth Hobart, with Beatrix Bae Bouwman, Billy Whims, Sam J Nicholson
9/2/08 @Gertrudes Fitzroy, Melbourne, with support from The Neon Lights (feat. members of Because of Ghosts), and Broken Flight
8/12/07 @Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, UK, with support from Matthew Board
11/10/07 @Red Roaster Coffee House, Brighton, UK, with support from Matthew Board, Jaimie Regan
25/9/07 @The Dragon, Kemptown, UK, as part of BrightonLive Festival
23/9/07 @Brighton Barfly, UK, supporting Dawn Landes (USA), Turner Cody (USA), and Sargasso Trio (UK)
Record Label: land&sea -the open sky ep
Type of Label: Indie
