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brillig

Nothing like brillig to cheer you up...

About Me


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Dark but danceable, pretty & disturbed, brillig's electro pop-rock stylings & charm belie an undertone of intensity. Like all great purveyors of theatrical dark pop - The Cure, Bowie, Placebo, Suede - brillig adore a left of centre approach to songs of significance, & their alluring melodies & odd instrumentation dare you to step through the looking glass...

brillig announce their Adelaide FRINGE Shows:
“MIRROR ON THE WALL”

Thursday March 15 th
Thursday March 22 nd
Thursday March 29 th (also FUSE Fest showcase)
@ the Grace Emily Hotel (232 Waymouth St, Adelaide)
FREE ENTRY 10pm – Midnight (2 Sets plus Intermission)

Click here for more information on our Fringe Fest shows



brillig's highly anticipated LP
will hit stores in April 2007

Click Here for more info on Mirror on the Wall LP


BUY
MIRROR ON THE WALL:


CD AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT ALL GIGS, BIG STAR RECORDS ADELAIDE, AND ONLINE SALES COMING SOON (LATE APRIL). brillig is currently touring and will process all online sales from late April. Pre-orders can be taken through email [email protected], with payment & delivery made upon the end of the tour.



VIDEO CLIP: 'Followed' (Acoustic)

Come away to the carnival, where hypnotic clowns, mouths agape & silent, watch an ageless menagerie aboard merry-go-rounds. Neon spins, rises, pulse - menacing by day, frantic by night. Fall forward into the light, and always, always follow the white rabbit.
(For brillig's 2nd clip, years of Super 8 footage from the Royal Show were lovingly compiled for acoustic track 'Followed'('04). But who could predict a carousel White Rabbit would feature so prominently...)


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VIDEO CLIP: 'Pterodactyls'

100 evil schemes, an unsuspecting city, Professor Terrance Dactyl, some innocent movie-going friends. It..s a recipe for mayhem - or for ruling the world! Will the city be destroyed? Will evil prevail? The ice age opens...
(brillig's tongue-in-cheek epic debut clip 'Pterodactyls' ('03) had sets, props & costumes painstakingly designed inhouse - literally! The timeless tale of Man vs. Monster was filmed at 'brillig manor', which hosted many a cameo artist including Bit By Bats, LeighStarDust, Scissor Prettyand even 'William Shatner'...)


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/29/2005
Band Website: brillig.com.au
Band Members: Matt Swayne - guitar, vocals, drum machinesElizabeth Reid - keyboard, vocals, violaDenni Meredith - bass
Influences: Influences and/or Faves: The Cure, Suede, Bowie, Placebo, Interpol, The Red Paintings, Nick Cave, Sparks, The Dresden Dolls, Beck, REM, The Tea Party, The Dirty Three, Smashing Pumpkins, The Pogues, Duran Duran, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Antony & the Johnsons, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, William Shatner, Lonesome Wyatt & the Holy Spooks, Smoke, Morrissey, Frequent Seahorse, The Nightmare Before Xmas, Planet of the Apes, The Simpsons, Futurama, Monkey, Where the Wild Things Are, Vincent Price, and anything 'Alice in Wonderland' of course!
Sounds Like: According to 'Spoz': "This band features the sorta nightmarish maudelin viola playing that'd reanimate corpses, backed by languid funeral marching electro beats, comatose bass and guitars, and accompanied by the sorta vocals you'd get if you sent a gang of inner city hoodlums from DETROIT to beat the living shit out've ROBERT SMITH from the CURE, before stringing him up like a meatpuppet on a MORPHINE drip and getting him to sing lung punctured covers to PORTISHEAD songs..." Discuss.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

brillig Fringe Review: * * * 1/2 - The Advertiser

Mirror on the Wall (brillig's Adelaide Fringe Show) - reviewed by Tory Shepard, The Advertiser* * * 1/2"Brillig plays beautiful, haunting dark pop. This three-piece band works well in the kitschy mood...
Posted by brillig on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:33:00 PST

brillig Signs 2 Label Deals!

As if brillig weren't excited enough about the upcoming release of its new LP, "Mirror on the Wall", the band has now signed 2 label deals which will help promote the album nationally and overseas. MR...
Posted by brillig on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:10:00 PST

brillig in the 3D Radio Annual Countdown 2006

It's been so long since brillig released their 'preview single' "Truth or Dare?" that they almost forgot it got lots of nice airplay on 3D Radio last year. So much so in fact that brillig made it to #...
Posted by brillig on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:57:00 PST

New LP, Fringe Fest shows, and Tour in 2007

Just a quick head's up that brillig has a very busy schedule planned for the start of 2007... WATCH THIS SPACE for more news on: - The release of the 13 track NEW ALBUM, "Mirror on the Wall", to be ...
Posted by brillig on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:02:00 PST

Another Acoustic Track posted

You may have noticed a new track on the ol' Myspace page... Well, we figured we had to justify our 'acoustic' genre tag in some way! Though brillig is primarily an electro pop/rock act, we have been k...
Posted by brillig on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:36:00 PST

brillig spooks the punters on Halloween

It was an assembly of the damned at brillig's Annual Halloween Party (28 Oct 06). The costume prize winners alone should give you a good idea of the debauchery - Queen of Hearts & Edward Scissorha...
Posted by brillig on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:01:00 PST