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Pivot!

Sing, you sinners

About Me

NEWS
While our album is still under wraps we’ve got some super gigs at the end of the year and over summer. Yes, super.Sat 8 Dec
Homebake
@ The Domain, Royal Botanic Gardens, SydneyMon 31 Dec – New Year’s Eve
‘Going Going Gong’
The Bakery, Perth
Tickets here .23 Jan 2008
Warp Records - Future Music
w/ Battles
Sydney Festival
Becks Festival Bar, Sydney.
Tickets here .Dave Miller, after his long stint in London, will be returning for upcoming shows on the laptop of steel. Live mashing will occur in true post-modern fashion.In other news, Dave and Laurence have released their side project Roam The Hello Clouds, out on the `scape label, Germany. A trio of laptop, drums and trumpet. Go check it out here .T-SHIRTS Drop Pivot a message if you want to get a new t-shirt, or check out the merch stand at our next gig. ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------What some good critics said about Pivot’s debut ‘Make Me Love You’“…a scintillating debut.”
Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald
-Listed in Sydney Morning Herald’s albums of 2005-“nothing short of jaw dropping...”
Inpress magazine (Melb)“Australia hasn't really seen anything like this before, and Make Me Love You is a strong first impression.”
decoymusic.com, Decoy Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2005Nominated for Triple J’s J Award for Album of the Year in 2005.------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/19/2005
Band Website: virb.com/pivotpivot
Band Members: Richard Pike, Laurence Pike, Dave Miller
Influences: Jean Michel Jarre, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Liars, Aphex Twin, Ricardo Villalobos, Andrew Pekler, Vangelis, This Heat, Lightning Bolt, Arcade Fire, Chris Lilley, Garth Marenghi, Tim & Eric.
Sounds Like:
Make Me Love You
(Sensory Projects, 2005)
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Management -
Pavement Entertainment :
[email protected]

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Battles Melbourne, Homebake tomorrow + more!

First and foremost, we would like to extend the warmest welcomes to our own Dave Miller, who has flown all the way from London to make Pivot whole again on the live stage and beyond.  Feel free to say...
Posted by Pivot! on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

Epsilon (live) video - check it!

Hello hello,we have put up a live video of 'Epsilon' - a track off our new album (it's coming soon - we promise).Filmed by Joel Noble and audio recorded by Sina Djavadkhani at the Oxford Arts Factory,...
Posted by Pivot! on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:58:00 PST

Live pics

Photos by Will Reichelt. Oct 07.Click to enlarge....
Posted by Pivot! on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:36:00 PST

Pivot’s Tribute to APEC - Friday 7th September (THIS WEEK!)

Pivot are dusting off our hand-woven matching Aztec ponchos this APEC-holiday-weekend for an evening of sight and sound at the newly opened Oxford Art Factory on Friday 7th September.Despite the recen...
Posted by Pivot! on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:26:00 PST

New Show, Venue, and Movie?

Hello Buddies,We're back in Sydney on Friday 7th September for another show, this time at a larger venue (yes, we know, it was very full the last couple of times, some of you couldn't see, it smelt a ...
Posted by Pivot! on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:43:00 PST

new songs online.

Over the coming weeks we'll be putting up bits of our new songs for you all to check out on the myspace player.Last month you may have heard our new track 'Epsilon'. Many more tracks to come, so keep ...
Posted by Pivot! on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:30:00 PST

Bored of myspace? New Pivot site at virb.com!

We've just started up a new Pivot page here.More news pics and a whole other virtual reality to explore. Go and say hi, and become a friend.Myspace has become a digital wasteland of stalkers, and hack...
Posted by Pivot! on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:02:00 PST

Travel photo diary

You can see some snaps of our recent travels and us working at Soma Studios if you click HERE.
Posted by Pivot! on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:11:00 PST

unofficial history

In 1999 Brothers Laurenz and Richard Pike formed a band that played wordless music. By 2001 the band had grown to five (5) people. Over the course of 4 (3 1/2) hard fought and frustrating (annoying) y...
Posted by Pivot! on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:12:00 PST

New album mixed by John McEntire

Once we finished tracking in Sydney, Me (Richard) and Laurence went to sunny (rainy) London to finalise tracks with Dave ('Mill-dawg' Miller), during May. We then took the files to Chicago to do the f...
Posted by Pivot! on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:02:00 PST