BLUEBOTTLE KISS, TROUBADOUR PRESENTS & LOVE AS FICTION RECORDS PRESENT
Performing the album in its entirety, plus more!!
Bluebottle Kiss are hitting the road for the first time since 2024, to celebrate the reissue of their classic 2002 album Revenge Is Slow, on Love As Fiction Records. Kicking off with a rare festival appearance, at The Gum Ball in the Hunter Valley of NSW, the quartet will play eight shows across NSW, ACT, VIC, SA, and QLD through the month of May, performing the album in full, plus more!
24-26 – The Gum Ball Festival, Hunter Valley, NSW
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Thursday 14 – Live at The Polo, Canberra ACT
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Friday 15 – Stag & Hunter, Newcastle NSW
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Sat 16 – Crowbar, Sydney NSW
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Fri 22 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne VIC
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Sat 23 – Ed Castle, Adelaide SA
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Fri 29 – Mo's Desert Clubhouse, Burleigh Heads QLD
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Sat 30 – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane QLD
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In 2002, Sydney band Bluebottle Kiss released their fourth album, Revenge Is Slow, containing 50 minutes of expansive indie and experimental art rock. A kind of melodic,
baroque psychedelic pop that captured the musical ambition and songwriting craft of
the band at the height of their success.
"It was an album that was colourful and imaginative, but somehow accessible too," reflects singer, guitarist, and songwriter Jamie Hutchings.
The album's trio of singles – 'Gangsterland', 'Ounce of Your Cruelty', and 'Father's Hands' – received widespread airplay on triple j, spearheading highly successful regional and suburban gigs across the country, with
bands such as Sounds Like Sunset, Faker, The Panics, and Speedstar, and an appearance
at Homebake the same year.
Now, 24 years later, the album receives its first release on vinyl, in limited edition, 2LP, green (sold out) and black variants, courtesy of Australian
indie label Love As Fiction Records.
Spread across three sides to ensure the highest quality listening experience, the
songs were prepared from the original tapes by Chris Colquhoun in Sydney before being remastered and cut to a master lacquer at Telegraph in SF,
USA, by Adam Gonsalves.
Side four adds an additional five bonus tracks. 'Freeway Made Of Ice' and 'Dear Road'
were extra tracks on the 'Ounce of Your Cruelty' CD single, while 'Your Snow', 'Goodnight
Believer', and 'Pruning the Friend Tree' appeared on the bonus disc accompanying the
following album, Come Across.
To celebrate the reissue, the band have released the new remastered version of their
hugely popular single 'Gangsterland' (#23 on the ARIA Alternative Singles Chart in 2002) b/w a live version of 'Rust
and the Time', recorded at Northcote Social Club in 2024, plus a superb new video
clip by Ben deHoedt, director of the Glide documentary Disappear Here.
The song, with Richard Coneliano's iconic propellant drumming, and its dark guitar twang, is a character study of
bad tidings and things gone wrong. Julie, Jimmy, and Johnny are in a bad situation.
"A storming piece of work beautifully composed."
Rolling Stone (Australia) ★★★★
"Arguably Australia's most idiosyncratic guitar band"
Drum Media
Cracking, double-vinyl release for Fear of Girls – remastered by the original producer, the legendary Jack Endino – Nirvana, Zeke and many, many more!
Originally released by Citadel Records in 1999 and in different times, the re-release would have been in 2020. As was planned. Still, what matters now is the discipline to resist using the word “patient” in a pun.
The re-release is nearly sold out, check availability at Bandcamp
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