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  • Eulogising Pony: 'A Petri Dish Of Ill Repute'

    Friday, Nov 2 2012|by Darren Levin

    Eulogising Pony: 'A Petri Dish Of Ill Repute'

    Pony booker Andy Moore, SPOD and members of Witch Hats, YIS, The Nation Blue and Teeth + Tongue reflect on the Melbourne CBD's 'most notorious rock den' with DARREN LEVIN. The lights go on/The dead of dawn/It's Pony in the morning/The meat market is open. Ben Montero wrote those words back in 2005 for a song called ‘Pony in the Morning’ off Treetops’ Gospel EP. It’s about those desperate last couple of hours and n…

  • Watch: New Witch Hats ‘In The Mortuary’

    Saturday, January 21 2012 at 12:00 AM

    Watch: New Witch Hats ‘In The Mortuary’

    For the second single from last year’s acclaimed Pleasure Syndrome, Melbourne’s Witch Hats headed to the same Fairfield warehouse recently frequented by the likes of The Drones, Glenn Richards and Mike Noga. Directed by Kate Hodgetts and Marlon Lando, the clip has a similarly noir tone to first sin…

  • Witch Hats - Pleasure Syndrome

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    Pleasure Syndrome

    Tuesday, Nov 1|by Patrick Emery

    Witch Hats has never been a band overtly obsessed with the facile excitement of the cheap pop song. Seen through the eyes of the band’s songwriting protagonist Kris Buscombe, Witch Hats offers up a world of seedy suburban characters and sociological indifference on new album Pleasure Syndrome. The i…

  • First Listen: Witch Hats ‘Pleasure Syndrome’

    Thursday, October 27 2011 at 04:00 AM

    First Listen: Witch Hats ‘Pleasure Syndrome’

    After a three-year wait, Witch Hats have finally produced a follow-up full-length to their abrasive, singular debut Cellulite Soul. Recorded in Melbourne with US expat Casey Rice (Tortoise, Dirty Three), Pleasure Syndrome dials back the swamp/sludge factor of Cellulite Soul. More open and inviti…

  • Watch: New Witch Hats 'Hear Martin'

    Saturday, August 20 2011 at 01:00 AM

    Watch: New Witch Hats 'Hear Martin'

    The newly re-opened Palais in Hepburn Springs, Victoria, provides the perfect setting for Witch Hats’ smoky new video. Directed by Aimée-Lee X (Belles Will Ring’s Come To The Village’), the clip is for ‘Hear Martin’, a keyboard-driven story about “Australia’s most infamous marksman”, and the first …

  • Witch Hats Working On ‘Song Focused’ Second Album

    Tuesday, April 5 2011 at 12:00 AM

    Witch Hats Working On ‘Song Focused’ Second Album

    Melbourne’s Witch Hats recently returned to the studio to record their second full-length album, the follow-up to debut LP Cellulite Soul and 2009 EP Solarium Down The Causeway. Tentatively titled Enchantment Under The Sea Dance, it was recorded over seven days in mid-March at Head Gap Studios in t…

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