The Wishing Well Band

• Fire In The Valley nearing completion
• Upcoming tours: Jan 1-3 Tas; Jan 14 – Feb 1 NSW, ACT, QLD; Feb 2-15
• Next Melbourne Show: Friday, Feb 26 The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond
• European Tour starts: June 21
• Seeking fill-in drummer
• Hands up who wants to be a nanna for the night for The Wishing Well in Tas, Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane?
• Froupies needed to put up posters in Byron, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Melbourne
• Best monthly moment winner
• The Wishing Well’s monthly blahblah – Rod on coconuts

Happy Holidays to all, we hope you had a great Chrissy and hope that Santa brought you lots of presents. Are you ready for the New Year? 2009 was mighty kind to us: we toured for the first time overseas and nearly finished our second album! New Years Eve, we will be stowed away on the spirit of Tasmania as our Tassie tour starts New Years Day. Getting smashed aboard a rocky ship and making our own fireworks may not be a good idea so we might just settle in for some hot chips and a movie instead.

Fire In The Valley is almost done!

Our beautiful new album, Fire In The Valley, is nearing completion. We are so excited to share this epic 14 track album of eargasmic goodness with you! It has been such a journey for us to complete. Lineup changes almost meant not starting on time but then voila! we found master Rod – the perfect drummer during our first tour back from Europe in September and the album set sail in his flowing drumming hands. His great feel also inspired Jai to write a closing track, which no one has heard yet. We will let it be a surprise for you.

You might be wondering to yourself what Fire In The Valley is like or how it is different to Life On The Border. Well, there are many more rockier and upbeat tunes on Fire In The Valley, there is much more violin and cello playing, some trumpet and harmonica features on some of the tracks and there is a lot more electric guitar. It still has some key things in common with Life On The Border: soulful lyrics, captivating arrangements and memorable melodies. In general, the recording of Fire In The Valley has also been much more involved than the recording of Life On The Border was for us and taken much more time to complete than anticipated. We are really proud of it and we know you will love it! We will have details in the next newsletter on how you can go about getting your mits on one of the first copies.

Sez and Fran laying down the mini orchestra

Upcoming tours: Jan 1-3 Tas; Jan 14 – Feb 1 NSW, ACT, QLD; Feb 2-15 WA

We have a pretty busy touring schedule (which as you know is pretty much always the case) coming up and will more than likely be sliding into a city near you very soon. We are looking for some lovely nannies to take us in under their wings and away from the dreadful clutches of Formula 1. Lettuce know if you need some people to crash on your floor, we’re there in a flash.

Melbourne – February

Feb 26, 2010, The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond

Tickets available from Corner Box Office 11am-8pm Mon-Sat, 9427 9198 or www.cornerhotel.com

Tasmania – January

1 Jan 2010, 8:00pm? The Brookfield Vineyard, 1640 Channel Highway?Margate, Tasmania

2 Jan 2010, 8:00pm? The Republic Bar, 299 Elizabeth Street?Hobart, Tasmania

3 Jan 2010, 4:00pm? The Bridge Hotel, corner of Leith and Forth Roads?Forth, Tasmania

ACT, NSW, QLD – January

Canberra:

18 Jan 2010, 9:00pm? The Phoenix Bar, 21 East Row?Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

1 Feb 2010, 8:00pm? Front Bar Gallery, 1/2 Wattle St?Lyneham ACT 2602

New South Wales:

20 Jan 2010, 6:00pm? The Rails, Jonson Street, Railway Station?Byron Bay, New South Wales

29 Jan 2010, 8:00pm ?Wauchope Community Arts, Oxley Lane?Wauchope, New South Wales

31 Jan 2010, 7:30pm The Funky Café, 256 King Street, Newtown, Sydney, NSW

Queensland:

23 Jan 2010 9:00pm? Crystal Waters Community Deck, off Kilcoy Lane Conondale?Crystal Waters, Queensland

24 Jan 2010 9:00pm ?Harrigans Drift Inn, Huth Rd?Jacobs Well, Queensland

27 Jan 2010, 8:00pm? The Troubadour, 3/322 Brunswick St, Fortitude?Brisbane, Queensland

Western Australia – February

5 Feb 2010, 9pm? The Prince of Wales ?41 Stephen Street?Bunburry, Western Australia

6 Feb 2010, 9:00pm ?Settler’s Tavern, 114 Bussell Hwy?Margaret River, Western Australia

7 Feb 2010, 8:00pm? The Indi Bar, 23 Hastings Street?Scarborough, Western Australia

9 Feb 2010, 8:00pm? Mojo’s, 237 Queen Victoria St?Perth, Western Australia

12 Feb 2010 8:00pm? The Camel Bar ?20 Chapman Road Geralton, Western Australia

13 Feb 2010 8:00pm? Rainbow Jungle ?14 Bridgeman Road ?Kalbarri, Western Australia

14 Feb 2010, 9:00pm Southerley’s Tavern ? Dongara, Western Australia

Next Melbourne Show: Friday, Feb 26
The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond

Thanks to all the lovely peeps who came down to the Thornbury Theatre to see us play. We had a great time and will have some footage from the night uploaded to our myspace soon.

Our show at The Corner will probably be our last Melbourne show before we head back to Europe until December so be sure to book your tickets early if you want to see us play. The fun police have cracked down on our busking (apparently too many people were smiling and maybe just maybe we were playing a little bit too loud) so no more watching The Wishing Well with a fistful of Lord of Fries at Flinders Street anymore BUT please do come and see us play at The Corner we can’t promise you Lord of the Fries but we can promises you an awesome show. You get to see us rock out in great splendour minus Connex announcements and tram whistles! Supports will be announced soon.

Tickets available from Corner Box Office 11am-8pm Mon-Sat, 9427 9198 or www.cornerhotel.com

European Tour starts: June 21

We have started to make our bookings for our next Euroinvasion tour to the UK and Europe. Lift off is June 21 and we are really looking forward to catching up with all our Euro buddies and indulging in some great beer. If you really really want us to come play a concert in your town now is the time to let us know and about any other venues you think would be great for us.

July 1, 2010 – Ryan’s of Odense, Odense, Denmark

July 14, 2010, – Schokoladen, Berlin, Germany

And many more to come so stay tuned!

Seeking fill-in drummer

Rod is off to India for some rest and relaxation but the show must go on! So we are looking for someone to fill his big bird shoes with us while he is away. If you’re up for some fun tours and like hanging out with some weirdos then give Rivkah a call on 0423 425 009 and she can give you all the details.

Dear nannas…

Hands up who wants to be a nanna for the night for The Wishing Well in Tas, Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane? Our nanna for the night program has been great fun for us and the nannies! If you are able to host even some of us and even for just one night you would be helping us out an incredible amount. It makes such a difference to us being able to avoid those stinky hotel rooms and stay in a real house. We are seeking nannies for the following nights and places:

Jan 1, 2 Hobart, Tasmania

Jan 18, Feb 1 Canberra ACT

Jan 20 Tamworth, NSW

Jan 19, Jan 31 Sydney, NSW

Jan 29, Wauchope, NSW

Jan 22, 23, 25, 26, 28 Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Jan 27 Brisbane, Queensland

Jan 24 Gold Coast, Queensland

Feb 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Perth/Fremantle WA

Come On Tour With Us

If you have a van or other large vehicle that lounges around the garage and needs to get out more, you could hire it to us! It makes you money and we save some! Give Rivkah a call on 0423 425 009 for details. We are looking to hire a van Jan 14- Feb 1 for our tour from Melbourne to Queensland and back.

Calling all froupies far and wide!

Froupies needed to put up posters in Byron, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Melbourne, please contact Riv on 0423 425 009 if you think you are a bit of whiz with glue and street poles.

Best monthly moment winner…..goes to Sez

For her sincere question: “Stingose..oh yeah, do you put this stuff on before or after you get bitten?” and for STILL getting lost on the way to the rehearsal studio even though she has been there dozens of times, for her endless bow twirls, smiles and chocolates

The Wishing Well’s monthly blah blah

Hello and seasons greetings to you all ?
After many hours on the road in the van with The Wishing Well, Jai and Riv kindly asked me to write a article for the monthly newsletter, the first piece is based the journey of a person through life and a coconut…As all of us are travellers on a journey through this precious life of ours we can often get dragged down, spun around and end up feeling dry, weather it be through money situations, people, work, or anything else, you can begin to feel like a coconut! There’s this beautiful, tasty flesh on the inside that you some times forget is there and all you can remember is the harsh, hairy outside that if you saw it you would think “no way! how can there be something magic inside that ugly thing! The feeling is that everyone, no matter how harsh and hairy one can be and put others through a heap of negative situations, deep down inside every person on this planet’s true nature is of beauty, peace, pure love and contentment. In each of us there is so much energy waiting to be poured into the right areas of the garden of our life’s and not watering and giving energy to the weeds and useless thoughts. So next time you come across a angry coconut or feel like one yourself, take 3 deeeeeeeeeeeep breaths, look beyond the harsh outside and recognise the eternal truth that we are beautiful, spiritual beings, all on our individual journey through this beautiful life, its just we sometimes forget. Thanks for reading, peace and good wishes to you all, Roderick ?

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Be our fwiend on

To buy your copy of Life on the Border please go to The Wishing Well Store at

www.lifeontheborder.net

Thanks for reading ? and to all the people who throw change in our
case, buy our CDs, come to our shows and take time out of their busy
lives to let us know how much our music resonates with them. It’s the
highest reward for us to connect with you through our music. We often
share moments and meet people through playing our music that we
otherwise wouldn’t. To see someone jamming along with us who speaks
English as a second language or comes from a place we have never been
to or even heard of or who lives a life that is so different from
anything we have ever experienced and to be able to connect through
music is a beautiful and rare experience we never tire of!
See you soon
x The Wishing Well (Jai, Sarah, Rivkah, Willow, Oscar and Rod)

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