The New Album Moo, Bloody Choir Is Going To Be In Shops In Australia On March 11

The music will be the same but it will feature handsome packaging and nice textures and even gold leaf lettering. International Friends will be able to order the album through www.hmv.com.au. The tracklisting for the album is below.

There is a National Album Tour announced too, see Tour Dates on this site for details.

Lastly its seems we've fluked a radio hit with One Crowded Hour, and as such it will now become a proper CD release, with some extra tracks that aren't released etc, in April.

What else? The Sydney Morning Herald ran this very nice review of the Sydney launch:

"Augie March are not made for these times. They're like a beautiful old bottle of wine in a world of alco-pops. In a debased pop culture of reality TV and vapid celebrity, the bands antique romanticism is more than an anomaly. It's unfashionably quaint, unadvisedly literate and just too clever to skate on the surface... They're one of Australia's finest bands. Front man Glenn Richards is a songwriter of rare quality, and Augie March's music - quaint, archaic and melancholy - is brilliant.

Richards is in fine, strong voice, sounding confident and purposeful. Backing vocals (by choirboy - voiced drummer Dave Williams, guitarist Adam Donovan and bassist Edmond Ammendola) were smooth and rich as velvet. With keyboard player Kiernan Box, the band masterfully executed their new songs Passing Through and Cold Acre, along with 2003's rollicking Train and mournful Blackbird... The set ended as it began, Richards playing acoustic guitar accompanied only by Box on keyboard. First the bittersweet Bottle Baby, finally There Is No Such Place; both songs that held the silent audience transfixed with their poise and poetry, exquisite longing and beautiful melodies. To be savoured." The Sydney Morning Herald, February 2006.

Moo, Bloody Choir Tracklisting

1. One Crowded Hour
2. Victoria's Secrets
3. The Cold Acre
4. Stranger Strange
5. Mother Greer
6. The Honey Month
7. Just Passing Through
8. Thin Captain Crackers
9. Bottle Baby
10. Mt Wellington Reverie
11. The Baron Of Sentiment
12. Bolte & Dunstan Talk Youth
13. Clockwork
14. Vernoona