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‘So We Can Remember’ Tour NOW ON-SALE!

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 22:14:41 +0000

Tickets for our ‘So We Can Remember’ Tour are NOW ON-SALE! Direct Links below.

Kicks off May 2nd which happens to be the same day our album ‘So We Can Remember’ will be available where all good music is sold. Look forward to partying with you guys at the gigs! Ticket links below. TM. #SoWeCanRemember #YearOfTheThundakat

Presented by Niche Productions, triple j & Nathan Farrell Entertainment

Fri 2 May @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne VIC
GET TICKETS – PH 1300 724 867

Thu 8 May @ Flyrite, Perth WA
GET TICKETS - PH 1300 762 545

Fri 9 May @ Mojo’s Fremantle WA
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Fri 16 May @ The Zoo, Brisbane QLD
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Fri 24 May @ The Metro Theatre, Sydney NSW
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So We Can Remember is released Fri 2 May on Obese Records.

‘So We Can Remember’ Album Tour Announced!

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:59:12 +0000

Thundamentals have dropped the second single from their forthcoming album So We Can Remember.

The song, ‘Something I Said’, represents a bit of a soulful shift in direction for the hip-hop trio, in a somewhat similar vein to last year’s ‘Smiles Don’t Lie’. It was premiered on Australian radio by The Doctor this afternoon on triple j Drive.

“Tom Crawford, one of our Blue Mountains friends, features on [this song],” MC Tuka told triple j. “He’s the only artist I’ve ever worked with who sculls a litre of custard when he’s singing. I think he sounds great – we do ginger and honey when we’ve got rough throats, but he was like ‘nah, can you get us some custard?’ We pretty much just collaborated with our friends on this record.”

“I think we’ve been kind of blessed like that,” added MC Jeswon ”It just feels like an organic kind of thing collaborating with these friends of ours. We just happen to be lucky that we’re surrounded by some really talented people. We don’t have to outsource too hard and reach out to people we don’t know.”

In addition, the group will embark on a bunch of Australian tour dates around their 2014 Groovin’ The Moo tour run. They’ll hit up Melbourne, Perth, Fremantle, Brisbane and Sydney alongside their regional GTM dates.

Here’s where you can catch Thundamentals on their So We Can Rememberalbum tour, presented by triple j, Niche & Nathan Farrell Entertainment

Fri 2 May
Corner Hotel
Melbourne VIC

Thu 8 May
Flyrite
Perth WA

Fri 9 May
Mojo’s
Fremantle WA

Fri 16 May
The Zoo
Brisbane QLD

Fri 24 May
The Metro Theatre
Sydney NSW

Tickets on sale March 4th 9am!

GET BUSY TOUR Announced, only headline shows for 2012!

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:17:02 +0000

Niche Productions proudly presents…

THUNDAMENTALS – Get Busy Tour
w/ Live Horn Section, Live Visuals + Guest Vocalists
Supports TBA

Oct 27th @ Gearins Hotel Katoomba NSW
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Nov 2nd @ The Basement 159, Geelong VIC
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Nov 3rd @ Northcote Social Club, Melbourne VIC
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Nov 9th @ Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW
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Nov 10th @ Sprung Festival, Brisbane QLD
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MAILING LIST PRESALE – TUESDAY AUGUST 7TH
GENERAL PUBLIC PRESALE – THURSDAY AUGUST 9TH

Mailing List presale also receive a $5 discount per ticket join here - http://thundamentals.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8d9b53ca4c458c7545f3dc459&id=256eca2d28

Every presale ticket purchased receive a brand new, previously unreleased Thundamentals MP3, for free!

Blue Mnts come Newtown Sydney 3 piece hip hop collective Thundamentals did an interview with The Canberra Times last week. Scribe Douglas Fry began his interview with the opening line: “As the one-year anniversary of the Thundamentals’ sophomore album Foreverlution approaches, the LP’s slow-burn success has suddenly become white-hot.”

He makes a fair point. Asked a few months ago to put together a track for triple j’s ‘Like A Version’ the band sauntered into jjj breakfast a month odd ago and laid down a version of Matt Corby’s Brother. There was an avalanche of texts, tweet and calls in to the station almost instantaneously, the sentiments expressed unanimously blown away. Within days the video recording of the track became the single most watched video on Triple J’s Youtube Channel and is now only just short of a quarter of a million hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By80vyAJk-0.

The ‘Get Busy’ tour is an aptly titled one. These shows will be Thundamentals first and only headline shows for 2012, with the band deliberately taking a break from writing their new album to reconnect with fans before hitting the studio. MC Tuka is also balancing the release of his 2nd solo album “Feedback Loop” and his myriad of associated touring commitments in and around that. Just To Feel Wanted, the first single from “Feedback Loop”, has already been added to triple j rotation with the album scheduled for October release through swift rising Sydney collective hip-hop Big Village Records, a label Thundamentals members founded themselves with like minded Sydney based artists: http://www.bigvillagerecords.com.au/.

With 2012 rapidly pulling away, the ‘Get Busy’ tour is Thundamentals way of making sure fans get at least one MASSIVE chance this year to catch them live, and they’re pulling out the big guns as a result. There will be a free MP3 of an exclusive new Thundamentals track with every ticket purchased for the Sydney and Melbourne shows and joining them on the road will be a full horn section, live visuals and special guests vocalists (inc Ev Jones who appears on Brother) to give the shows a one, all inclusive, festival in your loungeroom feel. Hence, although it limits capacity, all the ‘Get Busy’ venues were specifically chosen to facilitate this vibe. The upshot of it all is that the bands last headline tour completely sold out, ‘Get Busy’ tickets are very limited and absolutely no extra shows can be added. Thundamentals would like to genuinely apologise to WA and SA – for the busy-ness outlined above, there just simply wasn’t an availability for this run.

The ‘Like A Version’ cover of Brother was for some listeners, the first time they had seen MCs Tuka and Jeswon and DJ Morgs in a different light, and not just Oz hip-hop. It’s not news to the band though, as Jeswon says: “I feel like we’re part of a newer wave of Australian artists shaking off the shackles of Oz hip-hop and the stigma that’s come to be associated with it. Our stuff is pretty eclectic, and very musical. It’s a reflection of our willingness to experiment with different genres. Hip-hop, after all, is just music – it shouldn’t be limited to one kind of sound.”

Four years of respect in the Australian hip-hop scene and wider music community, three acclaimed releases and countless shows around the country, here’s a quick overview of just some of what Thundamentals have covered in their career to date:

- 2011 saw the release of “Foreverlution” which saw their first inclusion in both the ARIA + AIR Charts debuting at #19 on ARIA Australian Charts, #17 on ARIA Urban Charts & #3 on the AIR Charts.
- It’s first two singles ‘Paint The Town Red’ + ‘How You Been?’ have been added to rotation on triple j.
- Their touring history includes A Tribe Called Quest, Big Boi (Outkast), MF Doom, Lyrics Born, Drapht, Bone Thugs N Harmony & Many More.
- 2010 saw Thundamentals top Rolling Stone Magazine’s ‘Acts To Watch’ list + Sydney Morning Heralds ‘Next Big Things’ list and saw their 4th single from Sleeping On Your Style achieve MTV Rotation.
- 2009’s release Sleeping On Your Style, had both singles ‘Move It Up’ + ‘The Mash’ added to high rotation on triple j. ‘The Mash’ was also iTunes Single Of The Week, which coincided with Thundamentals performance in the Sydney iTunes store for competition winners.
- Debut Self Titled EP received 2008’s ozhiphop.com’s ‘Best Ep Of 08’ Award.

Live, Thundamentals have grown into one of Australia’s most accomplished and energetic live acts. Raising roofs and causing hangovers wherever they go, for the reasons outlined above and partially in celebration of the one year anniversary of the release of “Foreverlution”, catch Thundamentals getting busy.

WHAT A YEAR! 2012 Tour with THE HERD!

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:03:11 +0000

In the past 5 months, Blue Mnts come Newtown hip hop 3 piece Thundamentals have:

looped Australia 3 times playing over 35 shows (w’ Big Boi in Aug / Sep, w’ Drapht in Sep / Oct and their own national album launches in Nov)
released their sophomore long player “Foreverlution” (which debuted nationally at #3 on the Air Charts, #17 on ARIA Urban Charts and #19 on the ARIA Top 20 Australian Album Charts)
blown away festival stages at Pyramid Rock Festival (VIC), Peats Ridge Festival (NSW), Bigsound Live (QLD) & Subsonic Festival (NSW)
had both lead single Paint The Town Red and follow up How Ya Been receive triple j rotation.

Now, direct from selling out a bunch of album launch shows across the country inc The Oxford Arts Factory in Sydney (and coming within a hairs breadth of doing so on a bunch of others) – the band have just announced that fellow Sydneysiders The Herd have requested their company early 2012 playing:

A THOUSAND LIVES TOUR:

THE HERD with special guests THUNDAMENTALS

- March/April 2012

Friday 30 March – MANNING BAR – Sydney

Saturday 31 March – CAMBRIDGE HOTEL – Newcastle

Friday 13 April – SETTLERS TAVERN – Margaret River

Saturday 14 April – THE ROSEMOUNT – Perth

Friday 20 April – THE GOV – Adelaide

Saturday 21 April – THE CORNER – Melbourne

Tuesday 24 April (Anzac Day Eve) – BRISBANE HOTEL – Hobart

Friday 27 April – THE ZOO – Brisbane

Saturday 28 April – THE NORTHERN – Byron Bay

BUY TIX HERE: (on sale Dec 15) – http://theherd.oztix.com.au/

Thundamentals Summer Festivals!

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:45:13 +0000

Thundamentals are playing a string of festivals of the festive season, check em out at:

SUBSONIC FESTIVAL

December 3rd

Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort NSW

PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL

December 30th

Phillip Island VIC

PEATS RIDGE FESTIVAL

December 31st

Glenworth Valley NSW

CORINBANK FESTIVAL

March 3rd

Corin Forest Mountain Recreation Park ACT

FOREVERLUTION PRIVATE STREAM

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:14:31 +0000

To celebrate the launch of Thundamentals.com.au and the release of FOREVERLUTION, Thundamentals are giving an exclusive chance to members of their mailing list to stream the entire album for 48 hours next week! Simply sign up to the mailing list on Thundamentals.com.au before Thursday July 21st at 9am and you will be sent a private stream of the album which will last for a whole 48 hours.

Tell Thundamentals what you think of the new album via their Facebook and Twitter and look for the album in-stores and online on July 29th through Obese Records.

NEW ALBUM OUT 29.07.11

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:41:29 +0000

Welcome to our new website! Our new album FOREVERLUTION is coming out on July 29th on Obese Records, we have a bunch of special announcements in the lead up to the release so follow us how ever suits you, and please sign up to our mailing list to receive exclusive content!

Forever = At all times; always; eternally.
Evolution = The process of growth or development.
Foreverlution = The process of growth or development at all times and for eternity.

In stores July 29th through Obese Records, Blue Mnts come Newtown hip hop 3 piece Thundamentals have announced the impending release of their sophomore album Foreverlution, the eagerly anticipated follow up to their 2009 longplayer Sleeping On Your Style. With their own national album launch shows TBA and lead single Paint The Town Red already on triple j rotation, The Thunda’s are hitting the road with Outkast’s Big Boi to celebrate (full dates at footer).

Though their debut EP (late 2008) was awarded ozhiphop.com’s ‘Best EP of 08’ award, it was Sleeping On Your Style (also released through Obese) that truly announced DJ Morgs, Jeswon and Tuka (aka Thundamentals) as a new tour de force on the Oz Hip Hop Scene. Both singles lifted from Sleeping On Your Style (Move It Up and The Mash) received high rotation on Triple J and the band began to pop up on ’acts to watch’ (Rolling Stone Magazine) and ‘next big thing’ (The Sydney Morning Herald) lists everywhere.

The Mash was named iTunes ‘Single Of The Week’ and saw the band invited to record an exclusive live EP for fans and competition winners at Sydney iTunes store. 15 months after the release of the album, a veritable ‘eon’ in today’s quick capture album cycle environment, the record was still gaining momentum with 4th single THUNDA added to MTV rotation and international supports and festival slot offer’s continuing to roll in .

The summer of 2010 / 2011 alone saw them grace stages at Falls Festival, Peats Ridge, Good Vibes SYD, Changing Lanes Festival and Newtown Festival (headliner). Interspersed with their own national headline tours, over the past eighteen months Thundamentals have supported; A Tribe Called Quest (USA), Lyrics Born (USA), MF DOOM (USA), Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (USA), Drapht, Astronomy Class and many more.

Upcoming shows:

Aug 13th @ The Station, Jindabyne w/ Illy, M-Phazes, Spit Syndicate & More Aug 26th @ The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD w/ Big Boi Aug 27th @ The Enmore, Sydney NSW w/ Big Boi Sept 2nd @ The Palace, Melbourne VIC w/ Big Boi