So about a month ago, a forum member (turdface) noticed on a site maintained by another forum member (Screwball) this track listing from December 2004:

2004/12/19 The Metro, Sydney, Australia Apple Tree
# Pyramid
# White Unicorn
# Love Train
# Midnight Lover
# Woman
# Colossal
# Joker & The Thief
# Dimension
# Minds Eye

Midnight Lover? What the? Exactly. No one had ever heard of a song called Midnight Lover by Wolfmother. So the search commenced, and finally Screwball tracked down someone that had a recording of the song. Long story short, we finally found out today, less than a couple of hours ago, that this is indeed a track that no one knew about! (well, apart from the attendees of the gig I suppose).

You can download the track here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2PYZ4SEA

Now listening to the track, I can’t say it’s one of their best. Okay, I admit, I think it kinda sucks and I can see instantly why they never played it again.

But still, it’s a secret-never-released-played-one-time-only track, which gets me excited at least! How about you?

Yup, another date to add to the diary. Wolfmother will be playing at Concerts on the Green , San Diego (CA, USA) on July 27th - supporting Stone Temple Pilots along with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 2nd, from AEG Live.

Andrew also gave the band’s first interview since last summer on Australian TV this weekend. Unfortunately no news on the album, but you can watch the interview on YouTube here.

Someone found a snap of the setlist from the recent gig, and it confirms some of the song names. Click for bigger (though it’s upside-down).

So,

1. Back Round
2. Colossal
3. Woman
4. The Violence Of The Sun
5. White Unicorn
6. Monolith
7. Inside The Mountain
8. Minds Eye
9. Perfect Day (Lou Reed cover)
10. Joker And The Thief

Interesting that “Back Home” that Andrew had talked about in previous interviews became “Back Round”, but I guess a similar thing happened with Love Attacker > Pleased To Meet You.

Well things are really kicking off on the news front, with yet another date announced for a festival appearance.

Wolfmother will appear at the BASSINTHEGRASS festival to be held in Darwin, Australia, on Saturday May 24. Other confirmed acts include Powderfinger, Hilltop Hoods, Gyroscope, Potbelleez, The Audreys, Mammal and Hercules in NY.

Online ticket sales are currently not available via the site, but there is a telephone number if you can’t wait for that to be fixed.

Guess I better start updating the Wolfmother Tour Dates page again!

So a few fans did make it to the Andy Warhol gig this weekend and the news is that there were four new songs and a cover of Perfect Day! Thanks to a couple of people for posting on the forum, indiie and enemyofaverage (who flew all the way from Melbourne just for the gig!), this is the setlist of the gig as best can be made out:

Just to make it clear, these are speculation on the part of the forum members and may not in fact be the official song names:

1. Back Home (New)
2. Colossal
3. Woman
4. Violence of the Sun (New)
5. White Unicorn
6. Unknown title (New)
7. Unknown title (New)
8. Mind’s Eye
9. Perfect Day (Lou Reed cover)
10. Joker and the Thief

The with these possible names: ‘Monolith’, ‘Back to the Mountain’ and ‘Athenaeum’. (thanks, turdface from the forums).

Indiie was an extra superstar and has uploaded quite a few videos from the gig - you can check them out here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=indiie

And enemyofaverage wrote up a review …

HEY ALL, just got back home (melbourne) from brisbane, i flew up yesterday just to go see the guys play!

i was right up the front for the entire gig (it went for an hour). got some pics and vids on my phone - indiie’s film footage seems to be a lot higher quality though.

but yes, i stretched my neck and was just able to read the first song title - Back Home. it is an amazing track and i wouldn’t be at all surprised if it is their next single.

as for a new direction: not really..although having seen them four times now (melb big day out, festival hall, ballarat, brisbane) i can say they carry themselves a lot more confidently and seem to have a new found sense of direction and purpose…in recent times they have been doing a lot of improvising and with new songs it means they are able to perform a much more structured set.

……i wonder if any of this is making sense? i’ve only had 4 and a half hours sleep so please bare with me!! i will try upload some pics and my crappy videos later (i took a vid of back home, but later realised that my sound was turned off!)

overall, last night was an amazing gig…their new songs are very heavy, kinda like colossal and pyramid. one of the songs demonstrated much more complex rhythmical ability than in their older songs (dunno how to phrase that at the moment - too tired. for you musos out there i can reveal that myles switches to a backbeat in one of the songs - i think its the one indiie said chris played intentionally out of tune - and for the record, it was andrew playing the semitone off). their lou reed cover was different and i don’t think it suited them at all…myles smiled at andrew at the end, i think he realised it didn’t work very well.

in case you’re wondering, i couldn’t quite make out the titles of the other songs on the set list…i think one had ’sun’ in the title and one was ‘athenaeum’? not too sure.

I of course was away for the weekend so missed the excitement. Just catching up now and getting my head around NEW MATERIAL.