Wolfmother announce a gig!

That’s right. Believe it or not, there is some news regarding our beloved band! For the first time since the ‘split‘, there are plans for a gig.

News from Australia is that Wolfmother will headline the Clipsal 500 evening entertainment schedule, rocking the stage on Friday 22 March 2009. Yes that is a looong time away, but hey, it means that there is a band to headline! Which means that there is very likely to be a band right now, though of course we don’t know what the lineup looks like …

By way of background, he Clipsal 500 is a four day motorsport event that is expected to attract crowds of up to 300,000. Races include a variety of car types, from V8 supercars to Porsche Carreras.

But it’s the evening entertainment that has me and many others interested. Not only will Wolfmother headline, but also The Living End, Pete Murray and Lee Kernaghan. The full ‘2009 Jim Beam TrackSounds On-Circuit Concert Series’ is as follows:

• Thursday, 19 March, 2009 – The Living End, Gyroscope, The Butterfly Effect and The Potbelleez, presented by Nova 91.9.
• Friday, 20 March, 2009 – Nova 91.9 presents Pete Murray, Faker and Operator Please.
• Saturday, 21 March, 2009 – Lee Kernaghan, Beccy Cole and The McClymonts, presented by FIVEaa.
• Sunday, 22 March, 2009 – Wolfmother and The Getaway Plan, presented by Mix 102.3.

Hopefully, as one forum member put it, “the snowball has started rolling” and we’ll start to get some more news out of the band and their management.

Trailers, Soundtracks, Games & Ads

(WARNING: the trailer shown in the full post is rated ‘R’):

Well the news drought continues - we can only hope that the band are getting their act together and recording some tunes …

Anyway, I was in the cinema the other day waiting to see … Mirrors I think it was (great jumpy film!) … half watching the trailers … when suddenly I hear a familiar tune.

Sure enough, Joker & The Thief was blasting out of the speakers, introducing the film “My Best Friend’s Girl” (not sure if the film will be funny, it looks amusing at least …).

So it’s good to see that Wolfmother’s music is still being used, which to be honest, for a band of its popularity I think is quite a lot. I thought it might be a good community exercise, while we wait for “phase two” to cometh, to compile a comprehensive list of occasions that a Wolfmother tune has been used. I’ve started the list with a couple of the obvious ones. Please provide links (IMDB or similar) where possible.

Once we’re happy with the list I’ll add it to a permanent page.

Film trailer
2008, My Best Friend’s Girl - Joker & The Thief

Film soundtrack
2007, Spiderman 3 - Pleased to Meet You

Game
2006-7, Guitar Hero 2 - Woman
2008, Rock Band (downloadable song) - Joker & The Thief

Advertisement
2008, Peugeot 308 SW ad (France & UK) - Joker & The Thief

Rumour time: Raconteurs members to join? Feb 09 album?

We know that Andrew Stockdale has been looking for new band members to replace Chris and Myles. We heard rumours about an Australian musician, and rumours about American musicians.

Today we hear from our Australian fans that music station Triple J have mentioned on air that they believe the rhythm section from The Raconteurs (Saboteurs for you Aussies) will join Andrew in forming the new Wolfmother.

Forum member motherlovin confirmed the rumour (though we don’t know his source, he was right about previous rumours) and stated for certain that Jack White won’t be involved.

So I imagine that Patrick Keeler will definitely be one member, being the drummer, and either one or both of Brendan Benson and Jack Lawrence.

I am still working out in my head how this would be. On one hand it’s awesome news because I love the Raconteurs music and their albums are regularly played on my Walkman. On the other there’s a risk that the different style to what we’ve become used to changes the band beyond recognition - but I am reassured by the fact that Jack White won’t be involved that Andrew will retain control of the sound and move the band forwards in the way he has previously.

Whether the Raconteurs will continue, with members spanning both bands, is yet to be seen. For sure if the new Wolfmother wants to tour anything like they have done in the past I can’t see that being possible. Maybe Jack White has decided his experiment with a new band has run its course and he’ll fold it up, leaving the other members free to pursue new interests also.

In other rumour news, the Modular website has a mock newspaper article that states a Feb 09 release for the album. That in itself isn’t too exciting because of the nature of the article (who’s to say that any of it is true). But in the news section, they also mention an early ‘09 release, so it’s on the horizon at least. Not soon enough for us fans that have been waiting years already, but at least planned for.

Source
Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale will carry on Wolfmother and has our full support as we now embark on Wolfmother - Phase II. Stockdale has been developing new material and is set to connect with producer Dave Sardy (producer of the debut self-titled LP) in LA before the end of the year to sew the seeds of a new album. The fruits of these sessions will hopefully see a new Wolfmother album in early 2009.

Phase II cometh

Not major news, but the official Wolfmother site and their MySpace site have both updated today with a new look and the phrase “phase II cometh”.

I like the image on the main site, actually. Not so keen on the tiled one on MySpace. The only new text on the MySpace site is “Wolfmother in transitional phase, let the good times roll!”. Indeed, let’s get them rolling and get some news to us fans!

Couple of site updates

I finally got around to making a couple of site changes. Firstly, I changed the Lyrics section to have one song per page - hopefully this will make it easier to find specific lyrics if you need to. Secondly, I have put up Wolfmother Guitar tabs, as provided by forum member Jimmi.

If you’d like to comment on, add to or correct either the tabs or lyrics, comment on the appropriate page or send me a mail.

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