Well I am here to tell you I did receive a response from the band’s management. I’m not going to say anything more about it for now because I can’t figure out what to say.

Please rest assured that the lack of information about the new album isn’t because plans are being kept secret, it’s because plans have not yet been confirmed.

The band has not yet commenced actual recording although, as previously announced, they have done demo sessions. As you can hopefully appreciate, given that creative processes like writing and recording can often take longer than planned, it would not be fair to the fans or the band to suggest a release date before the album is actually close to completion.

Please rest assured that as soon as recording commences it would be posted on the band’s website and fans would be updated regularly as the recording unfolds.

We know a new album is coming, may even be fully recorded.  We’ve heard a few new songs and assumed that it must be on its way soon.  Surely they would at least announce a release date.  Even if it’s longer than we hoped for, at least we’d know …

What do we get instead?  Nothing.  Nada.  Stuff all.  I’ve emailed to ask, many times.  So have lots of others.  No response.

What I thought I would try is an online ‘petition’.  No idea if it will help, but it can’t do any harm, right?  So ’sign’ your name below and when it hits a decent number I will again try to contact the band, their management, their agents and anyone else that might listen.  I’d like to see at least 100 names down here so send to your friends, family, colleagues and dogs.  If you’ve never commented on this (or any other) blog, take 10 seconds to do so.  Thanks.

PLEASE ONLY SIGN ONCE - I CAN TELL IF YOU SIGN TWICE AND DUPLICATES WILL BE DELETED

Rehtom Flow (Wolfmother backwards if you didn’t spot that yet) are a Danish band growing in popularity.  General consensus on the forums is that they are pretty good (though the lead singer maybe doesn’t match Stockdale’s high notes).  Here’s a shot of them in action:

Check out their MySpace, listen to Dimension, judge for yourself.

The APRA awards (Australian Performing Right Association) are an annual ceremony recognising achievements in Australian music. This year the top awards were taken by Daniel Johns from Silverchair - he picked up two awards for the song Straight Lines (Song of the Year and Most Played Australian Work), and one for Songwriter of the Year - the third time he has won this award and the only artist in the awards history to have done so.

So back to Wolfmother, what did they win? Well it was their international success that was recognised, winning Most Played Australian Work Overseas for Woman. Which is quite a good indicator of how well received the band has been globally, perhaps more so than any other Australian band of recent times.

Congratulations, boys! Hope you are celebrating by polishing off the second album to get it ready for release.

Well some of you probably noticed that there are different reported tracks lengths depending on where you look, and on this particular CD the length is different to the album or single. The correct answer was:

DIMENSION - ORIGINAL (04:26)

Which means that some of you got it right! Six in fact:

1. the winner (hopefully)
2. Josh
3. Wolfranco
4. DrVeronica
5. Ronnie
6. enemyofaverage

And by totally random deduction, the winner is … Wolfranco! Congratulations and I’ll be dropping you an email shortly to get your shipping details.

Watch this space for another comp soon.