Obits Support

So, Tuesday 28th of August at The Tote; Obits with Mesa Cosa and YIS. This'll be our first show in almost six months. Tickets are $22 on the door. Free BBQ out the back. Free shots of rum circulating. Doors at 7:30. We're on at 7:45.

BACK FROM THE DEAD

Very happy to announce that our first show in six months will be at The Old Bar, Fitzroy on Saturday September 15 for a benefit helping Kids of Zoo get to Europe. Also playing are Udays Tigers and Rayon Moon. Should be a cracker.

However, we will be playing one show before that in the last week of August. Details announced next Friday. It's gonna be awesome.

YIS International Radio Ep. 2

Second installment of our Spotify playlist series.

Simon chose Trans Am, Harald Grosskopt, Donnie & Joe Emerson and Can, Andre picked Liars, Luna, The Besnard Lakes and Black Moth Super Rainbow, Matt selected Baptism of Uzi, Radio Birdman, Tom Waits and Earthless, and Bronwyn decided on Black Van, Huxley, The Juan Maclean and Vakula.

Listen below or click the following link: YIS International Radio (with YIS).

[update: now with 77 tracks from all our July playlist picks below]

LP No.2 Update, YIS Radio, Free Live Album, Shows

This week, for the first time since March, all four members of YIS will be in the same country, which means we can make a start on recording our second album. Hopefully out by the end of the year.

We've also started up a weekly "radio show" playlist for those of you on Spotify. Load it up here and subscribe, or listen below.



Simon is responsible for Young MC, Colonel Abrams, Bryan Adams and The Smiths, Matt for Paul Kelly, Action Bronson, Creedence and Hot Snakes, Bron for Tom Trago, Jacques Renault, Motor City Drum Ensemble and todd Terje, and Andre chose Gruff Rhys, Kids of Zoo, Jack Ladder and The War on Drugs.

We've also uploaded the entire performance from our Tote farewell show to our Soundcloud. For a limited time, you can also download the whole thing from here.



We've got a pair of shows coming up in late-August and September at the usual venues; one TBA support slot and a fundraiser for some pals hitting the road overseas. Details when they're announced.

Free Download: Burning Well/Infin (Live)

For those who missed out on our gig at The Tote a couple of weeks back; here's a snippet of what it sounded like. If the rest of the tracks come out good we'll chuck them up too. But for now, here's Burning Well and Infin. You can stream it below or download it by pressing the little button that says 'download'.

Andre and Simon fly off to Europe tomorrow; keep track of where they are and what they're up to on the YIS Facebook page. They'll also be posting demos and sounds from the road up on the Soundcloud.

Facebook Competition

Okay, so, ever since Facebook upgraded our old group to a new group (and in the process deleted all the members), our number of 'likes' on the book o' face has looked pretty grim. Anyway, to rectify that, we're running a competition where you can win a bunch of really cool stuff just for clicking LIKE on our page.

So, here's what you can win.

Pretty cool, huh? And here's more detail...

Firstly, a full set of every YIS release so far: the YIS Live Mixtape #1 (number 4 of 40 copies, mostly given away at The Tote on October 31, 2009), the Trevor Block Rockin' Beats/Sex Beat single (number 26 of 30 copies, only given away at our show at The Birmingham Hotel on January 7, 2010), the Lizardman/Live at YIS Manor EP (number 12 of 30 only given out at The Old Bar in March 2010, but there are a few less as I didn't burn off as many as I numbered), and our first proper recording: Kingdom of Fuzz (number whatever of 500, of which we only have a few copies left).

Speaking of Kingdom of Fuzz, you also win the guitar strings off the Gibson Non-Reverse Firebird I used to record every guitar note on the entire album. (Okay, fine, I did use a couple of other guitars for little bits, and I did break one string on the second day (I think it was the G string), and that one ended up on the floor/in the bin, but the replacement string did see a lot of action as well.)

You also get a YIS shirt (but unfortunately sizes are limited to S, L, XL, 2XL or Girls Large), as well as the three Kingdom of Fuzz badges and a signed poster.

I'm trying to get Andre to donate one of his doodles for this too (like the ones he did for the gig on Sunday), so hopefully that'll be included too, as well as any other cool stuff I can dig up between now and next week.

Three runners-up will get a deluxe KoF set with a shirt, CD, badge and poster.

So, yes, all you have to do is go here and like the page. Or just click below! If you already like it, you're already entered. Winner will be chosen at random when the competition closes on Friday March 16th.

Last Gig This Sunday

Playing our last Melbourne show for a long long time this Sunday at The Tote. YIS on at 8pm.

Second Album Progress + Farewell Shows

Work has begun on the writing and recording of our second album. It's being currently recorded at home, with the album to be released sometime in the next ten years.

You'll have two more chances to catch the band before we head to Europe; Saturday Feb 11 at The Old Bar for Russian Roulettes' LP launch, followed by a Brat Farrar + YIS double headliner farewell show at The Tote on Sunday March 4.

Also, a Simon Fazio solo set is happening at Bar Open on Sunday Jan 22 with Apple Time and Al Matcott. Free entry.

M+N Readers Poll Results

According to the Mess+Noise Readers Poll, we are the #6 Best New-ish Act in 2011. And we released the 17th best Album of the Year. Freaking amazing. Couldn't be happier. Thanks to all who voted.

Update: We also came in at #36 on the Critics list.

New Plans!

So, it seems like the next half-a-year is going to be a pretty exciting time.

First of all, next month, we've got three shows lined up. Our first show is at The Espy this Friday night, with Peabody, The Once Overs and Altyan Childs Alkan Zeybek. We're on second, so I imagine that will be somewhere around 10pm. After that, we're doing a last-minute fill-in job on Saturday night at Pony, 2am style. Last gig for the month will be a big Boxing Day in Ballarat; Yard Apes + YIS at Karova Lounge on Monday the 26th.

In addition, Andre and I will once again be backing up Brat Farrar on a few shows, including the Future of the Left support at The Corner on December 16. More Brat Farrar show info up on his Bandcamp.

After that, we'll be doing a couple more Melbourne shows (and maybe one in Geelong) and then putting a big fat line under the Kingdom of Fuzz-era of YIS, as after that, we're heading off to Europe to play a bunch of shows with Brat Farrar. Andre and I will hopefully be doing a few small YIS duo shows along the way, but you'll see us play Brat's songs of equal quality in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Belgium and Germany from March 22 until April 1. I will post the dates here when I've got them, but it looks like a big of shows.

I'm off to the UK and NYC after that, and Andre is going to spend some more months in Europe, while Bronwyn is finishing up study and does some important work type things, so, prior to that, hopefully we'll be able to pin Matt down for long enough to have one final hurrah at a venue that's yet to be decided. Hopefully on the other side we'll have something new, exciting and different to play for everyone.

Speaking of new and exciting, we did some other stuff this weekend; Andre recorded our pals in Bidet Mate, and then I whipped up this video. Enjoy, re-post, download, etc.

So, that's it for now. Hopefully see you at a show over the weekend. We'll be playing the favorites and some oldies from the vault. Until then...