Only Sparrows Promo

Happy Friday all!

Only Sparrows has officially been out for a week. Hope you’ve all got your copies (including those who have had to patiently wait for their pre-orders!) Have you got a favourite song yet? Why not take a vote in our poll here.

So what’s happened in the past week? It’s been a week of promo for Josh Pyke.

-He was interviewed on Triple J by Zan Rowe (interview here)
-Graced the covers of Drum Media, Xpress and Beat Magazine (see here)
– Been interviewed by more magazines (including Triple J Magazine), radio stations and various press
– Made his way onto our TVs to play No One Wants A Lover for The Circle (video here) and for UpLate (video here – see if you can spot me in the crowd!)

In other news.. though it just missed out on joining the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of all time, Chimney’s Afire placed at number 115. Full list is here. Nice one Josh! And do you remember the White Album tour? Of course you do! You, yes you should go sign this petition so a DVD/CD can be released. Now.

And in some Friends of Josh Pyke news, September will see us officially celebrate our fifth birthday! Wow.

The Only Sparrows tour starts in just under three weeks. Josh informed his twitter followers that full band rehearsals start today! Got your tickets yet? Full dates & tix info here.

Joining Josh on tour are supports Emma Louise and The Paper Kites. I want to encourage you to be early for the supports, so what better way than a Q&A with one of them, The Paper Kites. (Thanks Sam!)

Five questions with… Sam Bentley from The Paper Kites

Place you call home?
We’re all Melbourne kids.

Can you describe your music in a few words?
It’s tough to pin down. It’s pleasant.

What song of yours would be a good introduction to your music? (For those who hadn’t heard of you before?)
That’s a hard one they’re all pretty different. ‘Featherstone’ is a good place to start it’s our most recent single.

Are there any particular cities you’re looking forward to visiting on the Only Sparrows tour?
Well it’s actually really our first time taking the band outside of Melbourne so everywhere is exciting.
I’m personally pretty excited about our Wet ‘n’ Wild day when we hit The Gold Coast.

And do you have a favourite Josh Pyke song?
Funnily enough me and Christina (in the band) were totally Josh Pyke fans. We used to drive around cranking ‘Make You Happy’ and she had actually coordinated her own interpretive dance to the ‘The Summer’. So we’ll have to try and play it cool on tour.

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-sabi