October 2011

ELTHAM
Sunday 23 October 2011

Practically Green Festival
10am-5pm Lisa Miller performs live from 4 pm

Also appearing: Gary Banks & Rudi Katterl/Shala Ensemble/Mercurials/Chocolate Lilies/Kerri Simpson & Gospel Bells/Uncle Herb Pattern - Gum Leaf Player!/The ReChords      

First held in 2008 at Council's Environmental Education Centre in Eltham at Edendale Farm, the Practically Green Festival continues in 2011 to offer practical and simple ideas to help you and your family live sustainably.

The Festival showcases the very best in sustainable building technologies, all in a fun festival style, family atmosphere. Come and enjoy the food, free children's entertainment, music and free workshops!

As the Festival is all about sustainability, we encourage you to travel there sustainably too! Edendale Farm is conveniently located on the Diamond Creek Trail and is just a short walk from Eltham train station.

Edendale Farm
Gastons Road, Eltham (Melway 22 A1)

Click here for more info

BRUNSWICK
Sunday 30th October 2011

FREE! 5-8 pm

www.unionhotelbrunswick.com.au

August/September 2011

HEPBURN SPRINGS
Saturday 27th August 2011

BARWON HEADS
Friday 9th September 2011

April 2011

Lisa will be appearing at the 2011 Byron Bay Bluesfest on Sunday April 24 and Monday April 25 (Bob Dylan day!). Click here for details.

November 2010

October 2010

This magnificent old railways building dating from 1915, which had been left abandonded and derelict since 1969, has been restored as a community arts centre over the few years, and an amazing, turn of the twentieth century industrial space, with towering ceilings, exposed brickwork and full height cathedral windows has been created for events and performances. Now part of the team involved in the old Continental are mounting the SubSonic Music Series, and we're very pleased to be amongst the first shows at this exciting new venue in the inner west.

Newport is just over the West Gate, between Yarraville and Williamstown,a few minutes drive from the Williamstown Road exit.

For those of you with some time on your hands, enjoy reading the architectural description of the building below.
Click here for The Substation website, where you can read even more!

The Newport Substation is a large red brick and cement render neo-Classical building designed by the Way and Works Branch of the Victorian Railways in conjunction with the engineering firm Werz and MacLellan.

The facades are divided into three sections: a cement rendered basement with square perforated metal ventilation openings; a face brick lower floor with rectangular window openings having cement rendered voussoirs; and a 'piano nobile' with tall rounded arched window openings having rendered drip moulds and keystones. A rendered moulding separates the lower floor from the main level, and another encircles the building at the arch opening line. A deep rendered cornice and a brick parapet top the building.

The two halves of the building are distinguished by the machine hall projecting forward at each end as separate pavilion, topped by a semi-circular pediment. The switch cell section has brick panels dividing the upper window openings, and has an insert balcony along the side of the building at the mid-level; wrought iron balustrading spans between the brick piers.

The whole side of one side of the building is taken up by the machine hall, which is a full height space broken up at the lower level by dividing walls, forming separate bays, which housed the rotary converters. At one end is a loading bay originally served by a siding from the adjacent track, and a bay for signaling equipment is adjacent to the bay in larger substations. At the basement level on this side of the building are separate walls designed to support the heavy equipment; these form a series of catacomb-like rooms.

On the other side of the building is the switchgear housed on three levels in separate cells with interlocked doors; each cell is continuous through all levels. Various types of switching apparatus are located on the first two levels, the second level opening to the balcony. At the top level is the bus bar chamber, which provides power to all the cells. Stairwells at each end of this section provide access to all levels; steel ladders reach the bus bar chamber.

The main operating floor is the middle level, which has a gallery and balcony overlooking the rotary bays. An office and bathroom are provided at one end of the this level, below which are battery rooms and other ancillary spaces including the building entry. Below the operating gallery is a row of DC switch cells.

There are five surviving examples of this type, located at Newmarket, Newport, Glenroy, North Fitzroy and Albion. The largest is Newmarket while the smallest is Glenroy. At Newport and North Fitzroy, the basic plan is varied by the switchgear section being one window bay shorter than the machine hall at one end of the building.

The use of the neo-Classical style for these substations are comparable with other buildings designed by the Way and Works Branch during the same period. These include Flinders Street Station, additions to the Spencer Street Administrative Offices, and the Jolimont Car Repair Sheds and several other station buildings.

October 2010

Hello peoples, hope you can get to one, some or all of these upcoming shows:

Wednesday September 22
THE SPIEGELTENT 2010 Brisbane Festival
King George Square, City. Starts 7pm sharp. (Lisa Miller Quartet: Shane O'Mara, Ashley Davies & Howard Cairns)
Click here for info and to book online now



Saturday October 2nd
L'ESPRESSO Ballarat
417 Sturt Street phone 03.5333.1789
The best joint in town, bar none. We've been wanting to put on a show here for ages and it's finally going to happen. Come and mingle with the Ballarat intelligentsia - expect to rub shoulders with ex-premiers, marathon runners and prize-winning authors! You will need to book, so give them a call. Starts about 7, ends about 10. Sit down affair, great food. 75 mins. from Melbourne.

TINY TOURS PRESENTS DOG TRUMPET & LISA MILLER
Doing shows together with Reg Mombassa & Peter O'Doherty is always such a delight ... so we keep doing them! We played a couple of shows with Dog Trumpet up in Sydney recently, they were so much fun we're doing some down here in wet old Vic, starting off with the Melbourne launch of their fantastic new album RIVER OF FLOWERS, then a couple of double-headers down the coast. All shows complete with respective fullish bands.

Friday 8th October
CARAVAN MUSIC CLUB Oakleigh RSL

Saturday 9th October
THE PIPING HOT CHICKEN SHOP Ocean Grove

Sunday 10th October
MARTIANS CAFE Deans Marsh

July 2010

Lisa Miller live in NSW. First shows in three years.

We can't wait to load up some old cassettes, point our bonnets up the Deadly Hume, and come back to Sydney. It's been quite a while. Lisa will be touring with a great band - Shane O'Mara on guitars, Ashley Davies on drums, and waiting for us up there is your own Ken Gormley on bass. Loretta Miller sings backing vocals.

We're thrilled to have on the bill in Sydney and Katoomba our dear friends and genii Dog Trumpet.

Also appearing in Sydney and at Bulli is former train driver/future star Tenielle - see her before she's famous!

Friday July 16
NOTES Newtown

With very special guests Dog Trumpet and Tenielle.

Tenielle 8:30
Dog Trumpet 9:15
Lisa Miller 10:15

Saturday July 17
THE HERITAGE HOTEL Bulli

With very special guest Tenielle.

Sunday July 18
THE CLARENDON GUESTHOUSE Katoomba

With very special guests Dog Trumpet!

Click on the Volksy to buy Car Tape 2 and other Lisa Miller CDs

Happy Motoring Customers!

July 2010

Thanks to all of you who came to the Melbourne album launch at The Corner last Friday! It was a great night. Lisa Miller and her Largish Band are doing one more Melbourne show this weekend, and it's being broadcast directly to you...

Lisa Miller and her Largish Band live-to-air and the world-wide-web from the Triple R Performance Space this Saturday morning, July 10 at 11:30 am.

It's free to come along to the show - as long as you're a Triple R subscriber. You just need to send a message to lisamiller@rrr.org.au with your vitals to request a double pass. Triple R is in Melbourne at 221 Nicholson St Brunswick (corner of Nicholson & Blyth) at the north end of the No.96 tramline.
(If you live in Melbourne and you're not a RRR subscriber already you should be! Click here to sign up now and get your free passes to this show at the same time!)

For everyone who can't come along, you can listen! If you can pick up Triple R you can tune in to 102.7 MHz, if you're anywhere else in the world tune in on the interweb.
Click on www.rrr.org.au/programs/streaming/ (do it now to make sure it works for you). Set your clocks to 1130 hours Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT + 10 hrs) Saturday July 10 2010.

Video...

Lisa Miller and Shane O'Mara recorded three songs live for The Age online recently (She Wants To Play Hearts, Traction In The Rain, and Superfly). You can see and hear it all by clicking here.

Podcasts...

Click on the links below to get the downloads:

774 Melbourne - Lisa Miller on the Conversation Hour with John Faine

Making cover albums cool

Singer Songwriter and onetime Neil Young back-up dancer Lisa Miller sang "Traction In The Rain" live in the studio from her new album Car Tape 2, a nostalgic compilation experience that harks back to the days of the mixed tape and aims to encapulate the quintessential road trip experience.
Marc Collin, producer and arranger of Nouvelle Vague, fresh off the plane from Paris also creates quirky modern covers - and he revealed that he's not ever sought permission from the artists he covers to use their material! It's the kind of cheek that a only french accent excuses!
Namila Benson, Broadcaster, DJ and braid devotee joined Jon Faine in the studio as co-host.

Radio National - The Music Show with Andrew Ford

Lisa Miller and Shane O'Mara make a welcome return to the show to perform some songs from their brand new release Car Tape 2.
Live performances:
Traction in the Rain (Comp. David Crosby)
It'll Never Happen Again (Comp. Tim Hardin)

Radio National - Daily Planet with Lucky Oceans

Lisa Miller's Car Tape 2 has the Melbourne singer covering an eclectic mix of pop songs, each given an innovative, often counter-intuitive arrangement by guitarist and co-producer Shane O'Mara.

In this, the sequel to her 2002 release, Lisa continues the concept of the mixtape for a road trip by covering songs by Curtis Mayfield, Tim Hardin, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, David Crosby, Francoise Hardy and more.

(No live songs on this one but several songs from Car Tape 2 interspersed with some curious comments from Mr. Oceans.)

ABC Queensland - Afternoons with Georgia Stynes

Finally this one from Queensland, in which Georgia Stynes seems stuck on the notion that the album is called not Car Tape 2 but "Car Sales 2" ... maybe she's been shopping for a second-hand ute on the internet recently. This interview features (yet another) live performance of Traction and She Wants To Play Hearts. Right click/Control click here to download.

There's another good one from Tassie but not available yet, perhaps owing to the fact it was done on Julia Thursday. Let us know if you want to get hold of it and we'll see what we can do...

Happy Downloading Customers!

July 2010

The Car Tape 2 extravaganza is coming!

The Melbourne launch will be really special. Back at The Corner, still the best sounding room in the land, and the stage where we launched Car Tape #1 just over eight years ago!

Lisa Miller and Il Maestro Shane O'Mara will be joined for this show only by a sensational Large Band, featuring Ashley Davies AND Ian Kitney on drums and percussion; Kenny Lee (Cruel Sea) Gormly AND Howard Cairns on electric and double bass; as always on the big occasions - the sublime pedal steel stylings of Garrett Costigan; and introducing Lisa's mini-me, yet another talented Miller, direct from Oakleigh Victoria, Miss Loretta Miller on backing vocals (and sounding eerily like her aunty Lisa).

Add it up folks, that's an 8 piece band!

Just as we did back in 2002, Car Tape 2 will be performed in its entirety, song by song, your new CD - come to life! And of course, there will be frocks and new shoes.

This wonderful ensemble will be coming together for this one special evening. This event shall not be repeated, do not miss this occasion, because ....IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN

Special guest supports for the evening are Frally (coming from the USA) and Tash Parker, with specially recorded aural interludes designed to alter your state and free your mind courtesy of Monsieur Raoul Moutarde.

Happy Motoring, customers!

May 28 2010

Car Tape 2 is released today! Buy it from your favourite record shop, or if they go 'huh?' you can order online direct from us - just click above!

April 2010

January 2010

Sunday Jan 17
The Retreat Hotel

Our old pal Kelley Stoltz from San Francisco is doing his last Australian show this Sunday, and Lisa and Shane are joining him on the bill for a relaxed evening of songs without all those crashing drums and thumping bass guitars.

November 2009

Hey, where did my Spiegeltent go?

Friday November 20 2009
Oakleigh Bowling Club

The Spiegeltent didn't make it to Melbourne this year, but this is the next best thing. Oakleigh Bowling Club was founded in 1906, so there's still a bit of history about the place.
It's a great venue, very relaxed and comfortable, plenty of seats and tables to go round, good view of the stage and excellent sound.
We're very pleased to have the wonderful Howard Cairns joining us on double bass.

Please come along and hear the songs we've recorded for Car Tape 2. The album is being mastered in LA right now, and will be launched early next year.

Tickets on sale now from moshtix.com.au - click here to book now.

The Oakleigh Bowling Club is located on the corner of Drummond and Logie Streets Oakleigh, just off Dandenong Road (Melways Reference Map 69 F8)
For all enquiries please contact contact Peter Foley on 0411 569 180, or email peterfoley59@hotmail.com

Hope you can make it!

February 2009

The following show didn't go ahead - it ended up being the hottest day on record in Victoria, and it was decided that afternoon to cancel. 173 people died that day in bushfires. See the Wikipedia entry Black Saturday Bushfires.

Saturday February 7 2009

It's going to be 43 degrees on Saturday. An evening in the urban oasis of natural wonder that is CERES, lying on the grass, watching the stars, and listening to Lisa Miller sounds like a good idea. Liz Stringer is on too, and she's fantastic. And if you want to make a whole festival out of it, Brioni and Lady Grey start things off from 5:30 pm.

If you really want to make a festival out of it, the music continues on the Sunday with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter heading up another great lineup.
Lisa will be playing with her Polite Stripes - Shane O'Mara and Peter Jones, augmented by one-man big band James Black on keyboards and big bass notes.

Lady Grey 5:30
Brioni (CERES Soundlab artist) 6:30
Liz Stringer 7:30
Lisa Miller 8:30

Single tix $20 / $30 - Weekend tix $30 / $50 (Children under 10- free)
For booking please call 9387 2609 or visit www.ceres.org.au

For more information EMAIL: christos@ceres.org.au

CERES Community Environment Park December 2008
Saturday December 6

One balmy summer evening only, with the full Large Extension Band.
Special guest band members are James Black on keyboards (the bespectacled fellow on Rockwiz), Garret Costigan on pedal steel, Bill McDonald on bass plus my long-suffering sturdy companions Shane O'Mara on guitars and Peter Jones on the drums.

Show starts at 7pm sharp and is all over by 9. There will definitely be a few new songs you haven't heard before. And there will be quite a few you probably have.

Tickets on sale now from Ticketmaster. Hope you can make it!
Click here for Ticketmaster to buy online or call them on 136 100.

Springtime 2008

Thursday October 23
"Songwriters In The Round" with Lisa Miller, Matt Walker & Abbie Cardwell.
3 songwriters sharing the stage, sharing songs and stories...
Click here for all the info.

Saturday October 25 & Sunday October 26
The Wheatsheaf in Adelaide.
Returning to our favourite spot in Adelaide, Lisa with Shane O'Mara and Peter Jones. The Saturday show starts at 9pm, the Sunday one starts at 4pm.
The Wheatsheaf Hotel
39 George St Thebarton
p (08) 8443 4546
www.wheatsheafhotel.com.au
www.myspace.com/wheatsheafhotel

Saturday November 8
Barwon Heads Community Hall.
After all those songs on Sea Change it's about time we played here!
Online BH magazine Talking Heads has the contact details for bookings.

Saturday December 6
Back at The Spiegeltent, this time for the headline show with the full Large Extension Band.
More about this in the next bulletin.
Tickets on sale now from Ticketmaster.

May-June 2008

March 2008

We're thrilled that Morning In The Bowl Of Night has been named as one of the ten shortlisted albums for the third annual Australian Music Prize (The AMP), awarded to the best Australian album of 2007 as voted by a selected panel of critics, retailers and other artists. The selected releases beat out many of the biggest names in the business, so we're very proud of this achievement.

February 2008

November 2007

September 2007

July 2007

Lisa Miller Tour Dates For July 2007:

Wed July 11
The Clarendon Guesthouse, Katoomba NSW
68 Lurline Street Katoomba
A wonderful intimate venue in the Blue Mountains. This is about as close as you can get to the artists performing short of coming around to Lisa's kitchen. Accommodation, good food and wine available, so you can stumble up to bed right after the show! Or, as this is an early show, you can drive home afterwards and still be in bed on time...
Book your table at the Clarendon now on 02 4782 1322 or click here to book online.

Thu July 12

2SER Presents Lisa Miller at The Basement, Sydney
29 Reiby Place, Circular Quay
With special guests Roger Loves Betty featuring Jodi Phillis and Tim Oxley (The Clouds, Dearhunters etc.), and Lisa and the band will be joined by a surprise celebrity bass player!
Show starts at 9:30pm, for bookings call The Basement on 02 9251 2797 or click here to book online. Tickets also available at all Moshtix outlets.

Sat July 14
Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
301 High St, Northcote.
With very special guests, our old cohorts Matt Walker & Ashley Davies.
For bookings call NSC on 03 9486 1677 or click here to book online. This show is selling fast, so hurry!

Sun July 22
The Wheatsheaf, Adelaide
Show starts 4pm (2 sets)
Lisa performs in Adelaide about as often as Aretha Franklin, so come on you croweaters, don't miss this opportunity. "The Wheaty" was recommended to us by The Audreys as the perfect place for Lisa to play in Adelaide, and it looks like they might be right - open fires, regional beers on tap and dozens of single malt whiskies... definitely have to rethink that plan to drive home overnight...

May 2007

Hope you can make it! We're really looking forward to finally launching the new album, which will be released in stores on April 21.

The venue is intimate and beautiful, my Whole Large Band will all squeeze in, and I'm thrilled and amazed that Reg and Pete from Dog Trumpet are coming down especially from Sydney to kick off the shows.

For those that have never heard of The Toff - you're forgiven. It's brand spanking new, in the same building that houses Cookie (the bar), it's opposite The Lounge, and more or less upstairs from The Shaft Cinema!

RRR Presents Lisa Miller launching "Morning In The Bowl Of Night" at The Toff In Town, Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street Melbourne on Thursday May 10 and Friday May 11.
Special guests for both shows are Dog Trumpet from Sydney.

March 2007

February 2007

November 2006

May 2006

Lisa is making a fly-by-night surprise visit to Perth with Shane O'Mara to play at the Fly By Night Musicians Club in Fremantle on Thursday May 4 2006. Apart from a show supporting Nick Cave there way back in 1998 (and an instore appearance at 78's Records that was attended mainly by sweaty goths hoping for a glimpse of His Darkness), this is first time ever that Lisa has performed in the world's most remote capital.

Coming along for the trans-continental ride will be Rebecca Barnard, who apart of course from being married to Shane has her own wonderful new album just out. Fortified features an amazing array of guests (not that Rebecca needs any help), including Lisa Miller. Go get it!

Lisa and Rebecca will be taking turns singing their own songs, helping each other out with some backing vocals and sympathetic strumming, and no doubt making twice as many wisecracks at Shane's expense as usual. If you just happen to live in the west, or plan to be in the west on that date, please come along. If you know people over there, please urge them to go - it will probably be another eternity before Lisa gets back there again!

Dec 2005

7 October 2005
Yes, we know, this page is terribly out of date. Sorry. We'll try and update it soon.
But if you haven't looked here before, there's a bit to read....

17 August 2005
Another few months have passed, and finally we get a chance to bring this hoary old page more or less up to date. It's been a quite time, so you haven't missed much. Lisa has done the odd gig in and around Melbourne, but nothing outside the state. A few things we mentioned previously have come to fruition: Look Both Ways is in cinemas now and getting a really good response. There is a soundtrack available which has the new version of Eleven on it that was re-recorded especially for the film. Although Lisa worked on a few things with composer Amanda Brown, this is the only song that ended up in the film, as the producers wanted to have a variety of different artists represented. Nonetheless, apparently the song is used in a pretty key moment in the film. Please go and see it, if for no other reason than to support a really good new Australian film. The Dig Blues Project CD has in fact now been released, and Lisa's version of Red Cross Store has been getting quite a bit of airing on the ABC.

11 November 2004
Lisa and the band have just finished recording a spooky version of the Leadbelly song "Red Cross Store" for the ABC. The Dig Blues Project has been conceived to coincide with the "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues" series of films, which had recent theatrical release, and will be broadcast on ABC-TV in the next few months. Several Australian artists - we're not sure who all the others are, but we know that Machine Translations and Stephen Cummings are amongst those involved - have contributed tracks. The project was no doubt inspired by the fabulous soundtrack to the Wim Wenders episode of the series ("Soul Of A Man"), which features interpretations from a wide range of artists, including Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Lucinda Williams and Los Lobos. We're not sure exactly what plans the ABC has with these recordings - no doubt they will get plenty of airing on Dig internet radio in the months to come - it would be great to see a CD released.

18 October 2004
Lisa has been working with composer Amanda Brown (of Go-Betweens fame) on the soundtrack to a new Australian film entitled "Look Both Ways", the debut feature by Melbourne director Sarah Watt. We've seen a rough cut, and it's an understated but really strong film about the big things in life, and an ideal setting for Lisa's music.

14 October 2004
Lisa has been nominated for two 2004 ARIA awards, for Best Female Artist, and for best Adult Contemporary Album (for Version Originale). This brings to 6 the total number of ARIAs Lisa has been nominated for, and the third time nominated in the Best Female Artist category. In fact she's cracked the top 5 with each of her last 3 albums: in 1999 with As Far As A Life Goes, 2002 for Car Tape, and now this one. And once again she's the only nominee without the backing of a major label, which is a remarkable achievement.

Well it's been a strange old year, and this page has been pretty obviously neglected these past months ... anyway please enjoy reading some rather old news below. Maybe one of these days we'll fill you in on 2004. Info on Lisa's live shows can be found on the LIVE page.

July 2004

Dec 2003