Our single launch last month was reviewed on FasterLouder.com.au.  Here’s a bit of what they had to say about the night:

Turn the tables once again, and main act Montpelier offer yet more points of difference on the musical smorgasbord of the evening. Fresh from a recording stint in Hollyweird, the Brisbane four-piece are a tight and polished pop-rock outfit seemingly from another time and place. This was no polyester-shirt, horn-rimmed glasses, shoe-gazing affair, but unadulterated melodic soaring, backed by some superb uplifting harmonising. Guitarist Dave Butler kicked off the vocal duties, but spent most of the evening wonderfully harmonising below bassist Greg Chiapello’s heart-on-the-sleeve singing style. Drummer John Pickering’s staccato rhythms provided a necessary counter-point early on and significantly lightened the mood in some of the darker moments. Nearing the set’s end, new singles The Rafters and Fireworks were treated to a slight re-working with Larsen joining them onstage for a little extra guitar and vocal kick. With keyboardist Andrew Stone strapping on a piano accordion, the two offerings were clear indications of this band’s ambitions to make memorable, fit-for-the-moment epic rock. The apt rise and fall of Last Boat Out To See You, with its nautical theme and interesting back-story, perfectly illustrated the intelligence and warmth Montpelier bring to their sound and whetted the appetite for more things to come.

Thanks for the review BrisJamin.  Check out the full article online here:

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/21975/Montpelier-Tin-Can-Radio-Stu-Larsen-and-Lydia-Cole–The-Troubadour-Brisbane-151209-.htm

What a way to finish the year!  We had such an amazing time on this tour.  Thank you to everyone who made it special: the bands, the crowds, owners of the couches we slept on, Michael the best taxi driver ever.  Here’s three minutes worth.  See you on the road again next year!

Thanks to the wonderful people at Musicadium, Montpelier’s two single releases are now available to purchase from iTunes.  Click here to visit Montpelier in the iTunes store.  While you’re there, if you’ve got a second, it’d be very much appreciated if you rated and reviewed the tracks.  Reviews and ratings help other people find our songs while they’re searching iTunes.  Thanks friends!

Next month we’ll be releasing a new single. More about all that soon. Oooo, anticipation.

In the meantime…

Yesterday we shot photos for the new release. I must say, photo shoots can go a couple of ways in terms of enjoyment. In other words, they can either be fun or incredibly awkward and boring and not fun. There’s not usually a middle ground. Yesterday was definitely the most fun we’ve had on a shoot. We had this old camera that we smashed up, and that was fun. And then it happened to be free Slurpee day (7/11 was yesterday), which was also good. We had a whole bunch of awesome people come along and help out. It was great.

Our photographer yesterday, Andrew Tallon, is a really talented young guy who has a very good eye for catching cool moments. Check out some of his other stuff here: http://www.andrewtallon.com.au/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewtallon/. Thanks Tal!! Also we want to massively thank Hannah, Rob and Jez for coming along and helping out. You guys are cool.

Oh, yeah. And here are the shots.