Flap! Flying High
International Tour
Check this out! during June, July and August FLAP! are embarking on a massive international tour, with shows around Australia (including The Basement in Sydney, The Hifi in Melbourne and The Beetle Bar in Brisbane) and around Europe (including shows at The Latitude, Edinburgh Fringe, and Boomtown Festivals in the UK, and shows in France and Denmark). check out the gigs page for more details. We’ll see you at show near you!
We’ve got a few shows coming up on the other side of the river coming up this weekend before we start our “Flap! Flying High – International Tour”. Come see Flap! play as part of The Stonnington Jazz Festival at The Malvern Town Hall on Saturday May 18th with our favourite band in the world The Hoodangers (www.hoodangers.com). — Check out Stonnington Jazz website for details tickets and times etc.www.stonningtonjazz.com.au
Flap! are pleased to announce that they have won The Australian Jazz Bell Award for Best Traditional Jazz Album (thanks to the judges for having a generously broad definition of the words ‘traditional’ and ‘jazz’. This is a photo of Flap! with our man from Brand Partners (who sponsored the award and to whose chequebook we are eternally grateful.) Speaking of cheques, check out the Bell Awards Website – there was a lot of great folk winning the other awards – Marc Hannaford, Steve Magnusson, David Ades and Steve Barry amongst others. — www.bellawards.org
Flap!’s next show is on April 5th, at The Caravan Club, in the Oakleigh RSL, 95-97 Drummond Street, Oakleigh Victoria. Tix are available here: www.caravanmusic.com.au/
with support from The Tijuana Peanut, things kick-off at 8:30pm.
See Gigs for all upcoming shows.
We’ve got a show coming up at THE NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8th. It’s a double header with the inestimable MIKELANGELO & THE TIN STARR.
Tickets available at from The Northcote Social Club
See Gigs for all upcoming shows.
FLAP! – “A Great Day For The Race” European Tour
July-August 2012
Friday, June 29 & Saturday June 30 River Boat Jazz Fest, Silkeborg (DK)
tickets available at www.riverboat.dk
Saturday, June 30 Skive Jazz Club, Skive (DK)
tickets available at www.skivejazzklub.dk
Sunday, July 1 Fusion Festival, Lärz (DE)
tickets available at www.fusion-festival.de
Monday, July 2 Haus Der Sinne, Berlin (DE)
tickets available at hausdersinneberlin.de
Tuesday, July 3 Cotton Club Jazz Club, Hamburg (DE)
tickets available at www.cotton-club.de
Friday, July 6 Nibe Festival, Nibe (DK)
tickets available at www.nibefestival.dk
Saturday, July 7-8 Skagen Festival, Skagen (DK)
tickets available at www.skagenfestival.dk
Wednesday, July 11 Charlie Scotts, Copenhagen (DK)
tickets available at www.charliescotts.com
Friday, July 13 Hootenanny, Brixton (UK)
tickets available at www.hootanannybrixton.co.uk
Saturday, July 14 Marlborough Jazz Festival, Marlborough (UK)
tickets available at www.marlboroughjazz.com
Sunday, July 15, Rook Lane Chapel (part of The Frome Festival), Frome (UK)
tickets available at www.fromefestival.co.uk
Thursday, Julys 19 Prince of Wales, Birmingham (UK)
with support from The Bonfire Radicals
Friday, July 20, Port Eliot Writers Festival, Port Eliot (UK)
tickets available at www.porteliotfestival.com
Saturday, July 21-22 Secret Garden Party, Huntingdon (UK)
tickets might be available at www.secretgardenparty.com
Tuesday, Julys 24 Milton Keynes International Festival, (UK)
tickets available here or visit www.ifmiltonkeynes.org
Wednesday, Julys 25 The Croft, Bristol (UK)
tickets available at www.the-croft.com
Tuesday, Julys 31, Pleasure Gardens, London (UK)
tickets available at www.londonpleasuregardens.com
Thursday, Augusts 2 & Friday, August 3 Femø Jazz Fest, Femø (DK)
tickets available at www.femoejazz.dk
Saturday, August 4, Woodstock Café, Christiania (DK)
entry is free!
Thursday, Augusts 9 till Sunday August 12, Silda Jazz Festival, Haugesund (NO)
tickets available at www.sildajazz.no/
Tuesday, August 13 till Sunday, August 19 ‘Famous’ Speigeltent – Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh (UK)
tickets available at http://www.arfringe.com/show/105/Flap-Live/
Flap! have recently launched their newest single “Rock in Space”. Flap!’s first release since 2009, “Rock in Space” speaks of war, peace, love and astrophysics with frivolity and charm.
Buy “Rock in Space” here at Vitamin Records or on iTunes.
A fiery yet charming five piece band of brass, guts, words and skins who crank out up-tempo songs, turning ordinary shoes into dancing ones.
From Melbourne, Australia, Flap! play original music that is both old and new, inspired by the entire human diaspora. Influences from 1920’s jazz, Gypsy brass, English Folk and Trinidadian Calypso can be heard peeping through their antipodean veneer.
From major festivals, to grotty pubs, Flap! have audiences smiling and dancing wherever and whenever they play.
Formed during an informal jam at the 2007 Port Fairy Folk Festival (Victoria, Australia) and playing their first gig at the Woodstock Cafe at Christiania, Copenhagen that same year, Flap! have since become Festival favourites all across Australia. Performing at the 2008 Port Fairy Folk Festival, and the 2009 Apollo Bay Festival where they wowed the crowds, and got them off their fold-up chairs and on their feet dancing, The Tarerer Festival, The Melbourne International Jazz Festival, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Rainbow Serpent Festival, The Brunswick Music Festival, The Thredbo Jazz Festival, Falls Festival, The Woodford Folk Festival, The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, The National Folk Festival, The Tasmanian Circus Festival and heaps of other gigs to happy punters all over Melbourne and Australia. Their self-titled Debut CD was released in late 2008.
