MOONLOVER RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘WEDDING DAY’ AND ANNOUNCES SOLO EAST COAST TOUR DATES

 
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“what a deliriously delightful trip into the surreal the album is” – Pilerats

“It’s pop music, certainly – but has the self-awareness that it doesn’t want to be too obvious about it.” – The Music

Melbourne psychedelic pop songsmith MOONLOVER is stoked to release the video for‘Wedding Day’ – the latest of a string of videos taken from his acclaimed debut albumThou Shall Be Free. The ‘Wedding Day’ video was animated and produced byMoonlover – aka the solo project of Quang Dinh, formerly of Little Red – himself, and was released this morning together with the announcement of four solo shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart kicking off later this month.
 

Watch the video for ‘Wedding Day’ here. Moonlover is touring throughout August and September, full details below.

 
‘Wedding Day’ stylistically pays homage to 50s pop with clean arpeggio guitars, close harmonies, Leonard Cohen-esque lyric and Beach Boys-esque flow that’s built to slow dance to. On the ‘Wedding Day’ video, Moonlover explains, “After making ‘The Ooiee’ film clip and handling the animation of the ‘Queen of Sheba’ clip, I set out to make a fully animated clip for ‘Wedding Day’. I figured DIY or die. I was inspired by the work of Lotte Reiniger, who pioneered silhouette animation. I drew some stuff, cut shapes out of cards, scanned a few things and then manipulated it and animated it.” And that he did, the visuals swimming between butterflies flying from open books, a thoughtful letter being composed, hiding from the rain and lovers kissing under wedding bells.
 
This will be the fifth video taken from Moonlover’s debut Thou Shall Be Free, following visual accompaniments to ‘The Ooiee’, ‘Queen of Sheba’, ‘Thou Shall be Free’ and latest ‘Lazy Daisy’. Thou Shall Be Free takes the listener on a daring journey through 10 eclectic songs born from dreams, the subconscious and Dinh's hermitic winters. It’s the kind of complete record that tells stories through the fantasy of surreal psychedelic songs across to the great reveal of romance. The entirety of the album was recorded, produced and performed by Moonlover in his personal oasis Pink Slime Studios, sharing impressive recording credits with John Lee (Lost Animal, Beaches, Emma Russack) who was on mixing duties, with mastering by Joe Carra (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Courtney Barnett, Eddy Current Suppression Ring).
 
Moonlover has played a plethora of shows in recent months, including supporting Angel Olsen, Saskwatch and Cloud Control, plus festival slots at Gizzfest and Changes Festival. As with any Moonlover set, audiences are taken through a cascade of batty psychedelia, midnight moon pop and water ballads led by Dinh's characteristic whimsical charm, freeblowing harmonica and untempered croon. These solo shows will seeMoonlover perform songs from his debut album, plus new and unreleased music. 

MOONLOVER SOLO TOUR

Thursday, August 16 | The Dock
Sydney
w/ Swansea Hit and Run
FREE SHOW

Friday, August 17 | The House Dining
Sydney
FREE SHOW

Wednesday, August 22 | Junk Bar
w/ Tiarne and Jo Davie
Brisbane
TICKETS HERE

Saturday August 25 | Some Velvet Morning
w/ Dave Western
Melbourne
FREE SHOW

Sunday, September 2 | Republic Bar
Hobart
FREE SHOW

RVG PERFORM LIVE SESSION AT BBC’S PRESTIGIOUS MAIDA VALESTUDIOS

 
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LISTEN TO THE LIVE SESSION HERE

“All I can say about this band is - listen to the lyrics” - Huw Stevens

“A Quality of Mercy has the distinct whiff of future classic about it”
– Graeme Thomson, Uncut Magazine

Four-time AIR Award nominated post-punk band RVG have made their debut in the historic BBC Maida Vale Studios in London for Huw Stevens show on BBC Radio 1. Performing a three-song session with tracks taken from their critically acclaimed debut A Quality of Mercy, Melbourne’s RVG join the list of artists who have recorded inside the prestigious studios, which doubles up as the home of the BBCSymphony Orchestra, alongside the likes of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and Oasis, and recent contemporaries Haim, Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine.

Listen to RVG in session at BBC’s Maida Vale Studios here.

The live session shows RVG in all their glory as they tear through ‘A Quality of Mercy’ – with a sneaky lyric swap to hit the UK audiences – ‘I Used to Love You’ and ‘That’s All’ with unrelenting passion and power. The session was recorded whilst RVG were on tour in the UK and Europe for a second time this year throughout July. As well as shows in London, including an instore at the iconic Rough Trade East,RVG performed incredible festival sets at Roskilde Festival in Denmark, Festival Les Escales on the west coast of France, plus a string of headline shows across the rest of England and France.


RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums), known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band. The eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of self discovery, falling in love with a computer and the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Earlier this year, RVG headed overseas for the first time to showcase at SXSW and The Great Escape festivals before touring across Europe with UK buzz band Shame, and subsequently signed with Fat Possum who re-released their debut album A Quality of Mercy in the UK at the start of July.

You can catch RVG live at WinterWild in Apollo Bay later this month, and Kyneton Music Festival in October. Romy will be in conversation with Rob Snarski as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival Duets series this year, and at Melbourne Festival as a special guest as part of 16 Lovers Lane.

RVG live at Maida Vale Studio // photo credit Trish Yourkevitch

RVG live at Maida Vale Studio // photo credit Trish Yourkevitch

UPCOMING RVG SHOWS

Saturday, August 11 | Winter Wild
Apollo Bay, Victoria
TICKETS HERE

Sunday, September 2 | Melbourne Writer's Festival*
Duets: Rob Snarski & Romy Vager
Melbourne, Victoria
TICKETS HERE

Saturday October 6 | Melbourne Festival*
16 Lovers Lane
Melbourne, Victoria
TICKETS HERE

Saturday, October 27 | Kyneton Music Festival
Kyneton, Victoria
TICKETS HERE


*solo shows

RVG announce details of UK release of their debut album 'A Quality of Mercy'

 
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Line of Best Fit premieres stream of 'Vincent Van Gogh' to UK audiences,announces release date of AQOM through Fat Possum

Following the recent announcement of their signing to Fat Possum Records, Melbourne's RVG have shared details of the UK release of their debut album A Quality of Mercy, which is out on Friday July 6th 2018. Read about it here

Originally self-released in Australia last year (and re-released through Our Golden Friend/Island Records), the concise 8-track album has a stark, raw intensity to it, recorded live off the floor, at iconic rock'n'roll pub The Tote and while leaning on the band's heroes - the Go-Betweens, the Soft Boys, the Smiths - these are songs that never sound like homage or pastiche hitting that sweet spot between light and dark, employing guitars both angular and jangling.

Having previously shared the title track of the album just prior to their breathtaking shows at this year'sGreat Escape Festival, the band have now unveiled the album track Vincent Van Gogh.

RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums) and known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band.

Their songs, which already sound like classics, traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, isolation and lonliness, falling in love with a computer and the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row and are played with wit, compassion, and commitment, evident in singer Romy's delivery.

All of the songs on A Quality of Mercy find Vager trying to move beyond ego, beyond the simple confessional of the songwriter, hoping to find perspective on both world and self. In such, these songs are at once personal and universal, intimate and grang, timely and timeless. And there's eight of them, adding up to a perfectly formed debut that says so much, yet gets out in under half-an-hour.

FInally, RVG made their debut in Europe supporting Shame in May of this year and later at this year'sGreat Escape Festival where they played a handful of astonishing performances, and they return to the UK in July.

Grab your copy of A Quality of Mercy here

UPCOMING RVG SHOWS

Wednesday, July 4 | The Tote
Our Golden Friend Showcase @ Changes
TICKETS HERE

Saturday, July 7 | Roskilde Festival
Roskilde, Denmark
TICKETS HERE

Monday, July 9 | Shacklewell Arms
London, UK
TICKETS HERE

Wednesday, July 25 | Grand Parc
Bordeaux, France
w/ The Liminanas and XYZ
TICKETS HERE

Thursday, July 26 | Theatre de la Mer
Sete, France
w/ Pete Doherty and Sugar & Tiger
TICKETS HERE

Friday July 27 - Friday July 28 | Festival Les Escales
Saint Nazaire, France
TICKETS HERE

Saturday, August 11 | Winter Wild
Apollo Bay, Victoria
TICKETS HERE

TOTALLY MILD SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR 'TAKE TODAY' + ANNOUNCE TOUR SUPPORTS

 
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TOTALLY MILD SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR 'TAKE TODAY'
PREMIERING NOW ON PILERATS

Announce stack of supports for national album tour
including Jaala, Spike Vincent, HTMLflowers,
s>c>r>a>p>s> and more

Check it out here

"A shining talisman for the heartbroken."
Pitchfork

"Engorged, engaged, empowered bedroom sulk music." 
The Guardian

"Sweet, harmony-rich, pointedly concise jangle-pop."
NPR

"Skewed pop gold."
Noisey

"An ethereal voice...lovely songs and just-so jangly arrangements."
BrooklynVegan

Fresh from headlining a packed show at the Melbourne Museum over the weekend and in the midst of touring with Belle & Sebastian, Totally Mild have today shared the video for single 'Take Today', premiering now on Pilerats. Check it out here.

Filmed and cut together by leading lady Elizabeth Mitchell, the video shows Totally Mild's journey over the past two and a half years - a visual love letter to the band and all of the adventures they have been on in Australia and overseas. 

Liz says of the video: "This video is a special treat, a Totally Mild retrospective.The good, the bad and the hysterical. It’s behind the scenes footage from past tours and from the recording of Her, featuring the romances and breakdowns that happened in the background of those times.”

'Take Today' comes from their recent album Her, a beguiling collection of songs that the band will be touring around the country later this month. Totally Mild have invited a veritable party's worth of friends to join them on the road, with a different bill in every city and special guests including Jaala, HTMLflowers and Spike Vincent. Details below. 

TOTALLY MILD
HER
AUSTRALIAN ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR

Thursday, May 24 | Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane QLD
with s>c>r>a>p>s>, Orlando furious
TICKETS HERE

Thursday, May 25 | Union Hotel, Sydney NSW
with Spike Vincent, Jack Colwell
FREE SHOW

Friday, May 26 | Howler, Melbourne VIC
with Jaala, HTMLflowers, Sweet Whirl
TICKETS HERE

Thursday, May 31 | Mojo's, Fremantle WA
with Telete, Terrible Signal
TICKETS HERE

Friday, June 1 | Prince Of Wales, Bunbury WA
with Erasers, Terrible Signal
TICKETS HERE

Saturday, June 2 | The Bird, Perth WA
with The Bird Flossy, Oosterbanger
DOOR SALES ONLY

Wednesday, June 6 | Crown & Anchor, Adelaide SA
with Fair Maiden, Wing Defence
FREE SHOW

RVG sign to Fat Possum Records (UK/EU) and announce their first U.K. release!

 
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RVG SIGN TO FAT POSSUM RECORDS (UK/EU)

Melbourne's RVG are thrilled to announce their signing to Fat Possum Records (UK/EU), who will be releasing their debut UK track, A Quality Of Mercy, on clear 12” vinyl on Friday 25th May 2018.

The exciting announcement of the Fat Possum signing comes just days before the band head overseas for their UK/European debut, supporting Shame on their 10 date tour, as well as supporting US Girls in London and showcasing at The Great Escape in Brighton!

Prior to jetting off RVG will play two very special shows; a headline show at The Curtin on Thursday May 3rd with Taipan Tiger Girls and Sweet Whirl, and additionally on Friday May 4th the sublime OurGolden Friend x Melbourne Museum edition of Nocturnal with Jade Imagine, Jess Ribeiro andTotally Mild.

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RVG's astonishing debut album 'A Quality Of Mercy' borrows from the band’s heroes —the Go-Betweens, the Soft Boys, the Smiths— whilst never sounding like homage or pastiche hitting that sweet spot between light and dark, employing guitars both angular and jangling. 

RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums) and known more formally as the Romy Vager Group – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band.

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RVG
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS

03. 05.18 - The Curtin Hotel - w/ Taipan Tiger Girls + Sweet Whirl
04. 03.18 - Melbourne Museum x Our Golden Friend 'Nocturnal' 
w/ Jade Imagine, Jess Ribeiro + Totally Mild
09.05.18 - Munich – Orangehouse - w/Shame
11.05.18 - Zurich, CH – Dynamo - w/Shame
12.05.18 - Bologna, ITL - Covo Club - w/Shame
14.05.18 - Barcelona, ES – Sidecar - w/ Shame
15.05.18 - Madrid, ES - La Boite - w/Shame
16.05.18 - London – Scala – w/US Girls
17.05.18 - Brighton - The Great Escape - ACT Live Showcase
19.05.18 - Brighton - The Great Escape  - The Aussie BBQ
19.05.18 - Brighton - The Great Escape - The Hope & Ruin
20.05.18 - Lille, FR – Aeronef - w/Shame
21.05.18 - Cologne, DE – YUCA - w/Shame
22.05.18 - Brussels,BE – Rotonde - w/ Shame
23.05.18 - Hamburg, DE – Molotow - w/ Shame
25.05.18 - Berlin, DE – Badehaus - w/ Shame

Split Singles Club Releases Are Underway!

 

SPLIT SINGLES CLUB SERIES 2
curated by Poison City Records and Our Golden Friend

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Milk! Records and Bedroom Suck Records joined forces last year with the simple aim of bringing together and documenting the community of musicians & creativity that surrounds them every day. They founded Split Singles Club, a vinyl subscription service that delivers six double-sided 7” singles to your door – with one side curated by each label. As well as featuring artists from each label’s family of artists,Split Singles Club also aimed to shine a light on some newer, upcoming bands from Australia's thriving underground.
 
Milk! and Bedroom Suck have passed the torch on to fellow Melbourne-based labels and friends Poison City Records and Our Golden Friend to curate Split Singles Club Series Two. And in what will come as no surprise, they have selected an exceptional list of artists. The 2018 edition of Split Singles Clubfeatures previously unreleased songs from Poison City artists Mere Women, Harmony, Bench Pressand MOD CON, Our Golden Friend artists RVG and 808s & Greatest Hits, plus tracks from bands that they love – Stella Donnelly, Moody Beaches, Elizabeth (Totally Mild), Michael Beach, Way Dynamicand Bitch Diesel. Each artist features once across the six 7” singles, delivered to your door over the course of three months.
 
Series Two Subscriptions are now open and are strictly limited. Sign up here

All cover artwork is a series of original collages by renowned artist Stephen Tierney.

Split Singles Club - 7" #4

HARMONY - 'Daisy Cutter'

MERE WOMEN - 'Skin'

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Split Singles Club - 7" #3

MICHAEL BEACH - ''sessin'

BITCH DIESEL - 'Power'

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Split Singles Club - 7" #2

BENCH PRESS - 'Baby Steps'
MOODY BEACHES - 'Guns'

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Split Singles Club - 7" #1

MOD CON - 'Kidney Auction Blues'
RVG - 'Asteroid (demo)'

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Still to come...

Split Singles Club - 7" #6
featuring

Stella Donnelly
Elizabeth (Totally Mild)

Split Singles Club - 7" #5
featuring

808s & Greatest Hits
Way Dynamic

Poison City is an independent record label and skateboard / record store based in Fitzroy. Founded in 2003 by Andy Hayden, Poison City is the label behind bands like Camp Cope, Cable Ties, MOD CON, Clowns, Horror My Friend, Harmony, Batpiss and more, as well as the annual Weekender Fest that takes place across multiple venues in Melbourne each September.
 
Our Golden Friend is an independent record label and management collective currently based in Thornbury. Founded in 2015 by Lorrae McKenna – who signed acts including Methyl Ethel, Courtney Barnett and Gabriella Cohen during her tenure at Remote Control – Our Golden Friend boasts exciting rosters including RVG and Moonlover on their label, and Jade Imagine, Totally Mild and Jess Ribeirofor management.
 
Series One of Split Singles Club featured tracks by Milk! co-founder Courtney Barnett and label-matesJade Imagine and Hachiku, Bedroom Suck artists Blank Realm and Dag, plus tracks from bands they love – LA Mood, Primo!, Cable Ties and more.

SPLIT SINGLES CLUB: SERIES TWO
CURATED BY POISON CITY RECORDS AND OUR GOLDEN FRIEND
Subscribe here
 

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Featuring previously unreleased music from:
Harmony | RVG | Mere Women | Stella Donnelly
Elizabeth (Totally Mild) | MOD CON | Bench Press | Bitch Diesel
Michael Beach | 808s & Greatest Hits | Moody Beaches | Way Dynamic

OUR GOLDEN FRIEND x MELBOURNE MUSEUM

 
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Our Golden Friend x Melbourne Museum team up to bring you a very special 'Nocturnal' featuring Jade Imagine, RVG, Jess Ribeiro, and Totally Mild

buy your tickets here

Melbourne label and artist management collective Our Golden Friend has teamed up with Melbourne Museum for a very special edition of Nocturnal. 

For the first time at Nocturnal, Totally Mild bring their re-imagined lounge pop to stage with delectable glamour. This alt-pop four piece are armed with dreamy yet drenched in melancholy tracks fresh from their highly-anticipated second album, Her (out now via Chapter Music).  Produced by James Cecil (Architecture in Helsinki, Super Melody) expect heart-pulling woozy ballads thanks to vocalist / guitarist and songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell, Zachary Schneider (guitar), Lehmann Smith (bass) and Dylan Young (drums). Her has been met with rave reviews, sending the band on a whirlwind USA and UK tour (including showcasing at the prestigious SXSW) and an Australian tour to follow in May and June.

Continuing the powerful vocal poignancy, Jess Ribeiro will bring to the stage compassionate self-conscious narratives, musically traversing an incredible range of genres. Her debut album Kill It Yourself(out now via Barely Dressed Records) was produced by the acclaimed Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey) and was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize in 2016, as well as earning Ribeiro two nominations in The Age Music Victoria Awards. Fresh off the heels of a successful stint at SXSW, Ribeiro is prepping to release her follow-up album later in the year.

Since performing at Nocturnal in August 2017, RVG have re-released their debut album A Quality of Mercy (out now through Our Golden Friend/Island Records) to critical acclaim and received four nominations in The Age Music Victoria Awards. Soaring even higher in 2018, they've conquered the influential SXSW Music Festival and been nominated for four AIR Music Awards.  Centred on singer-songwriter and namesake Romy Vager, this four-piece band including Reuben Bloxham, Angus Bell and Marc Nolte are back to kill it again with their witty and existential post-punk influenced rock.

Rounding out the evening will be Jade Imagine, a stalwart of the indie scene with their What The Fuck Was I Thinking (out via Milk! Records) released in April 2017.  Fronted by Jade McInally (previously Tantrums, Teeth & Tongue and Jess Ribeiro), the band currently features Liam ‘Snowy’ Halliwell (The Ocean Party) on bass, producer/guitarist Tim Harvey (Emma Louise, Real Feelings) and James Harvey (Teeth & Tongue) on drums. Along with their showcases at SXSW this year, the band has scored some exciting support slots with The Pretenders, Angel Olsen, and Benjamin Booker. 

Merging music with science and humanities, Nocturnal welcomes everyone 18+ to tour the exhibitions (with drinks in hand!), gaze upon collection treasures and speed-meet Museum experts who will be scattered across the gallery spaces. 

For those brave enough, the Museums Victoria Live Exhibits team will have on display golden silk orb-weavers and other impressive species demonstrating all-things-bling. Richard Marchant (Senior Curator, Terrestrial Invertebrates) and Simon Hinkley (Collection Manager, Terrestrial Invertebrates) share sparkly examples from the galaxy of entomology and join Dermot Henry (Deputy Director Sciences) as he showcases the geology of GOLD.  Learn how scientists use gold to scan microscopic creatures from beneath the sea with Lupita Bribiesca (PhD Student, Marine Biology) and Ricky-Lee Erickson (Assistant Collections Manager, Vertebrates) revealing golden marine invertebrates, including worms and sea stars. 

Revellers can also head downstairs to worshippers of gold in Vikings: Beyond the Legend, an exhibition from the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm which features more than 450 original artefacts telling the true story of these often-misunderstood Scandinavian celebrities. Pick up a ticket when you purchase your early bird Nocturnal ticket from the Melbourne Museum website.

Explore the entire Museum with galleries open till midnight, including the next innovative superstars from VCE and VET with Top Designs 2018, and a look at Australian fashion which has defied convention with You Can’t Do That  (presented by the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival).

Nocturnal invites guests to rediscover wide-eyed wonder, unearth stories and revel on the dance floor at Melbourne Museum.  

Nocturnal
Friday 4 May, 7pm to midnight
Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Tickets: Nocturnal - Early Bird $25 / On the Door $35 (+ bf)
Nocturnal + Vikings - Early Bird $39 / On the Door $49 (+ bf)
Discounts for concessions

Grab your tickets here: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/nocturnal//tickets/

For more information visit: museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/nocturnal/

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RVG ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE HEADLINE SHOW AT THE CURTIN BANDROOM

 
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Melbourne's RVG are today excited to announce their first Australian headline show since returning from the USA. The band will play a very special show in their hometown of Melbourne at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday 3rd of May immediately before they head overseas again this time bound for the UK & Europe. The band will be joined by special guests Taipan Tiger Girls and Sweet Whirl. With no pre-sales, you'll have to eagerly get yourself to The Curtin on May 3rd as tickets will only be available on the door.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/341512659704458/ 

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RVG took their music overseas for the first time last month at Austin's SXSW, where they undoubtedly left an impression playing gripping showcases to packed-out rooms. Continuing on with their shimmering streak, this week RVG were announced as being nominated for four AIR Awards. In less than a month the band will support UK upstarts Shame on their 13 date European tour as well as playing The Great Escape Festival in Brighton.

RVG – known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – released their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy in 2017. Self-recorded live off the floor at The Tote, and engineered by their bassist Angus Belle, the eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of being trans, falling in love with a computer, the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Each song is played with wit, compassion and commitment, evident in singer Romy’s delivery, her “fierceness, her flow, and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows” (The Guardian). The Fader called the album “a much-needed plea for kindness” with Triple R calling it “emotionally engaging”, whilst awarding their Album of the Week.

RVG signed with Our Golden Friend who re-released their album in October, which led into a much-hyped BIGSOUND set and four nominations at The Age Music Victoria Awards – for Best Album, Best Song, Best Band and Best Emerging Act. Their set at Meredith Music Festival was one of the most talked about over the weekend, and they went on to support Camp Cope, and then Future Islands, at The Forum – one of, if not the most iconic venue in Melbourne. RVG have since signed with Isla Angus at ATC Live for bookings in the UK/EU and Lucy Beach at Paradigm for North America. All this growing from a band whose first release of their debut album came with no photo, no press release, no plan.
 
Together, RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums) – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band.

RVG RECEIVE FOUR AIR AWARDS NOMINATIONS

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Praise for A Quality of Mercy

RRR Album Of The Week
PBS Feature Album
RTR FM Feature Album
"A Quality Of Mercy is a much needed plea for kindness" - The Fader

“RVG evoke 80s Australian bands that crammed garage rock cred with sun-dappled hooks, such as Sunnyboys or the Go-Betweens. What makes these songs so moving is not Vager’s voice itself but her delivery. Her fierceness, her flow and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows.”
 - Kate Hennessy, The Guardian
 
"A Quality Of Mercy, an eight-track collection of tight, incisive post-punk/retro-pop infused with a liberal dose of downcast catharsis, confessional lyrics and downright infectious hooks."
– The Music
 
"A Quality of Mercy" is the debut album from Melbourne’s RVG, led by songwriter Romy Vager: a powerful LP of emotionally engaging work that draws inspiration from post-punk and new wave pop styles.” – Simon Winkler, RRR
 
“A Quality of Mercy is the title of RVG’s gripping, post-gothic, charcoal sounding album. Television’s Marquee Moon and Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures are influencing current bands just a Rumours did three years ago”. – Mikey Cahill, The Herald Sun (listed album 7 in 10 ten albums of 2017 so far)
 
“A Quality of Mercy – the debut album from Melbourne’s RVG, is a collection of sharp, driving pop songs that draw equally from the goth palette of early 4AD and the literary proto-punk of Television.” – Who The Hell
 
“RVG deliver a world-class first release. Prepare yourself to be thrown back and feel all your feelings.” – Beth AQ, PBS Breakfast Spread

RVG have received an incredible FOUR nominations in this year's AIR Music Awards. Nominations are in the categories of Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year, Best Independent Album or EP (forA Quality of Mercy), Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy, or Punk Album (for A Quality of Mercy), andBest Independent Single (for 'A Quality of Mercy'). Winners will be announced July 26 at the Australian Independent Record Labels Association Awards Ceremony.

RVG – known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – released their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy in 2017. Self-recorded live off the floor at The Tote, and engineered by their bassist Angus Belle, the eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of being trans, falling in love with a computer, the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Each song is played with wit, compassion and commitment, evident in singer Romy’s delivery, her “fierceness, her flow, and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows” (The Guardian). The Fader called the album “a much-needed plea for kindness”  with Triple R calling it “emotionally engaging”, whilst awarding their Album of the Week.

UPCOMING RVG SHOWS
 

UK
Thursday 17 May – Great Escape Festival – Brighton UK

EUROPE
(all dates w/ Shame)
Monday 7 May  – Café V Lese, Prague, Czech Republic
Tuesday 8 May - Chelsea – Vienna, Austria
Wednesday 9 May - Orangehouse – Munich, Germany
Friday 11 May – Dynamo – Zurich, Switzerland
Saturday 12 May - Covo Club – Bologna, Italy
Monday 14 May – Sidecar – Barcelona, Spain
Tuesday 15 May - La Boite – Madrid, Spain
Sunday 20 May – Aeronef – Lille, France
Monday 21 May – YUCA – Cologne, Germany
Tuesday 22 May - Rotonde – Brussels, Belgium
Wednesday 23 May – Molotow – Hamburg, Germany
Friday 25 May - Badehaus – Berlin, Germany
Sunday 29 July - Festival Les Escales – Saint Nazaire, France