It’s been a little while between drinks for Philadelphia Grand Jury ( The Philly Jays for short). Their first two tracks ‘ Going To The Casino (Tomorrow Night) ‘ and ‘ Ready To Roll’ stormed across the radio waves and internet after landing on high rotation on Triple J as well as being downloaded and passed between peeps an absolute sh*tload. Off the back of these tracks The Philly Jays have toured nationally 3 times and played the Big Day Out and Laneway Festivals .

Dan W Sweat plays the drums, MC Bad Genius makes the necessary noises and a guy called Berkfinger sings the songs. The band are now readying themselves for a load more touring through the end of May and early June with party boys, Bluejuice and also slamming themselves onstage at the Come Together Festival at Luna Park Sydney.

Philadelphia Grand Jury are currently putting finishing touches to a long player which you can expect to hit stores this September!

Tour Dates:
FRI 29 MAY – EAST BRUNSWICK CLUB, Melbourne W/Bluejuice
SAT 30 MAY – JIVE, Adelaide W/Bluejuice
SUN 7 JUNE – COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL, Sydney
FRI 12 JUNE – THE ZOO, Brisbane W/Bluejuice
SAT 13 JUNE – ANNANDALE HOTEL, Sydney W/Bluejuice

Check out Two Flat Whites interview with Bluejuice here .

Congratulations to the winners of Two Flat Whites Bluejuice & The Paper Scissors albums giveaway. The albums will be posted to you shortly. Don’t forget to catch one of the gigs on their ‘Less Talk, More Problems Tour’ around Australia.

M.Cameron – Gordon, NSW
P.Hamilton – Richmond, VIC
F.Moore – Rockhampton, QLD
C.Amorello – East St Kilda, VIC
R.Dalton – Northwood, NSW
B.Hunter – Warrimoo, NSW
A.Langford – Sydney, NSW
B.Trace – Esperance, WA
G.Payne – Ashfield, NSW
B.Hayes – Annandale, NSW
L.Hopner – Brunswick, VIC
A.Carpenter – Kiama, NSW

As part of Two Flat Whites ‘Mega Month of May Giveaways’ & our first birthday celebrations, two of our favourite bands have joined the party. Two of Australia’s most talented emerging bands have embarked on a national tour called ‘The Less Talk, More Problems Tour’. Bluejuice & The Paper Scissors will be playing near you!

To win one of twelve albums from the bands, go to the below links & check out their tour dates & latest songs. All you have to do to win an album from Bluejuice or The Paper Scissors is to email your name & full address to info & tell us your favourite song. It’s that easy!

The Paper Scissors tour dates & songs

Bluejuice tour dates & songs

So get emailing to win one of The Paper Scissors or Bluejuice albums. Don’t forget to check out one of there gigs on there ‘Less Talk, More Problems Tour’. Entries close Saturday, 10th May 2008. Winners will be published the next day on Two Flat Whites.

Hailing from Sydney, post-indie/soul four-piece, ‘The Paper Scissors’ first hit the national limelight in 2006 when their track ‘We Don’t Walk’ from their ‘The Paper Scissors EP’ which was picked up by FBI, JJJ and Rage. Their burgeoning reputation for frenetic, crowd-friendly, loud and tumultuous live shows, saw them hit stages nationwide with the release in 2007, of their debut LP ‘Less Talk, More Paper Scissors’ which assured their rapidly ascending position, both at home and abroad. If you haven’t heard The Paper Scissors, do yourself a favour & buy a copy of there album. This is one of Two Flat Whites favourite bands!

If you sign an autograph what do you write? And where do you call home?

I’m always confused as what to write on an autograph. I try to avoid ‘keep rocking’ or ‘keep on keeping on’, so usually just stick with ‘thanks heaps’ or if I have enough time to have a chat I will personalize it a bit more.

In your own words, what do you do?

I sing and play guitar in the paper scissors, I am the main songwriter and co run Our First Label, our label, as well as doing most of the web based stuff and the graphic design. I work in a café a few days a week to pay my rent.

Childhood Memories:

TV Show – Mr Squiggle. Loved that show, it was pretty weird and psychedelic, but at the same time creative.

Hobby – Was always drawing/painting, playing drums, also played cricket when I was a wee whipper snapper and basketball when I was a slightly larger child.

Food – Grew up with pretty wholesome hippy food. Was always good though, vegetarian food can go so wrong, but my mum is pretty good at it. Food and cooking have always been a pretty important part of my life, some of the best conversations I’ve had have been with my mum when cooking dinner together.

Fear – I always had this irrational fear that I’d get home from school and my family would be gone. Just packed up and left. I’m not sure what that’s all about.

People – Lots of musicians around all the time. I remember waking up and wanting to go back to bed because everyone would be hanging out and playing music and stuff.

Defining moment – When my parents won a lawnmower in a raffle, they then sold the lawnmower and bought me my first proper drum kit.

Schooling memories, chore or cherished?

Primary pretty cherished, went to a community school with only 50 kids, lots of music and drama and art and no uniform or homework. High school was a chore for the first few years, lots of big scary kids who I didn’t like and they reciprocated the feeling. Then moved to Byron Bay in year 9 and it all went much better then, back to art and drama and photos and music.

From the hours of 9am to 5pm, what do you get up too?

Either working in café or working on The Paper Scissors’ stuff. Lately working on our tour with Bluejuice.

Where can people see you perform?

With Bluejuice, somewhere near you.

For love or money?

HA HAHAHAH!!!! Well we’re definitely not making any money, it is for the love.
It’s all worth it when things go right and the audience gives the love back!

The Paper Scissors with Bluejuice

What future endeavors are in the pipeline?

New songs, new remixes & new clips. I’m going to record an EP as Pork Pies, my solo incarnation.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Making music, in love, making art, writing, not working a day job, maybe living in another country for a while & learning another language.

If you could invite 3 people to chat over coffee, who would they be & why?

Darondo (he’s this 70’s soul star, he was a pimp, then went on to have a music career and
a TV show, he is doing come back shows in the US at the moment, he is hilarious, look him up on YouTube), ahhhh….

Bowie, because I would like to meet him and suck his brain, and maybe Julian Barrett from the mighty boosh, because I reckon he’d be cool and could talk about music for hours. But I would give you a different answer tomorrow. I think my friends would give me just as good a conversation though.

Coffee or Tea?

Tea. I love coffee, but if I had to choose one forever, it’d be tea. There is so much comfort in tea and so much more time. Coffee is more like a really pop song, where tea is like a whole great album.

Two Flat Whites recently interviewed one of Australia’s premier emerging bands ‘Bluejuice’. They are roaming around the country on a massive tour spanning 6 states & 2 territories for the ‘ Less Talk, More Problems Tour ’. Bluejuice were recently shortlisted for ‘The Amp 2007 awards’ & have just released a new single titled ‘The Reductionist’. Do yourself a favour & catch one of there gigs!

If you sign an autograph what do you write?

“Hey Dave/Baz/Phil/Shane-O – we love how you aggressively ask for autographs. Do you want to punch me in the face or have sex with me? It’s hard to tell. Love bluejuice xxx”

And where do you call home?

East Sydney.

In your own words, what do you do?

Bask daily in my middle class good fortune. Walk the dog along the waterfront. Sometimes go to work. Quaff $23 bottles of red, and eat fromage d’affinois on pepper-seeded lavosh. Read Dostoevsky and books about foreign conflicts so I have something to say at my next civilised soiree. Occasionally slum it and play ‘music’ in a ‘band’.

Childhood Memories:

TV Show – Punky Brewster. And so began my infatuation with brunettes. Or maybe that was because of Astro Boy.

Hobby – Commodore Amiga: How I miss you so.

Food – Nonna’s gnocchi. Cannot be beaten.

Fear – Going to see “Caravan of Courage” at the movies with my brother when I was 4. Scared the f^%# out of me. And, looking back, it makes me wonder what my brother was doing watching an Ewok movie at 14 years of age. What a poonce.

People – I was probably more infuriating to people as a child. Whereas now people are more infuriating to me.

Defining moment – Waking up in my own vomit after too much Easter chocolate.

Schooling memories, chore or cherished?

I went to school with Ned and Jake, who are also in bluejuice. I didn’t know them that well at school, whereas now I know every horrible detail of their maniacal existences. I cherish those memories of school… so blissfully ignorant.

From the hours of 9am to 5pm, what do you get up too?

I have 3 jobs, so it varies. Be rest assured most of those hours are spent procrastinating in front of a screen of some description.

Where can people see you perform?

From mid April they can see us all round Australia. Check your local thingy for details.

For love or money?

I believe the natural cycle is love, then money, then love again. Currently we’re in it only for the money. I get paid for this interview, right?

What future endeavors are in the pipeline?

Write a couple more songs for our next album. Record that album later this year. Release that album next year. Repeat ad infinitum.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Probably exactly where I am now, just with less hair and more knife wounds on my face.

If you could invite 3 people to chat over coffee, who would they be & why?

Any Fender employee. I don’t understand what all the switches on my new guitar do.

R.L. Burnside. He killed a guy, lived as a sharecropper most of his life, had about 100 children before becoming a reasonably well-known bluesman for 10 years and then he died. He probably wouldn’t want a coffee though.

The Dalai Lama. Just to show I’m not a one-dimensional music nerd. I’d ask him what it was like to work with Brad Pitt in that movie.

Coffee or Tea?

Tea in the a.m. Coffee in the p.m.

Two of Australia’s premier emerging acts, Bluejuice & The Paper Scissors have officially announced a massive co headline Australian tour. Covering 6 states, 2 territories and 1 hemisphere, The ‘Less Talk, More Problems’ Tour will see both bands tread the boards together throughout April / May 2008. Bluejuice and the Paper Scissors are two great independent Sydney bands with shiny new debut albums in their cabinets, and this tour is set to be a two-month-long party across the whole of the country.

Recently shortlisted for The Amp 2007 awards , it’s been nothing short of a phenomenal few months for Sydney’s punk hoppers bluejuice. Vitriol ,
the 1st single from their debut album ‘Problems’ (Rolling Stone) was the 2nd most played song on triple J in 2007, scored #11 in triple J’s ‘Hottest 100 2007’ , was one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 100 tracks of 2007 and the Australian iTunes ‘Single Of The Week’ during January 2008. Currently pushing 50,000 YouTube views , the Vitriol video also took out the highly coveted top spot in the nationwide ‘Sunscreen Music Video Competition’.

New single The Reductionist has been on high rotation on JJJ for over 2 months. Rage placed the clip 3rd cab off the rank for its national debut on Jan 25th and continues to air it in poll position.  Rage also made The Reductionist their ‘Indie Clip of The Week’ feature w/c Jan 28th.

Also hailing from Sydney, post-indie/soul four-piece The Paper Scissors first hit the national limelight in 2006 when their track We Don’t Walk from their ‘The Paper Scissors EP’ was picked up by FBI, JJJ and Rage. The success of We Don’t Walk in combination with their burgeoning reputation for frenetic, crowd-friendly, loud and tumultuous live shows, saw them hit stages nationwide with the likes of Midnight Juggernauts, Datarock, Patrick Wolf and at festivals such as Falls, Southbound and The Great Escape.

Released in 2007, their debut LP ‘Less Talk, More Paper Scissors’ assured their rapidly ascending position, both at home and abroad. The Sydney Morning Herald proclaimed of their first single: “Yamanote Line is the best song ever written. Truly”. The Sydney Magazine named ‘Less Talk…’ Album Of The Month for Oct ’07, RRR placed it in their Top 10, and PBS and FBi made it their Album Of The Week. With triple J placing Yamanote Line on high rotation, 2007 saw the band crisscrossing the country, further cementing legions of converted with what the Herald Sun called their “Growling brilliance”.