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My Friend The Chocolate Cake To Release Limited Edition Live Album

by Paul Cashmere on April 10, 2014

in Live,New Music,News

My Friend The Chocolate Cake will release a limited edition live record only available for sale at their gigs or online at their Bandcamp.

The album ‘Best Cake In Show’ features previously unheard live performances of both rare tracks and the favourites from the band’s catalogue over the past 25 years. The 16 tracks from ‘Best Cake In Show’ were all recorded over the past 10 years.

““We begin sparse and slow… divide the set into up songs, down songs, up instrumentals down instrumentals, old songs, new songs…it’s a binary thing,” says founder David Bridie.

Bridie formed My Friend The Chocolate Cake in 1989 with Helen Mountfort as a side project to their band Not Drowning Waving. They have taken My Friend The Chocolate Cake all over the world.

“Since 1989 from Brunswick via Edinburgh, Hanoi, Cork, South Carolina and all the great cities of Australia and regional centres…tents, outdoor settings, churches, pubs, clubs, RSLs, workers clubs, theatres … The band formed out of live gigs at Madigans, an old Druids hall that felt like a living room… fire place, grand piano, op shop furniture. This shaped our sound and performance. We love our audience, they give instant feedback just by the expressions on their faces… couples who have fallen in love, buried their parents, travelled through Europe, had kids, done the dishes using the Cake’s songs as their soundtrack. It means a lot to us,” David said.

‘Best Cake In Show’ is available at My Friend The Chocolate Cake’s Bandcamp or at the shows.

My Friend The Chocolate Cake tour dates

May 4, Adelaide, Church Of The trinity
May 31, Melbourne, The Substation
June 7, Melbourne, Caravan Music Club
June 14, Brisbane, The New Globe Theatre
June 15, Sydney, The Basement

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