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falling joys

  • Pop masters (and mistresses) The Clouds have announced that, due to illness, the remaining dates on their current "Beautiful Nothingness" Australian tour have had to be re-scheduled for 2018. The Falling Joys will join The Clouds for these shows. Rescheduled tour dates are:
     
    Saturday 3rd February 2018 - The Triffid Brisbane
    Sunday 11th February 2018 - The Gov, Adelaide
    Friday 16th February 2018 - Croxton Bandroom, Melbourne
     
    All tickets purchased for the November shows will be valid for the new dates in February, 
  • john foy landscape

    In the early 1990s John Foy found himself in the eye of the storm enveloping the music industry.

    Foy’s independent record label, Red Eye, had done a deal with Polydor, the Australian arm of multinational company Phonogram. A sold-out at show at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion in 1991, headlined by Ratcat and featuring English band Rideand Red Eye bands The Clouds and Falling Joys, had awakened major labels to the commercial potential of the independent music scene. Other Red Eye bands like The Cruel Sea would surf the independent wave into the late 1990s, even after Foy withdrew from industry machinations.

    Thirty years later, Foy looks back on those heady days with fondness. But even as he trawled through his archive of posters, ticket stubs and memories for his “Snaps Crack Pop!” visual collection cum autobiography, he’s not dwelling on what he should have done back in the day. Foy has always lived in the moment, for better and for worse.