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Soft Tigers
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Soft tigers started out in suburban Canberra, A world where not many people escape from let alone draw influences from their surrounding environment. Here and on the beaches of Sydney they recorded a song divided up into 12 parts. 12 say “chapters” of a song that they turned into an album full of natural NSW wonders
For people who foremost count themselves as directors/editors for film their musical skills are natural un-contrived outputs of their creative selves hardly seen in today’s musical scapes.
Befitting their birth in the age of the sampler, Soft Tigers flit in and out of genre like a cordial-swigging kid flicking through the channels. Fitting, vaguely, into some sort of post-Avalanches Australia personified by Architecture In Helsinki, Cut Copy, and Bumblebeez, Soft Tigers unique sound shows little fidelity to the norms of this land. In fact, they show a blatant disregard for the pub-rock rulebook that is, still!, Australia’s (bog) standard.
Event Reviews
Operator Please, Van She, Soft Tigers @ The Zoo, 7/11/2007
Operator Please play a short but memorable set at the Zoo.
Manshandies present Soft Tigers @ Transit Bar (24/08/2007)
Manshandies bring Sydney's the Soft Tigers and expat Canberrans Bum Creek together for a night of dancing and noise.
Architecture in Helsinki @ the Metro (12/05/07)
"Because they got the tunes, they got the moves, and they can even make an old jaded cat do a night time boogie. When their radio hits blasted the crowd the place turned wild."
Event Galleries
Trackside @ Thoroughbred Park, Canberra (17-11-2007)
Canberra's newest festival gets off to a galloping start
Operator Please, Van She, Soft Tigers
Operator Please play the Zoo in Brisbane. With support by Van She and the Soft Tigers
Below Par Industry Showcase
Kisschasy, Soft Tigers, Something With Numbers and The Scare
Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf at the Factory Theatre
Architecture In Helsinki @ Metro Theatre ; Muscles & Soft Tigers
In the words of a mighty shaman; the event was liquid music: The tears of Mozart mixed with the urine of Mark Knopfler...
Essential Festival
The Essential Festival is back for its second year
Features
Soft Tigers: Unbridled sound
Canberra-based band Soft Tigers are not your traditional band. In fact, Pal Gupta, Bucky Toller and Neil Harvey were so 'disorganised' when it came to becoming a band, it was something that was never really decided, but just happened.
News
Bamboo Banger Wants You to Save the Orangutans!
The Bamboo Banger is happening on December 5 at the Oxford Art Factory to help save the orangutan’s rainforest homes.
Falls Festival final line-up announced
With tix to the Falls Festival sold out - if you missed out on tickets then I'm afraid all you can do is salivate over this latest announcement of acts - which includes Mattafix, Busdriver, Magic Dirt and New Young Pony Club
Soft Tigers achieve debut Ambitions
Soft Tigers will release their debut album Gospel Ambitions this weekend and will be taking their new tracks on the road through October/November.
Operator Please head off on national tour
Operator Please will be touring the nation in October and November just in time to prepare punters for upcoming debut album Yes Yes Vindictive.
Soft Tigers: new single and tour
Sydney wunderkind Soft Tigers are gearing up for the release of their new single Mr Icecream - before the summer heat melts the sugary goodness of this new track the band are heading off for a quick whiparound Sydney and its surrounds
Releases
Soft Tigers - M.A.R.I.A. 7"
Something so wobbly could only have come out on vinyl. This limited run single from the Canberra-by-way-of-Sydney Soft Tigers is a full seven inches of sloppy yet sincere synth-pop.
