The Kuepper Files: News log archive 2006

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The sordid past of Captain Shark...

News and tidbits from 2007

Happy New Year!
I would like to wish you all the best for the new year – and also send some very special thanks to all of you who have in one way or another contributed to the site. Thank you very much!

Song index updated! [2007-12-15]
The song index pages updated with the Jean Lee album(s).

Fabolous new t-shirts! [2007-12-14]
There are great new t-shirts with Jean Lee artwork - more info soon!

More Jean Lee reviews [2007-12-14]
More reviews of the Jean Lee album can be found at Ed's myspace-site.

New Jean Lee review [2007-12-09]
New review of Jean Lee & The Yellow Dog taken from Wireless Bollinger. Read it...

Another HSG live date announced [2007-11-05]
Brisbane date added to Honey Steel's Gold live performance. More.

Honey Steel's Live! [2007-11-03]
As part of the Australian 'Don't Look Back'-series, Ed will play the complete Honey Steel's Gold album live early next year... Read more. Thanks to Stuart!

Live pics from East Brunswick[2007-11-03]
Thanks to James Edge we can present some pictures of Ed and The Kowalski Collectve playing live in East Brunswick. See them here.

Jean Lee review! [2007-10-17]
Review from the Beat Magazine (AUS), read it here.

'Presskit' for Jean Lee album [2007-10-08]
Read the press clip from Didgeridoo for the Jean Lee album, here (pdf file). Thank you, Michael! :-)

Oktoberfest gig cancelled [2007-10-06]
The Oktoberfest show on the 12th of October has been cancelled. No reason has been given by the organisers at this point. Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective would like to apologize to the many people looking forward to this event, for any inconvenience. It is unfortunately out of our hands.
The Collective and company are currently looking at a replacement Brisbane show in November and will announce it as soon as possible. Please stay tuned for further information!

New album out now! [2007-10-04]
Ed's new album Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog is now released and should be in stores!

If you find you local store isn't stocking the new album, or if you prefer to order it online - you can order by emailing either of these two addresses:
info@hotrecords.uk.com (UK and Europe), or didgeridoo@didgerecords.com (Oz, NZ, Asia). Any problems with orders, please contact stuart@hotrecords.com.au.

Meet The Kowalski's! New tour dates! [2007-09-18]

Tour dates here!

80's Saints compilation discovered [2007-09-18]
Martin Sutton has found an old Saints compilation, possibly a UK only release: Best of The Saints on the Razor label. Thanks Martin!!

New album! [2007-08-28]
Ed's new album Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog, Part 1 is in its final stages of production. Scheduled for release at the end of September! All the facts here...

Slightly behind in news... Saints reunion pics! [2007-08-28]
As The Triffids so eloquantly did put it: "...it's been a hell of a summer". They happen to be (or rather: they were) one helluva good band and my summer HAS been busy... ANYWAY: check out the pics from the Saints reunion!

Pictures from London (soon!) [2007-07-15]
Mende found some pics from the London gig(s). As soon as I sort out my uploading trouble, you can check out the pic-page... [Now updated - look here!]

Daily Telegraph ad for reunion gig [2007-07-15]
On June 01 the Daily Telegraph had a short article on the upcoming Saints reunion. See the article here. Thanks Mende! :-)

Sorry for late news... [2007-07-15]
Saints were featured on The J File on July 7. Rare interviews with Chris, Ed and Ivor. Sorry I didn't get that out on time. Hopefully you did catch it anyway, perhaps it was mentioned it at the messageboard, or maybe someone recorded it? (Thanks to Tim!)

New album news! [2007-06-09]
More info on Ed's new album, Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog (Part 1): Ed will be mastering with Don Bartley at the end of June. Preliminary worldwide release is set for early September. Among the guest appearances is Chris Bailey on vocals... Cover art and preliminary track list and running order can be found here.

Ed and Jeff on the Adelaide Guitar Festival [2007-06-09]
Ed will make an appearance on The Adelaide Guitar Festival together with Jeff. The Festival is in November. More details to follow.

Laughing Clowns and The Aints on myspace.com [2007-06-09]
Added to Ed and The Laughing Clowns, The Aints now also have their own space at myspace.com. Links to be found here...

Saints reunion in Brisbane [2007-05-07]
The original Saints line up with Ed, Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay will play a one off reunion gig in Brisbane on July 14th. Read the details here. Thanks to Paul!

Ed playing Pahaus Festival [2007-05-01]
Pauhaus Festival in Brisbane on June 9th! Tickets on sale 16 April. More info about the Festival.

Another London date and new album status [2007-03-19]
Ed will play Dingwall's in London on May 2nd. All tour dates here.
Latest info on new album: recording going fine and mixing will start shortly!

More tour dates! [2007-03-05]
New tour dates announced, both Australia and UK. Read more...

Ed on Grant McLennan tribute album [2007-03-05]
Ed is participating on a new tribute album for Grant McLennan and the Go-Betweens. The song is called Finding You and you can listen to it here.

Ed to play ATP Festival [2007-02-03]
Ed and Jeffrey Wegener has been invited to play the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival at Minehead, UK in April. More info about ATP can be found here and on their website. There might be more dates announced in Europe but nothing confirmed yet. I for one, think this is great! :-)

Melbourne pictures from 2002 [2007-02-03]
Digging the archives and found some pictures from a Melbourne gig back in 2002. Ed and band... However - help needed! - I don't know from where or exactly when these pictures are taken. And not the photographer. It could be from Cornish Arms (July?) that year, but I'm not sure. If you know anything about this - please let me know. Thanks. Check out the pictures here!

New album closing in... [2007-01-31]
Great news! Ed is recording, mixing and producing his new album by himself. The official title is to be Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog, Part 1. Preliminary songlist and some background info is soon to be found here...

Ed live in Sydney tomorrow [2007-01-19]
Ed is playing The Basement in Sydney on Saturday 20 jan, according to the good folks on the messageboard. Ed is playing three sets, one solo and two with Jeff and Peter Oxley.

I'm Stranded covered [2007-01-19]
Jim Reid, former frontman of The Jesus And Mary Chain, has recorded a (imho very good) versioin of The Saints' I'm Stranded, specially for the music magazine MOJO. It can be found on the sleeve cd of the February issue of the magazine. For copyright reasons I can't put it up here in its entire - but if you go here you can here a half minute clip.

Review The Vanguard, November 2006 [2007-01-19]
Thanks to Jenny Valentish there's a review from the Vanguard gig in November, read it all here.

Poster and New Year! [2006-12-30]
Many thanks goes out to Gary who sent me a very nice Christmas present - a signed poster and ticket from the gigs at NSC in November. Have a look for yourselves here. Also - I'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year!

For news from 2006, check here.