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The Red Painting.

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Alecks.
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 958
December 17th, 2007 at 01:23pm
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21249290
I found there myspace by looking up visual music(current obsession) I fell in love with them. There amazing... There smooth melody's, not to mension Alice In Wonderland references are fantastic.

History Taken From There Myspace:

For the past eight years, Brisbane-native Trash McSweeney has seen colour in his music. After a life-altering experience at the end of the 20th century in which he had a near-fatal seizure, Trash decided he wanted to attempt to share with the world what he had seen. He took to his guitar and piano, and his brainchild, The Red Paintings, was officially born upon the dawn of the new millennia.
Based out of Australia, though having been fortunate enough to tour much of the globe, The Red Paintings sound evokes everything from sprawling, child-like innocence – lullabies of the future, if you will – to tearing, biting, alternative-rock.
Currently recording their debut full-length album, “The Revolution Is Never Coming”, Trash & Co. are using years of culminated experience, resources, and a topsy-turvy worldview to forge a record of epic proportions – dynamic and sweeping in its hopes, desires, and message; “The Revolution Is Never Coming” is what Trash hopes will be the boiling point to the pressure cooker that is the bands career. With a history as diverse as the makeup of a brilliant stew, the band is on the verge of what they hope to be a “final ingredient” before stretching their legs and stepping into 2008 with an arsenal of music, exciting live stage performances, and diehard fans (who Trash says are “the best on the planet”).
Prior to last year, The Red Paintings released two EPs, “Walls” and “Destroy The Robots”, with three tracks gaining high rotation on well known radio stations including Triple J, Nova, Sports Talk UK, and charting for months on end. This stay included a mind-blowing 15 weeks in the Net 50! With the EPs selling well, the band kept things buzzing via interviews and reviews across the globe which included appearances in Rolling Stone, Blunt, and NME. The band also played some major festivals including Big Day Out, Livid, and The Great Escape. Sharing the stage with amazing bands such as The White Stripes, Sigur Rós, Polyphonic Spree, and Beastie Boys to name just a few, The Paintings reached across diverse fan bases to much acclaim. Fortunately, some of those audience members happened to be fans of Boston, USA self-proclaimed “punk cabaret” duo, The Dresden Dolls. The Red Paintings were mentioned to the band as a potential “perfect fit” support slot on the Australian leg of The Dresden Dolls “Yes, Virginia…” world tour and history was made.
For six weeks in 2006, The Red Paintings toured as direct support throughout the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia for The Dresden Dolls. Singer, songwriter Amanda Palmer (one half of The Dresden Dolls) contacted The Red Paintings’ with a tour offer, and an outpouring of praise. It seems The Dresden Dolls had found "kindred spirits" in The Red Paintings, and were only too happy when the band accepted their invite. The tour was an extreme success and crowning achievement for the band, as Trash was asked to come out each night for an encore of Tears For Fears’ “Mad World” featuring Amanda on vocals and piano and Dolls’ drummer, Brian Viglione on drums (as seen HERE). Though The Red Paintings had a lot of equipment stolen and hit some hard times while sharing the bill, they managed to persevere, and were fortunate enough to sell as many as 170 CDs per show!
As an epilogue upon returning to Australia, the band released two successful products chronicling the experience. Not only did they begin work on their first DVD (a tour documentary), but they released a limited edition recording from the tour (featuring a cover of Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” with The Dresden Dolls’ Brian Viglione on guitar), the cover artwork was made by none other than Amanda Palmer. Featuring a painting of Trash (born onstage at one of the final shows on the U.S. tour), the EP sold out in record time. 2006 was then capped off with a support slot for Mogwai.
In 2007, the band has released a new EP (“Feed The Wolf”), which helped sales surpass the 20,000-unit mark for all The Red Paintings CD releases to date. They also produced and released their very-first DVD (“Seizure & Synesthesia”) and have performed a smattering of shows, though they have focused primarily on their fan-sponsored record, "The Revolution Is Never Coming" which to date has generated over $22,000 in donations. In addition to the album production, the band has been hard at work on the accompanying stage show and tour for “Revolution.” Never to be outdone, and always wanting to keep the party lively, the band build stage shows and events that incorporate the imagery from their releases, and the debut record will be no different. By way of example, last year during the release of the “Destroy The Robots” EP they built 9-foot robots, and marched them around cities wherein shows would be played later that night. Along the lines of set building, this holiday season Trash will oversee production for the stage show on one of their grandest ventures to date – two charity Christmas shows at the Tivoli Theater, based on Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" (tickets onsale now HERE)!
Hoping to give back to the community that has supported and nurtured his band for so long, a portion of the proceeds from these performances will be donated to the Brisbane children's hospital appeal called "Working Wonders." These two very special shows by most accounts will be the closing curtain on 2007 and a beginning chapter in the band’s career.