CHRISTMAS EP AVAILABLE NOW

Couldn't make it to the weekend's shows? Don't worry, we can come to YOU this Christmas. Our new EP of CHRISTMAS SONGS is available now from our Bandcamp shop. Just $12* will get you a 6-track CD plus a download of the complete EP with the BONUS TRACKS, LEANING and LAST CHRISTMAS.** All up that's around 40 mins of music.*** Not into physical product? Download only for $10. WARNING****

Tracklisting:
1. Jesus - The Velvet Underground
2. Xmas Eve Can Kill You - Everly Brothers
3. River - Joni Mitchell
4. Fairytale of New York (featuring Anna Burley of The Killjoys) - The Pogues
5. Xmas Card From a Drunken Sailor - a Rob Snarski original
6. Silent Night

Recorded live at The Spotted Mallard, December 2017.

* plus postage of course
** download available on purchase for immediate listening pleasure
*** more an album than an EP
**** not all ho ho ho - an eclectic mix of contemplative Christmas tunes contemplating both the mystery and melancholy of the festive season...plus a few laughs

Wishing you a safe and happy Christmas.

CHRISTMAS SONGS EP PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN

For those who can't make it to this weekend's shows, pre-orders are now open for our new limited-edition EP of CHRISTMAS SONGS recorded LIVE at the Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, December 2017.

Tracklisting:

1.Jesus - The Velvet Underground
2.Xmas Eve Can Kill You - Everly Brothers
3.River - Joni Mitchell
4.Fairytale of New York (featuring Anna Burley of The Killjoys) - The Pogues
5. Xmas Card From a Drunken Sailor - a Rob Snarski original
6.Silent Night

6-track CD Includes download for the digital version and BONUS TRACKS, LEANING and LAST CHRISTMAS.

Follow the link HERE to nab your copy now.
Releases 17th December.

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Christmas Sampler

Here’s a little preview of our forthcoming EP of Xmas songs, recorded live at last year's Spotted Mallard shows. Includes songs by The Pogues, The Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell and others.

CD on sale at this year's shows in December, 2018 and then online via our Bandcamp page afterwards.

Christmas Shows 2018

We’re celebrating 10 years of consecutive Melbourne Christmas shows by donning the santa hats one more time for performances at the Caravan Music Club on Friday 14 December, the Spotted Mallard on Saturday 15 December and a kid-friendly matinee show on Sunday 16 December. Special guest for all shows is old world songbird and rising star, Freya Josephine Hollick.

Of course, they’ll be the usual offering of Christmas-related songs, the best of our extensive back catalogue, as well as special guests and more. Plus, a limited edition CD featuring live recordings of The Blackeyed Susans Christmas catalogue will be available for purchase exclusively at the shows. That’s right, for the first time you’ll be able to listen to our sublime version of The Velvet’s Jesus and/or our ridiculous version of Wham’s Last Christmas, whenever and wherever you like.

2018 saw the culmination of our Close Your Eyes and See album tour with a huge show at the Melbourne Recital Centre, complete with an extended line-up and string section. We're pleased to announce we’re taking the strings to Port Fairy as part of the Port Fairy Folk Festival in March, 2019. In fact, 2019 will mark our 30th anniversary together and what a damn fine excuse it will be to throw a party or two. So stay tuned for more info about that. In the meantime, come celebrate the end of another, sometimes wonderful, sometimes scary, year with us.

Susie X

CHRISTMAS SHOW TICKET LINKS:

Fri 14 Dec – Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh VIC | Book Tickets
Sat 15 Dec – Spotted Mallard, Brunswick VIC | Book Tickets
Sun 16 Dec (matinee) – Spotted Mallard, Brunswick VIC | Book Tickets

L.J. Spruyt Photography

Susans + Strings @ Port Fairy Folk Festival

We're playing the Port Fairy Folk Festival - with strings!

March 8-11th, 2019

Early bird tickets now available...
http://www.portfairyfolkfestival.com/the-blackeyed-susans-with-strings/

THIS FRIDAY~ BES w/ strings at The Melb Recital Centre

Hoping you can all be there to see and hear the stunning string arrangements our piano player Kiernan Box has worked on over the preceding months for this Friday’s show at The Melbourne Recital Centre.

It truly is something to behold. Colour, drama, beauty, lushness and grandeur. There will be 14 of us on stage ~ Jack Howard (Hunters & Collectors) joins us on trumpet and the uber-talented Clare Moore (Dave Graney and the Mistly) on vibraphone, along with our six piece string section.

Come one, come all ... step right up. 

Special guests ~ instrumental leviathans  ~ The Hungry Ghosts.

See you there,
Susie X

A snippet from the strings rehearsal in preparation for Susans + Strings at Melbourne Recital Centre, April 2018.

Not long now...

Not long now until our Susans + Strings show at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday, April 20th. If you’re yet to secure a ticket you might like to take advantage of the new seats in the wings and circle areas that have just been released. The wings in particular look great for those that like a high vantage point with good views of the stage.  Location, loca…

We’re certainly excited about it. Six Blackeyed Susans + six string players + Clare Moore (The Moodists / Coral Snakes / Dave Graney & The Mistly) on Vibes + Jack Howard (Hunters & Collectors) on Trumpet = a bloody, big and beautiful band! Can't wait...scores are being written, set lists finalised, rehearsals booked…it’s gonna be lush. 

Special guests are the the sublime instrumental leviathans ...HUNGRY GHOSTS, led by our own J.P. Shilo.

Susans + Strings

We’re delighted to announce that THE BLACKEYED SUSANS are playing the MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE on FRIDAY, APRIL 20th! How classy and grown-up! And befitting such an occasion, we’re expanding the line-up with a STRING SECTION, plus CLARE MOORE (vibes) and JACK HOWARD (trumpet) will be joining us for the evening. It’s going to be LUSH! What’s more, J.P. SHILO'S sublime instrumental group HUNGRY GHOSTS will be kicking off proceedings with a rare opening set. This is it, folks; The stars have aligned. Your favourite MOODY ROMANTICS playing the best room in Melbourne with STRINGS and a raft of very SPECIAL GUESTS. Reasonably priced too. 

Never before staged in Melbourne, SUSANS + STRINGS sold out at the Sydney Festival in 2016. We humbly suggest you DON’T MISS OUT…