Bachelor of Arts

Greetings from America

2010-03-23T23:08:00.000-07:00

Heya,

So for the past while I've been in Brooklyn working on some very exciting projects. BOA have a new bunch of tunes finished and we shall be heading over to the USA rather soon it seems to tour and record the new stuff. At the moment I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. It's kind of crazy around here. SXSW has just passed (and what a whirlwind affair it was) so naturally the shows back to NYC are presenting themselves. Those Darlins are taking care of us and it seems like the Nashville Skyline is as strong as ever. Can't wait for the Wither With Her 12" to be released on EXO - it's a record we're really proud of.

Much love from the United States,

Angus

xx

Waves At Night

2009-12-28T18:12:00.000-08:00

Melbourne blog Waves At Night just posted exclusive links to two new mp3s from Wither With Her

Check them out here

http://www.wavesatnight.com/2009/12/27/wither-with-her/

Many thanks to JD for his work on this one and also for the amazing cover art he created for the EP.

For all of those coming to our Melbourne launch next week, a limited edition version of the entire EP will be free for the first 100 payers through the door. Hope you can make it down -

BOA
xx

Melbourne EP Launch

2009-12-15T19:21:00.000-08:00

PRESS RELEASE:

A fresh beginning - that's the way Bachelor of Arts are approaching 2010 and the release of their new EP, Wither With Her.

After their 2009 US tour, the band reflected on collective experience. It was a year split between three continents and in which time, a lot of things changed. The result of 10 months of writing is a psychedelic-no-wave return to the EP format. There's a decidedly fuller sounding set of songs than their 2008 Infinite Jest LP. Synth mangled guitars, contact mic'ed bookshelves, circuit bent distortion pedals and three part harmonies all sit somewhere in a world of Afro-beat and GZA influenced rhythmic bursts. Available on Jan 2nd at the Workers Club as a limited edition CD and later in 2010 on 12" vinyl, this will be one of the last chances to catch Bachelor of Arts for several months as the band once again embark on international adventures.

With very special guests Absolute Boys + A Dead Forest Index

FROM US:

Hope you can make it down for the show. 2010 Ahoy!

BOA

Wither With Her EP

2009-12-01T08:59:00.000-08:00

Out early 2009 on CD and 12" vinyl. First single 'Tragic' on myspace now.

The Buroughs - 6th Dec 2009

2009-11-30T08:56:00.000-08:00

We're on at 4.50pm. Come on down, should be fun (especially since our good friends at Spill Collective have some exciting things planned for the day)

BOA

Updated press

2009-10-27T18:21:00.000-07:00

Please check out our Sonicbids page for up to date press details as of Oct/Nov/Dec 2009

New 12" AA-BB on the way

2009-10-27T18:04:00.000-07:00

Out soon. Features 4 brand new songs and some pretty amazing art by our Melbourne friends.

Also, a few shows coming up over the next few months including The Buroughs Festival...

http://www.theboroughs.com.au/

see www.myspace.com/bachelorsonline for more dates

2am Melbourne Show - August 28th

2009-08-13T02:47:00.000-07:00

BOA at the Birmingham Thursday 16th of July

2009-07-10T19:53:00.000-07:00

We'll playing the Birmingham this coming Thursday the 16th of July. Hopefully this show will see some new material debuted. This is however fairly dependent on us finding a place to rehearse a few times in the next five days or so. We'll be playing with Sydney's The Nevada Strange as well as one band we always love to play alongside Breaker Morant and Repairs.

Should be a fun night so work your way through the cold this Thursday. It won't disappoint.

Brisbane 7" Launch

2009-06-22T03:04:00.000-07:00

Hope you can make it down. The amazing Deux Garcons are getting together again for one show only to join the festivities. Awesome!

Beethoven, Freedom And A Hard Place Mp3 Link

2009-04-20T10:40:00.001-07:00

Beethoven, Freedom & A Hard Place MP3

c/o Waves At Night

Split 7" Launch Poster

2009-04-18T06:33:00.000-07:00

Design by Kevin Mcdowell

Bachelor Of Arts Biography / April 2009

2009-04-17T22:37:00.000-07:00

Bachelor of Arts are a three piece noise-rock band from Melbourne, Australia. It's a city perpetually on the move yet with a moody and overcast story to be told, much like the sound of the band. With this grounding, Bill Forshaw (Guitar/Vocals), Angus Tarnawsky (Drums/Vocals) and Kevin Mcdowell (Bass/Vocals) create some of the most startlingly interesting pop music you'll come across. It channels the exploration of the late 70s NYC scene crossed with the shifting rhythms and sense of restraint that the 90s Chicago scene was known for. What Bachelor of Arts create is precise, full of energy and littered with the kind of chaotic elegance that is exciting on a record or witnessed live at a show.

They've toured Australia extensively, covering the country several times over and in March of this year they embarked on a three week tour of the United States. The past two years has seen the group sharing stages with the likes of Japanther (US), These New Puritans (UK), Bakelite (CAN), Die! Die! Die! (NZ), My Disco, Witch Hats, Fabulous Diamonds, Mercy Arms, Tic Toc Tokyo and Ohana in all sorts of venues, galleries and spaces.

This year also sees the international release of their debut album Infinite Jest. Upon it's 2008 limited Australian release, Rip It Up Magazine described the album as "A strong debut...There's all the vocal intensity, angry hooks and antagonistic bass of the punk side and the calculated guitar stabs, complex rhythms and looping noise that are math rock staples...about the same consistency overall that you'd get if you blended experimentalists The Fall with Black Flag."

Captured live to 2" tape by engineer Finn Keane with help from long time friends Sloth and Neil at Head Gap Studios, It's full of life with a gritty sound that underpins the road Bachelor of Arts has travelled.

Be sure to catch the band as they hit the road in support of both Infinite Jest and a special US Tour 7" split record with NYC band Dinowalrus

First Australian show for 2009

2009-04-16T22:29:00.001-07:00

Also, the last Australian show for our friends Teenagers In Tokyo before they move over to the UK.

Bachelor Of Arts / Dinowalrus (NYC) Split 7"

2009-04-15T21:41:00.000-07:00

Bachelor Of Arts

Beethoven, Freedom & A Hard Place

Dinowalrus

BEAD

A. Recorded in Melbourne, AUS by Finn Keane at Headgap / Hothouse studios

B. Recorded in Brooklyn, NYC by Dinowalrus in their rehearsal space

Mastered for vinyl by Josh Bonati in Brooklyn, NYC

Cover photo by Xavier Connelly.

Art concept and direction by Angus Tarnawsky, overseen by Jordan Dolheguy

Released by EXO Records Australia for the Dinowalrus / Bachelor of Arts US tour in March 2009

Limited to 200 hand numbered copies.

Central Park

2009-04-14T10:07:00.000-07:00

Welcome...

2009-04-12T20:46:00.001-07:00

Hey all -

So this seems like a pretty logical way to organise our thoughts and keep everything together in once place. Pretty soon we'll post up some stories from our recent US tour plus a whole lot of photos, movies and mp3s from our adventures.