Tuesday 1st April 2008
First news broadcast.

Well it's been a long time between drinks but we finally pulled a fingah out and have got this webpage updated. As it is a work in progress, please feel free to visit our OLD SITE HERE

The most pressing news is that our fantastic new album JUNK is OUT NOW! It's a double album, 12 months in the making, our magnum opus, our Kind Of Blue crossed with our Reign In Blood with our Music From Big Pink and our White Album thrown in for good measure. 

It's got a string quartet, a horn section, some beautiful guest singers including Tim Rogers, Kate Jacobsen (Texas Tea), and Sue Ray. It's got lap steel by Chris from the Vandas. It's got Bridget's first composition, the title track Junk. It's awesome.

You can buy JUNK here at JB Hi Fi. To promote the album - and cause no one buys CDs anymore - we're off on a tour. You can find the dates here. Come along. That way when heaps of people jump on our bandwagon - which is quite large - you can sniff, sell all your Gin Club CDs an say "I preferred them when they were poor."

The album has already garnered one rave review from local scribe Noel Mengel. Writing in the Courier Mail last Thursday, Noel had this to say...

"With (their) third album they've harnessed all (their) creative energy and ambition and crafted a recording with all the beauty and terror and inexorable force of rock music at its finest. Don't miss it." **** 1/2 (Courier Mail, 06th March 2008)

Four and a half! Out of five! We must have done something right. Thanks Noel. Check out the full review in our Press section here.

The inimitable Kellie Lloyd has done a filmclip for what we hope will be the first single, her estranged husband Salty's "Ten Paces Away". It will be here soon.

We recorded the new album at various locations throughout 2008 including a cattle property near Rockhampton, a Church near Fernvale, a Foundry near Red Hill and a basement near Sunnybank. We mixed it all at a worker's cottage near the Booradabbin Bowls Club on a big fuck-off desk with heaps of knobs. There was one huge one behind the desk, ha ha! Anyhow, there's photos of the recording and more here. 

We've had a few shuffles on deck also. Dale Peachey and Jacob S. Harris are no longer with the serving crew of the good ship "This War's Gonna End", but have been instead awarded indefinite shore leave. Harris has taken the opportunity to travel the world independently and has opened a chandlery in Montreal. Peachey is currently working on his memoirs. Both however are still fully fledged members of our little tribe, and they'll show up again soon, no doubt. In the meantime check out Jake's awesome solo work here.

Coming in to fill their places on an already crowded stage we have a couple of drummers. We can't get enough of drummers in the Gin Club. We're like one of those performance percussion bands from the nineties who played crap on bin lids and stuff.

Firstly, Mr. Angus G. Agars of Melbourne Town. He also plays in the Vandas and Mike Noga's Gentlemen of Fortune. He manned the kit at various stages on the album as well as kicking our arses, making us laugh till we puke, being annoying and motivational in equal amounts, and generally being a sexy bitch.

More recently, since bloody Gus hasn't realised that Brisbane is the greatest city on earth, we have recruited long time Club associate and all round nice guy Matthew Schnieder to fill in on some drums locally. You can check out some info on these new members, as well as some updated info on the other ones, at our revamped crew quarters here.

The Gin Club also recently compiled a collection of demos, live tracks and piss farting to coincide with their Xmas party show. It's called "Hissy Fit Vol. 1" and you can check out the art and tracklisting and order a copy from them at the new improved Booty section here. If you're not familiar with the concept of paying for something someone has worked on and for, you can download a couple of the tracks from there as well.

Well that's about it for now. Please check out our new record. We're extremely proud of it.

Someday This War's Gonna End.