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19/10/2023

Thanks Dingo. Congratulations Robbie. It's a really wonderful statement.

Thanks and for the lovely review of Tangled Trails in the latest issue of Dingo. The album is available through Bandcamp. I’ll be playing some music from the album on November 17th at Cross Street (presented by ) with my quartet featuring and .

15/10/2023

From this moment on, one dollar from every Lionsharecords sale on Bandcamp will be donated to Pay the Rent Grassroots Collective
We stand with Indigenous Australians and call for Truth Telling and Treaty.

11/08/2023

Will Guthrie is coming back for a brief visit. Assumptions (Magnusson/Wilson/Guthrie) will play at 303 with special guest Sam Anning from 8pm on August 27th. Tickets at the door. Get in early

15/07/2023

Des Cowley's review of Tangled Trails in Rhythms Magazine July 2023. Available now at all good record stores via MGM and on Bandcamp

19/06/2023

Robbie Melville's Tangled Trails album launch tour starts this Friday. Albums available at all shows, on Bandcamp, and in all good record stores via MGM.

‘TANGLED TRAILS’ TOUR DATES:
Friday 23rd June – 7.30-9.30pm, The Old Church On The Hill, Bendigo VIC, 36 Russell Street, Quarry Hill, with special guest Gideon Brazil – tenor saxophone. https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1061801?eid=1061801&

Saturday 24th June – 7.30pm-9.30pm, Cross Street, Melbourne 16 – 22 Cross Street, East Brunswick Melbourne with special guests Zoe Knighton – cello | Tamara Murphy – bass | Maddison Carter – drums https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1061806?eid=1061806&

Tuesday 27th June – 7pm, Nest Cafe and Cinema, Tumbarumba NSW https://cafe-nest.com/product/robbie-melville-live-tuesday-night-supper-club/

Thursday 29th June – 8pm-10pm, Johnston Street Jazz, Sydney, 81 Johnston Street, Annandale https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1045680?eid=1045680&

Friday 30th June – 7pm, Hume Conservatory, Goulburn NSW, 160 Bourke St Goulburn https://humecon.nsw.edu.au/tangled-trails-album-launch-national-tour/

Saturday 1st July – 7.30-8pm, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra ACT, Australian National University, Kingsley Street, Acton ACT 2601, with special guest Miroslav Bukovsky – trumpet. https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1061815?eid=1061815&

09/06/2023

To celebrate the official release of Robbie Melville's TANGLED TRAILS on Lionsharecords, many older items have been drastically reduced. Some CDs are now cheaper than downloads. Sale on until the end of June.

29/05/2023

Check out this wonderful video from Robbie Melville promoting his new album Tangled Trails. The album release date is June 9th, and Robbie will be touring in late June with shows in regional VIC, NSW and the ACT. Tour dates are listed on the Bandcamp page. Link in comments below

29/05/2023

12/05/2023

Robbie Melville's evocative and exciting new solo album Tangled Trails is the latest release on Lionsharecords. Official release date is June 9th with a tour planned in late June to promote the album, but you can hear three tracks and pre-order the album now on Bandcamp. And, Robbie has created this wonderful video to give you a taste of what's in store.

from the album Tangled Trails

09/05/2023

Now available to listen to in full on Soundcloud - also available to purchase on Bandcamp and in all good record stores

Listening link for media/promotional purposes

04/04/2023

Another wonderfully perceptive review from Loud Mouth

"The album shows Swinn to have a refreshing musical voice, and she’s chosen a band that’s ideally suited to realising her ideas."

23/02/2023

"Meditations is the warm and joyous sound of Wilson embracing the kind of freedom you can only achieve alone, and opening up to a universe brimming with endless possibilities."

Julien Wilson is a Melbourne based saxophonist. He has released over twenty albums as leader or co-leader and plays regularly with a wide range of groups. Most recently he has contributed to Barney…

08/02/2023

Fran Swinn LPs are showing up in all the best record stores.
Rocksteady (Melbourne CBD)
Northside (Collingwood)
Natural Selection (Fitzroy)

More outlets coming soon. If you can't find it, just ask. MGM can send them to your favourite record store Australia wide.

03/02/2023

Fran Swinn's new albums and Meditations & Mutations solo LPs will soon be available in Japan. Thanks Disk Union

27/01/2023

Very excited to announce that Fran Swinn's LPs were delivered today to the lionsharecords warehouse - a little later than expected but looking and sounding superb. These are 180gm black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with stunning original art by Merryn Trevethan and will be shipping out for pre-orders and to distributors and shops early this week. Thanks for your patience while we ensured this meets our stringent manufacturing standards before sending it to you!
Guitar and compositions: Fran Swinn
Bass: Sam Anning
Piano: Sam Keevers
Drums: Rajiv Jayaweera
Vocals: Josh Kyle
Recorded at Soundpark Studios
Engineered by Hadyn Buxton
Mixed/Mastered by Dave Darlington at BassHitRecording
Distributed by lionsharecords & mgmdistribution

16/01/2023

Thanks for having me on DeepSpace Lloyd. Great to chat. Now can't wait to play.

31/12/2022

What a great way to end 2022 with a glowing review in The (White) Australian for Fran Swinn's new album

29/11/2022

To celebrate this review of our second ARIA nominated album, and another upcoming we're offering $5 off physical copies of this album and the two latest solo albums, Meditations & Mutations until December 3rd. (Listed prices on Bandcamp are already reduced)

"Nock and Wilson are in their usual superb form, Zwartz does not know how to play a bad note, and Stuart is a wonderful accompanist. This is such an important group of performers; I urge readers to obtain a copy of this recording."

21/11/2022

We love being 100% INDEPENDENT. LP's are shipping out this week

20/11/2022

Fran Swinn's Old Idea/New Idea adds an ARIA charts entry at #9 to their AIR entry at #10 last week. Amazing work Fran https://www.aria.com.au/charts/jazz-blues-albums-chart/2022-11-14

15/11/2022

To celebrate Mutations listing in Bandcamp's NEW & NOTABLE features today we are putting both the new solo albums on sale for 48 hours only. $33+1/3 seems like an appropriate price for an LP.

These are a very limited run of pre-release regular finish LPs in shrinkwrap or polybags (add a note at checkout if you have a preference) and will be posted within 24 hours.

We expect to accept delivery of the shrinkwrapped high gloss covers and have them shipped out to shops and honour all the pre-orders by the end of this week. Thanks for your patience while we take a little extra time to get this perfect.

15/11/2022

Fran Swinn's new album OLD IDEA/NEW IDEA enters the Australian Independent Record Labels Association charts at #10! TopAce Fran

08/11/2022

Listen to Fran Swinn talk with David Moyle at JoyFM about her brand new album. JoyFm have all the good news. You can catch up with recent interviews with Tim Stephens, Angela Davis and Julius Schwing on their podcast. Julien Wilson (I'm talking in third person now!?) will be on the show on Nov 13th to talk about his new releases, Meditations & Mutations
Thanks JoyFM

Guitarist Fran Swinn will take her Quintet on stage at this years Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues to launch her new album – Old Idea/New Idea. Fran recalls her... LEARN MORE

31/10/2022

So great to be back at Wangaratta for the jazz festival. As I said at the solo concert, this really does feel like my spiritual home having played and experienced so many great concerts and events and hangs here for the past 28 years. It was especially wonderful to have the honour of playing in the Holy Trinity Cathedral again. It really is a spectacular space to play music in. It was really more of a duet with the room than a solo concert.

This was my first ever official solo concert, and the launch for my new solo albums. Astoundingly, I still have some copies left. You can get them on Bandcamp now, or at any good brick and mortar record store from November 11th. www.lionsharecords.com

Thanks to all the directors, staff, venues and volunteers for making this finally happen again, the great audiences - I was very happy to see so many beautiful faces at the Cathedral at 10am on a Saturday morning to hear saxophone solo concert - and of course to all the astounding and beautiful musicians who make this such a great event.

26/10/2022

Available today for pre-orders. We're incredibly excited to announce that our latest release is a wonderful new album called Old Idea/New Idea from Melbourne guitar legend Fran Swinn With any luck she'll have CDs to sell directly at her show at Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues on Friday night. They'll be officially available in all good record stores by Nov 4th through MGM. LPs are currently in production and will be available early in 2023. Or you can buy the high def download (or any digital format of your choice) online at Bandcamp.

MEDIA COPIES WILL BE GOING OUT POST WANG. Don't worry! We haven't forgotten you :)

8 track album

17/10/2022

Melbourne International Jazz Festival is now in full flight. It was wonderful to hear Chris Hale perform his Ritual Diamonds last night to a full house at Chapel Off Chapel. Wangaratta is less than 2 weeks away, and then I'm off to the Sydney Women's Jazz Festival and Perth International Jazz Festival. It's so good to be playing for live audiences and travelling again. You can preorder my solo albums at lionsharecords.com

Multiple award winning Melbourne saxophonist Julien Wilson has been one of Australia’s outstanding voices on the tenor saxophone for close to three decades. This marks the first time Julien has released a solo album. And he is releasing not one, but a contrasting/complimentary pair of LPs, created...