Gypsy & The Cat

Gypsy & The Cat
Gypsy & The Cat In Sweden
Background information
Origin Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres Indie pop, dream pop
Years active 2008–present
Labels Sony, Alsatian Music
Website www.gypsyandthecat.com
Members Xavier Bacash
Lionel Towers

Gypsy & The Cat is an indie/dream pop duo formed by former Melbourne DJs Xavier Bacash and Lionel Towers.[1] Their first live performance was in 2010 in London, where they were based for much of that year.[2] They released their debut album in November 2010, "Gilgamesh", played in UK and Australia, and have received significant airplay including on Triple J, Nova[3] and Fox during 2011. Gypsy & The Cat were an Unearthed J Award nominee in 2010[4] and finished the year with three hit songs in the station's Top 100 for the Year - their most popular track being, perhaps, Jona Vark.

During 2010-2012, they extensively toured Australia, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Hong Kong and performed further concerts in UK. Their first album, Gilgamesh, was awarded a Gold Record, and as of mid-2012, they had sold 240,000 units concerning it.

In October 2012 Gypsy & The Cat started their own record label Alsatian Music. They independently released their 2nd Album, The Late Blue. Produced by the band themselves and mixed by Dave Fridman (MGMT, Flaming Lips, Tame Impala), they also collborated with video wunderkind Krozm for the first single 'Sorry' and emerging fine artist Mark Alsweiler took care of the album artwork. 2nd Single from The Late Blue, Bloom - had massive success with a placement for Europe Canon's Power To Your Next Step campaign and in Australia as the feature in the Big M Kakao. In 2013 the band took the album across Australia & the US on headline tours as well as playing Future Music Festival joining the line up with bands such as the Stone Roses & Bloc Party.

The band began recording a third studio album in early 2014, which is scheduled to be released sometime in 2016. The first taste from this record 'Inside Your Mind' was released in February 2016 on iTunes and Spotify and has been largely met with positive reception.

Discography

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions[5]
AUS GER SWI
[6]
2010 Gilgamesh[7][8] 14 43 54
2012 The Late Blue
  • Released: 19 October 2012
  • Label: Alsatian Music
 23 — —

Gilgamesh track listing

  1. "Time to Wander"
  2. "The Piper's Song"
  3. "Jona Vark"
  4. "Gilgamesh"
  5. "Sight of a Tear"
  6. "Human Desire"
  7. "Parallel Universe"
  8. "Breakaway"
  9. "Watching Me, Watching You"
  10. "Running Romeo"
  11. "A Perfect 2"

Singles

Kylie Minogue

In June 2011 Gypsy and the Cat performed across Australia as the support band on Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite Tour. Their opening night was at Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

The Late Blue (2012)

The Late Blue was released in Australia on 19 October and will be available in early 2013 worldwide. On 15 November, The Late Blue became available worldwide on iTunes. Towers and Bacash worked on this record at a farm studio. On 20 September, Gypsy & The Cat released the dates for their Australian tour, which commenced after the release of the new album.[12]
In an interview with music journalist Nick Milligan for the Maitland Mercury, Towers said: "It's [the new record] probably a bit more 'summery'. There's a little bit of world [music] influence in it. It's definitely different to the first album in many ways - there's lots more major chords. With Gilgamesh there were more minor chords. We're just doing what we want to do, like we always have. On the next album we might do something even different, but I think [on this album] we needed to do something a little more 'left' than the first album."

The album was released independently, rather than with a major label.

The Late Blue album tracks

  1. "Only in December"
  2. "Bloom"
  3. "Broken Kites"
  4. "The Late Blue"
  5. "It's a Fine Line"
  6. "Sorry"
  7. "Valleys of Kashmir"
  8. "Soul Kiss"
  9. "Zombie World"
  10. "When Micky Came In"

Singles

References

  1. ↑ Lau, Kristie (26 September 2010), "Cat's scratching", Sun Herald
  2. ↑ McCabe, Kathy (19 November 2010), "Hip cats get UK cream", Daily Telegraph
  3. ↑ Browne, Sally (14 November 2010), "Making a feline for fame", The Sunday Mail
  4. ↑ "Gypsy & The Cat. Unearthed nomination". ABC. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  5. ↑ "australian-charts.com - Gypsy & The Cat - Gilgamesh". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  6. ↑ statistic at acharts.us
  7. ↑ Johnston, Chris (26 November 2010), "Gilgamesh review", The Age
  8. ↑ "Gilgamesh review", Hobart Mercury, 20 November 2010
  9. ↑ "Time To Wander review", Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, 24 June 2010
  10. ↑ weekly news of media control Germany, 20 December 2011 (German)
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=526461214035192&set=a.134326889915295.24631.128755200472464&type=1&theater

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