Fire In The Valley nearing completion

Upcoming tours (NEW DATES AND VENUES ADDED):

Jan 14 – Feb 1 VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD;
Feb 2-15 WA
March 12-13 VIC
March 18-21 TAS

• Next Melbourne Show:  Friday, Feb 26 The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond  FULLY SEATED SHOW
• European Tour starts: June 21
• Seeking fill-in drummer
• Hands up who wants to be a nanna for the night for The Wishing Well in Canberra, Sydney, Byron Bay, Perth/Fremantle Sunshine Coast, Brisbane?
• Your large vehicle could earn you $1,000
• Froupies needed to put up posters in Byron, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Melbourne
• Best monthly moment winner: Rivkah
• The Wishing Well’s monthly blahblah – too hot for our monthly blahblah folks tune in next newsletter for more blahblah
• New Euro dates added

Greetings and salutations to all you friendly people out there!  How are you going on your New Years resolutions?  Ours are being whipped into shape and week two sees us still being true to well at least some of them!  It’s been a full on year for us already: we toured Tassie, have been busking in the sweltering sun at The Queen Victoria Markets, putting the finishing touches on Fire In The Valley and gearing up for our next tours!  Check the gig guides below as some venues have jumped on board in last few days.  Apart from this, we are looking forward to playing The Corner again on Friday, Feb 26.

The Wishing Well folk rock the beautiful Salamanca Arts Centre Courtyard

Tassie Tour Blog:

Tassie was especially awesome this time!  Lots of great shows, and great new friends.  Our nannies were especially lovely!  The hospitable Jacqueline even got up at 6:00am to make us a scrummy eggs on toast breaky before we trundled off to play a red-eyed gig at Salamanca.  Special thanks to the lovely lady at Salamanca who came back to buy a second CD for her friend instead of just burning a copy.  We really appreciated that!  We know times are tight but it really is a lovely gesture to invest in our music by buying instead of burning our CDs since we really do struggle to keep on doing what we do and our CD sales are a major part of our continuation so thanks so much for your generosity and integrity to our music.  See you in March you wild Tasmaniacs

The Republic Bar and Brookfield Vineyard

Upcoming tours: Jan 14 – Feb 1 VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD; Feb 2-15 WA

We have a pretty busy touring schedule  (which as you know is pretty much always the case) coming that sees us playing all over Oz far and wide.  We are looking for some lovely nannies to take us in under their wings and away from the dreadful clutches of Formula 1.  Lettuce know if you need some people to crash on your floor, we’re there in a flash.

Melbourne – February

Feb 26, 2010, The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond
Our show at The Corner will probably be our last Melbourne show before we head back to Europe until December so be sure to book your tickets early if you want to see us play.   The fun police have cracked down on our busking (apparently too many people were smiling and maybe just maybe we were playing a little bit too loud) so no more watching The Wishing Well with a fistful of Lord of Fries at Flinders Street anymore BUT please do come and see us play at The Corner we can’t promise you Lord of the Fries but we can promises you an awesome show.   You get to see us rock out in great splendour minus Connex announcements and tram whistles! Supports will be announced soon.

Tickets available from Corner Box Office 11am-8pm Mon-Sat, 9427 9198 or www.cornerhotel.com

Regional Victoria – January

Jan 16 2010, 6:00pm, Lawler’s Hut, 100 Gavin Street, Bright Victoria,

ACT, NSW, QLD – January

Canberra:

18 Jan 2010, 8:00pm, The Phoenix Bar, 21 East Row, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

1 Feb 2010, 8:00pm, Front Bar Gallery, 1/2 Wattle St, Lyneham ACT 2602

New South Wales:

15 Jan 2010, 8:00pm, The Astor Hotel, Young Street, Albury, NSW

17 Jan 2010, 4:00pm, Thomas Blarney Tavern, Albert Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW

20 Jan 2010, 6:00pm, The Rails, Jonson Street, Railway Station?Byron Bay, New South Wales

28 Jan 2010, 8:00pm, The View Factory, 64 Scott St (Cnr Telford St), Newcastle, NSW

29 Jan 2010, 8:00pm, Wauchope Community Arts, Oxley Lane, Wauchope, New South Wales

30 Jan 2010, 8:00pm, Hotel Gearin, 273 Great Western Hwy, Katoomba

31 Jan 2010, 7:30pm The Funky Café, 256 King Street, Newtown, Sydney, NSW

Queensland:

23 Jan 2010, 8:00pm Crystal Waters Community Deck, off Kilcoy Lane Conondale, Crystal Waters, Queensland

24 Jan 2010, 9:00pm, Harrigans Drift Inn, Huth Rd  Jacobs Well, Queensland

27 Jan 2010, 8:00p, The Troubadour, 3/322 Brunswick St, Fortitude, Brisbane, Queensland

Western Australia – February

5 Feb 2010, 9pm, The Prince of Wales  41 Stephen Street, Bunburry, Western Australia

6 Feb 2010, 9:00pm, Settler’s Tavern, 114 Bussell Hwy  Margaret River, Western Australia

7 Feb 2010, 8:00pm, The Indi Bar, 23 Hastings Street  Scarborough, Western Australia

9 Feb 2010, 8:00pm, Mojo’s, 237 Queen Victoria St  Perth, Western Australia

12 Feb 2010 8:00pm, The Camel Bar, 20 Chapman Road  Geralton, Western Australia

13 Feb 2010  8:00pm, Rainbow Jungle, 14 Bridgeman Road  Kalbarri, Western Australia

14 Feb 2010, 9:00pm  Southerley’s Tavern  Dongara, Western Australia

European Tour starts: June 21

We have started to make our bookings for our next Euroinvasion tour to the UK and Europe.  Lift off is June 21 and we are really looking forward to catching up with all our Euro buddies and indulging in some great beer.   If you really really want us to come play a concert in your town now is the time to let us know and about any other venues you think would be great for us.

July 1, 2010 – Ryan’s of Odense, Odense, Denmark

July 2, 2010 – Skagenfest, Skagen, Denmark

July 3, 2010 – Skagenfest, Skagen, Denmark

July 4, 2010 – Skagenfest, Skagen, Denmark

July 14, 2010, – Schokoladen, Berlin, Germany

And many more to come so stay tuned!

Sez and her groupies / Rod helps the Forth locals get there groove on / Sez jamming with Pedro the Alpaca

Seeking fill-in drummer

Rod is off to India for some rest and relaxation but the show must go on!  So we are looking for someone to fill his big bird shoes with us while he is away.  If you’re up for some fun tours and like hanging out with some weirdos then give Rivkah a call on 0423 425 009 and she can give you all the details.

“Man I need some funky brother to lock these beats down with…”

Dear nannas…

Hands up who wants to be a nanna for the night for The Wishing Well in Tas, Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Byron Bay? Our nanna for the night program has been great fun for us and the nannies!  If you are able to host even some of us and even for just one night you would be helping us out an incredible amount.  It makes such a difference to us being able to avoid those stinky hotel rooms and stay in a real house.  We are seeking nannies for the following nights and places:

Jan 17, 18, Feb 1 Canberra ACT

Jan 20 Tamworth, NSW

Jan 19, Jan 31 Sydney, NSW

Jan 27, Byron Bay, NSW

Jan 29, Wauchope, NSW

Jan 22, 23, 25, 26 Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Jan 24 Gold Coast, Queensland

Jan 28 Newcastle, NSW

Feb 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Perth/Fremantle WA

Nannie gallery

The fabulous Tassy Nannies – The Murrays

The Schwenkes – Our Adelaide homeys away from homeys

Come On Tour With Us

If you have a van or other large vehicle that lounges around the garage and needs to get out more, you could hire it to us!  It makes you money and we save some!  Give Rivkah a call on 0423 425 009 for details.  We are looking to hire a van Jan 14- Feb 1 for our tour from Melbourne to Queensland and back and could hire your van or large vehicle for $1,000.  We are also seeking to hire a van Feb 3-15 in WA.

Calling all froupies far and wide!

Froupies needed to put up posters in Byron, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Melbourne, please contact Riv on 0423 425 009 if you think you are a bit of whiz with glue and street poles.

Best monthly moment winner…..goes to Rivkah
For falling on her bumb mid song at The Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart and still playing and not bleeding anywhere!  Well done to the Riv

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Thanks for reading ? and to all the people who throw change in our
case, buy our CDs, come to our shows and take time out of their busy
lives to let us know how much our music resonates with them.  It’s the
highest reward for us to connect with you through our music.  We often
share moments and meet people through playing our music that we
otherwise wouldn’t.  To see someone jamming along with us who speaks
English as a second language or comes from a place we have never been
to or even heard of or who lives a life that is so different from
anything we have ever experienced and to be able to connect through
music is a beautiful and rare experience we never tire of!
See you soon
x The Wishing Well (Jai, Sarah, Rivkah, Willow, Oscar and Rod)

• Fire In The Valley nearing completion
• Upcoming tours: Jan 1-3 Tas; Jan 14 – Feb 1 NSW, ACT, QLD; Feb 2-15
• Next Melbourne Show: Friday, Feb 26 The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond
• European Tour starts: June 21
• Seeking fill-in drummer
• Hands up who wants to be a nanna for the night for The Wishing Well in Tas, Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane?
• Froupies needed to put up posters in Byron, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Melbourne
• Best monthly moment winner
• The Wishing Well’s monthly blahblah – Rod on coconuts

Happy Holidays to all, we hope you had a great Chrissy and hope that Santa brought you lots of presents. Are you ready for the New Year? 2009 was mighty kind to us: we toured for the first time overseas and nearly finished our second album! New Years Eve, we will be stowed away on the spirit of Tasmania as our Tassie tour starts New Years Day. Getting smashed aboard a rocky ship and making our own fireworks may not be a good idea so we might just settle in for some hot chips and a movie instead.

Fire In The Valley is almost done!

Our beautiful new album, Fire In The Valley, is nearing completion. We are so excited to share this epic 14 track album of eargasmic goodness with you! It has been such a journey for us to complete. Lineup changes almost meant not starting on time but then voila! we found master Rod – the perfect drummer during our first tour back from Europe in September and the album set sail in his flowing drumming hands. His great feel also inspired Jai to write a closing track, which no one has heard yet. We will let it be a surprise for you.

You might be wondering to yourself what Fire In The Valley is like or how it is different to Life On The Border. Well, there are many more rockier and upbeat tunes on Fire In The Valley, there is much more violin and cello playing, some trumpet and harmonica features on some of the tracks and there is a lot more electric guitar. It still has some key things in common with Life On The Border: soulful lyrics, captivating arrangements and memorable melodies. In general, the recording of Fire In The Valley has also been much more involved than the recording of Life On The Border was for us and taken much more time to complete than anticipated. We are really proud of it and we know you will love it! We will have details in the next newsletter on how you can go about getting your mits on one of the first copies.

Sez and Fran laying down the mini orchestra

Upcoming tours: Jan 1-3 Tas; Jan 14 – Feb 1 NSW, ACT, QLD; Feb 2-15 WA

We have a pretty busy touring schedule (which as you know is pretty much always the case) coming up and will more than likely be sliding into a city near you very soon. We are looking for some lovely nannies to take us in under their wings and away from the dreadful clutches of Formula 1. Lettuce know if you need some people to crash on your floor, we’re there in a flash.

Melbourne – February

Feb 26, 2010, The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond

Tickets available from Corner Box Office 11am-8pm Mon-Sat, 9427 9198 or www.cornerhotel.com

Tasmania – January

1 Jan 2010, 8:00pm? The Brookfield Vineyard, 1640 Channel Highway?Margate, Tasmania

2 Jan 2010, 8:00pm? The Republic Bar, 299 Elizabeth Street?Hobart, Tasmania

3 Jan 2010, 4:00pm? The Bridge Hotel, corner of Leith and Forth Roads?Forth, Tasmania

ACT, NSW, QLD – January

Canberra:

18 Jan 2010, 9:00pm? The Phoenix Bar, 21 East Row?Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

1 Feb 2010, 8:00pm? Front Bar Gallery, 1/2 Wattle St?Lyneham ACT 2602

New South Wales:

20 Jan 2010, 6:00pm? The Rails, Jonson Street, Railway Station?Byron Bay, New South Wales

29 Jan 2010, 8:00pm ?Wauchope Community Arts, Oxley Lane?Wauchope, New South Wales

31 Jan 2010, 7:30pm The Funky Café, 256 King Street, Newtown, Sydney, NSW

Queensland:

23 Jan 2010 9:00pm? Crystal Waters Community Deck, off Kilcoy Lane Conondale?Crystal Waters, Queensland

24 Jan 2010 9:00pm ?Harrigans Drift Inn, Huth Rd?Jacobs Well, Queensland

27 Jan 2010, 8:00pm? The Troubadour, 3/322 Brunswick St, Fortitude?Brisbane, Queensland

Western Australia – February

5 Feb 2010, 9pm? The Prince of Wales ?41 Stephen Street?Bunburry, Western Australia

6 Feb 2010, 9:00pm ?Settler’s Tavern, 114 Bussell Hwy?Margaret River, Western Australia

7 Feb 2010, 8:00pm? The Indi Bar, 23 Hastings Street?Scarborough, Western Australia

9 Feb 2010, 8:00pm? Mojo’s, 237 Queen Victoria St?Perth, Western Australia

12 Feb 2010 8:00pm? The Camel Bar ?20 Chapman Road Geralton, Western Australia

13 Feb 2010 8:00pm? Rainbow Jungle ?14 Bridgeman Road ?Kalbarri, Western Australia

14 Feb 2010, 9:00pm Southerley’s Tavern ? Dongara, Western Australia

Next Melbourne Show: Friday, Feb 26
The Corner Hotel, Swan Street, Richmond

Thanks to all the lovely peeps who came down to the Thornbury Theatre to see us play. We had a great time and will have some footage from the night uploaded to our myspace soon.

Our show at The Corner will probably be our last Melbourne show before we head back to Europe until December so be sure to book your tickets early if you want to see us play. The fun police have cracked down on our busking (apparently too many people were smiling and maybe just maybe we were playing a little bit too loud) so no more watching The Wishing Well with a fistful of Lord of Fries at Flinders Street anymore BUT please do come and see us play at The Corner we can’t promise you Lord of the Fries but we can promises you an awesome show. You get to see us rock out in great splendour minus Connex announcements and tram whistles! Supports will be announced soon.

Tickets available from Corner Box Office 11am-8pm Mon-Sat, 9427 9198 or www.cornerhotel.com

European Tour starts: June 21

We have started to make our bookings for our next Euroinvasion tour to the UK and Europe. Lift off is June 21 and we are really looking forward to catching up with all our Euro buddies and indulging in some great beer. If you really really want us to come play a concert in your town now is the time to let us know and about any other venues you think would be great for us.

July 1, 2010 – Ryan’s of Odense, Odense, Denmark

July 14, 2010, – Schokoladen, Berlin, Germany

And many more to come so stay tuned!

Seeking fill-in drummer

Rod is off to India for some rest and relaxation but the show must go on! So we are looking for someone to fill his big bird shoes with us while he is away. If you’re up for some fun tours and like hanging out with some weirdos then give Rivkah a call on 0423 425 009 and she can give you all the details.

Dear nannas…

Hands up who wants to be a nanna for the night for The Wishing Well in Tas, Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane? Our nanna for the night program has been great fun for us and the nannies! If you are able to host even some of us and even for just one night you would be helping us out an incredible amount. It makes such a difference to us being able to avoid those stinky hotel rooms and stay in a real house. We are seeking nannies for the following nights and places:

Jan 1, 2 Hobart, Tasmania

Jan 18, Feb 1 Canberra ACT

Jan 20 Tamworth, NSW

Jan 19, Jan 31 Sydney, NSW

Jan 29, Wauchope, NSW

Jan 22, 23, 25, 26, 28 Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Jan 27 Brisbane, Queensland

Jan 24 Gold Coast, Queensland

Feb 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Perth/Fremantle WA

Come On Tour With Us

If you have a van or other large vehicle that lounges around the garage and needs to get out more, you could hire it to us! It makes you money and we save some! Give Rivkah a call on 0423 425 009 for details. We are looking to hire a van Jan 14- Feb 1 for our tour from Melbourne to Queensland and back.

Calling all froupies far and wide!

Froupies needed to put up posters in Byron, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Melbourne, please contact Riv on 0423 425 009 if you think you are a bit of whiz with glue and street poles.

Best monthly moment winner…..goes to Sez

For her sincere question: “Stingose..oh yeah, do you put this stuff on before or after you get bitten?” and for STILL getting lost on the way to the rehearsal studio even though she has been there dozens of times, for her endless bow twirls, smiles and chocolates

The Wishing Well’s monthly blah blah

Hello and seasons greetings to you all ?
After many hours on the road in the van with The Wishing Well, Jai and Riv kindly asked me to write a article for the monthly newsletter, the first piece is based the journey of a person through life and a coconut…As all of us are travellers on a journey through this precious life of ours we can often get dragged down, spun around and end up feeling dry, weather it be through money situations, people, work, or anything else, you can begin to feel like a coconut! There’s this beautiful, tasty flesh on the inside that you some times forget is there and all you can remember is the harsh, hairy outside that if you saw it you would think “no way! how can there be something magic inside that ugly thing! The feeling is that everyone, no matter how harsh and hairy one can be and put others through a heap of negative situations, deep down inside every person on this planet’s true nature is of beauty, peace, pure love and contentment. In each of us there is so much energy waiting to be poured into the right areas of the garden of our life’s and not watering and giving energy to the weeds and useless thoughts. So next time you come across a angry coconut or feel like one yourself, take 3 deeeeeeeeeeeep breaths, look beyond the harsh outside and recognise the eternal truth that we are beautiful, spiritual beings, all on our individual journey through this beautiful life, its just we sometimes forget. Thanks for reading, peace and good wishes to you all, Roderick ?

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To buy your copy of Life on the Border please go to The Wishing Well Store at

www.lifeontheborder.net

Thanks for reading ? and to all the people who throw change in our
case, buy our CDs, come to our shows and take time out of their busy
lives to let us know how much our music resonates with them. It’s the
highest reward for us to connect with you through our music. We often
share moments and meet people through playing our music that we
otherwise wouldn’t. To see someone jamming along with us who speaks
English as a second language or comes from a place we have never been
to or even heard of or who lives a life that is so different from
anything we have ever experienced and to be able to connect through
music is a beautiful and rare experience we never tire of!
See you soon
x The Wishing Well (Jai, Sarah, Rivkah, Willow, Oscar and Rod)

In this newsletter :

• Thornbury Theatre Show (Melb), Nov 28 (Sat), tickets selling fas
• New album update
• Nannas for the night: calling all hospitable Australians (SA, NSW, QLD, TAS, WA
• Poster Pimps OR kid version froupies (SA, NSW, QLD, TAS, WA
• Caravaniseri – come on tour with us sort of
• Triple J and radio airpla
• House concert anyone
• Europe and Canada – please keep reading!
• The Wishing Well is turning 3 years old (anyone in the tour bus witnessing our antics would agree with this age description)
• Gig Guide:  South Australia (Nov), regional Victoria (Dec), Tasmania (Jan), East Coast – NSW, ACT, QLD (Jan), WA (Feb
• Facebook, Twitter join up won’t ya?

Calm Before The Storm…

October has been the quietest month in our 2 and a bit year history together.  We only played four times as we have been working our butts off on the new album – rehearsing, arranging, writing and recording.   The transition from performing constantly to recording has given us the chance to sit back and think about how we want to record all these songs that were written on the road during our many tours. We still managed to squeeze in a wonderful and intimate house concert, a couple of street performances and The Maldon Folk Festival in October just to remind us of what a magical experience it is to play live together. And of course a few hospital visits that have come to be part and parcel of any gigs numbering greater than 3 outside Melbourne

Thornbury Theatre, Nov 28 (Sat), dinner and show, tickets selling fast

We are really looking forward to playing again in Melbourne and in particular at this beautiful theatre.  We’ll be showcasing a number of new tunes from our forthcoming second album and be joined by the graceful Francesca Mountfort on cello and wonderful Willow on acoustic guitar, mandolin and harmony vocals.   There will be a yummy dinner and two great supports for you to feast on (Tash Parker and April Maze) before we set fire to the stage with some great new tunes of our second album and a couple of surprises.  Don’t miss out! Tickets can be purchased online here: Thornbury Theatre Ticket Sales

New album

Under the guidance of the uber talented Pete Dacey, the texture and sound of our second album is gradually taking shape.

The bodaciously cool and talented Lord Pete Dacey in the 60’s love pad that is his studio.

It is an exciting process to watch listening to the tracks grow and develop each week.  Rod has laid down all the drums incorporating some really cool effects and pulling out all of his tai chi drum moves.

Bob Marley, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin all kept Rod good company as laid down some tasty grooves

Jai has finished laying down all the mighty guitars and much of the warm bass and the Sezorchestra is hard at work laying down all those beautiful strings and crafting magnificent solos for I Face Myself Alone and Sweet Song.

The vibe in here is so cool I have to wear a jacket and scarf!!!

We’ve been jamming with the oceanness of cello, which is Fran who will add to the Sezorchestra in November.  Willow is to add mandolin and harmony vocals and last but not least Jai will record his lead vocals in December and then badabing a new album ready for you in January so don’t blow all your cash over the Christmas cause you won’t want to miss out!

What to call the album?

So far, we like the idea of calling the album Fire In The Valley.  For those of you who know the song, it is a mysterious and ambient tune, whispering violin, softly rumbling drums and breathy vocals. At first listen, it might not seem to sum up the entirety of the album since it certainly doesn’t rock out like the other tracks and stands out in comparison to the others.  But it is at the heart of what The Wishing Well is for us.  With all the space and minimalist instrumentation, it reminds us of what is at the heart of our music – the soulfulness and sincerity of the sound and the meaningful lyrics that are such a distinctive part of what our band is to us.

As a track it is about the beauty and regeneration that comes out of destruction and was written after our old drummer Mikey’s house burned down in the forest fires in February this year.  For us it is about the many great things that are forged in fire despite its obvious destructiveness something we have experienced as individuals and also through the many peaks and troughs of our band’s development.

We’ve added another track to the second album called Long Way Down, which no one has heard live – even us since we haven’t had a chance to rehearse it up yet!  Jai wrote it on the fly when he was trying to finish the arrangement for Shadows but Sir Pete said no way could we wait to record it for album three so it is a little bit of a surprise track for us since the others we have played to most of you while on the road.   We will be playing Long Way Down live during our Adelaide tour and at The Thornbury Theatre show.

It is about “going for it” musically, cutting out all the other everyday crap that steals you and your time away from your dreams.  Long Way Down summarizes the sacrifices you need to sometimes make for your passion.   We always liked that saying from The Dalai Llama “judge your success by what you have given up”.  We can’t wait for you to hear it.  It’s going to be the first single launched off the album.

Apart from all the work we have been doing on the new album, Sez is quitting her job as head of strings at Mckillop College so she can dedicate every waking moment to The Wishing Well instead of training little kids to shift into third position on the violin.  A wise choice, we think and apart from violin gymnastics she is going to help out with the management of our little band of trippers as long as we keep her topped up with Kitkats.

Thats the way aha aha…

Nannas for the nights

Thanks to everybody who has agreed to be our nanna for the night in the coming months along the many upcoming touring destinations.  You guys rock!  It brings a great smile to our face knowing we will be spending a little less time at Formula 1.  If anyone else is interested in being our nanna for the night just check the tour dates and let us know if you would be able to put us up for the night in any of the destinations close to you.   We are very well-behaved house guests and can cram into the tiniest of places and go unnoticed sort of like The Terminator (in the sense you will need your heat sensor goggles to notice us). You can email us at thewishingwellband@gmail.com

Want to be a poster pimp or a froupie?

Colin from Adelaide emailed us asking about putting up some posters for us (thanks Colin) so if you like roaming the streets and taping or glueing why not join in the fun of putting up posters to help promote our gigs and tours?  Get in touch with your artsy and craftsy side.  Looking for a way to entertain your kids on Saturday arvo? It’s great fun, if you haven’t tried it and is good for fitness too.  Just think goodbye Weightwatchers, hello poster putting up for The Wishing Well.  You can email us at:  thewishingwellband@gmail.com and we can send you some posters to put up in some of the towns we will be passing through.  You get special perks as a poster pimp or froupie (kind of like a groupie but a whole lot more fun – you have to become one to find out how).

Caravaniserai – come on tour with us sort of…

Do you have a spare van or turago or any large vehicle that sits around feeling neglected and un-loved?  Don’t you think your large vehicle DESERVES to see just more than the inside of your garage or that same stretch of Melbourne road to your job?  We can help.  Loan us your van or large vehicle for one of our tours and we will pay you .10 per kilometer travelled.  That’s right your car earns money and gets out a bit to see the world.  All of the other logistics regarding liability and insurance can be worked out.  Isn’t your car worth it? But seriously, you would be saving us half the price of those extortionists Budget and Europe car (no offence) and we would prefer to give that money to somebody we know anyway.

We are looking for caravaniseris for these tour legs:
Melbourne – Adelaide (Nov 18 -23)
Melbourne – Shepparton/Albury/Bright (Dec 11-14)
Melbourne – Queensland (14 Jan- 1 Feb)

If you would like to help, we love you  and you can email Rivkah at thewishingwellband@gmail.com

Triple J and other radio plugs

Seeing as we are already asking for favors we thought might as well chuck a few extra in.  Want to hear our tunes but are too cheap to buy our CD, well then this one is for you!  Why not request us on these radio stations and then tune in?  It’s easy, we both win – you save your money and we get radio airplay yay!   Request and review our songs here : The Wishing Well on JJJ

House concerts

Don’t forget about our fabulously intimate house concerts complete with Sez absailing across the living room violin in tow.   Bookings can be made through the friendly Rivkah on 0423 425 009.

Before the show at a recent house concert

Dear Europe, Dear Canada

We haven’t forgotten you guys! Just waiting to hear back from some festivals before we begin booking our next invasion.  We know that by patiently perusing these newsletters each month you probably know more now about Australian geography then you ever wanted to but please hang in there!  We promise to have some European and Canada newsworthy updates for you before the end of the year.  Be patient, won’t ya? We promise to be back by June 2010.

Next month is The Wishing Well’s 3rd year anniversary

That’s right our anniversary is just around the corner.  3 years ago on December 5, Rivkah’s birthday, we played our very first gig.   It’s been a wild and unexpected ride since that first gig 3 years ago.  We’ve worked our butts off, had so much fun and learned so much. Thanks so much to the over 600 venues and festivals that have taken a gamble on us by giving us gigs even when all we had were some really bad demos to listen to. Thanks to the 32 former band members who have passed through our band like diarrhea (maybe this a bad metaphor?) but left behind some great musical splendor and fun times and sacrificed a lot of their personal lives and time to help shimmy us along to the next stage.  Special thanks to the over 5,000 people who have bought a copy of Life On The Border, your generosity has funded everything from petrol to toilet rolls, maccas (sorry Sez) to the recording of our second album.  Thanks especially to all those people we met early on who encouraged us to keep going and continue to do so.  And even a special thanks to those few killjoys who failed to convince us that we would never be able to do what we are doing or that our music should just sound a little bit more something like whatever– we are so glad we ignored you!  We have so much more exciting work to do, gigs and festivals to play, obstacles to overcome but we feel very grateful to have made it so far to our 3rd birthday, to be lucky enough to play music as much as we do and to be recording our second album.  The show must go on! And it will

Gig Guide – Here we come far and wide across this great continent, please dejammify yourself and get your butt down to one of the gigs!

South Australia – November
18 Nov 2009, 8:00pm
The Grace Emily, 232 Waymouth St
Adelaide, South Australia

22 Nov 2009 8:00 P
Red Poles, McMurtrie Rd
McClarenvale,  South Australia

Victoria – December
28 Nov 2009, 9:00pm
The Thornbury Theatre, 859 High Street, Thornbury
Tickets available here:

http://thornburytheatre.webtickets.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=2207

5 Dec 2009, 9:00pm
Baha Tacos, 2409 Point Nepean Rd
Rye, Victoria

11 Dec 2009  9:00pm
The Yahoo Bar, 45 High St
Shepparton, Victoria

12 Dec 2009, 2:00pm
Bridgewater Brewers, Old Coach House Brewers Lane, Ford Street
Beechworth, Victoria

12 Dec 2009, 9:00pm
Tanswell’s Commercial Hotel, 50 Ford Street,
Beechworth, New South Wales

13 Dec 2009
The Astor Hotel, Albury, NSW
Young St., Albury NSW

Tasmania – January
1 Jan 2010, 8:00pm
The Brookfield Vineyard, 1640 Channel Highway
Margate, Tasmania

2 Jan 2010, 8:00pm
The Republic Bar, 299 Elizabeth Street
Hobart, Tasmania

3 Jan 2010, 4:00pm
The Bridge Hotel, corner of Leith and Forth Roads
Forth, Tasmania

ACT, NSW, QLD – January
Canberra:
18 Jan 2010  9:00pm
The Phoenix Bar, 21 East Row
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales:
20 Jan 2010, 6:00pm
The Rails, Jonson Street, Railway Station
Byron Bay, New South Wales

29 Jan 2010, 8:00pm
Wauchope Community Arts, Oxley Lane
Wauchope, New South Wales

Queensland:

23 Jan 2010  9:00pm
Crystal Waters Community Deck, off Kilcoy Lane Conondale
Crystal Waters, Queensland

27 Jan 2010, 8:00pm
The Troubadour, 3/322 Brunswick St, Fortitude
Brisbane, Queensland

Western Australia – February
5 Feb 2010, 9pm
The Prince of Wales
41 Stephen Street
Bunburry, Western Australia

6 Feb 2010, 9:00pm
Settler’s Tavern, 114 Bussell Hwy
Margaret River, Western Australia

7 Feb 2010, 8:00pm
The Indi Bar, 23 Hastings Street
Scarborough, Western Australia

9 Feb 2010, 8:00pm
Mojo’s, 237 Queen Victoria St
Perth, Western Australia

12 Feb 2010              8:00pm
The Camel Bar
20 Chapman Road

Geralton, Western Australia

13 Feb 2010              8:00pm
Rainbow Jungle
14 Bridgeman Road
Kalbarri, Western Australia

14 Feb 2010, 9:00pm
Southerley’s Tavern
Dongara, Western Australia

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lives to let us know how much our music resonates with them.  It’s the
highest reward for us to connect with you through our music.  We often
share moments and meet people through playing our music that we
otherwise wouldn’t.  To see someone jamming along with us who speaks
English as a second language or comes from a place we have never been
to or even heard of or who lives a life that is so different from
anything we have ever experienced and to be able to connect through
music is a beautiful and rare experience we never tire of!

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x The Wishing Well (Jai, Sarah, Rivkah, Willow, Oscar and Rod)