1/11/2006
While we redevelop the maunder website, stay up to date with the coming gigs through www.myspace.com/maundertheband or email us at maunder@hypercritical.net and we'll send you updates as they happen.
Don't miss out Maunder at Revolver on the 8th Nov, and the Grand Central on the 7th of December, as well as Daniel playing solo at the Espy on 5th December.
1/9/2006
Welcome Spring!! - New Photo's and Gigs
Damn Those Theives!! - October 13th
You may have noticed the new pictures on the web. Well, as we're such a fancy shmancy band (*cough*), we thought we'd share with you what came out of our recent photo shoot. Unfortunately, the photographer had her camera stolen recently... "BASTARDS" I hear you yell, "Who would do that to an artist!!?". Well, to support our Canadian friend, we're playing at the Central Club in October with some great bands to help her out. (Mosaik and Joel Muston) We'll also have the cream of the independant comedy circuit coming to liven the night. So make sure you come along on the 13th of October and help her "Damn those theives!" (it's a Friday the 13th... how ominous).
Also in the wars is Daniel's car... It was run off the road and destroyed by some 'hoon' on the way to The Greyhound gig in July. Luckily he borrowed a car and got the the show in time. If you see some guy on the side of the road dragging a keyboard off to his gigs, feel free to lend him a hand, as the idiot is still walking everywhere.
Got gigs lined up for October, and organising some shows with our mates Joel Muston and To the Moon, so keep you're ears peeled for more announcements.
The new photo's can be seen on www.myspace.com/maundertheband, and will be up here for your pleasure soon.
18/8/2006
Gig this week at the Cornish Arms Hotel, come along and cheer, as it's the Regional Final of the National Uni Battle of the Bands. All been busy beavers, playing the Greyhound in October.
Check back soon, as we had a fancy schmancy photo shoot and we'll be putting the new pics ups soon.
3/8/2006
Upcoming gig at the Cornish Arms Hotel, come along and cheer, as it's the next heat of the National Uni Battle of the Bands. The Cornish Arms is under new managament as of next month, so don't miss out on checking the place out before it changes hands. The Kangaroo Steak on monday nights is a treat.
19/7/2006
Gig tonight at The Greyhound Hotel, don't miss out.
The recordings have been mastered by our friends at Omega Music, so check the downloads page to have a listen.
Keep dropping in or joing the mailing list for info on future shows. Gig's in August and September still to be confirmed.
9/7/2006
Upcoming gig at The Greyhound Hotel on the 19th of July. It looks to be a great show, so come and lend your support. Also playing are Why.. Valerie and Dirty Romantics.
Steve's other project "Ouch My Face!" is playing this Friday the 14th at the Central Club on Swan St, another gig worth checking out.
In other news, there's isn't much to go public at the moment, just waiting for the CD. You can listen to the new song Melbourne at www.myspace.com/maundertheband
20/6/2006
Some fun shows at the Cornish Arms and The Espy. The Espy gig was a lot of fun and we'll be playing there again soon. Also, check out the gig gig page, as we're playing the Greyhound again in July. (The gig will be mentioned in July's Arts In the City magazine)
The Demo is coming along well, one more song to tidy up. We look forward to sharing it with you.
My Space has also suckered us in, so you can check out www.myspace.com/maundertheband
Oh, and Steve's rehab is going really well.
Cheers Y'all
9/6/2006
You may have noticed things are a bit different around here? We're still putting things together, but here is the new MAUNDER website.
In other exciting news, MAUNDER won the National Campus Battle of the Bands heat last Monday at the Arthouse. Regional Final in september, we'll keep you posted. It was a fun show, and a special thanks needs to go those that came along. You know who you are, we appreciated the support.
See ya'll at the next shows.
6/6/2006
Gig at the ArtHouse tonight, see gig page. Be there by 9pm to see us. Also,
come along for dinner at the Cornish Arms next monday (12/6/06) for $10 steak
and a possible appearance of Daniel playing solo. Some awesome muso's playing,
so check it out.
Don't forget the mailing list, maunder@hypercritical.net
31/5/2006
Gig and Recording Update
More details for the gigs that are coming up on the 6th and 13th of June. Go
to the gigs page
for more info.
To stay in the loop with gigs and big news, we would really appreciate your
support if you signed up onto the mailing list. Your information will be kept
completely confidential and will only be used to email you about gigs and other
important Maunder events. Just send us an email to maunder@hypercritical.net,
and we'll take care of the rest.
In other news, the first of our recording came back from Omega Music this week.
'Melbourne' as itis called, sounds sweet, and we're really excited to be able
to offer it to you FREE. Just doing some minor adjustments, then it'll be posted.
We're waiting on another song still to come, but need to wait till Daniel (Jerry)
gets down to the studio and lay some vocal tracks.
In people news, Daniel's been doing session work and arranging, as well as working
on the new magazine Arts In the City. Steve had some recordings played on SBS's
new show, The Da Vinci Cup, including one that Daniel wrote with him. Nice one
boys. You'll recognize Steve's song, it's played whenever the bad guy comes
into shot. Ben and Aaron haven't stayed quiet either, playing with the Whisky
Go GO's and their album launch at the Espy's Gershwin room. It was a top night,
even with the unexpected nudity, (from burlesque dancers, not Aaron, phew).
Look forward to seeing you at the gigs!!
Maunder
14/5/2006
New Gigs and New Tunes...
The new recordings are shaping up nicely, just kinda sitting in post production
at the moment. For those that know, we've recorded Fear Change, a rocky number,
and the song Melbourne, a nice chilled out number even featuring Steve of Trumpet.
If you haven't seen us live, we'll be playing those tunes at the next gig and
will put them on-line when they've been mastered. They will be mixed and mastered
by Omega Music
Upcoming Gigs are on the 6th at the Arthouse, and 13th of July The Espy, check
out the gigs page
for more info.
20/4/2006
Hope everyone had a great easter... Here's what's been going on in the Maunder
camp. Firstly we go back to the studio to record 2 new songs in the next couple
weeks. Ben and Aaron gigging with the "Whiskey Go Go's" and Steve is gearing
up for a gig at the Tote. We're also involved in a funk project that may crop
up in the next few months.
But regardless, we're still dedicated to getting Maunder's music to you guys.
We'll let you know when the new tracks are up on the web, just sign up to the
mailing list by emailing maunder@hypercritical.net.
7/4/2006
Gig in June at the Espy - See Gig page. Website content update is underway,
so check back soon.
14/2/2006
Greyhound
Review
Firstly, a special thanks to all those that came out and supported us play at
the Greyhound last week. We got some really strong feedback from the audience,
and really enjoyed the gig. Daniel even broke his piano stool... who knew you
could rock out that much on a piano? Special mention to Ben who's playing bass
for us now, as it was his first gig with us. We look forward to more of "Dancing
Ben" at future shows.
We'll keep this site posted on future gigs... also have put the review from
the Jager Uprising below. Take care y'all...
FROM "Jager Uprising @ The Greyhound. By Neil Wedd"
The venue then filled up with people to see Maunder play. Maunder played
songs that remind me of The Whitlams. Sometimes a bit funkier than that. The
singer played the keyboards, with guitar, bass and drums. Ballads, full of emotion
and poignancy. Good playing backed it up. Nobody dominated the proceedings,
the band working as it should. As a unit that delivered well crafted songs.
The crowd lapped it up, the band went for it on the last song bringing the set
and the night to a satisfying end.
16/01/2006
Happy
New Year - Gig at the Greyhound
We hope you are all well at the beginning of this New Year. Here's the latest
on the band. Firstly, come check us out at the Greyhound on the 8th of February!!
Details at the GIGS
page. Steve's also going back to study, so you may see him round Box Hill
this year with his trumpet, we congratulate him on getting in. After we all
came back from the Christmas brak, we spent a week together working on new material,
and there's a bunch of things happening behind the scenes that will hopefully
push us forward a bit more, so it's worth staying tuned.
... and don't forget you can download the tracks of the EP from
HERE , we'll get the artwork up on the web soon.
Hope to see you soon
25/11/2005
Is
that a box of printed Maunder Demo/EP's in my hallway or are you just happy
to hear me?
Yes, it's finally happened, the CD's are back from the printers, and we're off
down the road skipping with our pinic baskets full of CD's to give venues, agents,
etc. They'll be around at upcoming gigs, but you can just download the files
from our Downloads
page, and onto the IPOD they go.
Tommo's been busy with his band MOSAIK, and half the bands been moving house,
so now, we wind up the Maunder machine and see how long she'll spin for.
now be good, or i'll tell your mum...
...who are we kidding, of course we wont...
12/10/2005
Latest
News: "The Tempest" that Jerry and Steve did the score for is all over, with
talks of another season in the future. Jerry's also been curating an art exhibition
DIRTY CRUMMY ART while gigging with Jess Paige, check them out at The Evelyn
this Thursday. Tommo's has also been playing with MOSAIK, who got a great review
in INPRESS this week from their gig at the Greyhound.
The demo/ep/whatever it is called, is finished and off to the printers, so mailing
list people will get mail when its ready for download etc. Now that it's done,
Steve and Jerry are out looking for some acoustic gigs, with band stuff to follow.
Hope to see you at a show soon, we're all just itching to play...
19/9/2005
Well things have just been plain busy at the maunder camp... Jerry's been madly writing/recording the music for the fringe festival production of shakespeare's THE TEMPEST for the JUNKYARD MONKEYS theatre company as well as been busy working for Melbourne singer/songwriter JESS PAIGE. Steve's been busy in the studio recording the Melbourne band MOSAIK, while also giving our song Ache In My Head" a makeover, so we can give you a full band version. All this has meant the Demo hasn't gone to the printers yet, but all the artworks done, and we'll have it online in October...
7/9/2005
Gig
TONIGHT at Deakin University, check out Gig page for more info...
...and as the gigs start rolling in, join the mailing list by emailing maunder@hypercritical.net
right now... no more having to wonder where we're playing, we'll drop you a
line and let you know... now how's that for service?
24/8/2005
Maunder
is into the REGIONAL FINAL of the National Uni Battle Of the Bands! Check out
gig page to find out where to see us.
As for some people news, Daniel is working on the music for the Melbourne Fringe
show "Shakespeares - The Tempest" and it looks like he'll be playing for the
Melbourne singer Jess Paige. Steve's producing the demo for the Melbourne band
MOSAIK, who Tommo also plays for. AND of course, we're doing that endless work
of networking and finding gigs, so please stay tuned, there's some exciting
stuff just down the road.
16/8/2005
Well, it's all finally finished. The tracks for the long coming demo are up on the web!! CD's will be out and about soon, but please feel free to download them and have a listen!! We'd also love to hear your feedback.
Don't forget, maunder live a NCBC at the Hawthorn tonight. Check gig page for details.
We'll be seeing you soon!!
8/8/2005
New photo's are up on the downloads page, along with the first of the tracks from the upcoming demo. Also check out the Gigs page for an upcoming show date on the 16th of August. Other tracks for the demo are nearing completion as we speak.
And, of course, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our bass player Tommo, who recently turned 21!!!
Hope to see you soon
1/7/2005
New downloads, photo's and audio files are almost ready to go up...
As for the band; Steve and Jerry are just finishing work on the soundtrack to the independent film "Watch Me". Aaron's also on holiday on an island (lucky bugger) and Tommo's been working with the Melbourne muso, Kirby Young. Gigs for Maunder look like they'll be gearing up for later in July, so stay tuned.
Keep warm
20/6/2005
WELCOME TO MAUNDER
Welcome to the new home of MAUNDER, the 4 piece original melbourne outfit whose music is generating a sense of wonder amongst their fans and pride in their mentors.
The fact that you are reading this means that their website is up, their music has been launched and the gigs are on ther way. What it also means is that you have stumbled across the central hub for the bands activities. Here is where you will find the latest info on upcoming gigs, news and information, artwork, lyrics, and of course, downloads.
If you haven't heard the band, or want to hear more, check out the download page. This is where you will find stuff to listen to and look at. There might even be the occasional suprise.
We would love it if you stayed in touch with us, so drop us an email by clicking the contact link. By being on our mailing list, you can always be up to date as to where the next gig will be, and where CD's will be for sale. (hopefully in actual CD stores eventually)
The boys are real excited about been able to bring their music to you, so have a browse and stay in touch.
It's about to be one hell of a ride...