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26 January 2008
Ben, Charlie and Chris were asked to play a song with Australian of the Year Lee Kernaghan at the massive Australia Day Live concert on Australia Day Eve. The 35,000 strong crowd and 1.2 million television audience made the show something to remember.
Click here for some pics backstage.
10 December 2007
KATE RUNS AWAY - Chuffs, Looking Glass and MEATBEE to celebrate
Kate from MEATBEE has decided to head off overseas. She has had several
delightful day trips to exotic locations such as the Belconnen Interchange
(as featured in award winning film Summersault) and also Queanbeyan (as
featured in NSW), but has now decided to go further afield in search of more
food. She is quite often hungry. She doesn’t know where the adventure will
take her (hopefully not like what happened to Taylor on the Bold and the
Beautiful when she got kidnapped by that evil prince and everyone thought
she was dead, but really she was just on an island somewhere… actually that
might be ok…).
Kate doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing, but she definitely won’t be
hitting Canberra stages for at least a couple of years and MEATBEE have
decided to leave it up to fate to decide whether or not she ever plays with
them again (having said that Kate will be mighty pissed if she ends up being
2007/08’s equivalent of Pete Best, so if anything good happens she is going
to try and squirm her way back into the band as a tambourine player or
something…).
On Thursday December 20th MEATBEE play their last gig for 2007 with The
Chuffs and Looking Glass at the ANU Bar so come down and have a beer with
them to celebrate all the memories/reclaim outstanding monies/finish off
arguments/re-tell old stories or jokes. Entry is $5 at the door (how cheap
is that?!?!?!).
As for the other MEATBEEs, they might be back in 2008 with a new line-up.
Maybe new hair do’s. If you’re lucky they might turn up in new pants. Who
knows, it’s a mystery…
10 October 2007
MEATBEE's video Don’t Come Over has made it to round 2 of SunScreen Independent Music Video Festival, held at the Festival of the Sun music festival on December 14 and 15 this year.
You have one week from today in which to vote for the MEATBEE clip
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU??
If you vote, you go into the draw for a double pass to Festival of the Sun where you will see Gotye, Cog, Butterfingers, Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set, Ash Grunwald, The Fumes, Kid Confucius, SubAudible Hum, The Boat People, Aurora Jane & Massive Change, The Sins, Tjupurru, Mr Percival and George Byrne
Head to www.sunscreen.net.au to place your vote!!
20 August 2007
Both current MEATBEE releases (the Chronicles of Sapphire Sundew (CD/DVD),
and Transformers (CD) are available from today from all good CD stores, as
well as online stores and iTunes.
Head on down to any good CD store and ask them to order it for you
or
The cheapest price we know of at this time is online via Big W
Or
you can buy individual tracks from iTunes
13 August 2007
Find us on iTunes here.
2 August 2007
Both Chronicles of Sapphire Sundew, and Transformers will be available in stores nationwide and from iTunes from August 18.
Both releases can be ordered now from Waterfront Records here.
25 May 2007
MEATBEE have re recorded an electric version of Transformers at the request of the music supervisor of the motion picture! Unfortunately, a major US record label has gained the rights to the soundtrack and will only be using their own artists, however you can still get hold of the new version.
For now it is available at Songland Records and Landspeed in Canberra with national distibution to come.
You can hear the song at our Myspace, and theres a videoclip online at You Tube (big thanks go out to EoR Media)
The song is the feature song on Canberra's FM104.7 for the month of July. SMS 1990 1047 to request it! Click here to hear the promo.
29 April 2007
Check out the video of Dont Come Over, which has made it into the finals of the prestigeous St Kilda Film Festival
20 April 2007
Just one week till Sapphire is born!
20 April 2007
Our old faithful Truck 'Old Stinky' has his own Myspace page! Check him out here.
20 April 2007
Check out the Meet.Be. Photobiography at Rarified Framing Gallery 8/55 Woolley Street Dickson, on till the 29th April
18 April 2007
Supports for the launch have been announced: the Cashews, Avenue Days and alienspeaking (DJ set after MEATBEE)
15 April 2007
The winner of the animation comp can now be viewed online, or purchased on DVD at the launch.
1 April 2007
The CD/DVD package will be launched April 28 2007. Its title is "The Chronicles of Sapphire Sundew"
8 February 2007
Do you want the new MEATBEE EP named after you? The band are selling the naming rights for the EP on ebay right now.!
The title will be "The Chronicles of <insert winning bidders name>"
Check it out here.
2 February 2007
The long awaited MEATBEE EP launch date has finally been announced!
28 April 2007 an the Uni Bar Canberra. Dont miss it!
More details soon.
2 February 2007
MEATBEE have been announced on the bill with the Rogue Traders for the Canberra Day Concert on Sunday March 11, 2007.
More details soon.
30 January 2007
The results are in! The winners of the MEATBEE Animation and Remix competitions have been announced.
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The winner of the animation competition are 'Staberback', a team from
Academy of Interactive Entertainment (Iain Chandler, Scott Hartnett, Tim
Quinn, Jessica Harris, Rhys Davey, Jun Lee, Warren Porter, Adam Ball and
Michael Dimmick). The team used minimal movement, an anime style of
artwork and a nicely flowing style of editing which was perfectly suited to
the changes in the music. The storyline was excellent and captured the
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The winner of the Remix comp is Trikta (with help from Farquar) with his awesome remix of Nothin Good on TV. Trikta impressed us, using every drum
track he had available to him, remixing the riffs and turning out what is a
kicking dance piece!
Stay tuned for details of where and when you can check out both the clip
and the remix!
Thanks to everyone who entered! The standard was amazing and it was a very
difficult decision.
24 January 2007
MEATBEE are kicking off the new year with a bang by playing on field at the first
Brumbies match of the year on February 10 2007.
With a crowd of 25,000 expected, the guys will be investing in brown
underpants, but are up for the task.
MEATBEE on field at 7pm. Tickets from Ticketek.
24 January 2007
MEATBEE are thrilled to announce they have progressed to the semi-finals of the International Songwriting Competition. Congratulations also to Jason Maynard (ex Canberra) who also join us in the semi-finals.
28 November 2006
Due to a high volume of last minute requests we have decided to extend the deadline of the competition to January 10th 2007 with the announcement of winners on January 30th 2007.
In the interest of keeping a level playing field, and although the entries received thus far have been of an exceptional quality, entrants who have already submitted and feel that with more time they could improve their chances of winning are permitted to further develop their work and resubmit it by the new deadline.
20 November 2006
Only 2 weeks remain till close of entries for the MEATBEE animation and remix competitions. Entries are begining to roll in and are of an exceptional standard. Get your entries in now!
28 September 2006
MEATBEE's classic video clip Marvin has been nominated in the inaugural BMA Canberra Region Music Video Competition of the 11th Canberra Short Film Festival. The announcement is to be on Sunday 15th October at 8pm at the National Museum of Australia.
18 September 2006
MEATBEE are sitting at #1 and #3 on Triple J's Unearthed chart overall. Head on over and help us out by giving us a review here
16 August 2006
This year's Triple J Unearthed has started up and Meatbee have just
entered. This year is a bit different and users register, then log on to
rate tracks. Whoever gets a high enough track rating ends up winning a
prize (so no more state by state comps). If you're interested you can
register here
And if you want to have a listen to and rate Meatbee you can do so here
If you know of anyone who might be interested in jumping on and having ago,
please pass this on. There's a plethora of bands on the site who are
excellent, so apart from anything else it's a good way to find some new
music.
13 July 2006
MEATBEE are pleased to present their first PDF newsletter! Enjoy.
6 July 2006
MEATBEE are inviting local animators and DJs to be part of the forthcoming EP with some sweet prizes up for grabs!
4 July 2006
The first taste of the forthcoming EP Breathing Underwater can be heard here. Please leave your opinion on the Guestbook.
 11 May 2006
The upcoming EP, with the working title Breathing Underwater has been mixed. The tracks, featuring Lachlan Paine who has retaken bass duties, sound everything the band had hoped and more.
Stay tuned to see how YOU can be part of the CD/DVD.
1 May 2006
The band are putting final touches to the recordings for the upcoming release, tentatively titled Breathing Under Water. Major announcements will be made this month on how YOU can be part of the CD/DVD. Stay tuned!
 23 February 2006
MEATBEE are currently in pre production for their upcoming release.
New dates will be announced after easter.
January 2006
See this months hotpress mag for a half page article on MEATBEE.
1 December 2005
MEATBEE have recruited Paroxyst as the new bass player. Paroxyst played his first show with MEATBEE at the Vic on the Park in November to rave review.
25 November 2005
MEATBEE will release a multimedia CD in 2006. The disc will feature new recordings, plus videoclips and more. More details will be released in coming weeks.
19 July 2005
If you would like a voucher for cheap entry to Bitchfest on August 6 at the marQuee, please email us and we will post it to you.
If you would like to catch the MEATBEEbus from Canberra to Sydney for the show, please email us.
14 July 2005
MEATBEE will appear at the upcoming BITCHFEST at the mArquee in Camperdown on Saturday August 6. The event, focusing on female (and female fronted) acts is always a huge night, one not to be missed!
On the bill are:
MEATBEE
SHIVER
VIOLENT MINX
The night kicks off at 8pm.
Tix $12 at the door, or if you have a voucher (available from us - just email if you want one) its only $8!
As this is such a rockin' event, we feel its not fair that Canberans should have to miss out, we will be offering places on the MEATBEEbus!
Heres how it works...
Seat on bus: $15
Entry to Bitchfest: $8
Spending a drunken night on a bus with 21 other people on a big fat rock and roll adventure: Priceless.
The bus will leave on the Saturday afternoon returning after the gig. Buckle up!
For more info, check out the marQuee.
4 July 2005
A podcast featuring Ben and Kate is available here. Along with chating about songwriting and non band related stuff the podcast includes a few live acoustic tracks.
HINT: You dont actually need an iPod to listen to a Podcast - you can listen to it on your computer or burn it to CD to listen to it on a CD player!
25 May 2005
A documentary focusing around the next stages in the life of MEATBEE is being planned currently and should begin shoot in the next few weeks.
Whether it is titled 'Some Kind of MEATBEE' is up for discussion.
23 May 2005
Big congrats to Chris and Lindi Holly who won silver Awards at the recent 2005 AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards for images from the Lake George photo shoot featured on the new MEATBEE website.
You can see more of Chris and Lindi's work at www.holimage.com
13 May 2005
Welcome to the new website! Version 3.0
Check back soon for new news items...
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