The Cat Alley

Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, SA

Review

For reviews and discussions of this gig, visit this thread in the forums.

Palandri Winery, W.A

Approaching The End of Tour & More Caption Contest Winners

With their hectic amount of touring this year, the boys are finally on the home stretch. Eight more gigs mark the end of 2005 for them, with most of these shows already being sold out. Throughout this tour so far, many have contributed reviews and some spectacular photos that you may like to browse through in the forums. If you've been unlucky enough to miss out, you can live vicariously through others!

With that being said, the Empire Caption Contest is steamrolling along, with many, many winners over the past few weeks. If you have kept up to date with the past winning entries, it wont be suprising that there has been little topic change in the captions.

"A pre-biblical Ryan and shocked Harry celebrate their recent win in the National 'Jumps Lookalike' contest, and attempt to reconcile their friendship with Kieran, who flat refused to enter the contest, claiming "I dont need to look like Jumps, i can get a caption all by myself"."
( _pip_ just keeps it coming...)

"Carlo's inner conflict- to play his instrument like any back up should do, or to give in to the terrible idea that was born, having the Empire Horns sing back up."
( _saltwater gives us some insight into how Carlo really feels.)

"Like Father, Like Son."
(Has Mailman uncovered an Empire secret?)

Zazzy: "Jumps: im telling you man! im so over playing the tambourine!"
Strawberry & The Yak: "Jumps: I can't believe Kieran thinks Zazzy and Strawberry are sisters!!!!
Felix: Are you serious?"
(Joint winners on this occassion; Zazzy telling the world about Jumps' dismay while on stage, and yours truly and The Yak telling Kieran what Felix and Jumps think of his statements.)

"Ollie: LoLz0rz I'M T3H AZN!!!1"
(What Mailman forgot to decode 'lol I'm the asian'. A caption only the true internet geek would appreciate.)

Belvoir Ampitheatre, Perth, WA

Review

For reviews and discussions of this gig, visit this thread in the forums.

The Sound Lounge, Sydney

Setlist

Feline
Lullaby
Sol Y Sombra
The Lost Song
Manifesto
How to explain
TNTNE (featuring Space Cowboy)
Someday (Car Song Blues)
Ala Wallee
The Rhythm
The Crowd
Gangster
Two Shoes
Protons
The Wine Song

Review

The Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW

Review

For reviews and discussions of this gig, visit this thread in the forums.

The Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW

Setlist

Submitted by Zazzy in the forums:

Sly
Sol Y Sombra
Party Started
Protons Neutrons Electrons
How To Explain
The Rhythm - featuring a little bit of oya como va by santana
TNTNE - featuring the Space Cowboy and his neon tube
In My Pocket
Jealous Guy (local Sydney jazz singer) sang a song, but i didnt know what it was it wasnt a cat empire song though
Lullaby - featuring Iko (i think thats what its called) the song that goes "talking bout hey now hey now hey no hey now iko iko something something"
Hello - featuring The beat goes on by Sonny and Cher! Also featuring the Space Cowboy and his hat juggling!
The Chariot featruing Hotel California
The Car Song

Encore:
Two Shoes featuing Space Cowboy and his balloon. They also played a little bit of a Gloria Estefan song.

Review

For reviews and discussion of the gig, see this thread in the forums.

West Tamworth Leagues Club, Tamworth, NSW

Secret Sydney Show!

Psst... wanna see a cool band? They're these guys from Melbourne, they kinda play jazz and funk and hiphop and latin, but they're a bit gypsy and - well, anyway, they're cool, you have to hear them. Anyway, they're doing a little gig on Sunday night at the Seymour Centre, there's not many tickets for it and you should totally check it out. They're going to be big one day!

Call the Sound Lounge on (02) 9351-7940 and get some tix, people, it's secret gig time!

Southport RSL, Gold Coast, QLD

The Amphitheatre at Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW

Official "Beat The Pablo" Competition Launched

The last official TCE competition was a "what's the next competition?" competition... confused? The next-competition-competition-winning competition is a variant on the classic Triple J "Beat The Drum" scenario: the aim is to show off the TCE logo as widely and as creatively as you can! Full details can be found from the competitions page.

Personally, I'll give a special prize to anyone who does any of the following:

• makes a TCE crop circle
• Does a TCE burnout in their Datsun 180B
• does a TCE synchronized swimming move
• Arranges individual atoms of xenon with a scanning tunneling microscope to form the TCE logo

Good luck, everyone. It's summer, the boys are on tour, get out there and have some fun.

The Shed, Palmview Sunshine Coast, QLD

The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD

The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD

ANU Uni Bar, Canberra, ACT

For reviews, discussion and photos, see this thread in the forums.

Bilyana Ampitheatre, Eldorado, VIC

The Cat Empire's own mini festival marking the kick off of their national 'The Night That Never End' tour.

It featured various Melbourne bands such as SIB, King Curly and Buttered Loaf. The Space Cowboy performed some extraordinary bodily feats during The Cat Empire's set. This show also saw the debut of one of their new songs entitled, 'The Soul'.

For more reviews and discussion, see this thread in the forums.

4th Round of The Empire Caption Contest

November has rolled around and it's only 3 days until the boys kick off their second Australian national tour of this year. Tickets for many shows have sold out, so be hasty and buy some if there are any left at your end of town.

In celebration, we have two new caption contest winners of late:

"Hello to all you dot info nerds."
(Non-forum go-er Sarah gained some support for her attempted comedic input)

"And on the 6th day, God created Kieran... and dot info rejoiced, for the butt of all jokes was born."
(Shakalak is back, proving if Kieran's name is mentioned in a caption, you're almost guarenteed the win)

The next image is a gem! Check it out in this thread.