The Kings Fool

Another Australian first for Jimmy Barnes

Liberation Music today announced that they will partner with New Found Frequency to launch Jimmy Barnes new album using USB technology: Alive Drive - a cutting edge, new technology delivering exclusive audio, video and image content, along with live updates to fans across the country via the web; all through a branded, USB wristband.

Jimmy Barnes is the first Australian solo artist to use the new format for the much anticipated Tour Edition of the ‘Out In The Blue’ album which also features a full blown concert recorded live at the legendary Playroom on the Gold Coast in 1984.

At the forefront of this technology is Melbourne-based music company New Found Frequency, who are bringing the patented USB wristband and software, otherwise known as Alive Drive, to the technologically savvy Australian marketplace. Alive Drive opens a world of opportunities to both recording artists and record labels with the need for new and clever merchandise to keep fans engaged.

Jimmy Barnes and Liberation were keen to embrace this new format for the re-package of the #1 platinum album ‘Out In The Blue’ album as it allows them to converge Jimmy’s recorded music and bonus content with the live concert experience on one very robust and portable device.

Jimmy commented, “When Liberation contacted me about utilising the new format, I thought the idea was perfect. It allows me to include the new album plus unique and archive audio and video content and then the live concert to round it off…I’m glad we have done it.”

Warren Costello, Managing Director of Liberation Music adds, “This new album project has been incredibly successful and we are very grateful that Jimmy has such a passion for music and a really solid understanding of new technology that allows us to present it to his audience on the newest format available”.

The ‘Out In The Blue’ USB Wristband can be purchased from Jimmy Barnes shows or at select retail outlets.

More about Alive Drive:

Different from a traditional USB device, Alive Drive is a flexi-wristband fully customizable by the client – cover it in logos, images, you name it; it can even become a key ring, necklace pendant or any other mouldable silicon item. Rubber aside, it’s the actual technology that makes this USB drive something out of the ordinary. Plug it into your PC and you’ll load into a world created especially for the company or artist – in this case Jimmy Barnes. Once plugged into an online computer – fresh, exclusive content and up-to-the-minute news are delivered directly to the local drive enabling fans to be updated with the very latest developments. For the fans, they’re ‘in the know’ regarding their favourite groups plus they’ll receive exclusive content only available via Alive Drive. And for the artist/company, this personal connection builds fan loyalty.

As technology evolves, artists and brands are looking for creative ways to promote themselves while connecting with their fans and adding additional revenue streams. With advances in digital media storage, file transfer bandwidths and online streaming, USB wristbands have become extremely popular merchandise items in North America and Europe, alongside the traditional array of CDs, t-shirts and posters. Already artists such as Matchbox Twenty, Ringo Starr and George Michael are utilising the technology. Now it’s Australia’s turn to follow suit.

At the same time that Jimmy embraces new technology for the promotion of his recorded material, he commences his Out In The Blue National Theatre Tour supported by daughter Mahalia Barnes who has also just released her debut album ‘Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates Volume 1’ through the Liberation Music label. *****NEW SHOWS ANNOUNCED FOR MELBOURNE & SYDNEY.

JIMMY BARNES – OUT IN THE BLUE NATIONAL TOUR – 2008

Special guest: Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates

Wed 25 June Canberra Theatre – Canberra ****SOLD OUT****

Thu 27June Settlers – Mildura ****SOLD OUT****

Sat 28 June The Barton Theatre – Adelaide ****SOLD OUT****

Fri 4 July Brisbane Concert Hall - Qpac ****SOLD OUT****

Sat 5 July Empire Theatre – Toowoomba ****SOLD OUT****

Mon 7 July Brolga Theatre - Maryborough: ****SOLD OUT****

Tue 8 July Caloundra RSL - Caloundra:

Thurs 10^th, Sat 12^th & Sun 13^th The Palms at Crown – Melbourne: ****SOLD OUT****

Tues 15 July The Palms at Crown – Melbourne ****NEW SHOW ON SALE NOW

Phone Bookings Ticketek 132 849

On Line www.ticketek.com.au

Wed 16 July Regent Theatre - Wollongong

Phone Bookings Ticketmaster 136 100

www.ticketmaster.com.au

Fri 18 July Newcastle Panthers - Newcastle

Phone Bookings 02 4926 2700

Phone bookings Ticketek 132 849

On Line www.ticketek.com.au or www.moshtix.com.au

Sat 19 July Enmore Theatre – Sydney : ****SOLD OUT****

Sat 26 July Enmore Theatre – Sydney ****NEW SHOW ON SALE NOW

Phone Bookings: Enmore Theatre 02 9550 3666

Phone Bookings Ticketek 132 849

On line: www.ticketek.com.au or www.enmoretheatre.com.au

8th July - Northern Star Hotel - Beaumont Street Hamilton - 9pm - Free Entry

31st July - Queens Wharf Brewery - Supporting The Evening Son - 9pm - Free Entry

Everything happens for a reason. Everyone that crosses our paths is on the same spiritual journey that we are. It is up to us to identify what it is that we are supposed to take away from each encounter.

I am particularly interested in the nature of what we call reality, the etherical universe. I have dedicated my music, and thus life, to breaking down the bonds of social conditioning that make us fear our fellow man, such as religion, privitisation, corrupt and centralised government, fear of speaking out and censorship, as well as exposing the Illuminati’s New World Order agenda. Not one to just point out the problems, rather trying to offer alternative points of view and solutions to ideologies and polices that dehumanise us every day.

History judges all, just make sure you win so you can write it!

The Kings Fool is the musical vessel of journalist Kieran Wicks. Wicksy has been active in the print and broadcast media, both locally and nationally for nearly 10 years. He has worked with Triple J and the Austereo Network, cutting his teeth in community radio, creating documentaries and helping concieve and run award winning street press publications including U-Turn and Reverb.

Malthusian nightmare,

Neo-con wet dream.

If it walks and talks like it,

Call it by its name!

Machiavellian ideals,

Facist regime.

If it walks and talks like it,

Call it by its name!

Do you know it when you see,

The propaganda of a Nazi?

All around us tyranny,

Tell us we need it to be free.

They prey on your emotion,

rather than your reason.

But if we all knew the truth,

They’d be tried for treason.

Do you know it when you see

Propaganda on your t.v?

We hear it weekly

on the news, inconceivably!

They prey on your emotion,

rather than your reason.

But if we all knew the truth,

They’d be tried for treason.

I’m from a nation that was born of a police state.

Shrouded in secrecy,

Ruled by aristocracy.

We don’t even know our own history.

Call it by its name!

Fool For You

Kieran Wicks and Aaron Mahoric are two names that have been synonymous with the Newcastle Music scene since the late 90’s.

Wicksy is well known for his work as a music journalist and musician, whilst Mahoric is considered by many to be a guitar genius, a reputation he earned as a member of Newcastle’s most infamous and innovative funk rock trio Strength to Strength.

The pair moved in together earlier this year and commenced jamming on material that Wicksy had been writing for the last few years and performing live under the moniker The Kings Fool.

“People find out that Aaron and I are house mates and they ask me what he is up to musically and what’s happening with Strength to Strength and I tell them that he is as active as ever, playing with me in The Kings Fool,” Wicksy explains.

“Strength are on an extended hiatus as Adam (Waugh – Drummer) travels round Europe. Aaron still plays with Sean (McGinty Bassist) and Sean’s elder brother Mick, in their band Puppy Dog, but they are also on a short hiatus as Mick fractured his wrist recently in a real “rock and roll” moment, ie/ he was drunk.

“I had a car accident a couple of years back and couldn’t do much else other than play my guitar, and concentrate on my songwriting.

“But I have always thought that everything happens for a reason, as it should, when it should, so I see it as being time well spent, time to hone my craft, and know myself, and bring to you all these conversations with consciousness.

“I’m lucky enough to know a lot of the region’s finest musicians and call many of them my close friends. I’ve even gotten to write with a few of them, including a song each with Mark Wells and Bob Corbett.

“It’s music that stimulates the body, soul and mind. I am a child of the 90’s, so the grunge sound is prominent, but i have written nearly everything on an acoustic guitar, which gives it a progressive folk feel, oh and there is definitely some western flavored country thrown in for good measure. It’s music for people that want to learn something about themselves and the world around them”.

The pair will be doing some rare duo performances as they piece together their muso’s muso ensemble. Catch The Kings Fool at Queens Wharf Brewery Thursday June 19^th and The Northern Star Hotel Tuesday July 8^{th .}

History judges all,
Just make sure you win so you can write it.
Your propaganda
What is freedom in a facist state?
Divided states…

Prior to WWII the Nazis set the German parliament building alight, blaming the communists, so that they could overturn seven of the countries constitutional rights (1).

Reichstag Fires
911

Amend the constitution,
Ignorance is their strength.

50 countries bombed since WWII
Grandpa bankrolled the Nazis in WWII (2).
Now “Jnr’s King of the retards” (3),
waving their flags in freedoms name.

They’re waving it in your face.
Your lady of liberty.
What is freedom in a facist state?
Divided States
History judges all
Just make sure you win so you can write it.

This is not a conspiracy theory, this is a high profile document known as the Project for a New American Century (4).

Reichstag Fires
911

New World Order puppet master,
Freemason “Animal Farm” (5).

50 countries bombed since WWII
Grandpa bankrolled the Nazis in WWII (2)
Now “Jnr’s King of the retards” (3)
waving their flags in freedoms name.

Guilty till proven innocent.
the Land of the Free,
under martial law.
“The World is Not Enough”(6)
as we play out “1984″(7)

I wont stand idley by
I see through your lies
And i wont abide
Look me in the eyes
No words known to justify!

Oaklahoma,
911 too,
The Reign of Terror,
of the French Revolution.

“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing at all”(8)

References

1 - http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911_reichstag.html - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
2 - Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - George Bush: The Unauthorised Biography.
3 - Maynard James Keenan - Triple J Interview 2006.
4 - http://www.newamericancentury.org/index.html
5 - George Orwell - Animal Farm
6 - Ian Flemming - The World is Not Enough [James Bond]
7 - George Orwell - 1984
8 - Edmund Burke

Project for a New American Century - Iran and Iraq

Waving it in you face

It’s nice to know I’m not the only one,
Who feels this way,
And hungers for the day,
That we all awake from this dismay.

A wise man once said that,
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.
That we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively.
There is no such thing as death,
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves” (1).

Material,
Or Spiritual?
The body dies but soul lives on.
Transmigration
Material,
Or Spiritual?
The body dies but soul lives on.
4th dimension.

“The power they have is the power we give them each day” (2).
“It’s time to evolve
Ideas”(3), to resolve
Conflict between love and fear.

A wise man once said that,
“The reason the world is so fucked up is that we are undergoing evolution,
And the reasons our institutions, our traditional religions are all crumbling is that they are no longer relevant.
So it’s time for us to create a new philosophy and perhaps even a new religion.
And that’s ok, because that..s our right as free children of god, whose minds can imagine anything,
And that’s kind of our role”(4).

Material,
Or Spiritual?
The body dies but soul lives on.
Transmigration
Material,
Or Spiritual?
The body dies but soul lives on.
4th dimension.

“My exoteric revelation
does not support,
my esoteric revelation.. (5).
It Just don’t add up.

The Perennial philosophy
“Rudiments can be found among the traditional lore of primitive people in every region of the world” (6).

Reference:

1. Bill Hicks - Sane Man
2. David Icke - The Secrets of the Matrix
3. Bill Hicks - Rant In E-Minor
4. Bill Hicks - Rant In E-Minor
5. Suffi Niffari
6. Aldouse Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

Hush, Hush.
Don’t Deny a word they say.
Hush, Hush.
Be a good boy now run and play.
Hush, Hush.
The thought police are on their way.

Oh don’t you,
Oh don’t you ever hush.
Don’t you

Hush, Hush.
Flush all your dreams away.
Crush, Crush,
Tin soldiers fighting men of clay.
Hush Hush,
And you wont even hear the words I now say.

Oh don’t you,
Oh don’t you ever hush.
Don’t You

The work of ages they indoctrinate.

Oh don’t you,
Oh don’t you ever hush.
Don’t You
Hush.

The thought police are on their way.