After a touring hiatus Tecoma will be loading up the van and hitting the road for a string of dates around Western Australia in September. She’ll be bringing along old friend and fellow music maker Gavin Groovesmith on the double bass, stomp and slide guitar. Head over to the Shows page for more info on where to catch Tecoma in September. For those on the East Coast, October will wee a couple of big festival dates for the seven piece Tecoma show with beautiful brass lines and percussion. See you on the road!

Massive thanks to everyone who came along to shows and supported us on the recent Tecoma national tour this August-October past. The highlights were many, both on and off-stage- photos of some of these are making their way to the photos pages as we speak. Two weeks of especially high- highlights were spent during our tour of New Caledonia where Tecoma and partners were the guests of Femmes Funk Festival. The tour low-light was possibly having the entire national and New Caledonian tour’s mailing list, accidentally thrown away by the too-efficient venue crew at the final Melbourne show October 10^th. If you put your name on the e-list this tour, apologies for not making it to the master list. Please feel free to sign up using the website.

Thanks go out to the good people that fed us, opened their homes to us and made us feel welcome on our travels this time around. Special thanks to Home and Hosed Triple J Radio, The JB (John Butler) Seed grant, Darwin, Cairns, Bridgetown Blues and Femmes Funk Festival organisers and volunteers, music venues, and media who took such good care of us. Our apologies to those who have been anticipating the release of the full length record ‘Home Brew’. A hold-up in the final production process has meant the release has been post-poned to the new year- stay tuned for more news on that soon.

Plans are underway for an even bigger 2008 on the live front with Tecoma performing at the Brunswick Music Festival and WOMADelaide also!

All the best to you and yours in the new year,

Tecoma & Polaris Music crew.

In the lead-up to the release in stores of Tecoma’s debut album Home Brew, Tecoma and band are hitting the road for her most extensive tour yet. The Home Brew national tour is presented by the good people at Triple J & Home and Hosed. In the coming weeks the first songs off Home Brew will be posted on Tecoma’s myspace . The tour takes in shows at The Darwin and Cairns Festivals, the Darebin Music Feast and as many regional and all ages dates have been included as possible. Tecoma will be joined on the road by a brand spanking new rhythm section of long time studio collaborator, Ben Wheeler on Drums and programming duties and Lucas Taranto (Mia Dyson & Gotye) on upright and electric bass. Check out the Shows page for further information. See you on the road!

In the age-old Indy music tradition Tecoma supporters, around the country are invited to participate in a pre-order to secure advance copies of Tecoma’s debut album ‘Home Brew’ ahead of its Spring release. To acknowledge the role supporters at the grass roots around the country have served in spreading the word about Tecoma, requesting Tecoma tunes on the radio, coming to shows and buying records; Pre-order subscribers will have their name included in the albums official artwork (unless you’re shy and don’t want it to be included). If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, the ‘store’ section of the new web site is where you can sign-up to purchase an advance copy of the album. Until stocks run out, pre-orders also come with a bonus copy of the first single off the album ‘Air to Me’.

Tune in to Triple J’s Home and Hosed this Tuesday 18^th of April and catch Tecoma’s recent performance of A-E-I-O-U, Air to me & Death Wish with the band on the front porch. Recorded on a recent trip to Sydney, Tecoma’s in-studio performance was captured by JTV’s camera’s also and will air on ABC TV around the country this Thursday night 20^th of April.

If you haven’t dropped by the web site in a while you’ll notice a few changes courtesy of my awesome graphic designing / web development friends Jody Fenn & David Charles. As always, TecomaMusic will be the first place tours are announced and samples of new recordings uploaded. In the news section there’s a back log of some of the tour performances captured live to radio and TV. At present the new store section of the web site has MP3’s and CDs for sale as well as links to other places on the web where Tecoma music is available to download.

The first single from Tecoma’s highly anticipated debut album, ‘Air to Me’ is now available in all Australian record stores. For a taste of what the album’s set to sound like, you can order your copy through MGM Distribution or purchase the disc or mp3 version online at the Tecoma store (price includes postage and handling), iTunes and at Martian Music. All Tecoma store transactions are made using PayPal, the world’s largest online payment solution.

On Friday March 9th listeners on NSW’s South Coast can tune into 97.3 FM radio Illawarra for a live Tecoma performance and interview broadcast ahead of that nights gig at The Tea Club. At 3.30pm on afternoons with Jen Lacey Tecoma will talk band touring, recording and detours tripping around the country.

To all those living in the South West of WA, Harvey community radio station are broadcasting last night’s Tecoma show a second time tonight due to listener demand received by the station today. Tune in to 96.5 FM for the broadcast start at 8pm! Perth and Fremantle listeners tune in to Radio Fremantle today from 11-1pm for Tecoma’s interview on Global Rhythm Pot, ‘Where tradition is mixed with technology and beautey is spiced with funk.’

To all those living in the South West of WA, Harvey community radio is doing a live to air broadcast of Tecoma’s Friday night show from the venue -the Inner Centre in Harvey WA. Tune in to 96.5 FM at 8pm for the gig’s broadcast by local radio DJs.