Yes, I'm afraid the rumours are true. Not content with plastering their
blatantly biased intervention into the current electoral deliberations (Vote
the Bastards Out) all over YouTube, the hirsute ones are throwing caution to
the wind and announcing the Grand Launches of their new CD Stop Scratching
It - a richer, darker, more complex and some would say smellier concoction
than the first. It explores an ever-widening world of spooky antecedents,
including the modern man as glorious mythical hero tripping over lego first
thing in the morning, a young man's tender empathy with a lightpole, the
perils of leaving your nurse whilst at the zoo, the howling glory of
marching with 80,000 Visigoths across the tundra, and the fact that our
brains are like sieves ...this album involved the death of no mastodons, but
the spooky men will never be the same again . . .

The launches will be magnificent events, bristling with epic grandeur. The
Spooky Men will arrive blushing with the kind of ruddy glory that
accompanies a triumphant tour of the UK, and the evenings will also feature
some delicate morsels of female aural titillation that will set the Spookies
off just nicely, like pearls before swine.

SYDNEY (with Kaya)
Fri 7 Dec, 8pm
The Great Hall, Sydney (Spooky) Boy's High School
cnr Anzac Pde and Cleveland St

$18/$14 + booking fee in advance, $20/$16 at door - Tickets available from
moshtix

PENRITH (with Kate Rowe)

Sun 9 Dec, 3pm
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
597 High Street, Penrith

$20/$15, bookings Ph (02) 4723 7600: Concession price available for all
groups of 10 or more, all direct descendants of Tamarlane the Magnificent,
and anyone carrying a genuine low Bb Krummhorn from the Swiss foothills.

You can hear samples of the new album at the Spooky Men's web site and check
our lovely support acts here and here.


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