Yes lovelies - at least one reminder gets out this week!! Martine's
solo shows in Adelaide start tomorrow night (Friday). More will
probably be added and we will keep you informed!

Friday 26th March
Prince Albert Hotel
Wright St, City
**note change of show time** Show Time 9pm

Sunday 4th April
Grace Emily
Waymouth St, City
Show Time 7-9pm

More info: www.martinelocke.com

All these shows have no entry fee and we would love to see your
smiling faces out and about!! Please pass it on to your mates in
Adelaide and thanks for supporting independent music!

Till Then!

Yes sweet thangs we can now tell you that it is official....The
Velvet Janes will be playing opening night for the Perth restaurant
that is part of the channel 7 television series 'My Restaurant
Rules'.

Filmed at the restaurant in Northbridge on Friday 19th March to what
we assume will be a closed audience, The VJ's will be playing for an
hour over the course of dinner and you will hopefully be able to
catch part of the night when they air sometime in the next two
weeks. (The program airs Sunday & Thursday Channel 7 - 7.30pm)We
will send out another email as soon as we know when air time is,
just incase you want to check it out.

Also in show news - Martine is doing a few solo shows in Adelaide in
March & April and would surely love to see your faces. Here are the
details so far:

Friday 26th March
Prince Albert Hotel
Wright St, City
Show Time 8pm

Sunday 4th April
Grace Emily
Waymouth St, City
Show Time 7-9pm

At least one more will be added to the pot and we will let you know
here first! Please pass it on and hope to see you out and about.

Thanks as always for supporting independent music and for supporting
us.

TVJ's

Yes lovelies - here I am once again to let you know of some more
upcoming shows for The Velvet Janes and a just annouced solo show for
Mardi. We are just having too much fun to stop just now!

Martine Locke Solo Show
thursday 19th February
Clancy's in Fremantle
Show Starts at 8.30pm
Free Entry!!

The Velvet Janes ride again
Saturday 28th February
2.30-5.30pm
Oxford Hotel
Leederville
Tickets $12

Sunday 29th February
Doors 6pm
Mojos
Fremantle
Tickets $12

Please pass it on and hope to see your faces out there!

TVJ
www.velvetjanes.com

Yes lovies - only a few more tickets left for this weekends
Candlelight Concert - please drop us a line at
vjanes@... to get yours for Valentines Day. (tickets
that is). $14 for the show on the 14th Feb. Bring your picnic
basket, blanket and those you love....

See you soon!

The Velvet Janes

hello oh sweet person of the mailing list kind. Yes it is true, we
here in Velvet Janes land are busily getting ready for another
candlelight show especially for members of the mailing list. That
means YOU, YOU, YOU.

Saturday February 14th - Valentines Day is the day. Doors will open
at 7.30pm. Tickets will be $14. Location will be shared only once
you order tickets because it isn't a 'show up at the door show'.
Tickets can only be reserved via email and there are only a limited
amount of tickets available. As normal, we sell these tickets on a
honour basis - meaning if you order 3 tickets and have to cancel one
and don't do it within 48hrs of the show (so we can pass it on to
someone else), then please pay for it on the night. It also means
that people just can't turn up on the door and hence the reason why
we keep the venue details strictly for those people who order
tickets. All make sense?

So, bring your picnic baskets, blankets and pillows and loved ones.
Please also note, only a limited number of 'low back' only chairs
are allowed and please reserve those spaces for people who have
trouble sitting on the floor.

Cut and paste the following bit into your email and send away.
Please also put 'candlelight show tickets' in the subject heading -
it may get deleted otherwise because of the increase in viruses at
the moment. Thank you!! Looking forward to seeing your faces....

TVJ

--------------------cut and paste----------------------------------


Yes, I would please like_______ tickets @$14 per ticket (cash on the
night only), to the Velvet Janes candlelight show on Saturday 14th
February 2004, in the name of __________________________. My phone
number is ________________ and I understand that if I don't give
48hrs notice of cancellation that I will be a sweetheart and still
pay for the tickets I have ordered, as I have stopped someone else
from coming to the show.

(insert your own thought here)

Love



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Yes, it is true...at last I can send out an email with the following
shows. We had to change the weekend cause of the Australia day
weekend and everybody going away but please, pass the word and come
on out for a trio of fun reunion nights.

We are very excited to be here and be in the same country and to be
playing some songs together. We are doing all the shows just as the
duo so come prepared for mayhem and fun. We are rehearsing hard, so
send us emails if you have specific songs you want to hear and we
will see what we can do (send them to vjanes@... ). We
are also happy to announce that we are doing a show back where it
all started - remember the Paddo sunday night sessions? Well, we are
back there doing an afternoon show on Saturday Jan 31st.

Without further ado:

Friday January 30th - The Court Hotel, Northbridge
Doors 8pm - Show 9pm - Tickets $12

Saturday January 31st - The Paddington Ale House, Mt Hawthorn
Doors 2pm - Show 2.30pm - Tickets $12

Sunday February 1st - Mojos, Fremantle
Doors 6pm - Show 7pm - Tickets $12

Also, just a heads up, there maybe a final show on Thursday 5th
February. More info on that one soon but pencil it on your calendar
and you will hear here first if it happens.

Thank you for all your support. We are both excited to be playing
shows back where it all started for us and can't wait to see your
sweet faces.

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com

www.martinelocke.com

YES sweet ladies and gentlepersons, you read right!! The VELVET
JANES are doing some Perth shows!!! We know, very last minute, very
shocking but also very exciting. Stay tuned for more information but
know right now that The Velvet Janes will be doing shows in Perth
the Australia day weekend - January 23-25th 2004. I will send out
more emails as soon as I know the venues but lock those dates away
on your calendar and pass it on!!!!

Also look out for a couple of Mardi solo shows along the way
too....!!


See you soon!

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes

Okay, last email, we promise....for some reason there is a lapse in
our mental abilities at the moment...!!

Also, don't forget if you are in adelaide

Saturday 22nd March
Martine Locke CD Launch

The Queens Arms Hotel
Wright St, Adelaide
Doors Open 8pm
Tickets $10

Raw Honey Opening

Please pass it on and again, hope to see you there, and sorry for
the massive amounts of emails this morning.

okay, so the cornish gig is actually the 20th
March...thursday...this...a few nights away...in melbourne...martine
locke...matt walker...great lineup...coming?!

Fine Melbourne people and associated friends! This thursday night
the Cornish Arms is the place to be.

Thursday 21st March
The Cornish Arms
Sydney Rd, Brunswick
Doors 8pm
TIckets $6 / $8

Martine Locke  -(solo - from The Velvet Janes) playing first then
Matt Walker and the Chosen Few

Please pass it on to your mates, hope to see some of your smiling
faces there!

Yes lovies - thanks to those folks who came out to the show on Sunday
at Mojos. Another Martine Locke solo show has been added to the Perth
run-

Intimate Candlelight SHow
The Book Cafe
Mill Point Rd
South Perth

Friday March 7th
Dinner 6.30pm
Show 8pm
Only 50 tickets and they are selling fast! Sliding scale entry $10-15
Book Now!!!

Yes sweet folks, you have read it correctly. Rose was rushed to
hospital last week for what turned out to be, emergency gall bladder
removal (a gallectomy?) and the doctors have said that it will take
at least 5-6 weeks for her to get back on her feet and at least 3
months to be able to jump around stage again.

So, it is with a great deal of sadness that we have had to cancel
our Australian tour scheduled to start next week in Perth. We are
not sure if we can reschedule any of it at the moment, but you will
be the first to know if we do.

BUT.....there is still some good news ahead.... Shows in Adelaide,
Melbourne and Perth are still going ahead with Mardi and the
occasional side player in some cities, and have been turned into CD
launches for her solo cd 'FLY'. So, please come out and support her,
and pass the word around. It will be her first solo tour in
Australia and has occasional moments of scariness. Here in lies the
details:

Sunday 2nd March
Perth CD Launch
Mojos
Fremantle
Doors Open 6pm
Tickets $10
Featuring master of all things percussive, Gary Ridge

Thursday 20th March
Melbourne CD Launch
The Cornish Hotel
9.30 Martine Locke
10.45 Matt Walker & The Necessary Few
Tickets: at door, not sure of $

Saturday 22nd March
Adelaide CD Launch
The Queens Arms
Wright Street
Adelaide
Doors open at 8pm
Tickets $10
featuring other as yet to be named players and possibly Raw Honey
(the band, not the gooey stuff)

Okay, that is it for now. If there are any further changes we will
let you know asap. Thank you as always for your support!

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes

www.velvetjanes.com

www.martinelocke.com

Folks - apparently "RTS" is NOT the way to go - it will just go back
to a mailing house (who will shred them) and Australia Post can
charge for this additional delivery. The idea is to REDIRECT the
package to Parliament House in Canberra ACT 2600 (possibly the
Office of the Prime Minister? - would be worth checking). That way
it will get delivered where it makes the most impact, and Australia
Post don't charge for the redirection..

Okay, I just have to add this to the end of this email too - Rose
was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery on tuesday night and
has had to have her gall bladder removed. We are still waiting to
hear definately but it looks like the Australian tour set for March
will need to be rescheduled for later in the year. We will let you
know as we know.

Thanks again!

Martine
The Velvet Janes

Friends,
As you are probably aware, over the next fortnight the Federal
Government is sending a mail out to every household in Australia. In
this pack is a letter from our illustrious Prime Minister, a booklet
on how to help the government "fight terrorism" and a fridge magnet
(extraordinary...?)

Today, Brisbane's Lord Mayor, Jim Soorley, made the eminently
sensible suggestion that Australians who did not support the Howard
government's backing of America's war should simply return the
package to sender.  I, for one, think it's a fantastic opportunity
to show Mr Howard that not all Australians think the way he does. If
you agree as well, I urge you to:

1. Watch out for the package, when it arrives mark it "Return to
Sender" and drop it in the nearest mailbox. You may also want to add
a Personal anti-war message to it.
2. Please forward this as an email to as many people as you think
might be interested in joining this protest. Mr Howard's mailout is
already on its way to practically every Australian

Thanks

Yes hello wonderous Melbourne individuals - we in Velvet Janes world
are just having a 'thought-vomit' at the moment and wanted to put a
note out to you all to see if there is anyone out there interested
in hosting a 'house concert' for us on Friday 21st March in
Melbourne.

What you would need is at least 50 friends,and some people will
probably come from our mailing list as well, and a space big enough
for us to do a show. Like a backyard or a lounge room etc. If you
think you would be interested and would like to work with us on
pulling it together please email us as soon as possible:
vjanes@... and put 'House Concert' in the heading.

Thank you!

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes

Argh, tis the season to be jolly friends, and jolly thoughts come
from us to you during this time! Is it really christmas already?
Surely that can't be true...wasn't it just christmas a minute ago?

Is it just me, or is time actually getting faster? Imagine that.

Yes the end of another year is here and as always time for
reflection. It has been a good and an okay year here in Velvet Janes
land. Lots of traveling, lots of meeting new people and lots of
changes and new directions. It's all good, but any change brings a
certain amount of uncomfortable-ness. (is that even a word?)

We are busily getting ready for our next Australian tour that starts
in Perth on the 28th February and stays around that area for a few
weeks, doing all of our favourite summer haunts down south and lots
of fun shows with out mates in the city. Then it will head over East
for a week and we will probably be doing shows in Melbourne,
Geelong, Warnambool, Daylesford, a few shows in Adelaide and
hopefully at least one show in Sydney. And while we aren't calling
it our last tour as such, it will kinda be that for now.

We are not sure what we are calling it because saying we are
finishing seems so final and it's not that. There will always be
sporadic Velvet Janes shows but we just won't be touring quite so
much anymore.

Rose has family commitments in Perth and isn't keen to be on the
road away from her family so much and Martine is on the road and
keen to be on the road more. We are also both pretty excited about
the opportunities to work on solo projects and develop our talents
in different ways. The Velvet Janes will always be a part of us and
hence the reason why we aren't so keen to say we are finishing.

So, we hope that you will come out and celebrate what has been and
drink a toast with us for what will be. Dates and places will be
coming out here in the next month or so and as always, we are open
to suggestions of where to play. Email us at vjanes@...

In case you lost the website it is all now at www.velvetjanes.com
(no .au on the end), also any email address that you have of ours
that has a .au on the end is still active, just drop the .au !! Make
sense!?!

So that's it for now...thanks for reading. Have great holidays
wherever you are and we hope that your christmas is a wonderful time
spent with family and friends celebrating life.

Thanks for your support - especially you guys, cause so many of you
were around in the beginning. Wouldn't have wanted to do it without
you..

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes

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Looking for christmas presents?

Martine Locke's new solo album 'FLY' is available in Australia and
the USA by going to www.martinelocke.com and hitting the merchandise
button.  (also available in melbourne at gaslight records)

The Velvet Janes albums are available in Australia and the US by
going to www.velvetjanes.com and hitting the link on the front page.

hey beautiful ones - just letting you know that our performance time for Fair
Day in Sydney this Sunday is now 12.15pm - we are onstage till 1pm!

Hope to see you there, otherwise here are the rest of our shows!!

Hope this finds you all well

Mardi
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com

Monday 18th February
Hopetoun Hotel
Intimate & Personal Show 8pm

**NEW SHOW**
Tuesday 19th February
Clarendon Guest House - Katoomba
This show is a pre sale only show
Tickets are $15 and available from the venue by ringing - 02 4782 1322


Wednesday 20th February
Imperial Hotel
Special Dyke Factory Event
Doors Open around 8pm!!

Victoria

Friday 22nd February
Cornish Arms Hotel
The Velvet Janes with Sally Dastey

Saturday 23rd February
The Palais, Daylesford
Doors Open 7.30pm

Adelaide

Sunday 24th February
The Famous Speigeltent (as part of the Fringe Fest)
6pm show
Tickets from the venue $18/$16

Ladies, Ladies and Gentlepersons...thanks for your emails asking
where the Perth candlelight show information was - IT'S HERE....!! At
last! Do not despair. This show, unlike any other we do in Australia,
is only open to those people on our mailing list. This is a beautiful
show in a beautiful place filled with beautiful people!!

For those of you who haven't been through this before. Tickets for
this show can only be reserved by sending an email with 'Perth
Candlelight Show Tickets' in the heading and are reserved on a 'trust
basis'. ie. once you reserve your tickets, unless you cancel at least
24 hrs before the show, they are assumed sold and we trust that you
will turn up to the show and pay for your tickets or make other
arrangements to pay for them. The reason we do this, is because there
are only 100 tickets available for this show and they are usually all
sold within 10 days, and if you don't feel like coming at the last
minute, someone else has missed out (and we will give them your email
address...!!) (funny idea actually...!)

So, the address details of the show will be released to you once you
have reserved your tickets (so we don't have people just showing up
on the door!) Tickets for this show will be $12 each. It takes place
on Friday February 8th, doors will open at 7pm - show will start at
around 8pm.

The wonderful thing about this show, is that you bring your own
picnic basket filled with whatever you want to eat or drink, you can
bring blankets, cushions - or low (very low back chairs which can be
placed at the sides and back of the room) or whatever else would make
you comfortable and the show is by candlelight. You can ask
questions, make comments (nice ones of course!) and just 'be' with
friends and lovies.

SOOOOO....send an email with the amount of tickets you require, your
name, your address and your email address to:
vjanes@... .

Once confirmed you will be sent a confirmation email with the details
for the show. If you haven't received a reply within 5 days of your
email, please send me another one to check that I got it!! If by sad
chance the show is filled by then, your name will be placed on the
waiting list and we will let you know asap if you are able to come.

Phew, is that it? I hope so! So let us begin!

Hope that this finds you all well.

Mardi
The Velvet Janes

Hey Adelaide folks, just wanted to give you some 'insider info'
regarding the Spiegeltent show we are doing in Adelaide on the 24th
Feb.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow for it - but DON'T BUY THEM from anywhere
but the actual Spiegeltent box office (you can probably safely buy
them on the night of the show...). The ticket charges are high as it
is, but if you buy them through the Tix place (whatever it is called
in Adelaide) they either put another $3 on top of the ticket price,
or take $3 from us.

At this stage it is our only Adelaide show - believing it will be a
great one!

Hope this finds you all well - more info for shows etc can be found
via the website or email here - vjanes@...

Many thanks!

Mardi
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com

Hello, wonderous people of the Velvet Janes mailing list
variety...happy new year and christmas to you all wherever you
are...! Hope that your new years was a good one spent with good
friends..!

I finally got the 'Uno' Cards unstuck from my fingers, after what
feels like an eternity playing with them (what is it with families,
card games and christmas??) and at last I have some of our upcoming
Australian tour dates to send on your way. What a pleasure it is to
be in somewhat warm weather and what a hard life it is to start our
tour with  a little jaunt down the Western Australian coast...god
what a beautiful part of the country.

While I am thinking of that, our thoughts go out to all the folks in
New South Wales at the moment and we hope that you and yours are safe
and well. I am sure that all of our thanks also go out to all of
those men and women out there fighting the fires, doing such an
incredible job against such hard odds.

So, without further ado, ladies and gentlepersons...here we go, get
ready for the ride and hope to see some of your sweet smiling faces
out there along the way.

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com


Western Australia

Saturday January 5th - (tomorrow!!) Wignalls Winery Blues Festival,
Albany WA  Gates Open 2.30pm. The Velvet Janes Show time 8pm.

Thursday January 10th - Bridgetown Pottery, Bridgetown - Candlelight
Show - Show Time 7.30pm Door Charge $15

Friday January 11th - Settlers Tavern, Margaret River (band show)
Show Time ~ 9pm Door Charge $11

Saturday January 12th - Prince of Wales Tavern, Bunbury (band show)
Show Time ~ 9pm Door Charge $11

Friday January 18th - Rock Garden Cafe, Inglewood
Show Time 9pm - Door Charge $11

Saturday January 19th - Mojos, Fremantle (acoustic show)
Show Time ~ 9pm - Door Charge $11

Saturday February 2nd - Oxford Hotel, Perth
(more details coming soon - Saturday afternoon show)

Friday February 8th - Secret Candlelight Show (more details released
Jan 21st)

Saturday February 9th - Court Hotel, Perth (band show)
(more details coming..!! again)

East Coast

Sydney
Sunday February 17th - Pride Fair Day ~2pm

Monday February 18th - Hopetoun Hotel  9pm
Candlelight Show Door Charge $11

Wednesday Feb 20th - Imperial Hotel
(more details tba)

Victoria
Friday 22nd February - Cornish Arms Hotel
with Sally Dastey & Monique Brumby

Saturday 23rd February - tba

Adelaide
Sunday 24th February - Spiegeltent, Adelaide City 6pm

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More East Coast Tour Details will be coming soon!

Oh beautiful people, especially those of the Adelaide living kind -
just a quick note to give you a heads up for a solo show of the
Martine (aka Mardi) Locke variety - THIS WEEK in Adelaide.

The details are as follows:

Friday 14th December 2001

Prince Albert Hotel - Adelaide
254 Wright St
Adelaide 5000
ph: (08) 8212 7912
Opening Act 9pm
Martine onstage around 10.30pm (for an hour)
No cover...!!

First one in Australia - and damn it, it has to be in the 'home
town'. Come on out, or think good thoughts to the sky...!

Martine
www.martinelocke.com

The Velvet Janes

(who are sending out more definate show dates/venues really really
soon!)

Oh how good it is to write to you again. Seems like so much craziness
has been happening in this world lately that sitting down to write
has escaped me for way too long.....

So, hello...wonderous person of the Velvet Janes mailing list
variety. We hope that your world is safe and well, wherever you are.

Such a big year all round that it is hard to know where to start.
Thank you would be a good place. Thank you to those of you who have
hung with us all of this time and watched as The Velvet Janes have
gone through transition..hopefully we are coming out the other end
better and even more into what we do. Thank you for continuing to buy
our cds and send us emails and for harassing us about when we are
going to play in your town. Thank you for being excited to see us
again...

This year has been a great and a hard year for us. Lots of travelling
between countries and way too many plane flights...!! Given the
current global climate those plane flights have been much harder than
normal, that is for sure.

In a nutshell this year we have played at festivals in Australia like
Port Fairy and the Blue Mountains Music Festival for the first time,
at Hopland festival in California, Michigan Womens Festival in
Michigan (doah), toured through San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago,
New York, Phoenix and Michigan and met some amazing artists and
friends along the way. Headlined at the Health & Wellness festival in
the beautiful Napa Valley and slept on everything from futons (why
the hell do people still buy them?), to car seats, to luxury hotel
room beds, to water beds with leaks. Set up great distribution for
our product throughout the US and sold thousands of copies worldwide
(now we gotta work on Australia again!). And we have played to 5
people and to 5,500 people...and everything in between. And I just
finished my first solo tour in five years through the most amazing
countryside in Oregon and Washington  (you know how when you write
something sometimes it doesn't seem like THAT much when you look at
it...well, this is not that!!) What an adventure.

We are excited about our upcoming Australian tour. At last, I get a
summer and to have a few months to hang out around my country showing
my sweetheart the countryside, and to hang out with my family and
then tour with The Janes and hopefully come and see some of your
smiling faces. What better thing is there to do? I ask you...?!!

At this stage not everything is completely firm with our tour and
hopefully it will be in the next few weeks and we can send out the
exact dates but I CAN at least give you the confirmed ones now. Some
of them have changed from our website, but this of course is always
the first place that you will get to hear what is actually happening.

Oh, should I mention now that I am packing in my suitcase new bumper
stickers, which I am really happy about...they look very cute, if I
must say so myself.

So, thank you for the journey so far. For coming along for part of it
and being so supportive the rest of the way... (okay, can anyone else
tell that I am premenstrual here??!)

More shows will be coming soon...but just so you know...here's wass
happening in Perth so far-

Saturday 5th January - Albany Blues Festival - Wignalls Winery
Sunday 6th January - Perth Show (tbc)
Wednesday 9th January - Coconut Club, Dunsborough
Thursday 10th January - Prince of Wales, Bunbury
Friday 11th January - Settlers Tavern, Margaret River
Saturday 12th January - not sure yet, somewhere!

Saturday 19th January - Perth Show
Sunday 20th January - Perth Show

Saturday 26th January - Busselton Beach Festival, Australia Day Show

Okay, so maybe it's not too much to go one just yet...but I promise,
more will be coming soon - and the East Coast tour starts on Feb 14th
and we will be doing shows through Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney,
Canberra and then for the first time New Zealand!!

Hope that this finds you all safe, happy and well.


Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com
vjanes@...

Hello again wonderous Velvet Janes mailing list persons. This comes
from the weary, hay fever drug induced haze of The Velvet Janes
mailing list fairies. (fairy, should I say...)

It is at last summer in San Francisco and I feel like I can stop
pinning just for a moment for the Australian heat. These Californians
are hilarious when it comes to hot weather...what am I talking about,
HOT? Midly warm weather induces an airconditioning panic that I have
never seen before! It makes me laugh alot!

In Velvet Janes news, we are busily putting together our next US
tour, which will start in Michigan on August 11th and head to
Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and
Santa Cruz. We will have venues up any moment now and are very
excited about our induction into the Womens Music Festival phenomenon!
It's amazing what one sees at those events..gotta love it.

Our next Australian tour will be focused on Perth and will start on
November 31st. We will be heading, along with our band, to Bunbury,
Dunsborough, Pt Hedland, Broome, Karratha and of course Perth itself!
Hopefully the actual dates and venues will be finalised soon..and
there is a possibility that we will be doing Woodforde Folk Festival
this year too... oh joy, mud..mud..mud (is what comes to mind when I
think of Woodforde!)

There will also be some solo shows in the pipeline. Mardi is doing
solo shows in Adelaide on the 23/24th November (venues tba..of
course) and Rose is possibly doing some sometime soon...hmm...nice
and vague really isn't it? We will let you know as we go..because of
course, we are making it up as we go along..

In website news, the new superdooper Martine Locke web site is up and
running - www.martinelocke.com - complete with specky flash intros
and things to amaze your eyeballs. Please check it out and see if you
can find any bugs..well, don't look too hard..we are building it as
we go and as we change our minds! The new superdooper Velvet Janes
web site will hopefully be up and running by the end of July... just
in time for all of our fun tours.

So that is all from us, at this point in time. Thanks as always for
being so wonderfully supportive of independant music..and us. We
appreciate you.

Till next time

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes

Yes indeedy, the Velvets are doing solo shows in and around their
respective places of abode. Catch em if you can...!

Rose Farrow & band
The Court Hotel
Sunday 25th March
8.30-10pm
w/ Kate Andrews and her new band 'Subject to Flooding'


Martine Locke solo
March 31st
LA Womens Music & Arts Festival
Ground Zero Coffee House
USC Campus
Gate #3, Figueroa & Exposition
7pm


We are also in the process of putting together our wonderful USA
tour, starting on May 1st in sunny San Francisco (well, I could say
that yesterday..). More details regarding that can be found at our
website: www.velvetjanes.com

Our Western Australian pals will see us at the end of the year as we
are putting together a super WA only tour that will include all the
favourite places to play!!

Some of you will have noticed, and hopefully be wearing, our newest
claim of real band-dom, new yummy tshirts!! Hopefully we will have
pictures of them on our site soon so you can see them if you want to
order..hell, if you have a picture of you with one of them on, please
send it to me and I will put that up instead (come on Spanky & Mel!).
(vjanes@...)

Hope that this finds you well

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com
www.martinelocke.com

Okay folks, a little last minute change.. due to the joyful disorganisation
of
the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle, who kindly cancelled our show there at the
last minute..we have now changed venues!! And shows!!! We are opening for
Kristina Olsen at the Northern Star on Wednesday Night...woohoo. Kristina is
an
unbelievable performer and we are most happy to be able to play with her.
Show
starts at 8.30pm with us!!

Also, we are playing that afternoon at 1pm at the Newcastle Uni - come and
find
us if you are around!

Hopefully no more changes...never can tell though with these pesky
publicans!!
Here is where you'll here it though!!

Thank you...!!! And thanks to all you Sydney folks who came and supported
us..we loved being with you!!

Mardi & Rose

The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com

Okay, one more drop in before I head from here to there - just a
reminder for gigs and a couple of new ones added to the fray!

Friday 23rd February - The Lansdowne Hotel
City Rd, Chippendale  Sydney

Saturday 24 - Sunday 25th - Blue Mountains Folk Festival
Katoomba NSW
Times: -
Sat 24th at The Clarendon at 2pm
Sat night at the Guiness Stage at 8.15pm
Sunday The Blues room at 7pm till 7.45

Monday 26th February - The Hopetoun Hotel
Surrey Hills, Sydney 8pm
*special candlelight show*

Wednesday 28th February - Newcastle Uni Lunchtime Show

Wednesday 28th February - Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle


Friday 2nd March - The Crown Hotel Victor Harbour SA

Sunday 4th March - The Crown & Sceptre Hotel
King William St SA
*Candlelight Show*


Thursday 8th March - The Cornish Arms
Sydney St, Brunswick  VIC
with Sally Dalstey

Friday 9 - Monday 12th March - Port Fairy Folk Festival
Times:-
Fri 9th Oz stage at 10pm
Sat 10th Railway Stage 2.30
Sunday 11th Lighthouse cafe 10am
Sun night at Community Centre 10.15pm till 11.15pm

Looking forward to the tour, and some warmth at last!!! Hope to see
some of your smiling faces!

Mardi

Yes indeedy folks, it is that time again! We are very happy to
announce the shows for our East Coast tour coming up in a very short
amount of time!

Friday 23rd February - The Lansdowne Hotel
City Rd, Chippendale  Sydney

Saturday 24 - Sunday 25th - Blue Mountains Folk Festival
Katoomba NSW

Monday 26th February - The Hopetoun Hotel
Surrey Hills, Sydney 8pm
*special candlelight show*


Friday 2nd March - The Crown Hotel Victor Harbour SA
Sunday 4th March - The Crown & Sceptre Hotel
King William St SA
*Candlelight Show*

Thursday 8th March - The Cornish Arms
Sydney St, Brunswick  VIC
with Sally Dalstey

Friday 9 - Monday 12th March - Port Fairy Folk Festival


So, that is it then! For updates on last minute shows, please check
out website out - www.velvetjanes.com

Also, for those early risers, or late to bed folks, I am doing a
radio interview with a station in Denver today (Tuesday Aust Time).
You can listen to it via the internet at: www.radioforchange.com. It
will be on at 9.05 SA Time, 9.35am NSW & VIC Time, 6.32am WA Time and
2.35 PT US Time (on Monday!)!

Hope that we see some of you at our shows, until then though, hope
that this finds you well

Mardi
The Velvet Janes

Hello and Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to you! Hope that
2001 is a great year and slightly slower than 2000 seemed to be for
us here in Velvet Janes world. What a crazy year it has been!

I sat down and began to write some of the things that I am thankful
for the past year, and the things I feel that I and we have achieved
over this past 12 months. It sure made the year seem like a big one.

- Toured nationally with Ani DiFranco
- 3 Australian Velvet Janes Tours
- Recorded our first live album
- Launched that album Australia wide, and have begun to distribute it
in the US
- Got our US visas!
- Succesfully moved to San Francisco
- Survived

and the list goes on. It did somewhat encourage my soul in the middle
of such big changes.

So, here we are now. I am busily putting together our tours for the
USA for May and Aug/Sept, Rose and Kerrie are in Australia busily
putting together our next Australian tour in February and we are all
very excited about this next year. Very excited to be at last hitting
the US in a bigger and better way and at last, being able to get out
and visit alot more places.  It has been somewhat daunting as this
country is so damn big, and we haven't yet found an agent or agents
that we are happy to work with and who is happy to work with us,
YET..but oh the things one can learn, when one has too! It truely
means we remain independant all the way and we work with other like
minded folk who are also truely independant all the way.

We have been invited this year to perform in Australia at the Port
Fairy Folk Festival and the Blue Mountains Folk Festival, and we are
busily putting together shows on the East Coast around those dates.
At this stage we are only hitting Adelaide, Sydney & Melbourne and
will be doing a concert performance as well as a candlelight show in
each State, with festivals on each side! It will be a fast and
furious tour with not much time in between. We are trying to set up
another tour at the end of year that will definately cover alot wider
ground. We will keep you notified as we go!

Our cds are busily selling out at www.cdbaby.com , which is pretty
exciting and what a great company they have been to sell our stock
through..couldn't have asked for better! Oh and they are also
available at www.chaosmusic.com in Australia or at the 78's records
website too.

In between tours I have started to pursue solo shows in and around
California. The first show last I did scared the proverbial shit out
of me as I took that first note and noticed something missing..but I
have committed myself to getting over that feeling this year and have
started to connect with folks all over San Francisco who are
committed to putting female singer/songwriter shows together. I will
be putting shows as they come, on our website at:
www.velvetjanes.com/mardi.htm

So, that is us now. Wherever you are, I hope that you have praised
yourself for your year and we both wish you a great 2001. Thanks, as
always for your support..and a big welcome to those new people on the
list..we are glad to have you along for the ride.

Till next time


Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes
www.velvetjanes.com

hello oh peoples..just a quick note to let you know about the online
journal that we have put up on our site for this tour. If you head
over to www.velvetjanes.com/onlinejournal/index.htm you can read all
about the tour as it goes!! Also, if you have any photos from shows
that you would like put up, please email them to us asap and we will
put them up with a link to your site!! Hope you enjoy reading and
please send us your reviews etc to stick up there too!!

Don't forget, dates for shows can be found at

www.velvetjanes.com/tour.htm

we are in Adelaide, having a ball and head to Victoria next..look out
all!!

Mardi & Rose
THe Velvet Janes

Yes indeed, one more time! Here are the FINAL tour details for our up
coming tour! There have been a couple of changes since the last email
so please check your area!

Thanks to all that sent in name suggestions for the tour - some of
them were hilarious! It was hard work, but we finally decided on the
name 'The Velvet Overgound Tour'...!! There were two people who
suggested that name, so if you can both contact me at
vjanes@... then I can take your details. You both will
receive tickets to a show of your choosing (excluding the SA
candlelight & dinner show) for you and three friends! Many thanks!

So, I am about to hop on a plane back to Australia and we will see
your smiling faces soon!

Many thanks for your support

Mardi & Rose
The Velvet Janes



The Velvet Overground Australian Tour 2000

Thurs 19th Oct  Mojos, Fremantle WA  - Doors Open 8pm
Fri 20th Oct    Opening of FEAST, Adelaide
Sat 21st Oct    Raglans, Waymouth St Adelaide
Sun 22nd Oct    Dinner & Candlelight show - Crown & Sceptre Hotel,
Adelaide
Mon 23rd Oct    Magill Uni (Lunchtime)
Tues 24th Oct   Underdale Uni  (Lunchtime)
Wed 25th Oct    Warnanbool Tafe - Lunchtime Concert & Music Industry
Seminar
                 PM - Warnanbool Hotel
Thurs 26th Oct  Golden Vine, Bendigo
Fri 27th Oct    Commercial Hotel, Yarraville
Sat 28th Oct    Prince Patrick Hotel, Melb
Sunday 29th Oct Espy Hotel, St Kilda
Mon 30th Oct    Melbourne Uni
Tue 31st Oct    National Hotel - Geelong
Wed 1st Nov     Duke of Kent - Wagga Wagga
Thur 2nd Nov    Gypsy Bar - Canberra
Fri 3rd Nov     Oxford Tavern - Wollongong
Sat 4th Nov     Annandale Hotel - Sydney
Mon 6th Nov     Hopetown Hotel, Surrey Hills (Candlelight show)
Wed 8th Nov     Good Companion Hotel - Tamworth
Thur 9th Nov    The Winsome Hotel -  Lismore
Fri 10th Nov    The Great Northern- Bryon Bay
Sun 12th Nov    The Pavillion, West End - Brisbane
Wed 15th Nov    Dunsborough Tavern  WA (with band)
Thurs 16th Nov  Prince Of Wales, Bunbury  (with band)
Fri 17th Nov    Settlers Tavern, Margaret River  (with band)
Sun 19th Nov    Rock Garden Cafe, Inglewood WA (with band)
Wed 22nd Nov    Mojo's Fremantle