Send The Dead Maggies to Europe
A$3,000
of $3,000 targetyrs ago
Successful on 26th Jul 2014 at 1:52AM.
The Dead Maggies are Tasmania’s rusty fork in a puddle folk-punk, cow-punk, beer swilling, shanty singing, flannie-wearing, mohawk-bearing musical peasants. Accused by ABC radio of creating their own genre 'Tasmanian Convict Punk', The Dead Maggies formed on the day of Maggie Thatchers death and have been weaving songs of tragic tales from Van Diemen’s Land’s dark and oppressive history for over one whole year - setting them to fast, upbeat, toe-tapping, foot stomping, wild music that makes you dance, shout and folk till you punk.
Having played some packed out rocking gigs on a recent tour of New South Wales, and garnering interest and invites from places like Scotland, England, Austria, France and Czech Republic, The Dead Maggies are going to Europe!
But there's a problem - they have a heap of contacts around UK/EU ready to book gigs for them, but scraping the coin together to fund their airfares is hard for a 6 piece band of beer drinking vagabonds. We're playing gigs and selling CD's and pulling together some good old fashioned treasure but we need your help!
Any donation you can chip in would be more welcome than a bottle of port to a dying sailer, more welcome than an unwatched boat for an escaped convict, even more welcome than the last kiss of a loved one. Well... maybe. It would be very welcome anyway.
Please make sure we can fly to Europe and spread Tasmanian tales and explosive punk shanty's around the world. - Love - The Dead Maggies
PS. To all Tasmanians: As an added bonus, sending The Dead Maggies to Europe, means that you won't have to put up with them around Hobart for several months! That means that other bands might get to play at The Brisbane Hotel, if these drunken stagehogs are out of town.
Having played some packed out rocking gigs on a recent tour of New South Wales, and garnering interest and invites from places like Scotland, England, Austria, France and Czech Republic, The Dead Maggies are going to Europe!
But there's a problem - they have a heap of contacts around UK/EU ready to book gigs for them, but scraping the coin together to fund their airfares is hard for a 6 piece band of beer drinking vagabonds. We're playing gigs and selling CD's and pulling together some good old fashioned treasure but we need your help!
Any donation you can chip in would be more welcome than a bottle of port to a dying sailer, more welcome than an unwatched boat for an escaped convict, even more welcome than the last kiss of a loved one. Well... maybe. It would be very welcome anyway.
Please make sure we can fly to Europe and spread Tasmanian tales and explosive punk shanty's around the world. - Love - The Dead Maggies
PS. To all Tasmanians: As an added bonus, sending The Dead Maggies to Europe, means that you won't have to put up with them around Hobart for several months! That means that other bands might get to play at The Brisbane Hotel, if these drunken stagehogs are out of town.
How The Funds Will Be Used
We expect to pay between $8,000 and $10,000 on airfares, all funds generated from the pozible campaign will be used to help pay for this expense.
The funds will not be used to purchase beer (as illustrated in the video below).
The funds will not be used to purchase beer (as illustrated in the video below).
The Challenges
The only obstacle in sight is not having enough money to fly over there. In which case hitchiking to the UK copuld have some health and safety risks associated with it.
We may occassionally drink to much beer. But we have emergency response plans in place for this.
We may occassionally drink to much beer. But we have emergency response plans in place for this.
Download of new live EP
We will send you a digital download code of a previously unreleased recording. Features 7 songs recorded at The Brisbane Hotel in May 2014 by the amazing Zac Lane.
1 chosen / 49 available
Est. delivery is Aug 14
Postcard from Europe
We will send you a postcard with some writing on the back, writing that we have personally written. If we keep in touch through email we can even arrange which city we post the card from.
6 chosen / 24 available
Est. delivery is Oct 14
Digital download of minialbum 'Sing About Dead People'. Contains 7 songs, 8 locations and 140 deaths. This album was feature album on both Edge Radio and ABC Local Tasmania, and contains 'Thylacine' and 'Farmer' which have bothe been heard on Triple J.
10 chosen / 40 available
Est. delivery is Aug 14
Personal thank you
We will give you free entry to a gig in Hobart in 2015 (we will keep in touch through email to arrange a gig that suits both you and us) at the gig we will give you a shout out from the stage, we will shake your hand (or kiss on the cheek) and give you a choice of a; badge, sticker or digital download of the live EP (see $10 reward)
2 chosen / 23 available
Est. delivery is Dec 15
A signed copy of 'sing about dead people' mini album. Postage anywhere in Australia included
10 chosen / 20 available
Est. delivery is Aug 14
Limited edition artwork. Print of 50 copies (individually numbered) of a sketch of a Thylacine by Gareth Tom Osborn. Card is coffee stained with burnt edges and it looks pretty nice. Includes postage to anywhere in Australia.
4 chosen / 6 available
Est. delivery is Aug 14
A flanny as worn on stage by a member of The Dead Maggies. Includes postage anywhere in Australia.
0 chosen / 5 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
Drinks for the band
You get us drunk... I know the donations go to our airfares, not our beer, but as a thank you for donating to our airfares, we will buy our own beers. We will get a photo of us all drinking a pint/can at the city/gig of your choice whilst we are on tour in Europe and email it to you with an exclusive thank you message.
2 chosen / 8 available
Est. delivery is Sep 14
We will write a song of a topic of your choice (needs to include a dead person, preferably Tasmanian). We can email it to you first, and include it on our next release.
2 chosen / 0 available
Est. delivery is Mar 15