Paul Dempsey is in New York with a month-long residency at The Living Room. I'll be there, singing along to "Bats" for sure. The new album, which is out in Australia, is finally coming to the US - "Everything Is True". Here's hoping for iTunes' Album of the Year, again, and going GOLD, just like down under.Video - “Out the Airlock”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXMqJlNnm0
Video – “Bats”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5XXCja5KQ
Upcoming New York shows:
AUG 4th The Living Room
AUG 11th The Living Room
AUG 16th The Rock Shop
AUG 19th The Living Room
AUG 25th The Living Room
More on Paul below. x psychic palms
PAUL DEMPSEY
Everything Is True
iTunes’ (Australia) Album of the Year
Certified GOLD (Australia)
US Release This Fall
Live in New York!
“A Triumph” **** The Australian
“The tally for genius lyrics per second is positively baffling...eleven excellent reasons to acquaint yourself with one of Australia's finest songwriters” - Beat
Paul Dempsey, known to most as the principal songwriter, lead singer and guitarist of Something For Kate, one of the most respected and successful Australian bands to emerge over the past decade, has traded the sold-out rock halls down under for intimate New York crowds. Dempsey and his guitar will take up residency at The Living Room for the month of August, with a few other New York shows throughout the month, to showcase his award-winning debut solo album, Everything Is True, before its release stateside, this fall.
Having released five platinum and gold albums to date with Something for Kate, amassing a staggering 16 Australian Record Industry Award nominations, multiple Rolling Stone gongs for best band, best album & best male vocalist along with countless sold out tours with everyone from David Bowie to Death Cab for Cutie, Dempsey decided to step out on his own in 2009. A departure from his work with Something for Kate, Everything is True is an intimate collection of evocative and cerebral folk rock that showcases Dempsey's unique, multi-layered storytelling skills. From the delicate falsetto peaks of album opener, “Bats” to the Dylanesque barroom proclamations of “Safety in Numbness”, this is a smart record with a big heart.
Playing every instrument on the album himself, the album was co-produced by Paul and Wayne Connolly (Youth Group, You Am I) and mixed by Doug Bohem (Elliot Smith, French Kicks) and was released to overwhelming response. Named Australian iTunes’ Album of the Year, the album has gone GOLD, and garnered Dempsey multiple awards and nominations from ARIA, Rolling Stone, Triple J, The Age, debuting in the Top 5.
“Its hard to imagine him ever producing another record more inclusive and satisfying than this” ****
- Rolling Stone
“Paul Dempsey is trying to do it all. And he's winning” - Inpress
