Welcome to the new website for THE HIPTONES. You are now listening to a track from our brand new CD 'RIGHT NOW' - available throughout stores in Australia. Check our more tracks on our music page on this website, and we've uploaded some of our video clips on the EPK page
BROTHER T launches SUGACANE @ LOCKLEYS HOTEL (9pm ~ 1am) on Friday 6th August and WINE UNDERGROUND (5pm ~ 8pm) on Sunday 8th August. Featuring Brother T on hammond, Jamie Jones on drums, Adam Pringle (Sydney) on guitar, and special guest vocalist Gail Page (Sydney). Special guest support - Tara Carragher. Free gig.See gig guide on this site for more details.
SOUL SISTAS REVUE @ The Gov on Friday 27th August:
First they brought you 'I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL'. Now the SOUL REVUE band let the SISTAS move into the spotlight, featuring the outstanding vocal talents of Zkye, Louise Messenger, and very special Sydney guests Gail Page, and guitarist Adam Pringle. Together, they bring you a stunning night of music to die for inspired by the timeless classics of the best soul blues and funk divas of all time including Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, Lyn Collins, Betty Davis and Marva Whitney. That's some sexy dose! Joining Brother T and his Hammond Organ are Damien Steele Scott on bass, Andrew Bignell on drums, Joel Prime on percussion, Chris Weber on trumpet, and Chris Soole and Gabriel Chammah on saxophones - what a band!!!
Contact your friends and lock in the date. More details to follow soon.....
Video clips NOW available on this website!
We also have video clips loaded onto this site too. They're on our EPK page.
Request The Hiptones on Triple J Radio
Hey, if you could request us on JJJ at this address - that would be really HIP!
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/make_a_request.htm
Australian Community Radio
Ahh yes. We have received SO much support from Community Radio right around the country. This is where it all started. Thanks so much to all those hard working stations all over OZ. Youz Rock!
Meanwhile... see you at a gig real soon, and thanks for stopping by - and a special thanks to those of you that already have the album RIGHT NOW. Hope you dig it!
Here's a brief look at what other people are saying.
Ross Wilson
No wonder they've scored a deal with a major label - this is blues for the masses & a great leap forward for the oz blues scene.
Renee Geyer
The Hiptones are one of our great young R&B bands… they're formidable - an oasis in an R&B drought called Australia.
Rhythms Magazine: Australia's Roots Music Monthly
Get ready to shake your ass and get it awn down to the roots/soul explosion of The Hiptones… their stunning roots'n'all debut album 'Right Now’…perfectly serves to illustrate their immediate, fresh albeit-vintage bluesy/soul sound.
Australian Musician Magazine
The Hiptones are the real deal, a tight groove based unit proudly displaying their retro influences on their sleeves. … gig-seasoned musicians doing what they love...... Real music by genuine musos. Faith is restored.
Sydney Sunday Telegraph
Smooth-edged toe-tapping R&B soul and blues, fleshed out with plenty of hammond organ.
Sydney Daily Telegraph
Their infectious blend of blues, soul and funk has been delightfully distilled by producer James Black on the album Right Now.
Beat Magazine-Melbourne
Technically speaking, frontman Snooks La Vie should have been born black…The Hiptones music is… a canny laid-back fusion of soul, funk, blues and gospel, … that gives a shot of adrenaline to the Australian roots scene… they don't make bands this good anymore.
PBS Melbourne
What a show…their attire is funky and retro-styled and their ability to play alive and kicking music is outstanding…Can you get a better vocal than La Vie? - probably not. He is sensational.
The Sunday Morning Herald - Melbourne
The album RIGHT NOW oozes class, delivering music that neither disguises its influence, nor slavishly replicates it. The album's compositions are safely in the hands of smooth singer Snooks la Vie and keyboardist/bassist Narmon 'Brother T' Tulsi. What a team.
The Advertiser - Adelaide
What polish, what shine, what class; all from a band whose name truly epitomises its sound.