The Funkoars have dropped a 3rd film clip from their critically acclaimed album The Quickening. Vamoose was produced by Full Clip Productions and features the acting stylings of Benjie McNair of Neighbours fame.
The clip is a biting social commentary on the state of the economy done in true Oars fashion. The video is best summed up by YouTube user KrazyBot: “Absolutely moving and inspirational clip. The camera roll towards the protagonist creates a sense of desperation within the responder as we watch him try in vain to make enough sandwiches as he is struck by projectiles. Audience members are subject to a cruel disappointment when the protagonist survives only to be shot again. There is a sense of great loss when the antagonists (Funkoars) descend upon his lifeless corpse and take the sandwiches for their own. Brilliance. I am at a loss for words.”
Drawing inspiration from a classic Notorious B.I.G. rhyme and produced by Golden Era Records resident recluse Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Vents), Vamoose is a one-liner barrage being drunk driven home by Sesta and Hons, smashed into some black market organs, huge guitar stabs and a soul sample fondled to bits by stuntman/DJ Reflux.
Ladies and Gentlemen, VAMOOSE.
Taken from the Funkoars Album The Quickening. You can catch the Funkoars on their Being Vincent D’onofrio Tour, full dates and ticketing information can be found here.
Quick to reclaim the room from the force fed and the fake, The Funkoars are back with another pessimistic party anthem and third single Vamoose from their latest and most deadly album, The Quickening. “So get loose or get gone, Vamoose son of a bitch!”
Drawing inspiration from a classic Notorious B.I.G. rhyme and produced by Golden Era Records resident recluse Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Vents), Vamoose is a one-liner barrage being drunk driven home by Sesta and Hons, smashed into some black market organs, huge guitar stabs and a soul sample fondled to bits by stuntman/DJ Reflux.
Catch The Funkoars live on the Being Vincent D’onofrio Tour: Sun 11th March – TAS – Breath Of Life Festival, Launceston Fri 30th March – ACT – The Tradies Club, Canberra Sat 31st March – NSW – Entrance Leagues Club, Bateau Bay Tue 24th April – VIC – Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne Fri 27th April – WA – Bar120 Hillarys, Sorrento Sat 28th April – WA – Rosemount Hotel, Perth Fri 4th May – SA – The Gov, Adelaide Sat 5th May – NSW – Annandale Hotel, Sydney Thu 10th May – VIC – Wheelers Hill Hotel, Wheelers Hill Fri 11th May – VIC – Pier Live, Frankston Fri 1st June – NSW – Great Northern, Byron Bay Sat 2nd June – QLD – The Zoo, Brisbane
2011 is almost over so to celebrate The Funkoars are putting on the biggest after work Knock Off Party of the year! After their stand-out performance at Sprung Festival, The Funkoars are back to officially launch their ARIA Chart topping new album The Quickening along with an all-star cast of some of the best Hip-Hop artists Australia has to offer!!
These are two knock off parties you do NOT want to miss out on! Check out the full dates below and be sure to enter the competition below to win a double passes to both shows. 2011 Knock Off Party – 22nd Dec – Runaway Bay Tavern, Gold Coast Featuring The Funkoars, Coalition Crew, Tommy Illfigga & DJ Butcher (Crate Creeps), Death Stars & DJ Flagrant (Video DJ Set). - Tickets available through Moshtix 2011 Knock Off Party - 23rd Dec – The Hi-Fi, Brisbane Featuring The Funkoars, Lazy Grey, Coalition Crew, Tommy Illfigga & DJ Butcher (Crate Creeps), Pure Product, Death Stars & DJ Flagrant (Video DJ Set). - Tickets available through Moshtix
We have 3 double passes to giveaway for each show going to six lucky winners. All you need to do to enter is send us an email to allaussiecomps@gmail.com with your name, the show you want to go to, mobile number and the answer to this question: What will be the first thing you do when you ‘Knock Off’ for 2011.
Winners will be contacted on their mobile the morning of the show.
Don’t miss out on the last stop of The Quickening Launch Tour at the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide! Support for the night will be provided by Vents & Adfu, Ciecmate, Mase & Mattic and K21. Known for having one of the most dangerous shows in the business, The Funkoars will be performing an all-new live show incorporating songs from The Quickening as well as their claaaassic material that forged them one of the biggest cult followings in the country.
Special guests Hilltop Hoods have also just announced that they will be joining The Funkoars on stage for a couple songs!
To celebraate the release of The Funkoars single “It’s All Good (Is Very Good)” the guys have created a Tumblr account. The guys want you to submit your most “Classic” photos to funkoarstumblr@gmail.com. The most classic of the classic will win prizes!
A certified party anthem It’s All Good (Is Very Good) has consistently been the stand out track performed on The Funkoars national album launch tour and gathered one of the biggest responses during their headline performance at Brisbane’s Sprung Festival. The Funkoars new single is available now on iTunes. The single package includes two exclusive remixes by Trials and Debate with a guest verse from Mortar. Produced by Funkoars group member Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Ash Grunwald), It’s All Good (Is Very Good) is poised to be a summer anthem!
While you’re at it check allaussie hip hop out on Tumblr by following the link below.
Fresh off the back of their #11 Aria Album Chart debut for their brand new album The Quickening, The Funkoars are proud to deliver their breakthrough single It’s All Good (Is Very Good).
A certified party anthem It’s All Good (Is Very Good) has consistently been the stand out track performed on The Funkoars national album launch tour and gathered one of the biggest responses during their headline performance at Brisbane’s Sprung Festival. The Funkoars new single is available now on iTunes. The single package includes two exclusive remixes by Trials and Debate with a guest verse from Mortar.
Produced by Funkoars group member Trials (Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Ash Grunwald), It’s All Good (Is Very Good) is poised to be a summer anthem! We have 2x double passes to give-away to the Adelaide show. Sat 26 Nov – Thebarton Theatre. To enter, send your name, contact details to allaussiecomps@gmail.com with the answer to the following question: What is the most moosty thing you own?
The Funkoars are back n’ badder than ever and are coming to a town near you with The Quickening Album Launch Tour, which will see them touring extensively throughout the country from September through November. We catch up with Trials as he recovers from a crazy Melbourne show late last week.
aahh: The Quickening is the 4th LP from The Funkoars, would you describe this as the most ‘Classic’ album to date from The Funkoars, in terms of sound and overall finished product? Trials: As far as OUR take on ‘classic’, yeah, I’d say this embodies everything that makes us work and fail as people and performers. Every single album we’ve inadvertently stepped up our production and recording game just writing, working on other records and incorporating the tricks we learn along the way, also inheriting the Hoods old gear, my studio would be halved if it wasn’t for those guys.
aahh: As a crew, the Funkoars have been together for quite sometime now. How do you keep the creative vibe flowing and coming up with tracks that aren’t at all moosty? Trials: I don’t know how any body can do what we do without being mates first and foremost. I’m not sure how you’re suppose to tell somebody ‘sorry, you can’t sleep in that bed, there’s blood in there now’ and eat breakfast with them the next morning.
aahh: The amount of production you have done over the past year and a half is staggering. We know there are quite a few budding producers out there who are keen on hearing what tools you’ve been fucking with over that period of time? Trials: I’ve pretty much always gotten by on barebones and sticky tape so to spout all the shit I’m playing with these days is a bit misleading but until maybe the last few years I only ever used Logic Audio. There’s a universal sound of evil sad sad soul that permeates across genres that appeals to me no matter what and working with Ash (Grunwald) was absolutely a game changer. When his drummer Benny was banging a hammer on a car door for a snare drum I wanted to make that sound, organic but processed, shit loads of soul but red lined enough to stress Flashy out. Since then Fuad and I have been collecting all sorts of dumb (un)necessary fuzz/distortion/verb/octav pedals and I have developed a very unhealthy relationship with my telecaster. If im on the run, Lappy, Native Instruments Maschine, UA solo/110, RNC, Apogee Duet and its awwwn.
aahh: A lot of the beats on The Quickening are absolutely disgustingly large, Sesta, Large Professor and Simplex contribute, just to name a few. Was working with Large Professor on a track high on the bucket list? Trials: All day. He is one of my biggest influences and any one who knows my catalog, or at least ‘hard to kill’ knows that, fuck off bass line, deadly horn echo and disgusting drums, my favourite. Simmo sent the ‘I Got’ beat for us to rock on for his production album when we were in the final stages of the LP but there was no way we could give it back, it was tarnished and Moose (K21) had already kicked the guts out of it so he let us keep it. We bugged Dazza for a beat since ‘Step daddy’ and I’m stoked he did ‘D’Onofrio’, proper classic Daz beat. Also any body only just realising Sesta is the better producer out of the pair of us is a dick head.
aahh: Tell us a bit about the feel of The Quickening, did you have an overall theme or idea you wanted to centre the album around? Trials: The Quickening was the full release handy j at the end of a really fucking long and shit massage. When we were writing/touring ‘The hangover’ we were doing ungodly shit to our bodies, mentally and physically as a unit we were fucked. I did an old man number on my back which took us off the road for an entire year which is a life time to a local crew but it allowed us time to recoup, start laughing again and most of all dedicate 100% of our day/night to putting it all into an album. Usually towards the end of the record we cull all of the nonsensical shit, this time we added extra.
aahh: You have already released one massive video clip for the track ‘Where Am I’ directed by Selina Miles, who does an amazing job always. What was the concept behind this clip? Trials: Sel understands our brand of really average humour and I can’t think of a better team to work with when it comes to the gang http://unitysoundandvisual.com !! The original concept was hotel from hell and us smashing things, then we dropped the hotel angle and just smashed things.
aahh: We’ve all heard the Funkoars obession with Vincent De’nofro but we heard Elliot Stabler (Det. from Law & Order SVU) would fuck him up in a knife fight? What are your thoughts? Trials: Have you seen Oz? Stabler would fuck him all sorts of ways.
aahh: As a proud Australian with Indigenous heritage yourself, it now seems more than ever that some amazing crews and artists across Australia are now getting the recognition and attention they deserve. The recent Deadly Awards is a perfect example of this. Do you think its been a long time coming? Trials: I’m unbelievably proud that we have crews like Last Kinection and people like Briggs and Jimblah setting the example and breaking the stereotype of not only what it means to be an Aboriginal hip hop artist, but to be an Aboriginal.
aahh: Currently you are touring the Quickening around the country, with dates all over the nation. Who do you have joining you on this tour and why? Trials: When you tour you are often spending more time with the touring party than your own family so you have to surround yourself with like-minded people, we have been genuinely blessed by Tom Cruise that our friends also happen to be fucking nuts at what they do. Ciecmate was one of the first people I ever met when we branched out interstate in the early days and puts one of if not THE best solo one man on the mic performance I’ve ever seen and his DJ, Nath is a fucking nutcase on the cut and very tall. Vents & ADFU are my brothers in arms, genuine best friends and having them with us makes it all so much more mentally doable, Mase & Mattic put in more effort at a sound check than most motherfuckers who have the headline spot so missing them early before they pack rooms by themselves is a big mistake! If my frequent flyer points hold up, we’re bringing K21 to as many spots as possible to prepare them for what he’s about to drop, its deadly.
aahh: How has the album been received at the show you’ve already played, we heard you tore the roof off Melbourne the other night? Trials: I was actually super sick and in bed up until 5 minutes to show time so I’m looking forward to returning quiiiiiickkly to give the germ back but yeah, it was fucking mental, in the year we took off it seems like crowds have become much louder and more shirtless.
aahh: How do the Funkoars deal with the ‘Goblin’ on tour? We’re sure he raises his ugly head a few times? Trials: Depends who you are really. We’re ranging from the ultimate considerate person Ciecmate to the ultimate king IP Vents, it could go unnoticed, it could be all over the bathroom.
aahh: Is it appropriate to use the term ‘Woooooos’ on a daily basis, especially when dealing with a boss or partner? Trials: Yes.
aahh: The new Call Of Duty Or Battlefield 3? Trials: The Battlefield BETA got me itching to fly a jet into some bodies face but I know I’ll cave and be right back in to COD.
aahh: Final comments and shit we’ve missed? Trials: Thanks to everyone that’s checked the record out so far, we’re shooting a brand new stinker video with Selina Miles next week so there will be no shortage of ugly on your TV. Much much much much much love and big shout out to the originator of our style and king of WA SBX crew Hunter, we fucking love you mate. (Editors note: This interview was completed on October 19th, the day before the tragic news broke that hip hop legend MC Hunter had passed away from Cancer. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and crew. RIP to a true Australian King.)
If you need help decoding some of the questions and answers given in this interview we recommend you check out the Quickipedia Terms and Definitions page right here.
The National Basketball League has launched its new season’s television commercial, which is going to air currently on free-to-air television on Network Ten and its digital channel ONE. The 30 second commercial features South Australia’s very own the Funkoars – Where I Am (You Go? Remix), taken from their latest release The Quickening.
Featuring an extension of the successful ‘It Goes Off’ branding used last season, the commercial aims to showcase the excitement and atmosphere that culminated in a unrivalled sporting entertainment experience that fans enjoy at live iiNet NBL Championship games. You can check out the commercial below featuring The Funkoars below.
Track Listing 1. Fumes That Spell Doom 2. The Quickening 3. Where I Am 4. It’s All Good (Is Very Good) 5. All We Need 6. The Undeniable Third Shooter 7. The Assassination – Feat. Vents 8. Feel The Madness 9. WSDL? – Feat. DJ Ad-Fu 10. Law & Order 11. I Got This (I Got That) – Feat. K21 12. Being Vincent D’Onofrio 13. D Letter 14. Bodycount – Feat. Hilltop Hoods 15. Vamoose
Tonight from 7-8pm CST join The Funkoars for a drink and Q&A session on the Golden Era U-Stream Channel here. You can ask a question, tell them which track is your favorite or just comment on Trials long hair. The guys hope to see you there!
The Quickening is available now in stores and online.
Golden Era Records are proud to present The Funkoars 4th and most lethal album to date, THE QUICKENING! Featuring special guest appearances from Hilltop Hoods, Vents & K21 and guest production from Large Professor, Dazastah (Downsyde), Simplex & Debate.
With their first single Where I Am smashing the radio waves, The Quickening is a non-stop barrage of badness and the epitome of evil!
Order The Quickening now on iTunes Order The Quickening now through JB HiFi Track Listing 1. Fumes That Spell Doom 2. The Quickening 3. Where I Am 4. It’s All Good (Is Very Good) 5. All We Need 6. The Undeniable Third Shooter 7. The Assassination – Feat. Vents 8. Feel The Madness 9. WSDL? – Feat. DJ Ad-Fu 10. Law & Order 11. I Got This (I Got That) – Feat. K21 12. Being Vincent D’Onofrio 13. D Letter 14. Bodycount – Feat. Hilltop Hoods 15. Vamoose
