26 April 2008

Video Recording Diary - Episode 5.

Shoeshine Highlights + Comi-con! Click 'more' for video.

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25 April 2008

Video Recording Diary - Episode 4.

Meat and Potatoes, Meat and Potatoes. cilck 'more' for video!

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13 April 2008

Video Recording Diary - Episode 3.

Skyring shows us how she spends her spare time after finishing all her drums. cilck 'more' for video!

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02 April 2008

Video Recording Diary - Episode 2.

Let's Go Shopping! WOO!!O WOO!!O!OO!O!O!!! (click more to watch)

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01 April 2008

Video Recording Diary - Episode 1.

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03 December 2007

Brisbane + Sydney Xmas Shows!

Hello people in the neighborhood! This is my favourite time of the year :D and I hope that you can all share in my joy. Long hot nights, sweaty skin, afternoon BBQs and GIGS! Woo... So before we go record our album we get to enjoy the pleasure of performing for you guys if you're in Brisbane or Sydney.

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20 November 2007

New Facebook Page + Grafitti Till Your Hands Cramp Competition

Grafitti our NEW FACEBOOK PAGE to win cooooooooooooooooool prizes

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30 October 2007

Dew Process Xmas Party

The Zoo, Brisbane - December 11, 2007
tickets available NOW through thezoo.com.au
/ 1300762545 + usual outlets

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22 August 2007

Telling Show Podcast #6

Rush Hour 3
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07 August 2007

Telling Show Podcast #5

"The Warehouse" Part 2 of 2
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26 July 2007

Telling Show Podcast #4

"The Warehouse" Part 1 of 2
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14 July 2007

Episode 03 of "Patience's Telling Show" Podcast

Episode 02: Good Luck Chuck. TELLING SHOW IN ITUNES
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30 June 2007

Episode 02 of "Patience's Telling Show" Podcast

Episode 02: Evan Almighty. SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES
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22 June 2007

*NEW PODCAST* Patience's Telling Show.

Episode 01: Ocean's 13. SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES
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25 May 2007

Lee Remick Go-Betweens Tribute

Patience covers Go-Betweens song for tribute album 'Write Your Own Adventures"

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18 April 2007

Pauhaus Birdy Fun Fun

ah! look! tiny flight bird! quickly let's all check out where this flight bird is in motion to. There! Ahead! It will desend on PAUHAUS! a festival of contemporary music, on Saturday 9 June, at the new and improved Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm.

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29 March 2007

Brand! New! Exciting!

"Til Death Do Us Party" DVD out this weekend, + it's also being aired on the ABC this Saturday Night at 10:55pm!

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09 March 2007

Watch the new live video for "Rock Boys"

Watch the new live video for "Rock Boys" here! (click MORE)

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06 March 2007

Win Grates Famous Sock Puppets

Talk us through the kind of sweet life you would provide for three cute-as-a-button sock puppets & they might become yours to keep!

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12 February 2007

Conversation Hour - With John Patterson

In today's program, guest Lee Fletcher joins me, John Patterson, in a hearty conversation (mainly recalling our times growing up in the Redlands)

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06 January 2007

Vote for Rock Troupe "The Grates" in Triple J's Hottest 100!

So we all know how unfair the triple j hottest 100 is. It would be more fair if the triple j hottest 100 was a 3 legged race. The rules of course being...

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27 December 2006

ATTN: Steven Spielberg

pls read my idea for Jurassic Park IV: Dragons

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21 October 2006

Conversation Hour - With John Patterson

Today, I spend an hour getting to know Dan 'the man' Condon, who helps the Grates fill out their sound live by bringing the keyboards and banjo (and panda suit) to the party.

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17 October 2006

The Grates | Rage Like Storm

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05 October 2006

The Grates - Live at the Metro in Sydney on Triple J's Impossible Music Festival

tune in JJJ 6:00PM THIS SATURDAY 07.10.06 to hear The Grates live set from earlier this year at The Metro, Sydney.

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12 September 2006

POOL PARTY MONTH!

This is pool party month & here at thegrates.com/poolsafety would like to spice up your weekend pool parties with some of our tried & tested sexy ideas...

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10 September 2006

Science Is Golden SINGLE OUT NOW!

The single for "Science Is Golden" is out now in Australia and includes B-sides "Start Her Up" and "19-20-20 live"! + a sheet of sweet stickers and a "bonus stickers" sticker.

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14 August 2006

GRATES FIND PERFECT WIFE AND GO ON TOUR

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10 August 2006

Science is Golden Vide-oh!

the video for the song 'sinus is (mark) holden'.... (click more to see it pls thx)

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25 July 2006

JOHN PATTERSON: OFFICIALLY A GENIUS

On Saturday morning, John Patterson, Long Term Guitarist in rock band "The Grates" was awarded a Brain Age of 20!...

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04 July 2006

"19-20-20" Single *OUT NOW* in the U.K.

Last night us Grates went to Pink's hot dogs in L.A. at about 12:30 a.m. to find the line a short 40 min wait. Patience got a SPICY Polish dog & this morning for the very first time in her entire life experienced the 'what goes in must come out, two-way spicy action'...

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12 June 2006

PATIENCE HODGSON CRIES WHEN TAMAGOTCHI DIES

Brisbane resident and full time member of The Grates, Patience Hodgson, cried yesterday when her digital pet dinosaur died after being alive for less than 24 hours....

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11 June 2006

THE GRATES PLAY TRIPLE J LIVE AT THE WIRELESS THIS MONDAY 8PM

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24 May 2006

WIN 4 VIP TICKETS TO SPLENDOUR WITH CAMPING

The Grates would like to thank everyone who has joined they're mailing list by offering the chance to win tickets to the sold out Splendour In The Grass Festival.

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17 May 2006

SKYRING KILLS OWL, DOESN'T EVEN CARE

The other night, alana skyring, of brisbane, was driving on the highway, when she noticed something on the road....

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01 May 2006

YOUR TOPPER TIPS HEALTH AND WELLBEING REPORT with Keith

Are you in the mood for love but suffering from a very unattractive ailment? Well, lucky that you signed up to my personal mailing list then, because I have all sorts of tips that will make you go EW!

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27 April 2006

Extra Tickets on sale for Melbourne and Adelaide

There is a very limited (like tiny!) amount of tickets available for Melbourne tonight and Adelaide tomorrow, so please don’t be disappointed if you miss out. Doors open at 8.30pm in Melbourne and 7.30pm in Adelaide, although it is quite likely the tickets in Adelaide will be gone! Please don’t call the venue to ask

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25 April 2006

ATTN PERTH: WHY DID YOU STEAL THAT PINK HAT?

I mean, really! It was, like, two stories high! What are you going to do with it? Honestly, you did me a favour - that Hodgson was trying to convince me that he didn't just steal it from NOVA, that it was meant to be a present for me from an anonymous fan, but surely i don't have the 'wacky' image about me that would warrant such a gesture.

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24 April 2006

Bike Gets Shit Kicked Out Of It.

Walking through Seattle we noticed this bike that had got all ripped apart and the shit kicked out of it's locked up wheel.

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13 April 2006

Quality News

Dudes! Bitches! Ace boone coon all good in tha hood all up with my cool aid! Oh, sorry what's that? You mumma can't unlock my lingo? She wanna fo sheezie eighty six it? Or let me repeat myself for yous chillin villians what didn't get all up in smoke with me, the fambo & Snoop Dogg last night... loosely... Friends everything's cool in my business & your fat mother wants to put an end to my hood talk.

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