{"id":34657,"date":"2020-07-19T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34657"},"modified":"2020-07-18T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T11:19:52","slug":"peter-bibbys-dog-act-announce-new-album-marge-share-new-single-whyalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34657","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bibby\u2019s Dog ACT announce new album \u2018Marge\u2019 + share new single \u2018Whyalla\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the release of his ferocious sea-shanty\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/peter-bibbys-dog-act-announces-new-single-video-oceans\/\">Oceans<\/a>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Australian troubadour and prankster\u00a0Peter<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-d\/\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a>Bibby<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>announced their new album,\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-k\/\">Marge\u2019<\/a><strong><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The third studio album from the musical Andy Kaufman-like cult figure and his disruptive backing band Dog Act will be released\u00a0on Friday, September 18th\u00a0via Spinning Top Records. Along with the album news, the band has released the video for their new single <a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-u\/\"><em>Whyalla<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>a guttural six-and-a-half minute jam that pushes and pulls across the beaten track until there&#8217;s nothing left to give.\u00a0Fans can pre-order\u00a0\u2018Marge\u2018\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-a\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><em>Whyalla<\/em>\u00a0is simultaneously a love letter and a cursing damnation of rural Australia. Its spoken-word bridge lays down tall tales about some of its most notable legends, while the chorus draws you in like a moth to the flame, only to get promptly burnt once again by the song&#8217;s churning riff.\u00a0<em>\u201cI wrote this song a few years back after my mate Racoo asked me to write a song for a road trip compilation she was putting together. I don\u2019t think it saw the light of day. I had a lot of help from Wikipedia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says Bibby of the track.<br><br>Directed and produced by Brendan Hutchens, the\u00a0video\u00a0is a hitchhiker\u2019s guide to garage rock.\u00a0<em>\u201cWe shot this thing out in Glen Eagle&#8217;s Rest, due to COVID-19 we couldn&#8217;t shoot it in Whyalla. It came together nicely with the help of great friends, a great crew and a weird toilet cleaner who hung around telling us strange and creepy facts about the location. He said he was disappointed that we weren&#8217;t shooting a porno.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he adds.<br><br>Check out the video via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x5D_dmfeTAc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Marge\u2019<em>\u00a0<\/em>is an album of splintered, volatile Australiana. Recorded with\u00a0 \u201cStrawberry Pete\u201d Gower and drummer \u201cDirty Dave\u201d Taylor,\u00a0Bibby\u2019s third LP is a soundtrack to a surf movie where there&#8217;s blood in the water; a dirt road leading to a dead end; the sounds of\u00a0<em>Diesels &amp; Dust\u00a0<\/em>covered in&#8230; well, diesels and dust.\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Dog Act and I recorded this album in a week off in Perth between two Australian tours. We were match fit and full of beans. It features a selection of songs, some fun, some completely bloody miserable. It was made better by the involvement of the fourth Dog, Mitch McDonald, who engineered the record and offered endless energy and ideas. I love this record,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says Bibby of the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you were wondering, the titular\u00a0\u2018<em>Marge<\/em>\u2019\u00a0can be found on the front cover of the album. The grandma of Dirty Dave, she&#8217;s huffing a dart on a beach in Darwin \u2013 just watching her corner of the world go by.\u00a0<em>\u201cI felt there was no better image than a smoking nanna to be the face of this album,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Bibby reasons. In a way, he&#8217;s right \u2013\u00a0\u2018Marge\u2019<em>\u00a0<\/em>might seem genial and easy-going and friendly on surface value, but just beneath that lies something with an attitude and a defiant nature to it, not afraid to just let it burn. Bum one off Bibby, and let\u00a0\u2018Marge\u2019\u00a0tell you a story or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i2.cmail20.com\/ei\/j\/E7\/36D\/F5A\/185147\/csfinal\/coverPeterBibby-Margelo1-9900000000079e3c.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Bibby's Dog Act - Marge album artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Marge\u2019\u00a0track listing<\/strong><br><br>1. I&#8217;m On Fire<br>2.\u00a0Oceans<br>3. Poppin&#8217; Dhookies<br>4.\u00a0Whyalla<br>5. Undereducated<br>6. Tin Tuna<br>7. Batteries<br>8. Stressed<br>9. Your Mum<br>10. Craigburn<br>11. Calcium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Marge\u2019\u00a0is available for pre-order in digital formats as well as limited edition blue 12\u201d vinyl<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-v\/\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-e\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Bibby\u2019s rough-and-tumble approach and affable personality has gotten him plenty of mileage as a live act, performing at festivals such as\u00a0Laneway, Falls\u00a0and\u00a0SXSW\u00a0while also notching up his fair share of rowdy headlining shows as well. This has also translated into two well-respected studio albums:\u00a02014&#8217;s\u00a0\u2018Butcher\/Hairstylist\/Beautician\u2019 and\u00a02018&#8217;s\u00a0\u2018Grand Champion\u2019. He&#8217;s an artist that has been celebrated as inherently working-class and wholeheartedly independent \u2013 as commemorated by the\u00a02018 documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-qtlhhg-ejlihlkhu-g\/\">Chasing Palm Springs<\/a>, which followed Bibby on a literal cross-country journey from Perth to Melbourne in a temperamental van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Following the release of his ferocious sea-shanty\u00a0Oceans,\u00a0Australian troubadour and prankster\u00a0Peter Bibby\u00a0announced their new album,\u00a0\u2018Marge\u2019.\u00a0The third studio album from the musical Andy Kaufman-like cult figure and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34657\" title=\"Peter Bibby\u2019s Dog ACT announce new album \u2018Marge\u2019 + share new single \u2018Whyalla\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Peter Bibby\u2019s Dog ACT announce new album \u2018Marge\u2019 + share new single \u2018Whyalla\u2019 @peterbibby","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30],"tags":[9386,9388,9387],"class_list":["post-34657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-marge","tag-peter-bibbys-dog-act-2","tag-whyalla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/53F36F06-D0F7-49AF-B23D-60491342FD8E.jpeg?fit=900%2C600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-90Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34314,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34314","url_meta":{"origin":34657,"position":0},"title":"Peter Bibby&#8217;s Dog Act announces new single + video \u2018Oceans\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"May 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Australia\u2019s Peter Bibby is back with his first new music since his 2018 LP \u2018Grand Champion,\u2019 and this time he\u2019s buoyed by the disorderly Dog Act band. 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