G’Day Mate! The Whitlams Aren’t Just Rocking The Land Down Under Anymore
Eemeet Meeker Online Enterprises by Stentor Danielson Last fall (spring in the Southern Hemisphere), I noticed a disturbing feature of the trans-Pacific music exchange during my semester in Australia: It seems the trade is almost entirely one-way. Sure, America has been exposed to such musical geniuses as the Bee Gees and AC/DC, but Aussie radio […]
Jackpot!
Canberra Times by Georgia Curry Tim Freedman’s put about $10 in the pokies over the past five years, little wonder given the song. But don’t get him wrong, Freedman doesn’t mind gambling “as long as the odds are even fair, pokies are just a form of legislated losing”. Publicists are madly plugging the single, Blow […]
So Long Canada…Hello Sydney
Cairns Post by Nick Coppack Back in Sydney after a grueling seven week tour of Canada and the United States, The Whitlams are enjoying some well deserved rest. Singer Tim Freedman took some time out to talk to about bedroom nightmares, levitating crowds and of course, Australia’s one and only unofficial air guitar champion, Danger […]
IT’S TIM(E) The Whitlams Chart New Waters
The Metro, SMH by Matt Buchanan TIM WILL TELL Can the Whitlams hang on to their pop crown? Tim Freedman opens up to Matt Buchanan about big budgets, big expectations and the fear of failure. Clearly, it’s crunch time for the Whitlams. “My manager said to me, ‘Tim, spend what you want because if this […]
Love This City (CD Review)
Gold Coast Bulletin by Paul Weston LOVE THIS CITY The Whitlams 4 out of 4 stars = Excellent! The latest offering from Tim Freedman and The Whitlams is already being touted as the soundtrack of the summer. After a few listens, the 15-track Love This City lives up to the hype, the combination of Freedman’s clever lyrics […]
Love This City (CD Review)
Core Magazine 5 stars! LOVE THIS CITY (Warner Music/East West Records/Black Yak Phantom Records) After playing up and down the East Coast and releasing independent albums for seven years, ‘The Whitlams’ released a song – ‘No Aphrodisiac‘ in 1997 that blew the minds of listeners Australia wide and took out Triple J’s hottest 100. Selling […]
Love This City (CD Review)
Courier Mail by Noel Mengel The last time Tim Freedman, singer, songwriter and driving force of The Whitlams, made an album, he hoped it would sell 8000 copies. With the help of consistently entertaining live shows and the evocative melancholy of the pivotal track, No Aphrodisiac, Eternal Nightcap went on to sell 190,000. Result: The Whitlams are no […]
The Whitlams Love This City
The Daily Telegraph by Dino Scatena An extraordinary couple of years in the life of Tim Freedman has seen the Sydney-based musician come out the other side with an extraordinary new album. His Whitlams’ latest Love This City can stake a serious claim on being the biggest album ever produced by a local act, in […]
Street Cred
Pulse Mag, Courier Mail by Noel Mengel With the breakthrough of Eternal Nightcap, The Whitlams’ main man finds success isn’t just for the birds. Noel Mengel chats to a relaxed Tim Freedman. Things were looking up for Tim Freedman – musically, at least – when he started work on the last Whitlams album. Personally, he […]
Freed of Constraints?
The Drum Media by Ross Clelland The scene is a very suits-and-ties Chinese restaurant on the northern side of the Harbour Bridge. “Just the place for a couple of Newtown boys made good,” claims Tim Freedman, “and I can’t stand doing interviews in a record company board-room.” I’m not sure I fit the ‘Made Good’ […]
Days of Wine and Roses
by Simon Wooldridge Tim Freedman is The Whitlams. And The Whitlams are the band of the year. Juice wouldn’t talk to me for four years, now I’m in every issue,” Tim Freedman admonishes as we walk together in Sydney’s Neutral Bay to a Gourmet Pizza restaurant to begin our interview. He’s right. However, Freedman’s world […]
Out of the Blues and Into the Black
Sydney Morning Herald by Matt Buchanan As the front man for the Whitlams, he played the roughest pubs for years without much success, but now Tim Freedman is doing very nicely indeed – and he got there without the help of any big record labels. MATT BUCHANAN reports. “ARE there any intravenous drug users here […]