New single 'Around The World" is due late January

Here's the artwork for a new song that'll be out by the end of January - more information soon !

New video for Backwards Down The Highway

Here's a new clip from in house director HW Wheelie - it combines scenes from Wim Wenders classic road movie Paris,Texas with the title track off our album.

Upcoming Shows

Hey - in case you haven't heard, we are appearing in these locations :

Saturday Nov 23 Melbourne - The Public Bar
Saturday Nov 30 Canberra - The Phoenix
Saturday Dec 7 Sydney - FBI Social

Most likely our last shows for the year, so if you are in these places then please come out to see us !
Here's some kind words from 4ZZZ in Brisbane & 2SER in Sydney for our album :

"The Model School: Backwards Down The Highway (Packaged Light)
- A new full-length of dusty but heart-warming country rock from the Sydney band. Sort of like Wilco if they hadn’t changed. There’s something right and upstanding about staying the same, The Model School know it, and they’re doing it. (Chris Cobcroft,4ZZZ)"

"Blue Mountains resident Brendan Wixted must make quite a few journeys by car from way out west. His other vehicle - for his songwriting - has always been ripe with low-key melodic pop craft that slowly win you over with repeat listening. As The Model School, Wixted is back with his most freewheeling work yet, with a set full of classic, ringing guitars part cosmic part country that'll do great for any evocative, sweet and rockin' road trip. (Andrew Khedoori,2SER)"

And have a read of our "Citizenship Test" on Mess & Noise over here :

Citizenship:The Model School

Cheers!
The Model School

Some reviews for Backwards Down The Highway

Thought we'd share some recent reviews for our album - here's a few :

 "Breezy guitars, violins and rumbling countrified rock puts the air in your hair and your elbow out the window. 8/10"
 http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/reviews/new-music/356621/backwards-down-the-highway.htm

"The Streets I Left Behind’ is a soulful and nostalgic triumph .... Reminiscent of Springsteen at his heart tugging best, minus the sax...This is guitar pop in its purest and finest form, and just one track off an excellent album." http://aussieplaylist.com/?p=3809

 "This album can only receive praise and good graces."
 http://www.undercover.fm/reviews/17791-the-model-school-backwards-down-the-highway

 Lastly - here's our new instagram account which at this point serves as a visual companion to the album, featuring lots of pics from the 2010 roadtrip that served as the influence for the songs on the record.
 http://instagram.com/themodelschool#

See you at a show soon - gigs in Melbourne,Canberra and Sydney to be announced next week !
cheers Brendan

Coming up - LIVE : SEP 28 with Davey Lane & OCT 12 ALBUM LAUNCH !

Album released !

Hey there!

As you may have heard - our album "Backwards Down The Highway" has now been released - its available at iTunes as well as our very own bandcamp page, and a myriad of other places. To the right of this post you can hear the album via the bandcamp player.

Some other features we've added are twitter and facebook widgets so you can click straight through to see what we are up to there. The good times continue with direct links to our last 4 videos ... everything TMS related is now all here in one handy place !

We'll be posting a lot more here in the coming weeks leading up to our album launch on Oct 12 at Oxford Art Factory.
Til then !
Brendan

Soundcloud Streamin

THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS NOW STREAMING HERE :  

https://soundcloud.com/themodelschool/sets/backwards-down-the-highway

AND HERE :

http://themodelschool.bandcamp.com/

ENJOY !

OFFICIAL RELEASE IS SEPTEMBER 20 !