Hey lovely people

Some of you may have seen last week a great shot of Chris and Courtney in the studio working on the album. Well here's another great shot from that session.

The good news is that Court is doing okay, well enough to do a show every once in a while and to make some progress on the new albums.

That’s right, albums plural.

Not only are we tracking the new Murphy Brothers album (with some non-album singles very close to completion) we’re also revisiting the tracks from our 1999 Murphy’s Lore album Best Laid Plans. We’ve been pulling the tracks apart from the original master tapes and reworking and updating some of the parts. Stay tuned, there’ll be more on that project later this year.

Elsewhere, we’ve got loads of side project work going on too – 

We’ve just announced a 19 September show at the Astor Theatre by The VHS Pirates, where we play all the big hits from blockbuster movies from the 80s. If you haven’t seen one of these shows, they’re a lot of fun…we play tracks like Footloose, Danger Zone, Don’t You Forget About Me, Ghostbusters, The Heat Is On, The Power of Love and I’ve Had The Time of My Life. Tickets are on sale here - and there’s a discount for groups of 6, so grab a bunch of friends and come along!

Kieran is gearing up for the debut album release later this year for his rockabilly band The Rough Housers. A couple of weeks ago they released the first single from the album, a track called Whiskey Will Do, you can check it out here.

Next week they’re performing a show at Valley Social for the Swan Hills Blues Club Thursday 28 May kicking off at 6pm supported by the amazing Kat Kinley. The band will be debuting tracks off the forthcoming album and will have a limited number of copies of their debut 45” single Life’s a Drag on clear vinyl! Tickets are on sale on the door.

This Thursday 21 May, Courtney will be guesting with his pals for Billy By Request, a show where the audience gets to choose their favourite Billy Joel songs for Courtney and band to perform. The show is at the beautiful Lyrics Underground in Maylands at 7pm – tickets available here.

And Chris will be heading down to the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (MANPAC) on Friday 29 May to join our other brother Michael Carpenter for a Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Tickets and info here.

And as always, we’re already planning our next big outdoor show for the summer months. It promises to be one of our biggest yet…

So, you know, not much happening at all. Stay well, stay safe and we hope to see you out at a show or two soon.

Love Chris, Kieran and Courtney xxTMB

Hello friends

It's been a big few months for us following our incredible opening spot for Red Hot Summer Tour at Sandalford, supporting our heroes Crowded House. A real “pinch me” kind of moment.

Our last Lake Monger gig Billy Joel vs Elton John was our biggest one yet…and for those who missed it, don't worry, we're planning on going for round 2 sometime in the not-too-distant future. We've got a couple of open air shows coming up while the weather is fine too, so keep an eye and an ear out. 

As with all things, timing with Courtney's treatments is paramount. His energy levels, physical and mental health are more important than anything. We're astounded with how hard he continues to push to make it out to these shows, to sing and play with a strength that goes against conventional wisdom. We've been writing and recording for the next album too, and now have around 20 basic tracks to pick and choose from. 

AND we're revisiting some of our old songs with a view to releasing a revisited version of an older album from early in our career…   

Speaking of which, The Murphy Brothers are celebrating 30 years of releasing original music with our next Lake Monger show, featuring a look back on a career that takes in six studio albums, a live album plus singles and compilation contributions. 

From our early days quite literally as a garage band in Albany to our triumphant latest release Something In The Water, this show will be a celebration of three brothers united in harmony and our incredible career together...so far.

The show is set for Sunday 29 March at Lake Monger Rec Club in Wembley.

Lake Monger Recreation Club is situated right by Galup/Lake Monger and perfectly suited to an evening on the (bowling) green. 

With food trucks and full bar available, the space is transformed into a relaxed outdoor venue with big screen visuals, stage sound and lights. Bring your own lawn chair or picnic rug. (Strictly no BYO alcohol, bosses orders).

*Companion Card tickets available. 

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW -

https://www.trybooking.com/DJAEQ

We hope you can make it along for what promises to be an brilliant evening of music and a few stories, videos featuring a few questionable fashion choices over the years and a whole bunch of love.

We look forward to seeing all your gorgeous faces soon.

Chris, Kieran and Courtney

xxxTMB 

Hello lovely people

We thought you'd want to be the first to know - We've pressed a LIMITED EDITION  7" vinyl single release of “Mr Murphy”…there's only 100 copies pressed. 

Before we ship it out, we will sign it for you as well. Click on the link below to order, we'll be shipping in about a week -

https://themurphybrothers.com.au/product/1099424-mr-murphy-7-vinyl-single

The b-side is or re-recording of one of our earliest recordings - "Wait For Me" . The original song dates back to 1993, we jumped into the studio and rerecorded it during the pandemic. Available on physical media for the first time.

If you haven't yet grabbed a copy of the album Something In the Water on vinyl, now is the perfect time - while stocks last, we've put together a bundle of the new single together with the album at the reduced price of $60 for both -

https://themurphybrothers.com.au/product/1099425-mr-murphy-7-vinyl-something-in-the-water-vinyl-album

We wanted to do something special for our beautiful dad, and here it is. We know he would have been pleased as all get out to pop this on the turntable, close his eyes and smile.

We hope you do too.

xxxTMB

Everyone has their favourite. Are you a Beatles fan or a Stones fan?

They’re the two biggest bands in music history – so when they go head to head, who comes out on top?

We’re performing our brand new Beatles vs Stones show sundowner style at Lake Monger Rec Club on Sunday 9 March from 5pm til 8pm and who knows, maybe we might settle this argument once and for all?

For those of you who’ve been along to one of our Lake Monger open air shows, they’re a lot of fun. We’ll be joined by a couple of our very good mates Clem and Gruss and as with previous shows, brother Court will play as much as he can manage. He was able to join us for both sets at City Beach last night and he sounded fantastic and he made our 70s Big Ones show in December incredibly memorable.

There will be food trucks and a full bar available, spread out a picnic rug or grab some camp chairs and enjoy an evening of great music and great vibes.

Tickets are on sale now, follow the link - https://www.trybooking.com/CZBVY 

We hope to see you along for the show!

All our love,

Chris, Kieran and Courtney Murphy

It’s only been out a week and already we’ve racked up over 30,000 streams on Spotify… and made the number 7 spot on the metro community radio charts Australia-wide with “What Are We Waiting For?” (feat. Reigan).

Not to mention we received a brilliant response to the new songs at the launch party last week.

We’re going to keep that momentum up as much as we can despite being limited in our ability to get out and do shows to help get the word out. We’re performing an open air show at City Beach Sunday 9 Feb from 5pm and we’ll have copies of the new album on LP and CD available to sign and have a chat as well.

If you can’t make that, you can grab a signed copy of either the CD or the vinyl from the website www.themurphybrothers.com.au/store

We’re looking to put on another show to perform the album in full in the next 6-8 weeks, we’re just working out venue availability and timing with Courtney’s treatment to make sure he’s as strong as he can be.

We’ve also been back in the studio this week as well working on the next batch of songs. There are now 16 tracks in contention for the next album..!

Thanks for all the love,

Chris, Kieran and Courtney 

xxxTMB

Our new album Something In the Water is available now!

For those of you who have been with us for the long haul (and even some of you who have joined us recently) you’ll know this has been something we’ve put our hearts and souls into. 

We’re incredibly proud of this album, we know Dad would be too, and for those of you who manage to grab a copy of the LP, there’s a special dedication inside to the lovely man.

We’ve had our share of dramas it must be said, but we always had this goal in mind – to share this album that means so much to us. And every sale from here on out goes towards helping us put the next one together! It’s already shaping up to be another cracker!

We’re looking forward to the launch party tonight and we will keep you posted on plans for a show performing the album in full soon. With Courtney’s treatment, we’re taking things extra steady, we’re sure you understand.

You can visit the store page on the website here to order a copy of the LP, the CD or a digital download and it’s out now on all the streaming platforms to enjoy in the car on your way to work or however you like to consume your tunes.

Thanks again everyone, much loves from all us.

Chris, Kieran and Courtney

xxxTMB

We've had a big start to the year already, we hope you've all had a chance to check out the new single Mr. Murphy dedicated to our lovely Dad or seen the video which features some magical Super 8 footage of the man himself.

Dad loved the track when we played it to him last year and it was special to share it with everyone this year, one year after he passed away. 

If you haven't heard it yet check it out here, the video is here and by March we're hoping to have a limited edition 7" vinyl single available for sale as well.

The other big news is that we'll be launching the new album “Something In The Water” later this month and we have limited tickets available for a very special album launch party on Thursday 23 January at Vicky Browns Bar in Leederville.

Tickets are onsale here and on the night you'll have a chance to purchase the new album as well as hear us play a special set featuring some of the songs from the new album.

Also just the chance to hang out with us and some of the amazing people who helped us put this album together!

It's an intimate venue, so tickets are strictly limited (there's less than 100 going on general sale).

There may be one more pre-release single coming as well - we've received such great feedback on all the songs so far - from as far away as Sweden and Finland - and we wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to share new songs and clips with you whenever we can.

Thanks for all the love, we hope to see you at the album launch!

xxx

Chris, Kieran and Courtney

TMB

Hi everyone

I guess it's high time we stop putting out singles and get on with releasing this album hey?

Well…not quite. 

We've got one more single to go, Ancient History is coming out 1 December. It's got the same catchy pop pedigree as the other three singles, so we're confident it's going to go down well. 

Then, you should be pretty convinced by the four singles that we've put something very special together.

And then we'll be releasing the new album 16 January! We haven't nailed down the details of the launch but we can guarantee you that you'll hear it here first.

Something In The Water has been over two years in the making and we're incredibly proud of it and can't wait for you to hear it from start to finish. We were lucky enough to check the test pressing of the LP recently and for those of you looking forward to the vinyl, it sounds phenomenal!

Check out that beautiful and evocative cover photo by our friend Paul Pichugin. He also took the front cover of our last album Fall On Me.

We've made the LP and CD available for preorder from the website at www.themurphybrothers.com.au/music

And don't forget our 70s Big Ones show on at Lake Monger Rec Club 15 December. Tickets are selling fast (we're not just saying that) so head to www.trybooking.com/CWOCW to grab your tickets.

All our love,

Chris, Kieran and Courtney

xxx

TMB

Well, it would be fair to say, we’ve had a few ups and downs this year.

But, on the cusp of releasing our new album, work already underway on its follow up, three singles already released, a fourth later this month, a new video out at the end of this week, not to mention a new single and video by Chris (go check it out now on Spotify or Apple or YouTube) … it’s fair to say, we haven’t really stopped moving forward.

So with that in mind, we’re putting on one last big show for the year. 

A celebration of who we are and what we do. 

It’s called “70s Big Ones” and it features many of the songs that made us want to be musicians in the first place. Songs by artists like Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Rod Stewart, Badfinger, Gerry Rafferty, ELO, Bee Gees and LRB - these are the songs we grew up with.

We’re performing 70’s Big Ones sundowner style at Lake Monger Rec Club on Sunday 15 December fro 3pm til 6pm. 

For those of you who’ve been along to one of our open air shows, they’re a lot of fun.we’ll be joined by a couple of our very good mates and as with previous shows, Court will do as much as he can manage. He really struggles for energy these days, but as anyone who saw him on Teleton can attest, he still sounds amazing.

Tickets are on sale now, follow the link - www.trybooking.com/CWOCW

We will keep you posted on the album launch party too, we’re just waiting on the LP to come back from the pressing plant. We’re pretty sure it’s worth waiting for.

All our love,

Chris, Kieran and Courtney Murphy

Hi folks

The third single from our new album Something In The Water is out now.

FEEL YOU WITH ME is a song for anyone who's experienced a loss. 

It's about how love transcends time and space. 

We've put together a lyric video, the clip will be out in a few weeks so stay tuned. 

Please like, share and save to your playlists! 

Watch the lyric video

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Apple Music