# Reticent Melbourne Pop-Rock Singer/Songwriter SIMON JULIFF Announces March 4 Launch For His Debut Album ‘STARS’

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- Published: 2022-12-19T11:30:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**Reticent Melbourne pop-rock singer/songwriter SIMON JULIFF announces March 4 launch
for his JOEL SILBERSHER-produced Dog Meat Records debut album **_**STARS**_

**The former member of The Roys and obscure ’90s GOD/Hoss/Powder Monkeys-associated
band The Evil Dead to launch debut solo album with his band – featuring members 
of Hoss and Kim Salmon & The Surrealists – at Fitzroy’s Workers Club on the afternoon
of Saturday March 4 **

**New album and single combine brightly dappled glimmers of classic pop-rock melodicism
and echoes of Big Star, T. Rex, The Who and Neil Young with a darkened, frazzled
vibe and guitars that crunch and spangle **

_**“You should listen to (Simon Juliff)’s songs – they surprise, and they captivate
due to an originality of lyrical and musical action you will delight in. A brilliant
collection – so well performed and captured.” – Charles Jenkins**_

**LP/CD and digital download available [here](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2ffacebook.us4.list%2dmanage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a%26id%3d76ff6b3fa6%26e%3d7f3088bce0&umid=04c24dc9-edd4-45dd-8ab2-74f550348b92&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-ce30a90a2d0905309cf4c4d465e1f02a62cc4db9)**

Til Next Time

[⌊Til Next Time⌉⌊Til Next Time⌉
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_Simon Juliff – Til Next Time (Official Audio)_

Reticent Melbourne pop-rock singer/songwriter **Simon Juliff**, who was singer/guitarist/
songwriter for Melbourne band **The Roys** in the ‘00s, and obscure **God/Hoss/Powder
Monkeys**-associated band **The Evil Dead** in the ’90s, has set aside the afternoon
of Saturday March 4 to launch his **Joel Silbersher**-produced debut album _**Stars**
_at **the Workers Club **in** Fitzroy**.

Simon will appear with his full band – **Silbersher** and fellow **Hoss guitarist
Jimmy Sfetsos** and **Kim Salmon & The Surrealists’ drummer Greg Bainbridge **– 
all of whom play on the record. The band recently completed a month-long residency
at the Merri Creek Tavern and are in fine form. 

Joining the **Simon Juliff Band** for the album launch will be another new Melbourne
group **True Sound**, which features **Claire Birchall**. 

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**SIMON JULIFF BAND
\* _STARS_ ALBUM LAUNCH \* WORKERS CLUB – Sat Mar 4 Matinee 
show (1:30PM door) – $12 + b/f with guests True Sound, featuring Claire Birchall
_tickets available__ [here](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2ffacebook.us4.list%2dmanage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a%26id%3d701062eb67%26e%3d7f3088bce0&umid=04c24dc9-edd4-45dd-8ab2-74f550348b92&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-e885f095a71a0c4ed722bed7dbf93d15786c1407)_

**Simon Juliff**‘s _**Stars**_ combines brightly dappled glimmers of classic pop-
rock melodicism and echoes of **Big Star**, **T. Rex, The Who **and** Neil Young**
with an occasionally darkened, frazzled vibe and guitars that crunch and spangle.
The feeling is sparky and electric and the performances powerful but not over-rehearsed;
the album captures a delicious looseness and follows the old **Alex Chilton** idiom
of trying to capture the moment that it comes together rather than the one when 
it’s been done to death. 

The album’s release was preceded by two singles – the album’s title track came first
and was followed by the gorgeous current single **“Til Next Time”**.   

The album is out on the newly revived **Dog Meat** label (Hoss, Powder Monkeys, 
Cheater Slicks, Billy Childish, Pretty Things, Bored, Dirty Lovers, Dead Moon and
more) and is available on LP, CD and digital formats.

Simon Juliff - "Stars"

[⌊Simon Juliff - "Stars"⌉⌊Simon Juliff - "Stars"⌉
Watch this
video on YouTube

_ Simon Juliff “Stars” (Official Audio)_

**Simon Juliff** has spent most of his adult life – since his mid-teens in fact –
writing songs and making music in private. Because it’s what he loves doing. Rarely
has he felt the need to go public, but for a few years in the early 2000’s he gave
it a crack. At that time, he and his brother Felix fronted a band, unassumedly named**
The Roys**, who played around Melbourne’s pubs and released an EP and an album on
In-fidelity records, a label run by Melbourne indie scene guru **Bruce Milne** of**
Au-go-go Records** fame. Bruce wasn’t the band’s only fan – long-time **Paul Kelly**
drummer **Peter Luscombe** produced The Roys’ records. Pre-fame **Dan Sultan** was
into it too; he was the band’s drummer at one point.  And Sultan’s original guitarist
and song-writing partner **Scott Wilson** was in The Roys as well.  

Going back another decade and a half or so to the start of the ‘90s, Simon was part
of an even shorter-lived band called **The Evil Dead**, who played only a couple
of shows and recorded a single that was never released. The Evil Dead formed out
of the same bunch of mates that spawned the much-mythologized earlier group **God**,
of **“My Pal”** fame. Simon and Evil Dead harmonica-player **Jed Sayers** had gone
to school with **Tim Hemensley** from God, **Bored!** and **The Powder Monkeys**(
Jed was later a Powder Monkey himself) and he was good friends with **Joel Silbersher**,
from God and **Hoss**.  It was Joel who produced and played on The Evil Dead’s unreleased
single (**“Just An Idiot”/”Reefer”**) in 1990. ** Dog Meat** – which worked with
Hoss, The Powder Monkeys etc – was going to release it but didn’t. Now, over thirty
years later, Joel has produced and played on Simon Juliff’s first solo record, and
the newly restarted Dog Meat is finally stepping up to the plate.   
Which is enough
background; what matters now is the music. Drawn from a large cache of material 
that Simon has written over the years, and knocked into shape by Joel, fellow Hoss
guitarist **Jimmy Sfetsos** and former **Kim Salmon & the Surrealists** drummer **
Greg Bainbridge** when the opportunity to make a record presented itself, _Stars_(
the album) is a beautiful heap of a record that takes the guts of what Juliff did
with The Roys and goes a bit deeper into it. Simon’s thing, loosely, is pop-rock.
Guitars and tunes. Slightly skewed. He tends to like classic and organic-sounding
stuff. **Big Star**, **The Beatles**, **T.Rex**, **The Who**, **Neil Young**, **
Led Zeppelin**, **Teenage Fan Club**, **The Saints**; and he’s got a singular sensibility
in his writing that often evokes a hazy internal monologue, a mile-wide sardonic
streak and perhaps, unexpectedly, an outdoorsy vibe that maybe suggests too many
camping trips gone wrong.

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The album’s first single** “Stars”** evokes all of that, including that frazzled
outdoorsy vibe (dig the refrain “the stars look brighter when the lights go down”)
with a moseying melody, a loping beat and guitars that crunch and spangle.

The second single **“Til Next Time”** – a reworking of Simon’s label boss’s favourite
Roys song – is maybe more straight-ahead **Big Star** style pop (with added Townshend
power chords) – power pop more or less – and a glorious example of the genre.

Simon Juliff took time out to play his first solo gig proper with a band in between
lockdowns in late 2021 at Joel Silbersher’s belated 50th celebrations at the Westwood
in Footscray, with Joel on bass, Jimmy on lead and the record’s engineer **Andrew“
Idge” Hehir** of Soundpark Studio sitting in for Bainbridge on drums. It was Simon’s
first time on stage for over a decade, but he and the band nailed it with a set 
of killer tunes and a sound that jangled like frayed nerves and rocked crisply. 
A surprise lone cover of **Cheap Trick**’s **“Downed”** made perfect sense.

With the record finally out – after a couple of years of record company inertia –
and lockdowns hopefully now a thing of the past, Simon and band are set to get out
and play more shows. Audiences are going to knocked out by their smarts and class
and Simon’s great tunes. As will anyone who gives _**Stars**_ a listen. Check it
out.   

**Simon Juliff’s [_Stars_](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2ffacebook.us4.list%2dmanage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a%26id%3da0fe146fb6%26e%3d7f3088bce0&umid=04c24dc9-edd4-45dd-8ab2-74f550348b92&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-c24b147ab1f3147d322644d3ffee7ebd93dc430a)
is out now on Dog Meat Records on LP, CD and digital providers through Forte Music
Distribution (UK/Europe), Midheaven/Revolver (USA) and Rocket (AUS)**

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