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Having an utterly insatiable appetite for music from a very early age, and performing in various bands over the past few decades, Australian actor & visual artist Noah Taylor has teamed up with his musical pals Ed Clayton-Jones (The Wreckery) and Cec Condon (The Mess Hall) forming Noah Taylor & The Sloppy Boys to record six songs which snap like frenetic disconnected live wires. Combining a marriage of raw rock and roll with gritty punk tinges, hypnotic guitar, swampy drums, and deliciously crude humorous lyrics comes their debut CD Live Free Or Die!!! , due for release on 19th November, 2011 on Z-Man Records. Recorded in a remarkable twenty four hours in Sydney in 2010 in an old-school ethics vein of the likes of Sun record label etc Live Free Or Die!!! came about under sheer serendipity when a recording studio owned by a friend suddenly became available when a band dropped out whilst Noah, who for the past decade has lived in England, was visiting Australia. This suited Noah’s no nonsense approach to the way he likes to record : he’s not a fan of over-production. The result is pretty special considering the band had never played together before and exhibits a real synchronicity amongst the members. All six tracks were penned by Noah over a one week period prior to recording, and Live Free Or Die!!! deals with falling in and out of love. Holiday Sidewinder (Bridezilla), who is Noah’s god-daughter, guest vocals on the track Scary and she provides an enchantingly formidable and haunting tone. Noah Taylor & The Sloppy Boys will be touring Australia during December 2010 in various venues including an appearance at Homebake Festival in Sydney (3rd December), support slots for Grinderman in both Sydney (1st December) and Adelaide (8th December) as well as their own headline gigs in Melbourne and Sydney. Noah Taylor & The Sloppy Boys Live Free Or Die!!! will be available from 19th November at all good record shacks (via Z-Man Records/Fuse Distribution). “Some of the strangest, funniest, rawest, most heartwrenchingly deranged music I have ever heard. The song Live Free or Die!!! surpasses all understanding - part Bedlamite gibberish, part conspiracy theorist rant, part high opera, it is thrills and chills all the way. Rose is song of the year, no contest. This album takes the “break up” record to a wholly new place- dark, agonized, outraged, moving and very very funny. A flat-out, freaked-out masterpiece.” Nick Cave