The Doomed Bird of Providence are finishing up their fifth album. We are really happy with how it is coming together and hope you will enjoy it when it comes out. Recorded live in a Dalston recording studio with 6 Doomed Bird members, as well as other musicians from far and wide. Further news forthcoming.…

A brief note – thanks very much to reviewers and DJs that supported The Doomed Bird of Providence’s fourth album – A Flight Across Arnhem Land. We were pretty proud of this release. Thanks to Davey Graney/ 3PBS, 4ZZZ, Sun-13, Monolith Cocktail, Neil Rogers/3RRR, Freq Magazine, Kerosene/KFUEL, Jan Willem Broek/De Subjectivisten, African Paper, Lee Ashcroft/One…

BEL is an EP of four string quartets composed by Katie English & Mark Kluzek. They turned to the wonderful musicians Maria Grigoryeva and Natalia Nazarova to perform the pieces. The four compositions had their beginnings as responses to the Nebuchadnezzar series of paintings by Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The paintings, which explore the story…

In 1934, various news reports across Australia alluded to a spate of ‘ransoms for cars’ in Melbourne. Apparently a car would be stolen, the owner would be contacted and informed that they could get their car back for a price. Various articles covererd the topic across Australia that year. RANSOMS FOR CARS PAYING RANSOM FOR…

Track 9 off the new Doomed Bird album is called Unlawfully and Maliciously Murdered. It concerns a murder of Sicilian market gardener Giovanni Garetto in Werribee, near Melbourne, in late 1932. His body was left with over 50 gun shot wounds. The general consensus is that Garetto had no enemies, yet it’s hard not to…

Track 3 on the new Doomed Bird album is called 119 Tins of Opium Came to be in Port Phillip Bay. It is drawn from a news report in The Riverine Herald, August 1931. Mr P. H. Holden, Sub-Collector of Customs, who is endeavoring to discover how 119 tins ofopium came to be in Port…

Track seven on the new Doomed Bird album is called A Skeleton Found in a Limestone Cave. It tells the story of: A skeleton found in a limestone cave in the Mungana district is believed to the remains of a prospector Frederick Stanley who disappeared on September 20, 1924. Having looked a little further into…

The first song off The Doomed Bird of Providence album A Flight Across Arnhem Land is a song called In the Phaeton. Based on a news report titled : Attacked In Home Later Shot Dead Alighting from Vehicle Labourer Arrested …it tells the story of Frederick Westbury who was shot dead as he got out…

Today is the release day for The Doomed Bird of Providence’s fourth album – A Flight Across Arnhem Land. The idea was to create short concise songs where the lyrics were pulled directly from early 20th century Australian newspapers. Stories of errant flights across the desert, cold case murders and mysterious deaths, drug smuggling and…

The Doomed Bird of Providence present their fourth album, A Flight Across Arnhem Land. It marks a significant departure from the band’s last album, 2017’s Burrowed into the Soft Sky. Where that album was two extended instrumental pieces exploring early Australian colonial times, the new release is a collection of 16 short pieces that all…

The Doomed Bird of Providence’s fourth album will be released on 1st July 2022 on 10 to 1 Records. Download and CD available. Pre-order available 18th June.

The Doomed Bird of Providence have released a new single called Ransoms for Cars on 10 to 1 Records. It’s been a while since the band have released something new. Soon after 2019’s Rumbling Clouds was released though, work started on new songs. The songs were built around newspaper articles from Australian papers in the…

On Wednesday 25th May, The Doomed Bird of Providence will be releasing a new single called Ransoms for Cars on 10 to 1 Records. The lyrics are from a 1930’s Australian newspaper article about a car ransom scam in Melbourne. The single will be released as two tracks digitally as well as a limited lathe…

Burrowed Into The Soft Sky was the third album by The Doomed Bird of Providence and was the last release on Manchester label Front & Follow. It was also the first release on vinyl. Two songs, both almost twenty minutes long, that explored two contrasting but related themes. One was the savagery that frequently accompanies…

You Brought the Knife was a 2015 EP by The Doomed Bird. It followed the story of Maria Murray who was brought to Van Dieman’s Land after stabbing someone. The lyrics are based on court transcripts, and the huge help of a researcher in Tasmania who was writing an essay on the ship Maria Murray…

Blind Mouths Eat was the band’s 2nd album. As much as the first album dealt with grim subject matter the 2nd was perhaps worse in some respects. The material was drawn from two main sources. One was Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe Taylor. One thing Taylor looked at were the horrendous…

What genuinely shocking news it was to hear that such a unique figure like John Hannon had passed on. As well has producing great music himself under various guises , he also ran No Recording Studio through which so many artists have walked and have been guided by his very thoughtful, intelligent but understated approach.…

The Bell of the Jardines/The Death Flurry single is now available as download only on The Doomed Bird of Providence’s Bandcamp page. This was released as a very limited cd on Front & Follow with Peter Aldrich’s wonderful image on the front. The Death Flurry was the first Doomed Bird song proper but didn’t show…

Will Ever Pray was released in 2011 and was the band’s debut LP. Released on Front & Follow, it was a carefully put together work (in terms of the recordings and Justin Watson’s effort to do something quite unique with the design of the cd) that received very positive reviews. The reviews, fairly typically, remarked…

As Justin gradually winds down Front & Follow, The Doomed Bird of Providence are moving over their Bandcamp music to their own page. The first one to be added is the first EP, released in 2009. The EP originally came about through idea’s Mark had after reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes and listening…

Paul was a remarkable and unique figure. Together with his partner, Emma Blackwood, he produced a huge amount of art and events. The Doomed Bird of Providence were included in a bunch of Punkvert events early on and had our first ever release on a compilation by their label, Ex Gratia Recordings. We always appreciated…

After some delay the cd version of Rumbling Clouds of War Hover Over Us is now available. As with the digital release, whatever money you send goes to Médecins Sans Frontières. To purchase, head over to https://thedoomedbirdofprovidence.bandcamp.com/album/rumbling-clouds-of-war-hover-over-us Thanks for your support and take care, The Doomed Bird of Providence  

Rumbling Clouds of War Hover over Us is the new release from The Doomed Bird of Providence.  Covering the difficult journey Wladislaw Kluzek took across Europe after the invasion of Poland in 1939.  The EP title comes from his own words; recollections he had of this journey: “I found myself serving my National service. The…

Pre-order is up for the new Doomed Bird Ep Rumbling Clouds of War Hover over Us.   https://10to1records.bandcamp.com/   We aren’t in a position to send out CDs of the EP at the moment. We have a whole bunch of them that we will make available for sale further down the line.   All sales…

This is the final part of the Rumbling Clouds of War story which covers the journey of Władysław Kluzek as he moved across Europe.  He managed to survive the 1939 invasion of Poland only to be interned in a camp. After this he moved across Europe to find himself in France around May 1940 where…

Part 3 of 4 animations looking at the journey of Władysław Kluzek  during WWII. Having escaped an internment camp, Władysław heads towards Budapest.  On his journey he crosses the frozen Danube.

Part 2 of 4 animations looking at the journey of Władysław Kluzek  during WWII. Germany invade Poland.  Władysław is caught with his regiment in Poland as it is invaded and faces the horrors of war. He escapes from an internment camp and moves towards Budapest.

Part 1 of 4 animations looking at the journey of Władysław Kluzek  during WWII. The start of the Second World War. Władysław is called for National Service and leaves his home to join the Polish Army.

What a time to release something. I hope you are all well and for those who have continued to follow/listen to the band I’d like to send out a very genuine thank you. Stay safe! The Doomed Bird of Providence will be releasing an EP (cd/digital) in about a month’s time. It is a real…

Hi All, The Doomed Bird of Providence have a new release on the horizon. New direction, new label. All good! Watch this space.

‘Do yourself a favour’ and pick up the GhostShips debut here: https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/ghostships Two songs from Michael Plater and Mark from The Doomed Bird, bass from Staff Glover, violin from Angela Chan and percussion from Tony Millman. The whole thing was a bit of a cross-continent affair and as much as it won’t right a large…

Ghostships is a collaboration between Michael Plater and members of The Doomed Bird of Providence.  It also includes contributions from Tony Millman and Angela Chan.  Released on Laily Recordings on May 1st 2019.  D/L only – it will be available to purchase here.  This is the debut release.  Two songs.  One written by Michael, the…

Thanks to everyone that came to the show at Ipswich. Wonderful event with both Polly Preacher and These are End Times doing outstanding sets. Really great audience. Thanks Jason from Antigen for putting us on the bill. The Doomed Bird are currently developing some new pieces for a release. Again a departure from what’s been…