I’m speaking on a panel next Saturday (12th), along with some of Austin’s most prominent women of rock! My panel is about staying healthy on the road, something I have a lot of experience in as a touring musician with food allergies (which led me to also become a certified holistic nutritionist last year), but there are also panels about subjects I am (so far!) blissfully ignorant about: ‘Crossing the Line: When Fans Get Too Close’ (stalker-tastic!) and ‘Do Music and Motherhood Mix?’, among others. The whole day should be very fun and informative. Hope to see you there!

Here’s a run down of the full day’s events, from meowonline.org:

MEOW Day at Momo’s

November 12, 2011

11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

MEOW Day is an exciting one-day conference featuring panel discussions with many of Austin’s most influential women in music. All ages are invited to attend.Below is the schedule and panelists (subject to change). $10 in advance – through Eventbrite - $15 at the door.

11:00 – Noon – Complimentary Pancake Breakfast provided by Batter Blaster.

12:00 – 1:15 Texas M.I.L.K. Presents: Do Music and Motherhood Mix?  – Moderated by Margaret Moser of the Austin Chronicle.

Sara Hickman

Panelists:

• Shelley King
• Sara Hickman
• Elizabeth McQueen (Asleep at the Wheel)

Suzanna Choffel

Panelists:

• Suzanna Choffel
• Betty X
• Christa Hillhouse (4 Non Blondes)

3:00 – 4:15 Building Community to Build a Career – Moderated by Rose Reyes (Director of Music Marketing, Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau)

Mandy Rowden

Panelists:

• Mandy Rowden (Founder, Girl Guitar founder)
• Emily Marks (Founder/Executive Director, Girls Rock Austin)
• Caroline Burrus (Director of Business Development, Austin City Limits)

4:30 – 5:45 Staying Healthy on the Road – Moderated by Carolyn Schwarz (Executive Director, HAAM)

Carolyn Schwarz

Panelists:

• Amber Spence (Hell’s Belles, BugGirl)
• Sally Crewe (Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves)
• Patrice Pike

http://powerpopoverdose.blogspot.com/2011/08/sally-crewe-sudden-moves.html

Austin Texas based Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves have done it again. Transmit​/​Receive is everything a Power Pop album should be, winning hooks and crunchy guitars that compliment electrifying vocals and smart songwriting. The energy and impact of the music is felt full force starting with “Make Me Stay” and continuing through this short but powerful EP. There is no filler here. Transmit​/​Receive is an instant party – just pop it in and turn it up, and enjoy it! -Curty Ray, PPO

This September, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves embark on a package tour of the US with Tommy Keene and Doug Gillard Electric, creating something of a dream bill for fans anywhere along the power pop spectrum. This could be the show of the year. We suggest you get there early.

SEPTEMBER 2011 TOUR DATES
w/ Tommy Keene and Doug Gillard Electric

9th – Arlington, VA – Iota
10th – Brooklyn, NY – The Rock Shop
11th – Boston, MA – Church
13th – Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop
14th – Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall
15th – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s

From Powerpopaholic:

Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves “Transmit/Receive”EP
Even power pop legend Tommy Keene compared Sally Crewe to female rockers Chrissie Hynde and Polly Harvey. The comparison is quite accurate, as her vocals are powerful and very melodic, and the opener “Make Me Stay” is a riff heavy classic. Crewe is based in Austin, but she grew up in Yorkshire and her influences cling to the classic guitar bands of the 80′s. A real standout here is “Punk Rock Kid” with it’s layered chords and punchy beat. You will also hear a little Pat Benatar or The Motels in compositions like “Living Like You’ve Got Forever.” No filler tunes in this short 5 song EP, and it shows Sally can rock with the big boys with the big riffs. I look forward to visiting her debut album Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You for further enjoyment.

We’re headlining the second night (Sat, Oct 1st) of International Pop Overthrow (IPO) Austin, the first IPO to be held in Austin!  The line-up on our night is:

7:30 Shane Bartell
8:15 Buzzie
9:00 Blue Cartoon
9:45 Ron Flynt
10:30 Sparkwood
11:15 Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves

It’s happening at The Beauty Bar, 617 E. 7th St., Austin, TX and tickets are $8.  Here’s the line-up for the other days:

Friday, Sep 30th:
7:30 Susan Hedges
8:15 Rich Restaino & The Obits
9:00 The Alice Rose
9:45 Wiretree
10:30 Ashbury Keys
11:15 Griffin Schmucker

Sat, Oct 1st (afternoon sets):
1:00 The Spandrels
1:45 Elaine Greer
2:30 Jasmine Kostraba
3:15 Hannah McLendon
4:00 Justin Nault
4:45 Zen Archer

Sun, Oct 2nd:
5:00 Darin Murphy
5:45 Craig Marshall
6:30 Dave Rave
7:15 Lannie Flowers
8:00 Freddie Steady 5
8:45 Chase Hamblin

Our new EP, ‘Transmit/Receive’, is out on Aug 30th.  It was co-written with our pal Doug Gillard, who also helped out on guitar.  Here’s track 3, ‘Living Like You’ve Got Forever’:

Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves – ‘Living Like You’ve Got Forever’

Following the CD’s release, we head straight out on tour with Doug Gillard Electric and Tommy Keene. We’ll be warming up with an Austin, TX show on Sept 3rd at Red 7 (with The Moaners), then heading north for a WFMU radio session on Sept 8th (noon – 3pm, ‘Three Chord Monte’ show).  Sept 9th we play Arlington, VA (Iota), 10th – Brooklyn, NY (The Rock Shop), 11th – Boston, MA (Church), 13th – Cleveland, OH (The Grog Shop), 14th – Milwaukee, WI (Shank Hall), 15th – Chicago, IL (Schuba’s) and most likely somewhere in the KC area on the 16th (to be confirmed).  Tucson, LA, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, we hope to see you later this year or early next year…

It’s just about one month before the official release of The Best Sudden Moves Record So Far (aka, ‘Transmit/Receive’). The 5-song EP comes out on Aug 30th, but you don’t have to wait that long to have a taste of it!  This coming Monday, Aug 1st, we’re giving away track 3, ‘Living Like You’ve Got Forever’.  Be sure to download it on Monday while the USA still has internet and electricity!

We’re looking forward to visiting Joe Belock at WFMU for his Three Chord Monte show on September 8th, from noon ’til 3pm.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TM

Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves return to WFMU with a new release, the “Transmit/Receive” EP, and a new lead guitarist, the legendary Doug Gillard (Guided By Voices, Death of Samantha, etc.) who co-produced and co-wrote the new record.

We’re opening for The Moaners at Red 7 on Saturday, Sept 3rd.  We leave on tour the next day, so this is technically the first date of the tour except we’ll sleep in our own beds (in theory).  It will also, unless you went to your local independent record retailer, be your first chance to buy our new EP (out Aug 30th), so if you’re in Austin come on out and get one while they’ve still got that new music smell.

We were lucky enough to be granted permission by artist Tim Crowder to use one of his amazing paintings for the sleeve of our upcoming EP.  The painting, created in oil, enamel and embroidery on paper, is called ‘Transmit + Receive’, and I found out about it having already decided to call our upcoming EP ‘Transmit/Receive’… (out Aug 30th). On top of the (nearly) identical names we’d both chosen for our work, Tim’s painting appears (to me… I could be wrong) to be conveying the same point I was also alluding to with the title: that thoughts are being transmitted and received constantly, whether we’re conscious of it or not.  The moral?  Think good ones, otherwise the birds get confused.

Check out more of Tim’s work here: http://www.davidluskgallery.com/artists/tim.crowder/

‘Living Like You’ve Got Forever’, a track from our upcoming ‘Transmit/Receive’ EP (released Aug 30th), kicked off BBC Radio’s ‘BBC Introducing’ show tonight in the UK.  The show is streaming on the BBC site for the next 7 days.  Skip past the local news to about 4:10 to hear the song!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00hjv7z