Thank you to everybody who voted for us in this years Uturn Readers Poll. SLEIGHT OF HAND won the inaugral BEST LIVE BAND award at the ceremony hosted during Newcastle Music Week at the Civic Theatre edging out Atomica and Supersonic. Your continued support is greatly appreciated!

We've just been informed that our local streetpress UTURN will be finishing up with its last issue next week. SLEIGHT OF HAND would like to thank Cat, Damo, Lee, and all the journos for their hard work and dedication to a cause that is in our opinion one of if not the primary reason why Newcastle music has seen a resurgance this year. Good luck to you all and you will be sadly missed.

SOH are currently looking for volunteers to hand out flyers for shows that we have coming up in Newcastle and Sydney. We are currently swamped and your help would be appreciated. Participants will be given free entry into a show of their choice (Excluding Showdown) as well as possibly some assorted merch that we have coming, please send your details to Contact Sleight to receive more info.

NEWCASTLE: Courtesy of Ruffneck Promotions and the infamous Boyman INC. SPECTICLE 3 is back! Confirmed for yet another explosive evening of All ages goodness, Friday 5th November will see at the Band Room in Newcastle Leagues Club come alive with 5 different spectrums of music to tickle your ribs. Once again SLEIGHT OF HAND will be gracing the stage with awesome rockers SOLVER (aka Extortion), the fun-tastic FYNA, new rockers FORESHADOWED and local heroes ONCE WERE TADPOLES. Entry is $10 on the door and Doors open at 5.30pm. Strictly no passouts and food is available for purchase from the venue.

BRISBANE: SOH will be heading North for their first interstate shows with hometown heroes JAPUNGA. The shows is at Her Majesty's Bar on Friday 12th November and entry is $10, more bands to be announced.

GOLD COAST: The night after Bris-vegas (Saturday 13/11), SOH will be making a stop in at the legendary Troccadero also with JAPUNGA and MELODYSSEY. This show is $10 on the door and is O18's.

SYDNEY: It's back to Carringbah Bizzo's on Saturday 20th November to celebrate the E.P launches of ESCAPE ROUTE and TRIPGAUGE. More details are yet to be confirmed but SOH will be playing second after an unnamed local act so thats plenty of time to come and have a beer with us afterward and enjoy these two fine bands try to outdo each other.

NEWCASTLE: In a first for Sleight of Hand, we are playing a high school dance!!! Cruisy and Haff's old haunt Kotara High School will be the venue of loud music, teenagers slow dancing... possibly pashing, and teachers trying to break it up :) Also rumoured to be playing are FORESHADOWED and IMMUNE but we are yet to receive this as confirmation for this mammoth Wednesday night 24 November. As far as we know this is only for KHS students so we apologise to those who may have to miss out, to those who don't... get up the front and break your neck!

NEWCASTLE: In quite possibly the last show for 2004, the Cambridge Hotel will host SLEIGHT OF HAND, JAPUNGA (QLD), ESCAPE ROUTE (SYD) and brand spanking new chaos bearers CONTACT PROCESS. The event is on Friday 26th November and will be a HUUUGE night of power. Doors open 8.30pm and Entry will be $10 on the door.