Hello world, with the greatest amount of humility and disregard for hindsight we will play all of our ep.s over three nights at the newly minted Worker's Club in Fitzroy on DEC 21,22 and 23.I must say after listening to 'In Stereo' today (or as much of it as I could handle...) I was flabbergasted at how fucking dated it sounds and how shit my singing is on that release..ha ha!!. More love and credit must therefore go to Wally and Matt for indulging my 'latent university undergraduate psychology ramblings' on this e.p and playing up a storm around me. Ahhh, the naivety of the young when they are unleashed in a recording studio. I must also say I accidentally borrowed the melody from The Smithereens 'This Is The House We Used To Live In' for the slide solo on 'German Shep(h)erd', misspelt on the cover art by the way. And WHAT is the deal with the distorted guitar??? I recall being partially enamoured with Bob Mould's guitar sound then and trying to rip off Pavement's 'Trigger Cut' in our song 'Candle' which may clarify this sonic quandry.
'Ten To Forty-Six' was officially our first proper session for Rubber, the first e.p was cobbled together demos and such which David at the label released in a fit of good will. It was done in one week or so and sounds more unified though we never really captured the energy of 'Orange Hair' on the studio version. I was happy to mix the life out of it and remember telling the mastering engineer in Sydney to roll off the bottom end to make it sound crisper.....not sure if that worked or not!!
Anyhoo, that's why we all keep makin' records hey?? Trying to perfect the un-perfectable art of making records.
Making 'One Nide Not' was fun, named after the Genesis album 'Three Sides Live..' (geddit, and One Side Not...ah..nevermimd...). This was done at Seed Studios with Greg Wales and Tim Johnston, who is mixing our new album as we speak, and overall marked a considerable progression for the group...(we still hadn't found a lead singer though so I continued behind the mic!!)
We'd already released 'Less is More' by this stage, very well recieved and put a fair amount of wind in our sails.
I felt the 'indie tentacles' were slowly snapping off and we could breathe easily in the knowledge that we were happily swimming against the tide of the 90's music scene, a trend which we have managed to maintain to this day.
Looking forward to Xmas EVEN 2009, I'll try and perfect my quasi-trans-atlantic mumbled vocal drawl in time for these shows.
It will be great to play these songs again, who knows when they will be aired in the future. I'd like to vacuum seal some of these numbers and jettison them into the great archive in space, otherwise known as my iPod, through which I will listen, cringe, rejoice and learn these numbers once again.
Cheers to all
AN