just arrived back in Melbourne after 5 interesting days in NZ. On Friday we played a secret sorta mini show at the Fu Bar in Auckland with Jimmy Christmas’ new band Luger Boa (amongst others) in front of a very packed, pissed and appreciative crowd. No soundcheck, just rocked up, played loud...
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Back At York St Studios
May 5th, 2008NZ #1!
May 1st, 2008 So Beautiful Machine managed to make it to number 1 in New Zealand thanks to everybody who bought the album and needless to say, we are over the moon and very, very grateful to you all.
Last time we released an album in NZ it came out the same week as another Wellington band called Fat Freddy’s...
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New Scar
April 11th, 2008Last show of the Australian “One Will Hear The Other” Tour at the Sands Bar in Maroochydore is one I won’t forget in a hurry. Not only was it a good show with lots of musical highlights, jolly japes and fun times (care of The Galvertrons and the Horsell Common lads) but ever since,...
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Bassing
August 12th, 2007
After finishing “Beautiful Machine” yesterday we ended up with several...
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4th day @ Sing Sing
August 2nd, 2007Tom knocked out ‘Settle Down’ and ‘Hard To Please’. The latter being one we demoed with Scotty Horscroft earlier in the year that was left out of previous lists. Now its one of my favourites. Tom had a go at...
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The day Lovell’s Lager turned up
August 1st, 2007
A couple of cases turned up today. Matts beloved Lager had made it to Melbourne. We...
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2nd day @ Sing Sing
July 31st, 2007Met up with Matt on Brunswick St and got killer coffee from Atomica, made our way to Sing Sing and continued with ‘Beautiful Machine’. After three more takes on 2″ tape, we got it.
After listening, dumping and facebooking we began ‘Chameleon’. We did about six takes...
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1st Day of our New Album
July 30th, 2007
Well, after writing music for the last two years we have finally started the first day...
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Last day of Pre-production…
July 28th, 2007
Its our fifth day in Toms studio doing pre-production with Matt Lovell. I figure...
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The List
July 25th, 2007Heres the songlist for Beautiful Machine.
To most it’s probably just a bunch of words, but for those of you who have seen us live in the last year some may ring a (cow)bell:
ONE WILL HEAR THE OTHER
BEAUTIFUL MACHINE
CHAMELEON
RULE THE WORLD
VAMPIRES
VIOLENCE...
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