ugh that always ends badly! mongrels, spring '09

should i shave off beard y/n

hmm

is this some 'fresh start' type of business or what

identity crisis + in need of change

also feeling v old

do it

You look fine without it, so I say give it a burl, you can always grow it back.

Also, summer.

Hm, I ate some pretty final-smelling chicken with my salad just now, it even smelled a bit weird when i cooked it last night... if I keel over spewing and dead make sure no one steals my piano.

^ elaborate pre-pike planning, kudos

haaaa

Wait, what? I have nothing to pike on! ;P

Kit you're luckyu you dont work with Liv anymore or I would send her to give you a proxy punching.

ooh the undies reunion does include mr andrew. AWWWWesome

tell her hi when you see her, and make a strange bug-eyed face at the baby

and pass on my regards, too

Hahaha will do.

Jim: I think they'll be doing OG hitz as well if the moshtix blurb is anything to go on: "Playing all their hits from albums such as Leaves Me Blind and Dream It Down this will be a night not to miss."

One of my Canby friends is having conniptives that I'm going to this.

niiice

i did get to see them a few times in '92/93, they were always great live

including at the hummingbirds' last show @ the central club

now i REALLY feel old

Yeah I saw them at least twice in those days m'self. Trying to remember where, now! POW maybe? Maybe even the ANU bar.

I am seeing the Undies at Homiebake. That plus Tumbleweed on the same day made ticket purchase a no-brainer. Undies were great back in April at The Toff, although it took them a while to warm up. Played all the "hitz" too.

all i wanna hear is lick the booooot

Weird selection of their shiz on emusic. None of the stuff I want rly. Just Rushall, Get to Notice and some random trax.

all the early stuff is prob still tied up to ...warners? what label were they on? they prob can't give a fuc getting that stuff out there.

polydor and yeah it's almost certainly tied up in major label red tape

Ah yeah bum. Wait but wasnt leaves me blind on 4ad?

yeah in the UK but polydor here

one of the few albums available on cd that i bothered getting on vinyl

there was bonus 45 see

Please, what is the operating premise behind these "mongrel" threads??

australians talk shit

we used to have sheepfuxors but they left

We have enbalkaned ourselves. Perhaps we should have an open day once a year for non-Australians or something.

hmmm

I dunno, Ned pops in now and then!

as i told jergz when he was here, i plan on touring the world of balkanized threads by restricting myself to posting on each of them for a few days at a time

i would avoid watercooler imo

^^ real talk

we could have days where we all en masse visit another balkanised thread.

We should try glasgow more.

i would like to go to glasgow again

I didnt get the chance to go to scotland when I was over there which was totally :(

hi guys, jus dropping in to post this photo that's seemingly everywhere atm:
http://images.smh.com.au/2009/10/27/817918/420collins-420x0.jpg

OOOOOOOOOOO_oooooooooooooo

hi wilter! how is your new job?

Hi estela! It's awesome, I'm really happy with how it's working out

I was worried that the photo of Kit and myself was going to load up.

So glad it didn't.

Oh that isnt you and Kit?

Why do old people have such sexy assholes?

It's totally going to be my new thumbs_up.jpg for, you know, zings and stuff

xp lol

NOTES ON THE ALBUM REISSUES, by Vince Giarrusso

Get to Notice
Recorded in Simon Grounds’ home studio. We were concentrating on songs and song structure and getting used to the studio process. The overall sound is a collaboration between the band and Simon Grounds’ excellent acoustic/electric aesthetic, recalling early David Bowie and the Kinks.

Rushall Station
Recorded at Hothouse Studios St Kilda after Leaves Me Blind and Dream It Down. I always considered this ‘second’ first album after a lot of shit went down with a major shake up in the band, and getting out of a major label contract. Again the focus was on songs and song structure which parallel with Get to Notice. The sound of the record is a collaboration between the band and the producer Wayne Connolly, but moving away from the lush over dubs of the previous two albums concentrating on capturing a live, almost acoustic sound. My favourite track is ‘Undone’.

Whitey Trickster by GBVG
A home studio recording. A collaboration between Glenn, myself and Sonic Animation. We would provide the songs, lyrics and melodies and the Sonic Animation boys would arrange and set up the rhythm tracks. From there it was a collaboration on arrangement and structure. The album was structured as a journey into the night. My favourite track is ‘Quello Che Voi’.

Ways T'Burn
Recorded at Birdland Studios with Mikey Alonso and Lindsay Gravina. A loose collection of songs reflecting what was going on at the time, referencing electronica , drum ‘n’ bass, the blues and rock. Our most experimental record, and my favourite. The artwork is by Matthew Robertson and Cailan.

Cold Feeling
Recorded at Birdland Studios with Mikey Alonso after pre production at the Sonic Animation studios where we layered rhythms and beats. A difficult album to structure as we had two mega tunes as bookends . ‘Put Me in Your Movie’ is my favourite track. Merida Sussex (The Paradise Motel) does a great vocal. The artwork is by Matthew Robertson and Cailan.

Evil Underground Lovers 94-97
A compilation of live tracks sourced from gigs during 94-97 initially to be sold only at gigs.

like the sound of the last 'un