Summer Tour Dates Announced

It feels like it has been a long time since I have seen the band. Almost 2 weeks in fact.

We have had a little bit of time off from one another, and it feels strange!

I have been sitting at home writing random words, random dreams, and random thoughts down in my book. Hoping and waiting for them to merge and to create a coherent body of new songs and melodies. Right now it looks as though some 1940’s scientist has smashed some atoms into billions of little pieces and is now scratching his head trying to figure out how the hell he is going to put them back together.

And there is nothing else in the world he’d rather be doing!

This week we will get back in the studio rehearsing and trying to fit some new pieces together, and start the process of getting ready for our next big leap into touring.

We have just now confirmed all the dates for our first tour of 2010. Which will be focussed on a good part of the Australian East Coast/ South Coast and will launch off on the 22^nd of Jan. It’ll be something new for us as we’ll FINALLY be getting to Queensland and also be sharing the tour with two more great Aussie acts, Grand Atlantic and Sierra Fin.

Its going to be good fun, cramming into the van, playing music, meeting new folk, looking up at the stars and learning how not to drown in the ocean!

Bring it on I say!

X

N.M

On the road back to Melbourne

We have just played our last 3 shows of 2009 in Sydney.
We are back in the car again early in the morning and are now about 2 hours from the concrete hi rises and terrace houses of Sydney’s city.
Driving through the bone-dry, bone-coloured hills, underneath a factory of heavy dark grey clouds, lined up and moving slowly along through the otherwise blue sky on their invisible conveyor belt.
It’s the first time I’ve looked at this landscape for a while and I feel quite intrigued and inspired by it. I have the idea that sometime soon I’ll come sit on these hills for a few weeks, write some songs, watch the stars and probably read a Bill Bryson book… That is until Damian, making some strange falsetto noise in my ear, distracts me from the outside world. Pretty soon we find ourselves trying to laugh without using any facial expression whatsoever. It goes on for about 5 minutes before the outside world distracts me from him again.
The clouds have now joined forces to become one big black blanket and are now releasing all their raindrops. It’s coming down pretty damn hard on the windscreen and on to the bone earth.
I start thinking about how contrasting this world is compared with what we have been looking at in France and England. The rolling hills have turned from green to brown and the old stone villages and churches have gone, replaced with volcanic boulders and skeletons of trees.
Even though I know that the land here is in drought it still looks incredibly beautiful.

Right at this point in our journey back to Melbourne we go through cycles of speaking deeply of philosophy, the world, music, and life then falling silently into our own thoughts, listening attentively and singing along with whatever music is playing on the car stereo, then out of nowhere we spark into some incoherent, slightly sleep depraved idiotic humour. Most people would probably respond by looking blankly and slightly bewildered. But in the state of mind that we are in we just double up with laughter and continue to spiral further and further from anything comprehensible. Occasionally it is broken briefly by me fucking up my laugh with an unwanted snort.
Then as suddenly as it starts it stops. It goes back to deep conversation again.
This cycle should probably last another 3 or 4 hours before our arses fall asleep, our joints become fused and we become slightly irritable and plain old over it.

I can see that these long trips in Australia travelling from city to city packed with all our gear like sardines into Nick Cheeks’ car are going to be quite common for us in this coming year.
I look forward to playing more shows, seeing more of this country and becoming the band we really want to be…..

X

N.M.

Coming Home

The excitement of air travel seemed to wear off after about 8 hours squished into a tiny seat not knowing which way to put my head, cause any which way is uncomfortable and didn’t allow me any sleep. I thought maybe I should try drinking some scotch to send me to dream world but instead I just ended up with a splitting headache and a serious case of pink eye. But somehow along the way I was apparently so engrossed watching the flight path on my screen (Or maybe it was Transformers) I didn’t notice that a flock of seagulls or some other sort of aggressive bird tried fighting for the best nesting spot in my hair. They departed, Obviously, but left me with this amazingly weird mess of tangled and boofed hair on the side of my head….????

Anyway that is all over now and I have a 14 hour stop over in Singapore before I continue on to Melbourne.

I do look forward to getting back into the studio and start Jamming with the boys again. And to tell you the truth get a good coffee and some sun. I’m beginning to become ghoulishly grey coloured…. That with my “Pink eye”, Birds nest, and sleep deprivation I’m sure the Australian customs will quarantine me and want to put me down cause they think I have some sort of new exotic French Farm Animal disease. “grippe de chèvre sale moche”….

But….. If I do make it out of customs then I will see you soon. For our next few shows in Melbourne and Sydney….

I should go and I’ll write again soon. When I am more awake and make sense!

Much Love

Monsieur Goat Flu!

X

N.M

The Roads We Take and the People We Meet

I’m back in Paris after the wrap up of our tour over the weekend. Back to reality I guess?
It’s all happened so quickly. These months of preparation and past 2 months of touring France and England are now a fond memory.
On the way back to Paris I began writing this blog, but after a minute or 2 I found myself watching the rows of seats down the isle of the Eurostar, looking at the people that were inhabiting them. I found it mind blowing at how many different thoughts that would be floating through everybody’s heads right that second, and that how everybody was on his or her own journey somewhere. Wherever they wanted to go. Pretty soon I was off on a tangent. I decided I needed to spend my last few pounds at the bar, and finish writing there.
It’s been an incredible journey for Blackchords. Always scattered with hurdles but always rewarded with the knowledge that we are heading in the right direction. It has been great to wander the streets of Paris and London, finding inspiration in its ancient walls. To live and breathe music everyday.
It is what we have been after for quite sometime.
Every gig we played was unique and we found a different energy with the crowed and in the room. So when Mark asked me which I thought was the best show? I couldn’t really answer. We’ve played with some great bands and we’ve met some amazing people, who I know we’ll get to see again. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Each of us has loved every minute of being over here in Europe and so in someway it’s a little bit hard to say goodbye and head back to OZ. But we know that we still have a long way to go as we are just at the beginning. We have many more great experiences to live at home and elsewhere in this world.
On that note many many thank you’se to the people we have met along the way,
To Emms, to Claire and Sue, Dust Devil, The Blackchords team, Sasufi, and Arnaud Betrom (our French Bassist) who is a King! Can’t wait to do it again.

XX N.M

À La Prochaine

We’re pretty much finished up in France for now.
The boys have gone ahead to
London and I’ll be catching up with them in a few more days.
Our last show here was excellent. Playing to a full room and responsive crowd on the other side of the world was very much welcomed by us.
They were very kind not to try and throw empty bottles at my head when I attempted to sing a cover of Alain Bashung’s “Je T’ai Manqué”.
After the show, it was nice not to have to pack up and leave straight away so we could hang out and meet some very lovely locals and even some Australian and UK visitors too!

All in all our time here in France has been an awesome experience, and if not for the excitement of bunkering down in London during October I’d be pretty sad to moving on.
We got a good taste of what Paris and France is all about, the food, the wine, the beautiful streets and buildings. The inspiring art, history and of-course the passionate French people.
We have decided we like it and hope that we can have some more soon!


Oh and BTW this coming Sunday @ 4pm Damian and Nick C. will be heading down to the Islington acadamy for the Australian Times home grown BBQ. They will be guest DJ's and signing some CD's. We have a limited number of guest pass's to give away so email mark@blackchords.com for more info and to get your name on the door.

Also a huge thank you to Sasufi for all her hard work and on organizing our France gigs.
She has just put up a new blackchords.com photo page... Check it out!

XX Nick M.

On The Road

We are on the road somewhere in the French countryside travelling back to Paris, with Sasufi and the Dharma Bums, after our show last night in Nantes.
Its only 8:30 am and we have been driving for 2 hours. The car is well and truly packed and it’s my turn to squish into the non-seat in between the equipment. My back is nicely cramped, my left leg has got pins and needles in it and I have no way of shaking it out.

Inside the car has gone quiet, looking at the angle at which everybody’s heads are crooked I’d say all but Nick C.(who is driving) has passed out. I’m watching Damian fight hard to keep his head on top of his shoulders. It keeps falling sharply to one side then quickly bobs straight back up again. Holds straight for about 6 seconds then falls right off again. He’s been in this battle for about half an hour now!
Outside the sun is finally beginning to burn through the grey mist and shine on the old stone farm houses that are spotted across the hills and every now and then we pass by a small dense village with a huge church spire at their centre.Each building and city I see holds so much history. It’s something so foreign to back home. I love it.
I’m still pretty hazy after only having had 2 and half hours sleep. So I haven’t had a chance to think about the show last night.

From my fuzzy memory tho I feel like it was one of our best gigs so far.There was such a great energy in the room that couldn’t be quashed even by my terrible attempt at speaking French.
I was very moved to hear the audience singing along in their French accents to Broken Bones and again to At Worlds End after they called for us to play it for the 2nd time. I did feel a little strange at playing a song twice in one set but it was definitely worth it to watch them shout along to the chorus.
I really hope that it won’t be too long till we are back in Nantes. Hopefully for a little longer next time…

XX
N.M

**Check out some more photos from Nantes.

Through the storm

I’m feeling somewhat fuzzy this morning…. But hell I’m over the moon that we got through our first concert, even tho every unseen hand tried to stop us from performing last night!!! In the end it was brilliant!!

The boys arrived in Paris sometime last week for rehearsals. It was great to see them stumble through the gates at Gare Du Nord. Exhausted but running on the reserve energy of a new country and the knowledge that we were now beginning our first European tour. For the past week we have been rehearsing, wondering the streets, eating copious amounts croissants and baguettes and taking in the sites.

The rehearsals have been solid and a lot of fun. We are finding new places to explore on songs from the Album and also beginning to experiment with some new ideas.

We finished up our last rehearsal on Wednesday and went back home to pack up our various belongings and get ready to head out in the morning for our first London Concert.

We met up at Gare Du Nord at 11:30 Thursday morning raring to go. I was runn

ing a little late (or as I like to say right on time) and so as I arrived we headed straight to the departure gate (completely unaware of the storm that was brewing overhead). As we approached the gate I said to Damian “I can’t believe we’re going to London!”….

Cut to – Damian and Nick C being ushered away by customs and Arnaud (our French Bassist) and I standing at the check in counter a little stunned and missing half of Blackchords.

We got through the gate and found the boys, sans passports and Tickets. Not entirely sure what was going on except for the fact that there was a problem and our train was about to leave any second Arnaud and I decided we should probably go on without Damian and Nick C.

We spent the next 4 odd hours once we arrived in London waiting on the phone listening to hold music, trying to get through to various embassy’s.

By 7:30pm and having been unable to find a single soul that was able to help us out we decided that they should give it another crack and try and get on another train….

Cut to… Damian and Nick C. being given a little card by customs politely letting them know that they were being detained searched and finger printed…. Awesome!!

Anyways to make a long story a little less long… By the morning of our first London concert we had half a band stuck in another country and were freaking out that they weren’t going to make it. Luckily we had Mark (our London manager) to save the day. He was able to get some help to sort out the Visas by 4pm(1 hour before sound check) So now the boys were sprinting back to Gare Du Nord to get the train across…. It was about this time we were able to have half a second of celebrating before receiving some news that there had been another problem and we didn’t have a guitar amp or drum kit for the show…. I couldn’t believe it I felt like someone really wanted to make us work hard for this show.

The problem of the lack of equipment was sorted out by the generosity of the ban

ds that were to be supporting us at the show. Now we were back on track again and making our way to The Good Ship…. We received a call from Nick C. to let us know that they were sitting on a train and would arrive at 8pm. Unfortunately he had just had his wallet stolen so it still wasn’t completely stress free!

8pm came and the boys made it to the Good Ship. None of us could believe that we were actually there we had made it through to the show. We were ready to play.

Just as we got on stage to play there was the final (little) twist of the knife. The input on my guitar had decided to fall out so instead of getting up and playing straight away we had to quickly try and get it put back together!! 5 minutes later we were good to go!!

It was a great feat for us to make it to that stage last night and it was a great first gig. We knew that this tour would be an experience and 1 gig in… It has been just that…

There was much celebratory drinking after the show and I am now in dire need of a coffee if I’m to make it through the day…..

So I’ll stop now.

Thanks for all who turned out last night to the show. We’ll see you soon

X

N.M.

Blackchords European Album Release Set for October 5th

For those of you that aren’t aware, Blackchords are releasing their Debut self-titled Album in Europe and touring France and England, this September and October.
The Album will be released through Dust Devil Music and distribution through Stomp/Republic of Music.

After the long 30hour journey through the skies and through the many railway stations, lugging far too much luggage for one person to comfortably carry, I made it to France. I’m here having a few weeks of eating good food and generally just experiencing living in Paris.
Its good to have this time to look around and try find some inspiration but I’m also waiting eagerly on the other side of this little planet to be joined by Nick C. and Damian to begin our first European Tour. It’s a beautiful place to be and it’s so exciting to be able to finally get over here.
I’m sure it’s going to be an intense period; it’s kinda the next step and an important one for Blackchords. Getting our music as far and wide as possible and hopefully leaving a good impression. Either way it’s definitely going to be an experience!
Our long time Bassist Jay Tilley is staying back home in Melbourne to begin a new chapter of his life, with his very cute little bub, Otis Tilley. Much love to Jay, S-J and Otis!

So… Frenchmen Arnaud Bétrom (Bassist) and Benoit Guivarch (Keys, guitarist) will be joining Blackchords for our tour. I’m sure they’ll be able to pull me out of the holes that I dig for myself trying to speak bad French on stage!!

Also over the last leg of our NSW and Victorian shows those of you who made it along would’ve noticed a few new faces on stage. Shane O’Keeffe (Bass) and Brendan Donahoo (Keys). I’d like to thank them very much for joining us. Its been ace to have them on stage with us.

OK well that’s it for now keep checking back as we’ll have some new news quite often. I’ll try and get some happy snaps too!

Now I’m going to put on my beret and head down the street to buy a baguette, some fromage and some vin rouge and try to fit in!

A bientôt

N.M.

Blackchords Vs Triple J

Blackchords are now asking their wonderful fans and friends to help
by requesting our single "At Worlds End" on Triple J Super request:
Click here to make your vote:
Alternatively you can call Rosie from 6pm (AEST) each night on 1300 0555 36 with your requests.

We are also part of triple J's Unearthed competition so click away on the banner to vote for us on Unearthed:

Thank you very much for all your support

X
Blackchords

At Worlds End Film Clip

It had been coming and I knew that it would hit as soon as we had gotten past the Album launch and right on queue 2 days after the launch I was down! As sick as a dog with the flu. So I've been lying low trying not to contaminate anybody and trying to unclog my brain... Feeling much better now and ready to run that next marathon that awaits me. promoting and touring this brand new album...
To celebrate my... getting better we have just uploaded to Blackchords.com our brand new film clip of "At Worlds End" directed by Tov. It pretty much shows you how how I came to catch the flu! We very much hope that you like it!
OOO and I almost forgot to mention that Sasufis' photos of the Album Launch are now up too....

OK take care and we'll see ya soon.

X N.J.M

Blackchords

Launch

Well what can I say??

We have sweated and we have been through thick and thin, it has taken time, sometimes feeling like we were stuck in the mud and sometimes feeling like we were flying along at a million miles per hour… But we have now completed an album that reflects these early years of Blackchords as honestly as we could. And on Friday night we were able to celebrate this album this final step we had to take to move on for the next stage of Blackchords’ life.
It was awesome… To walk on stage at the beautiful Gershwin room at the espy and to see all your happy faces beaming back at us immediately struck me and the boys with this electric energy. At times I found myself with an uncontrollable grin plastered across my face, and thinking this is exactly what I hoped for, I was immersed in the music and well and truly in the moment! It goes without saying that without all of you that helped pack out the Gershwin room, it would not have been the same night!
I can’t wait for the next one!!

Stay tuned as there is much much more to come from Blackchords, Including photos from the Gershwin room and our brand new film for "At Worlds End"!


X N.J.M

Finally we have made it. Blackchords have reached the stores!

Yesterday was International Record Store Day and so it was an even greater day to release our very first album.
Thanks to everybody who came and celebrated this mile stone with us at Pure Pop Records, we had an ace day never thought that an in store gig could be as good as it was!
We want to let you know that for a short period of time you can listen to the entire blackchords album at www.blackchords.com
Also if you are in Melbourne tune into triple R 102.7fm this Wednesday at 5:30pm to listen to a live interview with us.
So thank you again for all your support and hope that we see you down at the Gershwin Room at the Espy in St Kilda on April 24 for the Big Launch Party!

Take care
Blackchords

Check out the store locator at Stomp to find out where you can get your hands on the Album.

 

Getting closer

Hey all its not long now till our Album is finally out in stores and we are out celebrating at the Esplanade in Melbourne. We can’t wait as you can imagine.
We have just put online our brand new Blackchords Shop so go check it out here.
You can pre-order a copy of “Blackchords” album or get your hands on our Tee’s.
Also we are adding new tracks to myspace during this lead up to the release, so you can have a listen to more songs from the album.

XX N.

We are ready to go! Blackchords Release Announced.

After how many years and how many incarnations of Blackchords?
We’ve lost count. But we have finally arrived at the point where the group becomes a band… It’s been an amazing journey to get to this point (releasing our debut album) but we made it. It has not been quick, it has not been easy, but we have finally got an album for the world to hear. We hope that you like it!

Throughout the life of Blackchords there have been a few musicians who, without their help Blackchords would not be here today so… To Peter James Spark, Tim Downey, Bindi Lobley, Scrappy Scrappy, Guy Kable, Ben Smith, Nick Lovell, Nick Batterham, Jimi Maroudis, and Turner and Hooch! Much love and many thanks to you all!

The official release date for “Blackchords” is April 18. We will be playing a special in store gig at Pure Pop records, St Kilda.
You will be able to buy the album in all good music stores throughout Australia and it will be available to order on blackchords.com and downloadable at itunes.com.
Triple R presents our official launch party at the Gershwin room, Esplanade hotel, St Kilda on Friday april 24. Doors open 8pm.
Very special guests Wellyn and The Holy Sea will also be playing at our launch.

We’ll keep you informed with more Blackchords over the coming days/weeks. So keep tuned!

XX

Blackchords

2300km's, old people fighting and the famous Jack Thompson bbq sauce?

We have arrived back in Melbourne after our little trip up to Sydney to play with the Church and we survived.
We started off in Geelong for an interview and an acoustic performance of our single “At Worlds End” at K-Rock radio and then a gig at The Nash. We pumped out a high-energy, rock heavy gig and I don’t think we have ever sweated so much. It was a great little crowd and a hot little stage (A nice start to our tour). After the gig there was no time to lose so we crammed all our gear and ourselves, miraculously into the Tarago and at 1am set off on our death defying friendship testing 13hr drive to the Blue Mountains in NSW. We arrived somewhere after 2pm exhausted and delirious unable string together 2 sentences and stinking of the sweat from the gig of the night before. As we were unpacking the van in our delirious states’ over the road a tourist bus pulled up and fists started swinging! It started off as a simple miss understanding as to where you could get the best local post cards and ended up with an all in brawl between the fat conductor and the elderly Brazilian tourists armed with soup strainer moustaches and hand bags. They were out of breath pretty quickly which was lucky and the fat conductor was able to scramble into the van and lock himself in along with the remaining tourists and their camera phones… It was time for sleep!
Friday nights gig was quite a contrast from the night before a chilled down tempo show to let us savour with a few glasses of Jack Thompsons’ very own branded wine and a nice bowl of chips covered in Jack Thompsons’ famous bbq sauce and after the show we grabbed a refreshing Jack Thompson ale and wandered around the bar to have a look at the photos of Jack in all his glory on the sets of his many different films?.. Nothing like a bit of self-promotion I say!
From Geelong to Kings cross… The next day we hit the road again detouring for the awe inspiring Blue Mountains outlook to cleanse the soul and then headed for Sydney. We arrived in Sydney with only 2 things on the to do list! Bondi beach, and to see what Paul Kelly was talking about, down at Kings Cross. Unfortunately tho it seemed that the US Navy had docked in Sydney Harbour and they had been given some R&R so Kings Cross was over run by sailors and we weren’t going to get anywhere near it!
Sunday night came and we were ready to play with a great Australian band that we had all grown up listening to. The Church. A fantastic show and fantastic welcome to Sydney. The Boys from the Church were great bunch and looked after us well and the crowd was as warm as we had been hoping for! The Church showed us that even when you are fully-grown up it is possible to still play rock’n’roll and do it with grace!!
To be continued…….

                

                   

                 

 
              
               

See more photos here

International Songwriting Competition

Blackchords makes the finals of The International Songwriting Competition.
Yesterday I was informed that our song Broken Bones was nominated twice as a finalist for best rock and best film clip in the International Songwriting Competition. There have been 15,500 entrants from all across the world so we are pretty excited to have been chosen as one of the finalists!
We now need your help in getting the peoples choice award which is drawn at the start of April. All ya need to do is click on the link below and go and cast your vote for Broken Bones. You can vote once a day too. So from now until March 31st you can vote… Lots!

Click here to vote.

N.

Blackchords

And then it began

Last night was our first gig back for 2009 and the start of our tour.
It is great to be back and to shake out some of the cobwebs.
This has been the first time Blackchords has played as a full band at the retreat hotel and I must say it was a really nice vibe.
Here are a couple of photos from the gig.
Also if you haven’t already checked out the dates that we are playing please do. There are more gigs coming up in Melbourne too and it looks like we’ll be heading down down under to Tassie, which is going to be awesome! Unfortunately tho for the moment we wont be making it to Queensland and WA. Hopefully it will happen later in 2009.
We DO now have a release date for our album and a date for the launch but that will be under raps for a little bit longer.
Will let you know soon.

Take Care

N.
Blackchords

Photography by Sasufi

Return to OZ

I have just touched down in the hot dry land of Australia, its a huge contrast with the sub zero temperatures and dark dark skies of London and Paris. Its been a busy few days, running around getting things organized for the up coming tour and release of the album and also hitting the studio for rehearsal with the band.
Today I've been able to be lazy and just wonder through Melbourne in a fuzzy jet lagged haze. Taking my pasty white sun starved body out into day light was a good feeling. Even if everybody I walked past had to shield their eyes away from my reflecting white skin.
For the next week while I get over my jet lag and get some color back into my skin we will be putting together the final details of our release and launch party. In the mean time I am adding details of our up coming gigs in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.
We are very excited to be heading to Sydney, in march to play with a much loved Aussie band “The Church” at The Factory Theatre.
Another very important gig that we will be playing is a benefit show at The Wesley Anne, to raise money for the victims of the Victorian bush fires.
So check out the details in our gig guide and come down to the shows.

In other blackchords news we have also donated a previously unreleased track 'Pretty Little Thing' to Twestival, the global Twitter charity event.
It is a worldwide online music project which aims to raise an additional $20,000 USD for the Twestival Charity Water which aims to provide people around the world with access to clean safe drinking water.
You can also listen and download tracks from over 160 other artists including Bloc Party, Martha Wainwright, Erol Akan, Imogen Heap, Mystery Jets and The Rakes

Visit http://www.twestival.fm to have an exclusive listen and download our track 'Pretty Little Thing' taken from our forthcoming debut album.

Stay in touch cause there is much happening in the next few months.

N.

1000

Dear all,

The Blackchords fanbase is growing fast and we are rapidly approaching 1,000 MySpace friends. To mark this milestone we want to reward you.

If you enjoy our music we need you to invite your friends to become our friends. Then send us a message with your name and the names of the friends you have recruited.

If you recruit our 1,000th friend we will reward both of you with an exclusive, previously unreleased two track Blackchords CD containing 'These Lights' & 'At World's End.' Both tracks are taken from our forthcoming debut album which is released in March.

Good luck and thank you for your continued support

We will announce the winners shortly!

Blackchords xx

A Happy New Years!

2008 eh. It began I remember with Nick and myself both a bit disillusioned with the present. There were three amazing demos that we had done with Nick Batterham and the sound we’d been looking for was starting to come through. I was sick and tired of making coffee, serving bitter people and listening to hank williams every damn hour.

To just quit my job on faith of a better path was the calling.

Soon after saw us in the studio recording the album. with long days and nights between sing sing 2 and Mr Batterhams studio. To say I was naive and raw to the recording process would be an understatement and working with such talented minds as Nick Batterham and Adam Rhodes scared the shit outta me at the time, but what I’ve learnt and witnessed during that process has been truly incredible. July saw Nick disappearing to Paris with the talented Anne-sophie at his side… and I found myself walking the hallway of my house not really knowing what to do with myself. I had to fill my life with some company.. and that came in the form of one of the loves of my life. A new amp! The Vox AC30CC with 4X12 speakers affectionately known as ‘The cardi’. So with the return of Nick M and playing for the first time with the talented Nick C , I found myself amongst some great musical moments. with playing the songs for the first time since recording them, and now with keys in the live set for the first time in four years. It feels right, and I can’t wait to see out other chapter, the live shows unfolding and evolving in 2009.

Thanks to everyone involved in the blackchords trip in 08. especially those that volunteered their hours and time. Trevor, Katie, Anne Sophie, Tov, Caz… and Phoebe and S.J. for helping us haul our machines of music over Melbourne. We can’t thank you enough!

To sit here hungover, smiling, writing this with the knowledge we’re about to release our debut album and knowing I’ll be creating more sound with my best friends is a peace. To be remembering this evolution, with memories of nick coming to me with chords and scribbled lyrics of songs which would later become ‘switch’ and ‘22’. Waking up most days in february to the piano at the other end of the house, then to be around the strings being recorded and driving ‘disappear’ and ‘these lights’. The universe has been good to us..

Happy New Year

See you all soon.



Dim