by Pete

11:56 pm, 29 May 2006

well, the record has been out one week now here, and what a long week it has been! we are really busy at the moment having rehearsals with all of the musicians who will play with us at the melbourne launch, and also getting ready to do a film clip.
there was a party the other night at my ‘house’ (i live in a room out the back of a cafe, so it’s not really a house as such) which was fun, as evidenced by the picture above. i’m sure it wasn’t the first party in world history where this happened, but it was a first for so worth a mention… we passed around a pad of paper on which everyone wrote down a track to download and cue up on the iPod. needless to say, it ended up like pretty much any 80’s ‘party mix’ CD, but it was an enjoyable exercise. here’s how the tracklist turned out….

Eye of the Tiger
Mr. Roboto
When will i be famous
toto - africa
Toto - Rosanna
Word Up
It’s A Wonderful Life
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance - Rap - 80’s
Mc Hammer - You Cant Touch This
ACDC - Back In Black
Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go 1
Bye Bye Love
Guns N’ Roses - Paradise City
Blondie - Call Me
Running Up That Hill
Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes
Manic Monday
Tequila
Salt n Peper - Push it.mp3
Tone Loc - Bust A Move
no_sense_cold_chisel
48 crash suzie quattro
all men are liars
TAKE THE PRESSURE DOWN
That’s When I Think Of You
Totally 80s - Jefferson Starship - We Built This City On Rock & Roll
I Just Died in Your Arms
Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Swisha House - Greatest Hits - 121 - Chamillionaire - Flow (After Da Kappa)
Erica Badu - Next Lifetime
That’s When I Think Of You - 1927
Kriss Kross - Jump
Lazy
The Final Countdown

by Pete

1:33 pm, 22 May 2006

This is a picture of the MCG lighting up the city sky alien green. Freaky!
So the album is out today. Thanks to everyone that has ordered copies through the site. It all goes toward getting us on the road and to a pub near you later this year.

by Pete

6:16 pm, 16 May 2006

Here we are at the opening night of rachael’s new painting exhibition. She did the painting which is on the cover of A Minor Revival. The new work looks amazing. Check out www.seventhgallery.org , and we will have some more of her work up in the ‘friends and links’ of the site.

by Pete

2:43 pm, 11 May 2006

9.21am So i’m on my way to my job.. For the last time! I handed in my resignation 2 weeks ago, and today it is realised. It’s kinda hard to believe, but very exciting. We’ve got a big year ahead with the album and stuff, so i’m glad i’m making the time for it. I just hope the money starts falling out of the sky :-)
it’s funny.. I put on my headphones this morning and the first words bonnie prince billy was singing to me were ‘… you do what you want, and i will do what i want, cause i’m now free, master and everyone, servant of all and servant to none’. Bring on 5.30pm.

by Pete

3:57 pm, 5 May 2006

Boy.. Winter has hit this town hard now. It’s one of those weeks where you did out your heaviest jacket and find what strange thing you left in pocket 9 months ago. It makes me think of our friends in the northern hemisphere and and wonder what summer in europe must be like. Somehow we’ve avoided it all these years.
Hey, this is my first entry from my mobile phone. Crazy huh. I feel like Marty McFly!