interstella

Just been listening to Tim Steward (of screamfeeder) on myspace. He’s got some nice solo (with a band) stuff. And he’s an ex-Townsvillean if I’m not mistaken.

Here is a nice tune recorded on November 15 in my garage on John’s new Zoom PS04. We did this in a little over two hours so it’s a bit rough. The song is amazing I think. I believe John wrote it with a female vocalist in mind, hence the high parts, which btw I think John did pretty well! If you listen carefully just after the last cymbal crash you can hear Zooey meow.

Hello there if you’re listening. I don’t have much to say except I added some extra pizzazz to our myspace. It’s now with less ugliness. So go check it out and have another listen to our songs there if you like. We did another folk club show. It was alright but lacked a certain something. It was the first performance for a lot of new songs. The band minus John played a gig at Dingo Beach (far away in time). I guess it wasn’t really an Interstella gig. We played some covers and some of Nick’s songs. Now John is back from his long travels and we’ll probably get the new songs back in shape over the next few weeks provided at least one of us can remember how they go. I wish you could hear them actually, there is some really good stuff. We should really play more. And of course John has come back with a handful of songs possibly inspired by the Irish countryside.

The tracklist is as follows:

1. Black Hearted Girl
2. Born Again Lazy
3. On This Hill
4. To You For Help
5. Without Wondering
6. Star Studded Dustbin

The cd ‘Stargazy Pie’, actually I think it has a new name but I forgot it… Guys? Also we have a myspace page! It will be here and will have some tracks from the CD once they’re ready. Interstella has 1 friends.

Here we are looking for uranus on the triple j unearthed web site. And you can hear three of our songs there too. Download or stream them online.

Update:

John points out that these are unfinished, unmixed and unmastered versions of the songs so probably will sound a bit rough.

Click the image to see some more.

The creative juices are flowing and the cooks are slaving over what will be a feast of delectable sounds for your aural enjoyment. In other words the recording @ Tunesville with Bjarne Ohlin extraordinaire is progressing well and we are stoked with the result. We have finished off 3 - almost 4 tracks including Star Studded Dustbin, Wondering, On this hill (aka Sax 1) and Born Again Lazy. The remaining tracks will be completed soon and we will keep you posted on the launch pad.

It’s from here. I think that really sums up the meaning of Interstella. No photos from our recording sessions - unfortunately I forgot to take a camera. Looking forward to Palm Creek and Don Teakle’s party, our next two shows. As always, details on the Gigs page. Lastly I noticed that Dave has updated his page. Check it out.

After a whirlwind intro to the T’ville gig scene we have just completed the foundations to our demo EP (or whatever it turns out to be!) last Saturday at Tunesville Studios. We had a pretty big day putting down 7 songs by all live takes - some requiring a few more takes than others! Bjarne had a great sound coming out the speakers as usual and so now we have to put the vocals sax and finish the mix. Davey and Simon were solid as usual with John also doing all it pretty easy - I had a bit more trouble with some of my lead bits but nothing a few more takes couldn’t fix. We recorded Star Studded Dustbin, Wondering, Born Again Lazy, Monkeys Eels & Butterflies, To U 4 help, Black Hearted Girl & Sax I. We’ll keep you all up to date with the progress score and let you know when the launch will be! Cul8r.

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Mike Cooper had this on a large sticker on the bottom of his 1931 national guitar so it was visible above his right knee while he played his hawaiian/folk/blues slide guitar. I think he did a song about West Papua also.