MIKIVERSE GUITAR NOISE
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
V.SPY V.SPY-CREDIT CARDS LIVE
Recorded at the Tivoli nightclub, at the top of the stairs on George St in Sydney. Mike plays trademark guitar and Cliff sings and smashes the drum kit while I yell and hit the bass guitar. We felt strongly that the world was out of balance so we wrote this song about it.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
PETER GARRETT 'HEAD INJURIES' INTERVIEW ON SOUNDS FROM 1980 PLUS SOME CLASSIC OLD SKOOL OILS VIDEOS FROM THE TIME
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
GRINDERMAN DL NEW YORK INTERVIEW & LETTERMAN LIVE PERFORMANCE
The DL - Grinderman Interview
Grinderman on Letterman Honey Bee
BAD SEEDS OFFSHOOT GRINDING OUT A NAME
September 22, 2010 - 5:06PMGrinderman may have started as an exploratory side project for Nick Cave and his longtime musical partners, but the band is rapidly creating a name of its own.
The stripped-down guitar group, formed by members of Australian alt-rock act Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is winning almost as many plaudits.
The unimaginative title of their second album, Grinderman 2, speaks volumes about their initial ambition.
"We never intended Grinderman to be a commercial success," guitarist Warren Ellis said from Brighton ahead of Grinderman's forthcoming UK tour.
"We weren't under any pressure to release anything, it was purely an exploratory thing and it didn't really matter what came out of it.
"It was just about seeing if we could do something different."
The idea for Grinderman began in 2006 when chief Bad Seed and Melbourne-born singer Nick Cave began writing songs on a guitar rather than his customary piano.
It led to several loose jam sessions which harnessed the talents of Ellis and fellow members Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos to produce a much starker sound than the one shaped by the Bad Seeds over nearly three decades.
Once the four members decided to expand their scraps of songs into a full studio album - called, you guessed it, Grinderman - the band discovered a whole new meaning to writing and recording.
"Grinderman has always felt very different to the Bad Seeds because despite being roughly the same people, the band doesn't come with such a long history," Ellis said.
"It's refreshing and liberating, it's given us a chance to free things up and keep the whole creative process going."
To simulate a departure from the Bad Seeds, Grinderman's four members adhered to certain ground rules to make the process more challenging. Cave does not playing the piano and Ellis is denied his violin, with the four focusing on a more guitar-led sound.
"We couldn't expand things like we did with the Bad Seeds," Ellis explained.
A return to the day job followed the Grinderman experiment with 2008's Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds critically acclaimed album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!.
But the allure held, and last year they decided to revisit the side project and concentrate all efforts into making something more extreme, sonically and stylistically.
"Grinderman 2 was a really enjoyable album to make and hopefully it's an enjoyable album to listen to as well," Ellis said.
"It's engaging and more far reaching that the first."
Ellis hinted at an Australian tour in the New Year, after he brings his other music vehicle The Dirty Three to headline the Meredith Music Festival in December.
And he is hopeful Grinderman will be able to keep pace with his other projects.
"Who knows what the future holds?" he said.
"Hopefully the two bands can run alongside each other, but each thing I'm involved in has to be a step forward."
Grinderman 2 by Grinderman is out now on Mute.
AAP
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/bad-seeds-offshoot-grinding-out-a-name-20100921-15l3c.html
Grinderman - Heathen Child