Wishing The Church the best of Luck
It’s exciting times at Steven Kilbey’s house. He’s been granted a visa to enter the States (this was never a shoo-in given his long-ago gear possession incident), so he and the other 3 who make up The Church can get on with their Nth American tour to support their brilliant new album ‘Untitled #23’. In more good news it’s getting rave reviews everywhere including Rolling Stone & AllMusic.com. Best news of all is it’s up around the top 50 on Amazon’s interest level gauge. I hope it explodes & sells bucket loads everywhere. S. Kilbey so deserves and NEEDs the money. Check out his blog entry for 13 May. The excitement is palpable.
I basically don’t listen to FM radio anymore, so I dunno if the likes of JJJ, RRR & PBS are playing tracks from it. They bloody well should be supporting this magnificent Australia band. I won’t mention the commercial stations as they are just unmentionable….
The last track on the album ‘Operetta’ has such an emotional feel to it. It’s hard to put your finger on. It wont happen the first time you hear it. You need to have about 5 listens to ‘get’ the structure of the song, then if you take the time to LISTEN and let the song envelop you, you’re off on a journey. The music and lyrics somehow work wonderfully together to make you reminisce and yearn for something in your past. It’s deeply sad and optimistic all in one. The moment when SK sings:
piano, drums and trumpet
just like the old days….
and then a brief and simple yet perfect trumpet solo plays. That moment is just sooooo emotional. And it’s not just me saying this. Numerous posters on the Hotel Womb message board have spoken about being overcome at the same part of this track.
It’s a rare thing for music to get me like this. IMHO elite songwrting talent, clear vision of what’s desired and elite performance-execution need to come together for it to happen.
The Church have done this on some of their earlier tracks (bastards!, sob), but this ‘Operetta’ really gets ya good/bad.
My running is going pretty well. We had a one night stay at the Novatel Forest resort at Creswick (between Ballarat & Daylesford) on the Mothers’ Day weekend. I was able to slip out for a 20 min run on the Sat afternoon. There’s a golf course at the resort which I ran through on the way to the forest trails. Ahhhhhhh I just love running on forest trails. Pitty I only had time for a shorty. I highly recommend the Novatel Forest resort for a short getaway close to Melb. We’ll be back, preferably for a 2-3 night stay. There’s a heap more forest trail for me to do!
I did 102.6km in April (first time >100 since Sept 2008).
I did 27.5 k’s in the last week.
Weight is still around 89kg.
I basically don’t listen to FM radio anymore, so I dunno if the likes of JJJ, RRR & PBS are playing tracks from it. They bloody well should be supporting this magnificent Australia band. I won’t mention the commercial stations as they are just unmentionable….
The last track on the album ‘Operetta’ has such an emotional feel to it. It’s hard to put your finger on. It wont happen the first time you hear it. You need to have about 5 listens to ‘get’ the structure of the song, then if you take the time to LISTEN and let the song envelop you, you’re off on a journey. The music and lyrics somehow work wonderfully together to make you reminisce and yearn for something in your past. It’s deeply sad and optimistic all in one. The moment when SK sings:
piano, drums and trumpet
just like the old days….
and then a brief and simple yet perfect trumpet solo plays. That moment is just sooooo emotional. And it’s not just me saying this. Numerous posters on the Hotel Womb message board have spoken about being overcome at the same part of this track.
It’s a rare thing for music to get me like this. IMHO elite songwrting talent, clear vision of what’s desired and elite performance-execution need to come together for it to happen.
The Church have done this on some of their earlier tracks (bastards!, sob), but this ‘Operetta’ really gets ya good/bad.
My running is going pretty well. We had a one night stay at the Novatel Forest resort at Creswick (between Ballarat & Daylesford) on the Mothers’ Day weekend. I was able to slip out for a 20 min run on the Sat afternoon. There’s a golf course at the resort which I ran through on the way to the forest trails. Ahhhhhhh I just love running on forest trails. Pitty I only had time for a shorty. I highly recommend the Novatel Forest resort for a short getaway close to Melb. We’ll be back, preferably for a 2-3 night stay. There’s a heap more forest trail for me to do!
I did 102.6km in April (first time >100 since Sept 2008).
I did 27.5 k’s in the last week.
Weight is still around 89kg.
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