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Friday 14th July '06
Friday 14th July '06
Domino are all set to release the next two
Triffids albums in our ongoing reissue campaign:
Calenture and
In The Pines will be released towards the end of September...official
date is still to be confirmed. However, they will be available to pre-order very
shortly on Domino Mart and for those of you who'd like to order both there will
be a bundle deal...more details to follow
For those of you who didn't pick up a copy of Born Sandy Devotional you may be pleased to know they are available at Dom Mart for only £10 and we still have a few lovely Triffids metallic pin badges to give away with them. The cd contains the original album and also a further 9 bonus tracks and the whole thing comes nicely packaged with a 48 page booklet!
We are also giving everyone a FREE download of the track Wide Open Road! Simply click here and download the track...yours to keep!
For your reading pleasure we managed to get together with Graham Lee, Triffids member and ask him a few questions...enjoy!
D - Did you ever expect to come back together as a group to play together
again - I presume you enjoyed the experience ?
G.L - We almost did a reunion tour of Australia in '94 but that's when Dave
began to get sick so it was, very sadly and reluctantly, canned. The recent
exhibitions/shows in Belgium and Amsterdam came about through the inspiration of
a couple of Belgian fans, students then but now the owners and organisers of an
arts centre in Hasselt, Belgium. Their original concept was an exhibition of
posters, original art work, rare video footage and so on and they asked if we'd
like to be there as guests. From there it was a small step to agree to doing a
few songs, not thinking that we'd end up playing for over 90 minutes. It all
came flowing out, sometimes a bit rickety but always heartfelt and did us a
power of good. We didn't try to replace Dave, more to conjure his spirit by
playing his music. It's not reformation - just a happy alignment of the planets.
Have had a couple of offers over here, strangely enough, and we were offered a
support slot with Iggy Pop when we were in Belgium! . That would be in Greece
today and we're not there. Are we nuts?
D - Dave McComb passed away in 99 - what legacy do you think he leaves
behind?
G.L - An enormous and very special body of everlasting songs some yet to be
recorded, various other writing including 60 or so poems, the ability to touch
people deeply, friends and fans alike even though he's no longer here.
D - What are the next reissues and what are you planning to include as
additional features?
G.L - In The Pines and Calenture - bookends in that the former was our cheapest
and most primitive recording, done in a woolshed, on which we spent more money
on beer than recording, and the latter was our major label blockbuster recorded
in seven different studios for a budget that doesn't bear thinking about. Still
spent more on beer than recording though. In The Pines will be completely
remixed by the original "producer after the fact" and mixer Bruce Callaway. He's
carried the masters around with him for 20 years in the hope that he'd be able
to remix. Funny old life. So there'll be half a dozen extra tracks and a much
better overall sound than the original. Calenture will be remastered and
presented with a set of unadorned demos that show a different side of the songs
plus a clutch of really great B sides. We were the masters of the great B side.
D - What do you know about some of the other Domino artists - anything
you're listening to and liking ? What music from Europe and America inspires you?
What local Australian music would you recommend to us?
G.D - Looking forward to see how
Arctic Monkeys career pans out - strangely enough I can see some
similarities between the precocious teenage Triffids and AMs, but my particular
tastes run more to the leftfield stuff -
Quasi, have just been listening to a collection of
Four Tet remixes that sound great, I like
Archie Bronson Outfit and that Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid record is a
blast, it's attempting to shred my speakers right now. Also been listening to
Bonnie ! Prince Billy's Cursed Sleep with my good friend Jim White on
drums. I only ever see Jim on record labels or up at the fruit and veg market
when he's in Melbourne these days, but we're trying to get him to make a
spectacularly rumpled cameo in a vid for one of the songs from Calenture.
I'm a big bluegrass fan particularly hard edged stuff like the Stanley
Brothers, I caught Gram Parsons first time around and he remains a favourite
with an enduring influence, I love songwriters like John Prine, Richard Thompson
is one of the great musical minds of the past 40 years and he still manages to
surprise me. The Australian mainstream doesn't have much appeal to me at the
moment but some people on the fringes eg Steve Appel and his band King Curly
from Sydney, a young Melbourne songwriter called Marcel Borrack and the truly
great improvised music trio The Necks make life worth living.
Missed them this time around because we were in Belgium when they visited, but
normally I'd never miss a live Dirty Three show. I heard that Warren made a
dedication to us and Dave in Perth. He and Dave were thick as thieves for a
couple of years before D3 moved offshore.
D - What's the most pleasant surprise or most enjoyable moment that has
sprung out of the process of putting together the Triffids reissue programme?
G.L - Locating Bruce Callaway and having remixes of In The Pines begin to roll
into my inbox as mp3s for approval has been the highlight so far. The process
itself is fraught with the possibility of becoming a smelly recluse with only
cassettes for company slowly being driven mad by the songs of a dear departed
friend but I'm doing ok so far.
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