i thought about starting this thread the other day. great site.

love this site.

all i know about atticus is that they contains an atkinson (ie. brother of greg from big heavy stuff). also used to like that shovel song when i was younger. never really investigated.

cool. yeah, i just don't want to go downloading lots of stuff without knowing what they sound like at least. but i guess they have pretty good taste, so none of it could be too terrible....

ff, greg is playing thurs night in sydders

oh good. accost him about that show they must play, ohyeah, so that i can buy me a plane ticket.

sorry about the typing errors. i suck.

Atticus featured Josh who used to man the counter at Metropolis Records when it existed. Also have a vague recollection that Matt Meyerscough who currently works at Redeye was a member as well.

a quick google search turned up this old angelfire site... it doesn't have much information, though. i'd be keen to know if scoff did indeed play in this band.

i just don't want to go downloading lots of stuff without knowing what they sound like at least.

I thought this is what downloading music was for

sure. but not when you're trying to cut down and save space etc. so anyway, i checked out s:bahn (north sea clean). for anyone that is interested it's kind of like.... jangly guitars, loose/lazy drums and bass, out-of-tune male and female vocals (but sometimes in tune). quite good in places, but it hasn't grabbed me yet. they have a sense of humor too, which is nice.

S:Bahn were a pretty legendary Melbourne band. One of my favourites from the late 90s. Their first album was fairly standard math-rock, but North Sea Clean is quite amazingly jagged/tuneful in an Archers Of Loaf meets Pavement meets Shellac kinda way.

Atticus were great. My old band supported them a few times. I think a couple of them were in a band called The Templebears before they started Atticus.

Their song Lend Me An Ear got a bit of Triple J airplay back in the day and appeared on the soundtrack to an indie movie called Fresh Air that was shot around Newtown.

what goldfoot said. in fact, i'm pretty sure the first time i saw your band play was at one of the atticus shows, probably with peabody or shnazz playing too (or maybe it was tshirt boys... my memory's failing)

also didn't s:bahn have people go onto other good bands? i don't know why but i always speak of them in the same breath as by ferry or steamer. might just be the augogo connection though. s:bahn's songs on the wonder from a quarter comp are great!

Kristian from S:Bahn moved to New York and plays in a band called Woman over there, which sounds sorta Birthday Party-ish. Not sure what the others are doing, but apart from hanging around at the same pubs at the same time, S;Bahn had very little in common with By Ferry Or Steamer.

oh ok, thanks frankie!

speaking of by ferry or steamer, anyone know how to get their album/ep?

thanks for the kind words folks. to answer some questions:

1. Atticus were Josh Morris from the Templebears on gtr/vox, Darren Atkinson from Big Heavy Stuff on drums/vx, Alex Ronayne on bass and initially also had Paul Martin on gtr/vx too. They were like a poppier Polvo in some regard (you may disagree). Well, they started out a lot more angular and ended up more poppy. They also apparently recorded (or were set to) a third album that never saw the light of day. To my recollection i don't believe that Matt Meyerscough was in the band. They are mightily missed and they were severely underrated in their day. They were at their best as a quartet, they didn't quite have that ''magic'' when they lost Paul - also his songs were killer! BTW Josh also used to work at Redeye with another ex-Templebear/Big Heavy Stuff-er Nick Kennedy.

2. S:Bahn were a Melbourne quartet, kinda like Fugazi meets Sonic Youth or Archers of Loaf i guess. Sloppy like Tweezer could be, but a little muscular like Midget. Guitarist Kristian Brenchley also joined up with Ollie Browne (Art of Fighting) for an album under the name The Remotes, which will be uploaded on the blog maybe in the new year. vocalist/guitarist Dik (no last name!) also sang on Paul Dempsey's Scared Of Horses album (also to be uploaded soon).

3. I was gonna write a little blurb for each band but decided against it. I like the ''lucky dip'' aspect of downloading - if you don't like it, delete it! you're not paying for it (except in bandwidth i guess). also what MY description of a band is may differ to YOUR description. So, dive in and experiment!

4. Like Frankie said - no one in S:Bahn was in By Ferry Or Steamer. BFOS consisted of Milo (ex-Tweezer), Brendan Webb (ex-Sandpit), Matt Dufty (ex-soundguy for Something For Kate) and another soundguy Marcus Barczak. Ollie from AOF also guested. They only released 2 tracks on the ''Musical Identikit'' comp from AuGoGo & a super limited tour 7'' (like 10 copies made or something ridiculous). They had also recorded a track for an unreleased Quietly Suburban comp. I'd LOVE to upload some BFOS but only have the AuGoGo Comp. if anyone can help please contact me at lafml@yahoo.com.au

you should upload sandpit. such a great band.

i apologise, greg is playing next thurs night, at the excelsior in slurry.

s:bahn fucking ruled! one of the guys in that band worked as a cameraman for GMA so i once saw Bert Newton plug an S:Bahn gig on ch10 before midday. it was a bit wierd.

loved sandpit too, i still give on second thought a regular drubbing. is there any BL Stryker recordings?

Atticus was/is a great outfit, really lovely bunch of blokes. I played pedal steel on one song on their Looks, Money, Talent album - Chalk Dust, which - if I'm not mistaken - was recorded at the old Charing Cross studios. I played on the first El Mopa album around the same time I think (Get Behind). This would be going back around 1998/1999? They're well worth hearing, y'all.

Brilliant work on the ASG stuff lamfl.

Trapped Water is one of my all-time favourite songs - great to see it part of the live set.

A life highlight of mine is seeing ASG, Big Heavy Stuff and SFK play together back in my uni days. Still one of the best gigs I've seen when all three bands were at the height of their powers.

the au-go-go and mans ruin versions of i was cruel feature the same recordings of that song. the b-sides are different though. the american one has an out of tune demo of she-riff with dave thomas playing on it, i believe. they re-recorded it for the album version, but the single version remains my favourite. it is incredible.

the dirt haven't been payed any royalties for the au-go-go stuff for 10+ years so i wouldn't guilt out about sharing it. young and full of the devil is really hard to get and is my favourite album of theirs, such a shame.

if anyone has a spare sparrow 7'' they want to get rid of i'm quite happy to take it... it is the last piece of commercially released dirt vinyl i don't own.

I'll have to double-check, but I think I've got it. I'll check after work.

Great new post! Shame ASG aren't playing much anymore, some of the newer stuff is incredible & definetely my fave live band in perth.

Theres definetely two unreleased braving the seabed albums, the first one was recorded before the s/t came out with 7 tracks which has different versions of a few of the songs on the s/t.

The second one was recorded after the s/t, the only song which was released of that was mapped out in our thoughts on a split 7'' with deloris. Some of the tracks on this one are fabulously warm & slow, some of their best stuff. Also have a live disk kicking around somewhere with a few unreleased tracks on it, brendan from sandpit plays some gtr and bass.

I'll have to double-check, but I think I've got it. I'll check after work.

that would be great, cheers!

Braving The Seabed & the Tigers have now been added to Perth special this month...

thanks for putting up that art of fighting demo. they sure rocked out in the olden days.

gone?

gone

Ah, fuck, been meaning to grab a whole bunch o stuff off that for months.

How do you do that internet archive thing?

boo :\

I think you mean the waybackmachine

nope, still alive on google cache.

What happened to this? Did it get shut down my the man?

sorry - should've given a warning.

no, it didn't get shut down by anyone. i killed it myself - been ignoring it too long because as of late there just hasn't been enough spare time to add updates, etc. didn't want to just ''leave it there'' if i wasn't going to be able to monitor it, so, yeah, its gone.

if anyone wants to start up a NEW library, of course they have my blessing.

and for all those amazing people who contributed stuff, a massive THANKS is due. also, apologies to those who sent stuff that never made it up to the blog. due to certain things that happen in life, i just can't maintain it any longer.

so long and thanks for all the phish.
lafml

That's a shame lafml. But top top work all the same.

Especially for all those BBK b-sides - been looking for some of that stuff for many many years.

thx mate. you rule.

righto, who wants to start up something new?

thanks muchly lafml. you made me very happy last year!

Damn, I've meaning to get the By Ferry Or Steamer stuff from there. Missed out.

Bummer.

Can anyone help me? Mediafire link?

thanks for some of hte music, art of fighting deloris S:Bahn & Crow

good to see Crow around agian, was it because of this interest?

anyhow good work; that man