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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1736 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bruce thread is kicking along nicely, so hear's another one that might interest you all. Forget the Kanye West v 50 Cent rap battle raging across the US at the moment; two of Australia's most revered musicians - the Church's Steve Kilbey and the Saints' Ed Kuepper - have been having a little online tete-a-tete over the past week after the screening on ABC of the Saints' classic I'm Stranded as part of the Great Australian Albums series. "I watched the show on the Saints. Except for one good song - what a bloody awful racket!" writes Kilbey on http://stevekilbey.blogspot.com. "And how amazingly like Lord Byron (singer Chris) Bailey speaks. Ed (Kuepper) was lugubrious as usual, wry and lofty. What strange rock stars these two were," says Kilbey, before mimicking other Australian musicians for their over-the-top praise of the album on the show. "To hear these guys talk you'd think the Saints were like guitar-wielding Tchaikovskys or somethin', opening up some huge new possibility in life. I don't get it. I didn't then. I still don't." Kuepper responded on his MySpace site, saying it was "touching to see so many artists speak so freely and enthusiastically about my old band". "I also have to confess I didn't like much of that tepid, neatly anal little eighth-note, mincey 'new wave/new romantic' stuff that came into fashion a few years after the Saints split, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised if its keenest adherents and their advocates aren't too enamoured of me and my slightly more rough-and-tumble musical approach." | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 255 Registered: 05-2005 |
Handbags at dawn!!! Of course, there's no suggestion that Steve Kilbey is even the slightest bit peeved that none of The Church's albums were featured in the series... Sour grapes? Never! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 105 Registered: 02-2007 |
The whole spectrum of my musical taste covered there Padriag. "Rough and tumble" is good, but when I,ve had my fix, go back to "anal eighth-note, new wave stuff" too. What does Ed say about the GBs I wonder!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1737 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well, Ed's covered Finding You for his new album, which is out on Monday. He was at Grant's funeral, as was Steve Kilbey. I reckon he likes The Go-Betweens. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 264 Registered: 05-2005 |
If you listen, Ed Kueppers solo stuff with 12 strings sounded VERY Kilbeyesque so what's he on about? I reckon they are big enough to get over someone not liking them! |