A Minor Forest, AC/DC, Adam Said Galore, Ariel Pink, The Angels of Light, Afghan Wigs, Aix Em Klemm, Alabama Kids, Alasdair Roberts,The Album Leaf, Alice Coletrane, The Amalgamated son's of Rest, AnalogueAAD, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Appendix Out, Arcade Fire, The Appleseed Cast, Archer Prewitt, Archer of Loaf, Arkon/Family, Art of Fighting, Ativin, Autohaze, Band of Horses, Battles, The Beach Boys, Beach House, Beast of Bourbon, Beatles, The Breeders, Beck, Belle & Sabastian, Belllini, The Books, Bettie Serveet, Big Black, Bill Callahan, Bivouac, Bloc Party, Bailterspace, Bluetile Lounge, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Brokeback, Broken Social Scene, Buffalo Tom, Built to Spill, Castings, Calexico, Califone, Catpower, Chavez, Chris Smith, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Codeine, Come, Crow, Cousteau, Chasm, Crain, Crooked Fingers, Curtis Mayfield, Damien Jurado, Dappled Cities, David Grubbs, Deerhoof, Dianogah, Dinosaur Jr, The Drones, Direction in Music, The Dylan Group, Dirty Three, Dj Shadow, Don Caballero, Drive like Jehu, Dutch Harbour, Electrelane, Ennio Morricore, Eric's Trip, Fennesz,The Flaming Lips, Folk Implosion, Front End Loader, Further, Fourtet, Function, Fridge,The For Carnation, Fugazi, Ganger, Gastr del Sol, The Go Betweens, Giant Sand,The Grifters, Gillian Welch, Girls against Boys, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Golden, Golden Mean, Grant Willard Conspiracy, Guided by Voices, Gravenhurst, Grinderman, Grizzly Bear, Handsome Family, The Hold Steady, Hateman, Helmet, High llamas, His Name is Alive, Holly Throsby, Hot Snakes, Idaho, Iron & Wine, Islands, The Instant, Isotope 217, Jawbox, Jim O'rourke, The Jesus Lizard, Joan of Arc, Joel Silbersher, Jose Gonzales, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Johnny Cash, June of 44, Karate, The Kinks, Kyuss, Liars, Labradford, Lemonheads, Loftus, Loose Fur, Lou Barlow, Low, Love of Diagrams, 2 Litre Dolby, Lunarcide, Magnolia Electric Co, Make Believe, Mark Kozelek, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Mclusky, Menomena, Micah P Hinson, Mice Parade, Midget, Midlake, Miles Davies, Minus Story, The Microphones, Mira Calix, Mirah, Mogwai, Mount Eerie, Mouse on Mouse on Mars, Mates of State, Mukaizake, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, My Disco, Ned Collette, the Notwist, Neil Young, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel,The New Porngraphers, Nick Drake, Nirvana, The New Year, Norfolk & Western, Noyes, Oh No! Oh My!, Okkervil River, Orso, Out in Worship, Owen, Owls, Palace Bros, Pan American, Papa M, Pavement, Peabody, Phoenix, Pixies, Pj Harvey, Polvo, Pond, Portishead, Pullman, Purplene, Rachels, Rand & Holland, Rapeman, The Rolling Stones, Red Red Meat, Rein Sanction, Retsin, Rex, Richard Buckner, Royal Trux, Ry Cooder, Sam Prekop, The Sea and Cake, Sodastream, Screamfeeder, Seam, Thr Shins, Sebadoh, The Small Knives, Shellac, Shipping News, Single Twin, Scout Niblett, Sigur Ros, Silver Jews, Slint, Small World Experience, Smog, Songs: Ohio, Sonic Youth, Spain, The Sonora Pine, Sparklehorse, Spinanes, Spore, Stars of the Lid, Sterolab, Sufjan Stevens, The Starboard Cast, Sun Ra, Supreme Dicks, Swervedriver, The Tigers, Talking Heads, Thalia Zedek, Tara jane O'neil, The Tendrills, Team Dresch, To Rococo Rot, Toe 2000, Tortoise, Tran Am, Trumans Water, Treepeople, Truly, Tucker B's, Tweezer, Ui, Uilab, Ukiyo-e, Unwound, Vashti Bunyan, Wilco, Will Oldham, Wingdale Community Singers, The Who, Wolf Parade, You Am I, Yo La Tengo. . . .
Sydney Audio Archives
Level 109-112
197 Thomas St, Haymarket, NSW
Australia
Actual transcript - dated 22 March, 2062
ELDERLY LIBRARIAN: Captain Nemo, you say? Mmm, of course! I remember them. Saw them a bunch of times, actually. Formed as a three-piece back in '03/'04, then became four when keyboardist Lara D came on board a year or so later. Well-rounded, dynamic indie rock. Rich guitar textures, uniquely unsettling vocals, ballsy sonic variations that make your heart pound in your mouth. Think Silver Jews, Joan of Arc and Akron/Family, with a bit of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's fragility thrown in.
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN: OK, great. So they did exist. My 14-year-old son's compiling a list of important bands in the Sydney music community from the first decade of this century. That's all I need to know. Thanks, you've been very helpful.
LIBRARIAN: Did you ever hear Tweezer?
WOMAN: Uh...Tweezer? I have no idea what you're talking about.
LIBRARIAN: Angular heavy rock band from the '90s. One of Sydney's finest and most innovative, in fact. Think The Melvins meets Slint. Anyway, Captain Nemo's drummer Darren Skelsey and guitarist Matt Grant were both Tweezer members.
WOMAN: OK, I really should, um...
LIBRARIAN: Quite a pedigree indeed. Yep. You'd know Ukiyo-e - the atmospheric indie rock instrumentalists that emerged from Sydney in '99. Imagine Tortoise and Stereolab on smack. (Chuckles) Grant played with them. Or the band Further - high-energy artsy punk rockers from around the same time? That was Skelsey on the skins.
WOMAN: Look, I...
LIBRARIAN: Oh, and Lustre 4! Yes, I believe singer/bassist Nik Devinish used to play in that group with Sally "New Buffalo" Seltmann. So anyway, all roads led to what became Captain Nemo. They put together some demos and did a bunch of shows around the place with the likes of Magnolia Electric Company, The Tucker B's, The Tigers, Rand and Holland, Deloris, Purplene...
WOMAN: You don't understand, I...
LIBRARIAN: ..Midget, Leone Carmen. Let me see. Um...Charge Group, Underlapper, Golden Mean, Aleks and the Ramps. Yep, they did do some good shows. Mmm. I liked how every show was different. You always felt like something could potentially go wrong, and even when it did, it felt perfectly right. A real honesty and purity of purpose.
WOMAN: I really have to go. Sorry.
LIBRARIAN: Ha! Mmm. Just let me quickly tell you a bit about their first record. They did it in a community hall in the sleepy town of Clifton, just over an hour south of here, using as much borrowed gear as they could get their hands on, and then finished the mix with Mike Burnham at Tardis 2 studio in Marrickville. Nine songs - all came up a treat. The rest, as we often say in this building, is audio history.
WOMAN: That's...nice. Goodbye.
LIBRARIAN: Wait, don't you want to know what happened to the band after that? Their mammoth successes, their riches, their ugly and well-publicised break-up? What about their greed-driven reformation world tour in the '40s? Surely you were old enough to remember that.
WOMAN: Listen, you horrible fucking nerd! I don't care! Do I sound like I EVER fucking cared?
LIBRARIAN: Would you please keep your voice down? This is a library.
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