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Des Miller - Vokes, Guit's, Bass
Will Miller - Bass, Guit's
Robbie Moore - Keys Evan Lock - Electric Guit's, Slide Chris Rudge - Drums, Vokes
Des Miller was born in 1981 in the valley between Mount Bob and Leonard’s Leap. He’s a modern songwriter with his heart and mind firmly in the lyrical folk tradition. He teaches political economy and lives in a balloon store. He bought that coat for a great price in Paris. He pokes his camera out of car windows and borrows other people’s Whitman. They were not his legs in that photograph.
You might have heard him before. Des was in bands but they kept breaking up. He was co-writer for The New Days. He’s sat solo on stages with his acoustic guitar. He’s played with Jens Leckman; Darren Hanlon; The Devastations. That was probably Des on Triple J, or FBI, or 8RRR, or 2SER, or PBSFM.
Des sounds familiar – like Martin, Byrne, Yorke, like your father’s records, like that bum in the Barri Gòtic doing It Ain’t Me, Babe. But he has a sound entirely his own.
For his debut album, On the Surface of Solitude, recorded behind a curtain in the basement of the balloon store and next to the old cooktop on the rocking chair in the sunroom of a slanting bungalow above the hills hoist; Des called up old collaborators Evan Lock (brooding 70s flâneur, on electric guitars) and Christopher J. Rudge (perfectly turned out, on drums). He brought in brother Will Miller (solid as a pound cake, on bass) and fourth-cousin Robbie Moore (without fear, ..s and tambourine). Their sound is a thump and a bellow beneath Des’ soaring lines.
On the Surface of Solitude was inspired by the philosophy of the French, the cosmic soundscapes of the British and the rhythms of the Americans. It a collection of songs written on the slanting bungalow floors in the autumn and winter of 2006, but also a summation of several years of Des Miller’s listening and crafting. First tastings have impressed, with strong pre-release radio support. "Borderline on Fire" was playlisted on FBI as tune of the week, while "Lucy", "Knife Edge" is single of the week in Inpress Magazine (Melb) and, along side "Requiem", has been rotating through Triple J, FBI, and most community stations around the country.
The album has now received further acclaim with "On The Surface Of Solitude" snagging ALBUM OF THE WEEK on Sydney’s 2ser 107.3 and rave reviews around the country and online.
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damn you, now all i can think about is POP UP BOOKS!!! imagine pop up houses burning, sailors sinking, and mangey haired dogs with golden teeth howling... i could go on forever here.
AND you still owe me a "big headphones lying on the floor version" of pineapple coat (sorry i keep calling it that!) i'll take that and you can have the "your kids dancing in the street brian ferry version" ha ha!
and i totally forgot YOU AS KATE BUSH IN A TREE why have i not been shown this?!
we have an upcoming art exhibition here, would be mighty fine to have u here...your guitar, some fake grass, red wine...let us know if u fancy, maybe we can organise something. tut ta x
are you in my hood this week? the more time we spend at 'bill & tonys' the more we'll develop our potential for secret hand shakes, matching hair cuts, etc
hello! just letting you know that our debut record, 'the winter dark', is now available. Please check our page for song previews, reviews, and other details, if you like. thanks! derwent river star
Hey sexy lady. Where are the gigs? I've got dollars on my hip, I'm full of grog, and I want soom liteny shows. You've let me down. Again. Just lucky you're so handsome.
Our debut EP has now been released, available at gigs, and very soon online and in selected retailers. The lead tracks LOOK BACK and DONT RUN are available FREE online. All you gotta do is click on our myspace, click on the JJJ Unearthed link and you are there. While you are there feel free to leave a review, It will go a long way to helping us become Rockstars...
Ok, #1, I don't remember sending the second comment, let alone the first. did I make a cock of myself. 2nd, I didn't come to the show last night because I was suicidal over the poor attendance at my own show the previous night.
I'd have asked about the deleted message earlier, but I'm supposed to be a recovering alcoholic, so it's only now I've slipped up well enough to have the balls to write at you.
I hope wonderfull= what you're feeling, more or less.,
Also, if I come on the 7th, will you play Lucy? It's one of my favourite songs ever, and I need that sort of incentive to leave the house, seeing as I'll be busting my hump playing a show down he street the night before, rendering me lazy-boned on the 7th.
