OK gang — drum-roll please.... I said DRUM-ROLL PLEASE! Ladies and germs, here it is — the fabled, highly anticipated, so highly-anticipated it was almost even forgotten about, new 7" single Get-to-Bed Birds! Limited to a thousand hand-numbered copies, it's be available to order now from the Lost And Lonesome and Matinée websites.
Here's what Marty says about the two songs:
"Get-to-Bed Birds" was the last song I wrote for The Lucksmiths. Fittingly, I guess, it treads the familiar ground of treading familiar ground: the narrator wanders homeward through a suburb he once lived in at dawn on New Year’s Day. Maybe because it invites a degree of self-reflection, this seems to be an occasion that lends itself well to song — I’m thinking less of U2 here than of Matt Suggs, Dear Nora and Death Cab for Cutie — and it felt especially apt for our swansong in that it marks both the end of something, and a new beginning. The title phrase came from a remark made in the pub one night by Jeremy Cole (of our erstwhile labelmates The Zebras), which I promised at the time I would steal.
"The World of Professional Golf 1994" was our contribution to the fourth issue of The Lifted Brow,
a Melbourne-based literary journal. We were asked to be part of a “fake
bookshelf” edition, where every piece took its title from a wall of
painted books someone had stumbled across. Having chosen ours (for the
challenge it presented, and for the fact I thought no-one else would
already have taken it), a few minutes of internet research suggested
that Arnold Palmer’s final appearance at the US Open was the most
promising subject for the song.
The handsome cover art was provided by our close pal, master printmaker Jaime Knight whom we met on our first US tour in 1998 when he was playing bass with Poundsign. Having spent countless nights crashing on Jaime's floor at the infamous Ten-ten-and-a-half house in San Francisco (see the cover of our "A Chapter in Your Life..." single), we felt we still had a chance at one last favour, and he happily obliged with a dashing monoprint from his "Libertad" series. We're stoked to finally have some of Jaime's work adorning one of our record sleeves!
We're really excited about this single — our final official release of "new" material — and it's always a buzz to have something new on vinyl! We hope you guys all welcome it into your hearts.
The handsome cover art was provided by our close pal, master printmaker Jaime Knight whom we met on our first US tour in 1998 when he was playing bass with Poundsign. Having spent countless nights crashing on Jaime's floor at the infamous Ten-ten-and-a-half house in San Francisco (see the cover of our "A Chapter in Your Life..." single), we felt we still had a chance at one last favour, and he happily obliged with a dashing monoprint from his "Libertad" series. We're stoked to finally have some of Jaime's work adorning one of our record sleeves!
We're really excited about this single — our final official release of "new" material — and it's always a buzz to have something new on vinyl! We hope you guys all welcome it into your hearts.
