Felsberg! takes care of the guitars and the little details, and Lawrie uses basslines to discover more about the nature of the universe. Meanwhile, Voitek uses a drumkit to hold them all together as well as he can under the circumstances.
Anna and Michael have been recruited at various times to shimmer a tambourine for the cause. Mark continues to wear a variety of hats, as well as taking the blame for any crapulent lyrics.
Influences
The Stone Roses, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tom Waits, Augie March, The Shins
Beth Orton, Leonard Cohen, PJ Harvey, Beck
Bert Jansch, Davy Graham
Douglas Coupland, Raymond Chandler, Jack Kerouac, Haruki Murakami, beauty, regret, whiskey, gin and red wine
Friends have compared This Frozen Star to The Cure, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Franz Ferdinand, The Pixies and even Midnight Oil. Don't believe a word of it.
This Frozen Star play indie rock with Frankenstein-like limbs of folk, blues, pop and psychedelia sewn on: A beautiful monster indeed.
Armed with a healthy disrespect for authority and a modest amount of cash, the group have recorded an EP under the watchful ear of engineer Emerson Bavinton and are currently halfway through their first album. They have played enough live shows to know their way around a stage - and to be able to put in a reliably electrifying live performance.
As for the details, Loz and Mark were in a three-piece band together during 2004/05, but made the decision to part ways with their somewhat under-committed drummer. Together they took hold of the Brisbane grapevine and gave it an almighty shake, and a drummer with the surprising name of Voitek Biskup fell out.
The current band is a bit of a class reunion for Mark and Felsberg!, who were in a couple of groups together in uni - including an industrial project which involved creating music out of things like angle grinders, buckets of spanners and the occasional didgeridoo. The spanners are long gone, but a healthy spirit of experimentation remains.
The results:
Nervous rock spliced together with delicate beauty. Psychedelic postcards from the darker side of midnight. Intergalactic gunslingers kicking ass and taking names.
They say five listens are worth 1000 stupid descriptions.
"When I listen to these guys, I imagine that I am on the open road riding on a motorcycle through the desert, looking at the landscape enjoying my surroundings." - BFR Magazine
"This self-titled EP is a very cleverly-written, cohesive piece of Australian indie rock that recalls some of the greats." - Time Off
Haha, we are definitely whoring it up the next couple of weeks! Very much looking to Friday, hoping to have a few drinks and chill out to your tunes. You'll have to all come have a drink with us, its a Friday night afterall :)
Great playing with you's last nyt! You guys have agreat sound! thnx for the opportunity!
I had to leave on your last song sorry but caught most of it! I see you have rics gig 15th of march, have you's got a support band yet? We'd love to support you's that night? Maybe if you could call Raychel at rics and find out if theres a support lined up yet? and if we could possibly do it?
Hey Guys Thanks for your support and for rehearsing with us in 2007. We hope you all a Happy Xmas and a fantastic New Year. Chyrse, Kat, Jerry and all the Crew at Out Loud Music Studios
Hi Back Mark, Thanks for bein myspace friends. Had a top night actually very impressed with you guys and yes Brett is a phenomenon, always great entertainment value. I will look forward to seeing you play again sometime. Hope your world rocks Kazz :)
You are cordially/collectively invited to rock n roll at the last of the initial official emergent run of shows for The Strange Attractors before we hit the road, paved with gold. It has been a turbulent few months filled with chaos, non-linear dissipative system and such, but now we feel the pull of increasing entropy and the gentle bellows from the flapping butterfly wings... See you on the other side...
Love is a fractal...
Infinitely complex...
A closer look at life, love, and the true nature of rock n roll... (click for A4 printable image)
Supported by Scott Spark & The Late Great Russian Revolution
Very cool pic. In Sicily there's a whole stack of stuff like that. Catholic kitsch. It was everywhere. Gotta love it. I'll have to send you some photos I took.
LOST OF LOVE IS PLAYING BARSOMA THIS SUNDAY FOR FREE.
WITH SUPPORTS LUCAS ARUNDEL: , BROTHER MAN DUDE, BARON FIELD.
10% of WHAT WE MAKE WILL GO TO A SPECIAL CAUSE
EDWARD GUGLIELMINO will also be launching his new book "Bring it to the top, its hard to stay up here, babe"
we need to catch up again real soon hombre. its been far to long between REAL chats on the deck over a cold one. No worries about being a CBM (chicks before mates) kind of person. I was pretty much the same not so long ago. :) Life is awesome mate, really awesome - although I wish my dislocation would heal faster so I can throw myself of mountains again. :)
Hey there, Sorry to spam... We're releasing our brand new EP, "Meet Horace and Clyde" at end of June and we're coming to a town near you... Check out the dates below... Love The Rocketsmiths. p.s. Newcastle gig has been cancelled!! Sorry.
Hey guys thanks for the comment. Glad you like our merican + aussie twang, nice way of putting it. Sadly i cant hear your music but your influences are cool and you seem to know what you're talking about so yeah sure we'd be keen to gig! no plans atm here too, but yeah please let us know if anythin pops up, and vise versa. have a good one! cheers, steve
head is a little cloudy...i'm just really fucking tired! yeah i don't know smart a martini was as a last drink for the night option...i guess we kinda just thought why not. of course i should not forget they were only consumed after mojitos and about a bagillion vodka and lemonades :p
hey hey what's crackin'? stricly from column b - the dave factor is definitely a killer. i caught up with liz last night for the first time in forever...so next it's jackie and then i'll come and visit i promise! how's the band travelling?
Edward Guglielmino East Coast Tour...
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