sitting here looking at the classic single collection
justa got my copy
david fricke has written some very very kind liner notes
theres some pictures of us
you may never have seen
ha nick ward even gets his mug on here
in his stripey blazer with rolled up sleeves
me im skinny and angular as they used to say
i got short dark hair n a stupid pout
then ploogy arrives all eighteen years of age
a teenage genius of the drum kit
an incredible character
us playing on a tv show 1982
i still had my ibanez fretless bass
making starfish
im actually smiling
peter looking relaxed
ploogy laying down a beat
on what was sadly to be his last real record with us
then live at the roxy
gee am i having a bad hair day or what
pete n marty look glamourous
with jd in ny 1992
a strange pic
then london polka dot shirt
short hair clean shaven
then portland 2004
the era of the modern being
ah we dont look too bad there
back cover
an early balmain shot at richards old house
god what mysterious blokes….
then a starfish shot
then 2003 in glebe spacejunk studio
then a shot from blurred crusade live days
when we had a huge lighting truss
the record itself i probably wont listen to
why would i?
i heard it all before
aint i?
but its a nice package
and you got all our “singles” on one disc
so there you go
it wasnt my idea
but seeing its out
i hope it sells millions
although that
of course
is highly unlikely
was kicking round a footy this arvo
with some other dads from the school
when i went to mark the ball
ie thats aussie rules talk for catching it
and it slipped right thru my fingers
hands
arms
and smacked me right in the testicles
holy fucking toledo
what a feeling that is, thrillseekers
lost my breath
double up
wow
into a new universe called pain
everything else recedes
someone says never mind
you gotta nuff kids…
the kids gather round their fallen daddy
daddy daddy dad they squeak in fear n misery
its ok i gasp
just go away
after that i play football gingerly
i dont care so much if i catch the bloody thing or not
hooo doggie
anyway
thats pretty much my day
warm mild overcast weather here
love
sk
Steve, you did coponeindenuts
sorry but that was a crack up. What is it about nurries, poo and farting that is so funny.
Ooooops the great unwashed in me popped out for a look.
Brings back memories or cricket as a kid without the dreaded “box”. Got hit big time and it didn’t hurt for a millisecond. During that millisecond my knees buckled and I fell to the ground and curled up in a ball cos I knew what was coming! No fun with your mates laughing like crazy while you are lying there whimpering and being to scared to get up in case:
a) they were gone, crushed, mangled and disfunctional
b) it hurt more
Loved yon blog today, love hearing about you interacting with your family.
Stay well!
Love to you all
Celticat
nuts to you!
Steve…..you really should try letting the ball slip through your fingers at 8.00am in a footy match in Ballarat in the middle of winter (5degree c)..only to smack into your face and take off your nose. I didn’t move for about 3 minutes ha ha aaagghhh. I agree though…one right in the goolies aint a lot of fun either.
cheers SYMON
So that’s what Under the Milky Way wuz about…
What is this, the third collection now? You’d think you guys had enough mansions in Nice. More seriously though it’ll be nice to have a collection of the old with the new stuff which totally stands up and in my opinion eclipses the old. I’ve been trying to get an old Church fiend interested again and this might be the way to do it.When’s the Starfish 20th anniversary tour starting anyway?
killer please come see us in the states again soon…shouldn’t you guys be touring to promote this collection?
c’mon ya know you want to…
nuts!!!!!!!
I am Sick to death of stupid fucks going on about the new eclipsing the old. The old will always have an essence to it not better but more intense, full of youthfull exuberance. The new will have the wisdom and wistfulness of the modernised world and the frailty of trying too hard as death approaches. A remodelling of the old in some ways. Anyway the middle stuff is always the best- like the beatles revolver. In terms of the Church-Heyday,Starfish and the very underrated GAF was their rubber soul/Revolver period. Priest was like the white album/Magical Mystery tour era. And well you can forget the rest. 2 Places at once was Smack filled Lush that i kinda like!(because I have tasted the lovely white) Hologram of Baal was a Rehash. After Everything was sublte and nice like maybe Paul’s first album. Forget yourself felt like a couple of old mystics belting out the reverb of some synthetic glue-Still good but no cigar. What I am trying to say is that the middle stuff is always the stuff where a band in effect gets their Ya YA’s Out.
Yours in a white wine sauce,
Raskolnikov.
Hi Steve…oooh, missed both your legs eh? I blame that chick who yelled out at you to stop taking marks and talking footy at the Geelong gig in March (if only we’d known what it would lead to!)…you were really enjoying yourself and my workmate (and the rest of the crowd) and i were loving it! Especially that big one ‘you took’ from the side of stage…(Gee, i dunno, some people just can’t see the comedy sometimes)…Anyway, i say get back in the saddle and go and have another kick of the footy, it’ll do ya good killa…surely it couldn’t happen again could it?!!!:)
Cheers,
Jon from Geelong (Go Cats!)
Now you are a real red-blooded, red-balled Australian bloke
Very nice telling of one of life’s more difficult and speechless moments.
starfish was amazing no matter what you think or say…….. it may be my favourite piece of music ever written … PERIOD! don’t know why, I guess I find something there you don’t ……..
Steve, have you read “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons?