Ever wondered what it’s like to be an indie-pop band on the road to Nowheresville? I kept a (virtual) diary of my tenure in an early nineties indie-pop band from Adelaide, Australia, Lucid Ocean. The diaries have everything - sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, bad hair, jealousy, hatred, borderline psychosis, unscrupulous music biz operators, local music rags reporting on our lack of social grace....did I mention bad hair?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
October 1992 - Rip it up magazine
Have to laugh about this now, but at the time we weren't too impressed!
So what happened?
The magazine asked to interview us, but were reluctant to nominate a time.
They finally settled on a time mid afternoon, which didn't suit any of us as we all worked/studied.
Wayne made himself available to attend the interview, but then they postponed it at short notice.
Wayne was pissed off, and made it known that this was an inconvenience to him. Hence the reference to our "lack of social grace"!
I remember at the time being pissed off with Wayne that the whole band was tarred with lacking "social grace" tag because of his behaviour! But this was representative of my general feelings of disillusionment with the band (and especially Wayne) at this time.
And I have since used the fact that it is stated in print that I lack social grace to my advantage many times since......though I'll leave it to your imagination to decide how I may have done that!
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I didn't know you had even posted this. The critics seem to love you guys. So, what happened? I guess I'm going to have to wait to find out. Thats for another excellent post, Ralph. Also, happy to see you're still breathing some life into your other blog. Some very nice posts there.
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