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Moonlit_Angel said:


LMAO...that's cool! :D. You realize pictures of these cats should be shared now, right? :p.

Angela

Of course! :)

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Loki. He's afraid of the camera though, so he always manages to look terrified when I take his picture. Loki has decided he likes to sleep on my pillow (when I'm sleeping) so as soon as I open my eyes he can start sucking up attention. :yes: Loki's an old tomcat (well, he's not a tomcat anymore :whistle: ) and he's obviously lived a tough life. He has all sorts of scars, some which won't grow hair, most of his front teeth and fangs are missing, broken off, or worn way down (molars are good though), and he has pellets from a bb gun (most likely) under his skin in one of his legs. But he's a very sweet cat.

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Isidore as a kitten. He's grown a LOT! He's a big, fluffy, playful cat now. And, yes he knows he is indeed a "gift of the goddess Isis" (which is what Isidore means). :D Sorry the picture is so small.

I don't really have photos of Miss Myrrh or Straticat...have to take some tomorrow. :)
 
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Moonlit_Angel said:


Heh. Executives are another group of people that can be real pains.

Angela

I heard a interview with SK once where he said when he would go to the label's offices when the band was doing well, everyone wanted to say hi and tell him how they always knew the song would be a great success (he said during the interview something to the effect that "of course that's not what they said when we recorded it. When we recorded it they all said 'what are you recording that song for -- it won't go anywhere' " :) ), but when things weren't going so well all the doors would quickly close as he walked down the hall and no one would look at him. :wink:

He has no love for record company execs and makes no bones about that fact.


(Oh and Angela, check your PM inbox. :) )
 
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Hey fellow Church fan

Good to see some Church fans out there in U2 land.
I came to Australia as a 12yr old and The Church where the first oz band i got into (followed by The Go-betweens)
I have to say i am more of a fan of there earlier material. I must have seen them about 10 times in the 80's and have met them on numerous occasions. My fave album might be Heyday but i also love Starfish and Seance.
 
indra said:
I heard a interview with SK once where he said when he would go to the label's offices when the band was doing well, everyone wanted to say hi and tell him how they always knew the song would be a great success (he said during the interview something to the effect that "of course that's not what they said when we recorded it. When we recorded it they all said 'what are you recording that song for -- it won't go anywhere' " :) ), but when things weren't going so well all the doors would quickly close as he walked down the hall and no one would look at him. :wink:

He has no love for record company execs and makes no bones about that fact.

After that kind of treatment, I can see why. Talk about two-faced...

Cute kittens, too :cute:! Feel bad for Loki, having gone through all the stuff you mentioned. But it seems as if he's in good hands now, so...:up: :).

Originally posted by indra
(Oh and Angela, check your PM inbox. :) )

Will do :).

Angela
 
Ploogie's meltdown

indra said:


They've never been particularly well received in the UK...not quite sure why. And, of course, once the UK rags started jumping on them, they became, for the lack of a better term, a "difficult" interview, which didn't help any.

They did get a very nice review for their last album (well, last "proper" album) Forget Yourself from NME -- 8 0f 10 stars. :) Very probably their best ever review from a UK source.



Well...it isn't SK on vocals on "See Your Lights" (it's MWP), but we'll forgive 'em just this once. :wink:

Although I really think that their personalities and determination to follow their own musical vision hurt them commercially (they were known as difficult), when they did get to a point where they almost broke it big they had a bastard as a manager, who screwed them out of not only cash (apparently quite a bit too), but also the chance to work with John Paul Jones as producer of an album. He loved their work and wanted to do the job (this was after Starfish their best known work). The band was delighted and wanted to work with him. Great, right? Apparently their manager didn't see it that way (don't know why, except that it probably would have cost more and he wanted that money for himself :madspit: ) and told Jones the band did not want to work with him, while telling the band Jones had changed his mind about working with them. I would have loved to have heard what they would have come up with. Asshole. Man should burn in hell.

Anyway, they did the album Gold Afternoon Fix with the same producers they had on Starfish, but Ploog had a meltdown midway through and left and and GAF never really got off the ground. It sold OK, but not well enough for the label, and that was that. Interestingly, many people (me included) consider their next album, Priest = Aura to very possibly be their best work. But it's not at all commercial and so must have further horrified the Arista execs.


Useless trivia regarding The Church:

indra has four cats with Churchy names: Isidore (the SK/Jeffery Cain of Remy Zero music project); Miss Myrrh (named after the song Myrrh); Loki (my Norse god kitty -- named after the SK solo song); and Rickenbacker Straticaticus (because Marty and sometimes Peter use Rics and also Strats -- plus the cat needed a pretentious name, and they don't get much more pretentious than that! :) )
Regarding Richard ploogs 'meltdown'; i had the experience of meeting him in this period as he turned up at one of my bands gigs at the time and he told me an interesting story regarding his 'ejection' from the band but i wont go into the details here! He was very much missed in oz; i remeber the first few shows after his departure, the crowd would call out for him which used to piss Steve of somewhat.
 
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reptile said:

Regarding Richard ploogs 'meltdown'; i had the experience of meeting him in this period as he turned up at one of my bands gigs at the time and he told me an interesting story regarding his 'ejection' from the band but i wont go into the details here! He was very much missed in oz; i remeber the first few shows after his departure, the crowd would call out for him which used to piss Steve of somewhat.

Ooooh! Do tell! (you can email me if you don't want to do it publically -- hejstudio@gmail.com )

I've actually heard a couple of variations -- the meltdown one and the Steve gave him the boot one. I suspect it was something of a combination of the two. I can't imagine SK shoving him out with absolutely no provocation, but I can see SK saying "it's him or me" if he had issues with him and let's face it The Church could survive without Ploog but not without Kilbey (although one can say The Church didn't survive well without Ploog, as GAF was the start of their commercial slide).

And there are still Church fans upset that Ploog is gone -- a few even go so far as to snub Tim, and Tim had nuttin' to do with it! :huh: Koppes still works with Ploog sometimes...and has throughout the years. Of course, Peter seems to be a most mellow and kind soul.

As for Steve getting a bit pissy when people called out for Ploog, I've read and heard interviews from the mid 90's when Peter had left the band and he could get kind of snippy when asked about Peter too, so I'm not surprised.

Good to meet you reptile. :) I'm actually more of a fan of their more recent work -- hardly listen to Of Skins and Heart and Blurred Crusade -- but know several others who like their earlier work best also. I figure a fan is a fan. And they actually played "Reptile" on their most recent US tour after refusing to play it for years.
 
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indra said:


Ooooh! Do tell! (you can email me if you don't want to do it publically -- hejstudio@gmail.com )

I've actually heard a couple of variations -- the meltdown one and the Steve gave him the boot one. I suspect it was something of a combination of the two. I can't imagine SK shoving him out with absolutely no provocation, but I can see SK saying "it's him or me" if he had issues with him and let's face it The Church could survive without Ploog but not without Kilbey (although one can say The Church didn't survive well without Ploog, as GAF was the start of their commercial slide).

And there are still Church fans upset that Ploog is gone -- a few even go so far as to snub Tim, and Tim had nuttin' to do with it! :huh: Koppes still works with Ploog sometimes...and has throughout the years. Of course, Peter seems to be a most mellow and kind soul.

As for Steve getting a bit pissy when people called out for Ploog, I've read and heard interviews from the mid 90's when Peter had left the band and he could get kind of snippy when asked about Peter too, so I'm not surprised.

Good to meet you reptile. :) I'm actually more of a fan of their more recent work -- hardly listen to Of Skins and Heart and Blurred Crusade -- but know several others who like their earlier work best also. I figure a fan is a fan. And they actually played "Reptile" on their most recent US tour after refusing to play it for years.
Hey, thanks for the reply. It's cool to be disscussing The Church on a U2 site! I always thought they had similar aspects to there sound especially with Marty's guitar playing.
Cool to hear that peter Koppes still works with Ploog, didnt know that.
The truth behind Ploog's departure will only be known by those involved but i will email you the 'goss as was told to me.
Cheers :)
 
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reptile said:

Hey, thanks for the reply. It's cool to be disscussing The Church on a U2 site! I always thought they had similar aspects to there sound especially with Marty's guitar playing.
Cool to hear that peter Koppes still works with Ploog, didnt know that.
The truth behind Ploog's departure will only be known by those involved but i will email you the 'goss as was told to me.
Cheers :)

Thanks! Looking forward to reading that version. :) I think perhaps that some of the hard feelings have dissipated a bit by now.

I read your post in the Babyface Cafe... I can kind of understand the frustration of Oz U2 fans. I must say I'm a bit jealous of Oz Church fans...fans there got the last official tour, plus several semi-acoustic shows in November, several more being planned for the end of the year, plus y'all get several solo MWP shows (when he is there to record, etc.), solo SK shows, SK poetry readings, even SK doing Shylock in an updated version of The Merchant of Venice.... I would love to be able to go to the solo and rare stuff. We do get the regular tours here though, so I can't really complain, but damn! :(
 
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indra said:


Thanks! Looking forward to reading that version. :) I think perhaps that some of the hard feelings have dissipated a bit by now.

I read your post in the Babyface Cafe... I can kind of understand the frustration of Oz U2 fans. I must say I'm a bit jealous of Oz Church fans...fans there got the last official tour, plus several semi-acoustic shows in November, several more being planned for the end of the year, plus y'all get several solo MWP shows (when he is there to record, etc.), solo SK shows, SK poetry readings, even SK doing Shylock in an updated version of The Merchant of Venice.... I would love to be able to go to the solo and rare stuff. We do get the regular tours here though, so I can't really complain, but damn! :(
Ha! Touche' But Australia is a big place and in my neck of the woods we dont get all of the off-shoot Church stuff. Ok i did see Steve the one time he did visit my town but other than that we only get the same Church tours as everybody else. In fact last time U2 came to oz i had to travel interstate to see them....anyway, i'll stop complaining now, its boring! Your point is a good one, we should appriciate what we do have rather than worry about what we dont!;)
 
Found this review this morning...got a good laugh out of the "like middle-aged cocksmen in adult film" line, esp. given the porno conversations I related earlier in the thread. :lmao:

And, yeah, apparently El Momento Descuidado translates more literally to The Careless Moment, but it is supposed to be a rough translation of The Unguarded Moment. Someone asked them why they didn't just use the spanish word which would translate more accurately and MWP said "Because we're The Church. We don't do anything simply." :rolleyes: :) Ain't that the truth!


The Church: El Momento Descuidado (Liberation Music)

Like middle-aged cocksmen in adult film, the Church keeps on keepin' on, and they do so in a way that makes us smile approvingly at their visible talents. Despite only briefly breaking into the general public consciousness with "Under The Milky Way" in 1988, they've released nearly 20 albums, all of which are well-crafted and quite listenable. El Momento Descuidado, or "The Careless Moment," finds them working acoustically, using imaginative arrangements to give new clothes to familiar tracks and a fresh look at lesser-known pieces. Steve Kilbey's somnambulant drawl remains a seductive pull that moves us closer, while Marty Wilson Piper's lovely straining-at-the-edges crooning adds a nice contrast. Much of this is just lovely. You can hear their DNA in popular modern artists like Franz Ferdinand and The Killers, though the Church are much better songwriters. It's unlikely more than a handful of bands charting today will ever record so long or so well. Buffeted by mandolin and piano, one hears the calm of survivors. They figured out long ago how to make their music and worry about little else. That assured awareness emerges loud and clear.


http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=6972
 
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Hey come on in, the water's fine......:yes:

(actually where I am, the water's too fucking cold even for the fish. Come back in about late November. :wink: )
 
Moonlit_Angel said:

Also, yes, it seems Australia would be the place to go right now for a lot of music-related things...:sigh:...but I digress.

Angela

Because I like a lot of newer or not so well known Australian bands I always envy the folks there when I hear of these bands playing in little clubs all over.

But with my luck, if I lived in Australia I would live in the middle of the outback where no one ever plays. :|
 
Useless Church trivia:

The Church (well, it was the Steve and Marty only version of The Church) played a laundromat/bar in Seattle named Sit & Spin in the mid 90's (probably 1994).

Wonder if they did their laundry while they were at it? :eyebrow:
 
And I just had to show off my newest Steve Kilbey acquisition. :D

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Self Portrait -- Last Night on Earth

(it's just a snapshot I took, so the colour is a bit off -- a little more blue than it really is and there are more vibrant colours streaked throughout the hair and beard -- but you get the idea)

It's 19"x24" and is mostly pastel with some gouache touches, I think (it's off being set up for prints, so I don't have it with me right now). It's actually done on paper my mum bought years ago and never got around to using. Now that I'm cleaning out the house I found it and since I had no use for it, sent it off to SK. So that makes it extra special to me.
 
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I have one. :hyper:

In 1984 a producer by the name of Nick Lunay produced a quintet of Australian albums. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 by Midnight Oil, The Swing by INXS, The Pleasure Of Your Company by the Models & Seance by The Church.

10,9,8... & The Swing are records I believe that best captured their respective bands on record, in terms of capturing the essance of the songs & portraying how the band was at the particular time. I'm wondering did he work similar wonders with The Church's Seance?
 
timothius said:
10,9,8... & The Swing are records I believe that best captured their respective bands on record, in terms of capturing the essance of the songs & portraying how the band was at the particular time. I'm wondering did he work similar wonders with The Church's Seance?
really? :hmm:
 
timothius said:
I have one. :hyper:

In 1984 a producer by the name of Nick Lunay produced a quintet of Australian albums. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 by Midnight Oil, The Swing by INXS, The Pleasure Of Your Company by the Models & Seance by The Church.

10,9,8... & The Swing are records I believe that best captured their respective bands on record, in terms of capturing the essance of the songs & portraying how the band was at the particular time. I'm wondering did he work similar wonders with The Church's Seance?

Good question....I'm going to have to listen to Seance before answering. I'll report back....
 
KhanadaRhodes said:

In the sense that it best captures the band in it's most simple state. It's not necceserially their best albums, or even best albums from their early era... it merely is the essence of the band.

They are the albums where they sonically have progressed from merely capturing their "live" sound in the studio, the almost obligutary 2nd album stumbling block & have matured enough musically to have some fairly cultured material.

Just to give what I'm saying some context and move it back into the production arena. The equivelant for this I think is UF for U2. It so easily could have been War - but Lillywhite overproduced and organised the mix in a totally obstructive way (I feel) - producing very softcore guitar sounds, exaggeratin drums and provoking pretty harsh vocal performances & pumping bass merely partnering the drums. Eno's work in UF brought out a more sharper (and truer) guitar sounds, more suitable drum arrangements, more atmospheric bass sounds & harnessed vocal performances. I don't really want to tarnish indra's thread with much U2 discussion though. Sorry if I have - I just wanted to use an example we are all familiar with.

The same carrys over I think to The Oils & INXS work with the producer in question... awaiting judges decision on the Church.
 
timothius said:
In the sense that it best captures the band in it's most simple state. It's not necceserially their best albums, or even best albums from their early era... it merely is the essence of the band.
:hmm: it's funny cuz from interviews i've heard at the time, inxs didn't like the way the swing turned out at all. they thought it was over-produced and too keyboards heavy. :happy:

buuuut...that's off-topic. i too am anticipating indra's reply.
 
KhanadaRhodes said:

:hmm: it's funny cuz from interviews i've heard at the time, inxs didn't like the way the swing turned out at all. they thought it was over-produced and too keyboards heavy. :happy:

What would they know they were high all the time. :happy:

For those who give a shit about producers (as I quite obviously do), Launay engineered (which is generally a right of passage & training ground to outright producing) for the following producers: John Leckie, Steve Lillywhite, Hugh Padgam & Tony Visconti... thats pedigree (minus Lillywhite) :drool: :drool:
 
seance a fave of mine

Seance was a big album for me, almost worn the vinyl down on that one! It's sentimental for a few reasons, they where touring a lot back then, so a lot of good live memories and it was also the first time i met the band. So lots of emotions suround the album. I think it has a kind of soft-focus sound about it, lots of acoustic guitars over dreamy synths, meloncholic lyrics (check out dissapear for a cool break-up lyric! Tears every time!) But it also has a couple of great pop songs 'one day' is a cracker!

So maybe not there best but, for me at least, a breakthrough of sorts. I would compare it with unforgetable fire as a setimental favourite:up:
 
timothius said:
What would they know they were high all the time. :happy:

For those who give a shit about producers (as I quite obviously do), Launay engineered (which is generally a right of passage & training ground to outright producing) for the following producers: John Leckie, Steve Lillywhite, Hugh Padgam & Tony Visconti... thats pedigree (minus Lillywhite) :drool: :drool:
that was just totally out of line. everyone knows no one in the band ever did drugs! :tsk:

:hmm: that's a good list of producers. :yes:
 
KhanadaRhodes said:

that was just totally out of line. everyone knows no one in the band ever did drugs! :tsk:

:hmm: that's a good list of producers. :yes:

Naturally you are kidding.

http://www.launay.com/hipages/higroups/nickographygroup_hi.html

Of special note for me: Tim Finn, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Killing Joke, Betchadupa (Neil Finn's son's band), M, The Birthday Party.

I also find it suprising that if INXS were that dissapointed with his work on The Swing they would have let him touch the Kick singles which they knew were a big deal.

I await on the Church response. :hyper:
 
timothius said:
Naturally you are kidding.

http://www.launay.com/hipages/higroups/nickographygroup_hi.html

Of special note for me: Tim Finn, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Killing Joke, Betchadupa (Neil Finn's son's band), M, The Birthday Party.

I also find it suprising that if INXS were that dissapointed with his work on The Swing they would have let him touch the Kick singles which they knew were a big deal.

I await on the Church response. :hyper:
of course i am! :D

nickography, that's cute :giggle:

i'm only going on what they said when it first came out. :shrug:

oh wow, he was the assistant engineer on wham! rap! :love: :laugh:
 
indra said:
Because I like a lot of newer or not so well known Australian bands I always envy the folks there when I hear of these bands playing in little clubs all over.

Yeah. The artists I like that either are playing there or considering doing so are more well-known, but yes, I understand the envy.

Originally posted by indra
But with my luck, if I lived in Australia I would live in the middle of the outback where no one ever plays. :|

LOL, yeah, really, no kidding. Also, blueeyedgirl, heh, cold water sounds good to me, as we've been having lots of heat waves here in the States this summer.

That's a really cool picture there, too, indra :). And LOL at the laundromat performance...ah, moving on up in the world, huh :wink:?

Interesting link you shared there, timothius...I like a good deal of the artists listed in there, it's neat to know that guy's had a hand in working with a lot of them. That's the thing I always find amazing about each artist I get into...I find out one of the band members or producers or someone along that line from that band has worked with another band I like and stuff like that...it's freaky how many connections I can make between all the artists I like. But I also find it pretty cool-it'd obviously explain one of many reasons why I like them :).

Angela
 
timothius said:


In the sense that it best captures the band in it's most simple state. It's not necceserially their best albums, or even best albums from their early era... it merely is the essence of the band.

They are the albums where they sonically have progressed from merely capturing their "live" sound in the studio, the almost obligutary 2nd album stumbling block & have matured enough musically to have some fairly cultured material.

Just to give what I'm saying some context and move it back into the production arena. The equivelant for this I think is UF for U2. It so easily could have been War - but Lillywhite overproduced and organised the mix in a totally obstructive way (I feel) - producing very softcore guitar sounds, exaggeratin drums and provoking pretty harsh vocal performances & pumping bass merely partnering the drums. Eno's work in UF brought out a more sharper (and truer) guitar sounds, more suitable drum arrangements, more atmospheric bass sounds & harnessed vocal performances. I don't really want to tarnish indra's thread with much U2 discussion though. Sorry if I have - I just wanted to use an example we are all familiar with.

The same carrys over I think to The Oils & INXS work with the producer in question... awaiting judges decision on the Church.


This one's actually kind of tough for me. I really can't decide if the early album which catches the essence of the band is The Blurred Crusade or Seance. Both have their strong and weak points in regard to the question.

I love Seance. Of their first several releases, it is by far my favourite (up until Heyday ). And there is certainly The Church sound and feel going on on this CD. But is it the album that best captures the early essence of the band? I don't know. It was the first album with the "just plain weird" song (Travel By Thought) and most of the songs do have their trademark psychadelic feel going. But it has odd (and rather annoying) drum production. They are just very harsh and prominant, and there are times that really takes away from the overall quality.

The Blurred Crusade (the album right before Seance ) is really the album where The Church became The Church, the songs generally still work very well today (especially Almost With You -- still a top notch song), and the production is good. For me, however, BC is still early Church and not nearly as pleasing either musically or emotionally as they would become over the next few albums. But I still think for the most part that BC does capture the band when it made that turn down the road they would follow from then on (granted there have been detours).

So I think that I would have to go with BC being The Church's early "essence" album, and then Seance built on that essence.
 
timothius said:
I have one. :hyper:

In 1984 a producer by the name of Nick Lunay produced a quintet of Australian albums. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 by Midnight Oil, The Swing by INXS, The Pleasure Of Your Company by the Models & Seance by The Church.

10,9,8... & The Swing are records I believe that best captured their respective bands on record, in terms of capturing the essance of the songs & portraying how the band was at the particular time. I'm wondering did he work similar wonders with The Church's Seance?

That's an interesting point that you've mentioned Nick Launay. In the early/mid 80's, the bands you liked in Australia were of one of 2 types, the pub rock type ie Cold Chisel etc, or the more "atmospheric" type - Church, early INXS, Go Betweens and so on. Then if a band was really cool, it had to have a Richard Lowenstein video! :D

(any wonder Duran Duran spent a year in our country! :lol: )
 
Moonlit_Angel said:


And LOL at the laundromat performance...ah, moving on up in the world, huh :wink:?

Angela

That is one of the stranger places they've played, although they have play many an odd spot.

They rattle off a partial list of odd spots in following very tongue in cheek interview (done for their label's website):


The Church 2003: Q&A with Tim Powles

Frequently asked and often answered questions:

Q. When did the church form?
A. 1980, Sydney, Australia

Q. Wow, that’s a long time (actually a frequently made exclamation) !
A . Exactly

Q. How did the church form ?
A . When cooling masses of northern prog came in contact with hot glammy rock then pressurized by surrounding forces of nasty synth pop and
congealed heavy metal, the church were extruded forth to play twin layers of guitar and spout literary stuff

Q. Exactly how many albums have the band made ?
A. That’s simple, are you counting the compilations and the remixes or the rarities and e.p.s ? ………… Australian and/or Europe and or the U.S. versions….. anyway it’s around about 16-ish, give or take one or two

Q. Who were your guys influences?
A. Between us, everybody! And the stuff we hated influenced us worse than the stuff we liked

Q. It said somewhere that you guys were the antipodean equivalents of REM only not nearly as rich or talented
A. That’s not a question

Q. OK it also said that the band has survived plane crashes, overdoses, jails, riots, persecution and bad exchange rates
A. What a day!

Q. Did the success of under the milky way change your lives?
A. Not any more than you’d expect from a mega selling record and its subsequent catapulting of us headlong into the bewildering spectacle that is pop success in all its temporary absurdity

Q. What are some of the strangest places you guys have played?
A. Roman tv shows, Swedish museums, Australian school assemblies, Scottish discos, unplugged bookshops, bouncing ballrooms, punk infernos, empty
ice rinks, Seattle laundromats, swishy theatres, french garages, a steelworks in alabama, houses of blues, piers, fields, municipal halls, gold coast bloodbaths, arctic nightclub mayhem, gearless in carolina, dutch
pot fuelled jamming, adriatic marketplaces miming mindlessly, operas , fiascos and pubs.

Q. So how do you guys get on after all this time?
A. Like a house on fire

Q. OK and the bands biggest problem..?
A. Smoke inhalation

Q. You’ve had lots of drummers. You guys kinda remind me of spinal tap…….
A. No kidding

Q. Seriously though, what happened to all the others..?
A. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

Q. OK so you’ve made this new record. Why "Forget Yourself"?
A. Who? Me?

Q. What?
A. See, it works

Q. Do you guys still have something to say after all these years?
A. Yes

Q. Well, what’s that?
A. Well, we’re not sure but we’re sure it’s important

Q. How is this one different to the last few?
A. We came to hold the position that when all was said and done that perhaps we had been a trifle remiss as of late in the serious rockin’ dept. and we took the steps of cranking up the olde amplifriers and hitting the “boogie button” hard ! as well as rock we added the extra precaution of a little roll.

Q. What’s it like doing an interview with yourself?
A. You should know

Q. So.. ( the sound of a mobile phone ringing..) hello..oh, hello sir…yes, but…yes, but…..ok, sir,.. loud and clear, sir…………um, listen they’re saying this bio will be shortly terminated unless we start downsizing the fluff and maintaining our factual oriented goals.
A. So ask me where we recorded the new record

Q. OK
A. Tim Powles studio in Glebe, Sydney…..spacejunk

Q. Why did you record there? Why not some leather encrusted ultra tech futuristic top dollar joint run by gangsters and frequented by dealers and bimbos?
A. Hang on, that is spacejunk

Q. Was it weird having the drummer produce?
A. We didn’t like the fact that we called him Tim when he was drumming but Mr Powles when he was producing

Q. What are the songs about?
A. They’re about 3 or 4 minutes

Q. ….(sound of mobile ringing) .. hello, yes sir… yes, I told him sir..very well sir I’m afraid that’s it
A. Damn

Q. And I never asked you why are you guys called The Church
A. No, you never did.

There's actually a lot of truth in that "interview" and makes me snicker, so I figured it was a good one. I've heard radio interviews with them that were amazingly similar to this in tone, sometimes much to the consternation of the hosts. :D
 
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