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[Kacky]

No worries.

What are you scannin'? :)

[WhitefalconTLE44]

i think i can get the scans for rockabilly magazine. I know i have the mag. I'm just not sure if my scanner will work. I'll try to get it up for tonight.

[WhitefalconTLE44]

Damn scanner's not working, i'll attempt to type it.:(

[WhitefalconTLE44]

"Australia's the Living End have been together since 1995 and although they emulated The Stray Cats in their early days, the band has gone on to embrace influences as diverse as AC/DC, The Clash, Midnight Oil, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Police, Madness and even sixties rockers the Easybeats. They are bona fide superstars in their homeland, as well as Europe and Asia, and have a vociferous and loyal cult following here in the USA. Their new disc, to be released on Adeline/East West Records, a label owned by their friends, Green Day, is loaded with tough, high energy, anthemic rockers, and with the Warped Tour coming up this summer, this could be the year The Living End finally breaks big in North America. The following is a conversation with guitarist/singer Chris Cheney.

How, where and when did the band get together?
Scott and I went to school together and formed the band when we were in about year 10 in school. I played guitar and he played piano. As I had always been into 50's music, I wanted him to play double bass so I showed him Rant 'n Rave by the Stray Cats and he became as obsessed as me and bought a bass like the next day!! He taught himself to play and with the help of a couple of revolving metal drummers, we were up and running.

Who were the band's initial influences? Are you influenced at all by the Easybeats?
From the word go we were into lots of styles of music. We grew up with a love for Australian rock'n'roll like Cold Chisel, AC/DC, Midnight Oil and yes, the Easybeats. I don't think you can live in this country and not love the Easybeats!! They had so many great songs. We also loved and listened to a lot of English new wave and punk stuff like the Cure, Madness, Clash and The Sex Pistols. We began trying to learn rock songs and arrangements as well as the standard rockabilly psychobilly stuff. We also listened to Guana Batz, Batmobile, Frenzy, Polecats, Nekromantix....all good stuff.

What was your musical history up to that point? How long have you been playing guitar and who were your guitar heroes? Brian Setzer is one of them, I'm sure. He's a great guitarist.

Before we started the band I really dug all the 50's guitar stuff; Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Eddie Cochran, Cliff Gallup, Danny Gatton, Brian Setzer. I also listened to players lieke Hank Marvin, The Ventures, even Richie Sambora and Iron Maiden!! I've been playing since i was about 8 years old, so I have listened to a lot of stuff over the years. I also love Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead and I think Robert Smith from the Cure is a great player.

There's an obvious Stray Cats influence to your earlier work. Has that been a help or hindrance to the band overall? In other words, were you ever blatantly compared to the Stray Cats, and if so, was that a negative thing? How so?
At first it was a great thing to be compared cause they were our heroes. I still love them to death, but i think now its narrow minded to compare because I believe we have evolved from being a straight ahead rockabilly band. We were never that into doing 12 bar blues type arrangements cause we figured it's been done so many times and also done so well. We definitely took our initial look and playing style from them and then we tried to take it somewhere unique.

All bands are products of their influences. On your latest disc, I noticed an AC/DC and general harder rock influence. I also hear The Clash, a little blues thing happening, and even prog/rock influence like King Crimson on some staccato riffs on the intro on one song. Was that a pre meditated plan to move away from the punkabilly sound?
We've never proclaimed to be a punkabilly band; it's just a tag we were given due to our early recordings. We have always been into The Clash and The Police and stuff. We really admire bands that can PLAY!!! The prog/rock thing can be fun if done the right way and we have definitely done our fair share of widdly diddly type playing!!!"

More to come later.

[WhitefalconTLE44]

You are wildly successful in Australia. To what do you attribute that success at home?
It's pretty simple. We have done a lot of shows here and had a lot of big singles. Australian audiences like rock n roll and they know how to have a good time. We seem to be a release for people to come to a show and just let go. We have managed to maintain a loyal following and for that I am very grateful. We have worked very hard to get to this point.

Is there a typical Living End listener? I see you are starting to attract young kids to your shows. Do you pull older fans as well, lik middle aged people?
Yeah. I think that we have always wanted our audience to be a cross section of people. When we first started, we would play pubs to punks, rockers, skinheads, and rude boys and we would also play functions like weddings and stuff where the audience would be a very non-rock n roll crowd, but we always got a great reaction. From then on we thought it would be great to attract a wide audience.

What venues are you playing at home when you tor? What size halls?
We just finished a tour of Australia where we played our biggest venues yet. We played in 4 to 6 thousand capacity rooms that are quite big for here. It was such a blast playing to that many of your own fans screaming the words to your songs!

The band also has a strong following in Asia. What are Asian audiences like? do you have a following in Europe too? Have you toured there?
We have done well in Japan and love playing there. We've done a bunch of tours there and it just gets better. I think they have a great understanding of what we are trying to achive musically even if we don't speak the same language. We've done a lot of touring in Europe also and have played a number of festivals including Reading and Leeds. It's a real favorite place to play because of the history attached to it.

Are you able to live a normal life in public at home or are you besieged by fans and unable to do so? Remember the Beatles in a Hard Day's Night? They coudn't go anywhere for about two years.
Despite being recognized a lot, we still live a normal life i think. It has never been a problem. Mostly people just want to say they dig the band or get something signed. I think to shun fans or to dislike being approached means you don't deserve to be where you are. Nothing worse than a stuck up rock star. So what if you play guitar, get over it!!

You played one show in LA a while ago. What is your current American following like? Do you have particular areas of North America that are strong for the band right now?
We had a great show at the Troubadour and had people coming from all over to see the show. One guy got up onstage and proposed, which was great. We have some really loyal fans and we love them dearly. Aside from the record sales and all that, its very important to have people want to see the band and support the live thing.

Green Day are friends of yours. You're signed to their record label in the USA now. Was grabbing the opening slot on their Aussie tour your "big break" and how did the tour go? Describe your relationship with Green Day.
I have an enormous amount of respect for that band. They've got it all; the songs, the live show, and they are just really nice guys who are very down to earth. They gave us a go opening for them in Australia back in 1996 and we also toured the US with them on the Warning Tour. We are so thankful for what they did for us and I think they are an important band in a time when there is a lot of shit out there. We started out as fans but became friends through touring, and they are just nice dudes who are great to have a drink with. Funny bastards too!!

Do you think the Warped Tour this summer will help in terms of establishing the band in the USA? the old cliche you've never made it until you make it in the USA. Do you agree with that?
I think its gonna be a fun tour. Actually i know it'll be fun cause we've done it before and besides the hangovers and the heat exhaustion, it should be a blast! We really want to get in front of people and it's such a great tour to get amongst a new audience. As far as making it in the US, it depends on what your definition of making it is. To be successful in the States would be great cause its a big place and i feel it would be an achievement.

Do you plan to spend more time touring North America now that you'll have a proper Cd release?
We are spending a lot of the rest of the year in the States I think. We are very happy with this record and due to its success here, I don't see why we couldn't do well in the States. We are not afraid of hard work.

How do you think your Australian fans will view the band after you break in America?
No different if it happens. We will always be Aussies no matter where we are based. This country is home and we will always play here and look after what we have built here.

[WhitefalconTLE44]

How has the band been influenced by American culture apart from the music? Do Australian bands tend to emulate American music in general?
I'm not really sure outside of the music whether or not we have. We definitely drew a lot of our early influences from american roots music. We love jazz, blues and early rock n roll. Elvis will always be the king to me. I think there are a lot of bands that try too hard to be like American groups, which i think is sad Identity crisis i call it.

You had a very serious car accident in 2001. How did that affect you physically and emotionally and how long did it take you to recover? Can you tell us about it in detail? How did it affect the band?
My girlfriend and i were driving down the Great Ocean Road in Victoria and we had a head on with another car that was on the wrong side of the road. I broke my leg pretty bad and it put the band out of action for a couple of years. I had to do rehab and basically learn to walk again. The band had to find another drummer, as our old one decided to leave in this time also. It was pretty rough, but it's all water under the bridge now.

Do you and the other members spend time with fans, and if so, in what way?
We do meet them and try and respond to emails and all that sort of thing. Its important to treat them well and we are appreciative of where they have put us.

We have a certain amount of musicians who read our magazine and they always want to know what bands use in terms of gear. Let's talk guitars and amps. I see you're a Gretsch player. What other guitars do you have and what's your amp rig.
As far as gear is concerned, I use Gretsch guitars. I have a 90's White Falcon, a 60's double annivesary and a setzer signature 6120 which are my main touring guitars. I also have a couple of other Gretsches and a Malcolm Young model that kicks ass. I have a couple of Maton and Cole Clark acoustics i have recorded with. One of my favorite guitars is a 59 Les Paul Junior, but i don't really play it live. I use 10-52 gauge Ernie Ball strings. Amp wise, i have a 100 watt wizard head and a 50 watt old Marshall head both running through a Tone master cab and a Marshall cab. I have A Matchless DC 30 that i kick in as a boost.
Do you collect guitars and are you into vintage guitars?
I don't collect them but i have quite a few. I really think the vintage ones sound and look better...like cars. There is a charm to the old ones that is hard to beat. All my favorite players play old ones and i like it when the guitar looks beat up and well loved. I think the more worn the better sounding, most of the time.

Have you ever had a guitar broken or ripped off while on tour?
Thankfully no, but i had a SRV strat stolen from our rehearsal room.
Do you use effects? Which ones?
I run a few pedals like delays and booster pedals but for the most part i try to play as clean as i can. I love that big AC/DC type tone where you can hear the strings, so distortion is something i try to not over do. The pedals i run are an Ibanez TS-9 A fulldrive 2, Line 6 delay module, Boss DD3, Fulltone tremolo and a Curtis booster pedal made by an Australian guy. I also run a booster pedal made by a local guy called Dave Ulbrick

Finally, where do you see the band five years from now? Ten? Do you think you can still be relevant ot old and especially new fans in twenty years, or do you think you'll eventually have to become a more mature band in some ways as you move into your middle years?
To be honest i don't think about where the band will be beyond the next tour. It's a day by day thing. Having said that, i think we have a while left in us yet, but i guess its best to take a step at a time. I will be playing music til the day i die, but i'm not sure in what kind of setting. The other thing is, i think it would be weird for the Living End to be a mature aged band in our fifties. But i bet The Stones thought the same thing!.

[Kacky]

Thanks for posting that. :) Too bad your scanner wouldn't work.

[WhitefalconTLE44]

meh, it wasn't too bad, and i had nothing else to do anyway.;)

[Johnny_Wah]

Hmmm...Whats the fulltone trem for?

[atomgal]

What are you scannin'? :)

You'll see! :D

[Kacky]

Review of the London gig from Kerrang! :)

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3632/cci0906200700000ut3.th.png (http://img210.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cci0906200700000ut3.png)

[atomgal]

Thanks for that. :D I like "foot-stomping, head-tapping, shoe-flying" bit.

[Kacky]

Haha! No worries.

[WhitefalconTLE44]

I'm glad they got a good review. Thanks for scanning:D

[gaby2121]

Randomly found this don't know if any one has posted it.

Scott Owen Re-Mounting The Offensive

May, 2004

‘It’s a weird thing,” says the Living End’s Scott Owen. “A double bass in a rock band is something that hasn’t been done that much.” But then again, the Living End isn’t your typical rock band. Part rockabilly, part punk, part retro-pop, and all rock & roll, the trio out of Melbourne, Australia is on the road supporti

‘It’s a weird thing,” says the Living End’s Scott Owen. “A double bass in a rock band is something that hasn’t been done that much.” But then again, the Living End isn’t your typical rock band. Part rockabilly, part punk, part retro-pop, and all rock & roll, the trio out of Melbourne, Australia is on the road supporting their new release, MODERN ARTillery [Reprise].

With Blink-182 producer Mark Trombino behind the faders on MODERN ARTillery, at times the album’s upright work “sounds a hell of a lot like an electric bass,” says Owen, “because it’s a powerful rock band for the most part, so it needs the fullness of an electric bass sound.” To achieve his ideal tone, Owen tries to emulate that presence while maintaining the “round, pure tone” of the upright.

Although it began as a rockabilly group, the Living End has been influenced by ’80s pop music. “Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, and Graham Parker—that kind of stuff,” Owen explains. “That’s been a heavy influence on us lately. We’ve always been suckers for pop music!” The retro-pop vibe is evident on tracks like “Jimmy” and “In the End,” but there are certainly other things seeping into the mix. Owen acknowledges a connection with European psychobilly and neo-rockabilly. “There are these young people playing old-fashioned music that we love as well, and doing different, more energetic things with it. I think we’ve taken that whole philosophy and just kind of run with it in our own direction.”

That trajectory took the Living End straight to the top of the charts in Australia and Europe, with 2001’s Roll On [EMI/WEA/ Warner] going quintuple-platinum down under. But a pair of recent events threatened to alter the course the band was on: the extended recuperation of guitarist Chris Cheney after an auto accident, and the departure of the drummer just as they were entering the studio following Cheney’s recovery. With a new drummer and a new album, the Living End is back at it with a vengeance. “It feels ten times stronger then it ever has before,” says Owen. While Cheney convalesced, Owen played in a country music trio with his girlfriend on guitar and violin. Because there was no drummer, “I was the band’s sole timekeeper. I found it kind of challenging; it was good fun, because it was so far away from the loud music the Living End had been playing.”

To compete with the barrage of drums and guitar coming from his Living End bandmates, Owen mounts a Seymour Duncan pickup on his “cheap, old Chinese bass—onstage, it doesn’t matter what it sounds like acoustically.” To capture the slap sound so integral to rockabilly, he places a condenser mic underneath the fingerboard. Those two lines run to a pair of Ampeg SVT-4PRO preamps and QSC power amps. The pickup line then goes to an Ampeg SVT Classic 8x10 and the mic to an Ampeg 2x10 cabinet. His main bass will soon be a King Doublebass. “They have a pickup system where they use EMG pickups with really big coils mounted in the bottom of the fingerboard.” Owens uses Thomastik-Infeld Spirocore strings. The heavy gauge he prefers minimizes the range of string vibration for better pickup performance, “but they hurt like hell when you slap!”

Owen feels a bit like the Living End is a lone wolf in the American wilderness. “We thought that coming to America, we’d find all these bands that were thinking the same kinds of things we were thinking, but we haven’t. I still kind of feel that we have this point to prove. This kind of music has things that lots of people will love, and no one else is doing it. That’s what has made us put our heads down and want to work on it, for the rest of our lives, I hope.”

—Brian Fox

[Colezy]

Thanks Gaby.

Parts of it sound familiar!

[Kacky]

Thanks Gaby! :)

[Colezy]

I promised Sarah a scan of this article - Juice Mag, April 1998. (Matt Damon cover).

It's a tad on the large side, but I can't be bothered resizing or cropping right now :p

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2876/juiceapril1998rq9.th.jpg (http://www.thelivingend.com/vBforum/%5BURL=http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=juiceapril1998rq9.jpg%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp ://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2876/juiceapril1998rq9.th.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D)

[Kacky]

Thanks Nicole. :)

[Sarah]

awsome, thanks Nicole!

[The Dying Start]

Thanks Nicole...the bigger the better!

[Colezy]

No worries. Scans of this months J-mag are on their way too :)

[Amur]

Nicole,didn't you buy this one?i remember you scanned inside pages and they looks like a part of this issue.Can you scan a cover pls,if you have it?thanks for other scans too!:p
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/1372/i61846264884052xy7.jpg

[WhitefalconTLE44]

How old is that magazine?

[Amur]

right before Modern Artillery came out...

[Colezy]

No worries. Scans of this months J-mag are on their way too :)
I've posted these in the J-Mag thread for anyone who missed them :)

Nicole,didn't you buy this one?i remember you scanned inside pages and they looks like a part of this issue.Can you scan a cover pls,if you have it?thanks for other scans too!:p


I'll do it tonight when I get home :)

[Amur]

I'll do it tonight when I get home :)
wheeeee!thankies! :) :) :p
*also everyone still remember that I love big scans,haha*

[Amur]

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/1372/i61846264884052xy7.jpg

scanitSCAN ITscan it PLEAAAASE :p :p :p
I know I'm annoying,but it's the last cover I need to make a compostion of AUSGuitar's covers in frames =)

[Colezy]

Here you go:


http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3783/ausguitar5thbdayissuechji2.th.jpg (http://www.thelivingend.com/vBforum/%5BURL=http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ausguitar5thbdayissuechji2.jpg%5D%5BI MG%5Dhttp://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3783/ausguitar5thbdayissuechji2.th.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D)

I hope its big enough!

[Amur]

awesome quality!!!I'm happy with that!
Thank you Nicole SO MUCH :cool:

[Colezy]

That's ok :)

[Colezy]

UK Kerrang - Aug 25th 2001

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5443/aug25th2001lv5.th.jpg (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th2001lv5.jpg)

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5899/aug25th20012hs5.th.jpg (http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th20012hs5.jpg)

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6396/aug25th20013rd8.th.jpg (http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th20013rd8.jpg)

If anyone wants scans of the pics only, I should be able to do it over the weekend sometime :)

[Kacky]

Thanks Nicole! :)

[Colezy]

Not sure if I've already done this one or not. Found the mag seperate from my TLE stuff.

Rolling Stone Feb 2004

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I've haven't had time to put any photo editing programs back onto my computer since it crashed the other week, so sorry for them not being pieced together...the second one attaches to the right side of the first one :)

[Sarah]

UK Kerrang - Aug 25th 2001

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5443/aug25th2001lv5.th.jpg (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th2001lv5.jpg)

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5899/aug25th20012hs5.th.jpg (http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th20012hs5.jpg)

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6396/aug25th20013rd8.th.jpg (http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th20013rd8.jpg)

If anyone wants scans of the pics only, I should be able to do it over the weekend sometime :)

They're awsome Nicole, thanks! If you get time it would be really great to get scans of the photos...they're corkers!

[The Dying Start]

Thanks Fez Perez!

[Amur]

UK Kerrang - Aug 25th 2001

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5443/aug25th2001lv5.th.jpg (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th2001lv5.jpg)

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5899/aug25th20012hs5.th.jpg (http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th20012hs5.jpg)

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6396/aug25th20013rd8.th.jpg (http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aug25th20013rd8.jpg)

If anyone wants scans of the pics only, I should be able to do it over the weekend sometime

THANK YOU NICOLE! you're a LEGEND

Ahhh finally - useful article! lol

yeah scans of pics would be great =P

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7745/issue622feb2004ri9.th.jpg - and this one too...=) PLEEASE

[Colezy]

Now worries. I've been called into work earlier than expected today, so I'll try my best to do them tomorrow..depends if I go and watch the guys from work play soccer and at the moment watching hot guys playing soccer is winning over sitting at a computer and scanning crap :p

[Sarah]

well, you can do that first...as long as you give us pics of the hot guys too :p

[Colezy]

Haha. Well unfortunately I didn't end up going. I'm super tired atm and want a day off..plus I had a few too many after-work drinks last night..big headache when I woke up :p

Anywho, I shall start re-scanning tonight :)

[Habibster]

...as long as you give us pics of the hot guys too :p

more like 'Give Grumma the pics' :p

oh dear, just kidding ;)

[Kacky]

Scan from the September issue of Big Cheese Magazine.

http://i23.tinypic.com/9t0b6g.jpg

:)

[Colezy]

Thanks :)

Mel will love the fact that Andy is also into The Fratellis :p

[Kacky]

No problem! :D

Haha, I thought about Mel when I read that too.

[mel_bound]

Mel will love the fact that Andy is also into The Fratellis :p
giggidy! :D

[tanguyen]

Hey wasn't Total Guitar going to do an album review on State of Emergency? I've got the issue before its meant to happen and it says "what's to come in next month" and its got The Living End - State of Emergency.

[The Dying Start]

Thanks for the Scannatron!

[WhitefalconTLE44]

Thanks for the scan. I have to agree with Andy that Songs for the Deaf is an amazing album.:D

[Kacky]

Yup! :) No problemo.

[Ally]

I just found this in my travels. It's probably been posted in the past, but if not, here it is again. :)

Undercover.com.au (http://www.undercover.com.au/idol/livingend.html)

[Kacky]

Kerrang! August 28th, 1999. :)

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7018/cci1112200700000jf2.th.bmp (http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cci1112200700000jf2.bmp)

http://i8.tinypic.com/6ybpttk.jpg

[Amur]

thaNK you Chelsea for the second scan!;)

[Kacky]

Heheh. Not a problem! ;)

[Amur]

mmm can someone (Nicole for example :p ) scan finally Juice magazine please? I don't remember seeing quality scans around...:)

[Colezy]

Which juice magazine?? I have a few with TLE in it.

[Amur]

one with them on the cover.it has yellow background :)

[Sarah]

that was officially the coolest edition of any magazine ever published...ever

[May]

Was that the one with the Twister photo? Cos I <3 that mag.

[Sarah]

nope.

the yellow one gave me the trip to Homebake.

[May]

Haha well then no wonder you love that mag!

And I guess thanks to that, we met. So I heart that edition too!! :)

[Sarah]

oh yay! :)

[Amur]

Nicole was going to scan that "juice: best ever magazine issue",:) as I remember.
no rush,of course =)

[Colezy]

I just found the poster again along with many more articles to scan so it could take a little while, but i'll get there!

[Kacky]

http://www.frinkmusic.com/2007/09/14/908/

[Colezy]

Chris is nicely stretched out in that photo! :p

Thanks Chels :)

[Kacky]

Yup, no problem! :)

You can find a better version of the picture in the Picture Thread.

[Colezy]

Found it already! :p

[Amur]

I just found the poster again along with many more articles to scan so it could take a little while, but i'll get there!
lalala dadada....:)
hehe.
do you still remeber about it?

[gaby2121]

I don't know what the hell I was doing but I ran into this review of TLE from the UK

scroll all the way down pas all the long hair guys :D or just click on the top TLE!

http://www.rockermouth.co.uk/reviews.htm

[Kacky]

Thanks, Gaby! :)

[Kacky]

From Big Cheese Magazine - Issue #94! :)

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2749/bigcheeseissue94dx0.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bigcheeseissue94dx0.jpg)

[scotti slack rat]

I don't know what the hell I was doing but I ran into this review of TLE from the UK

scroll all the way down pas all the long hair guys :D or just click on the top TLE!

http://www.rockermouth.co.uk/reviews.htm

That'd be written by me! same as the skid row review

[Sarah]

at the bottom of this page (http://www.arrivealive.com.au/content.php/1470.html)

don't know if this has been posted already...

[Kacky]

I just sent that Drinking & Driving clip to Amy! :D

Ah, that accent! *Love* :p

[Amur]

so cute!haha love his voice,especially how serious it is.

[Colezy]

Some reviews that I am pretty sure haven't been posted on here yet :)

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/6167/The-Living-End-End-of-Fashion-Red-Riders-The-Palace-220906.htm

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/rockvault/features/7181/Chris-Cheney-getting-your-End-in.htm

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/6092/The-Living-End-Hobart-City-Hall-Tasmania-160906.htm

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/11644/The-Living-End-The-Prince-Bandroom-30112007.htm

[Amur]

thankies Nicole! :)

[Kacky]

Good reads, thanks Nicole! :)

[Sarah]

As promised, 6 pages from Juice #77.

Don't ask for better scans, they're all my baby can do!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/juice771-1.jpg

Page 2 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/juice772-1.jpg)
Page 3 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/juice773-1.jpg)
Page 4 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/juice774-1.jpg)
Page 5 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/juice775.jpg)
Last page (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/juice776.jpg)

[Colezy]

Cheers Sarah :)

[Colezy]

Holy cow. Page 4, photo of all three boys at 'The Point'. Chris is lookin' mighty fine right there :D

[Kacky]

You're right, Nicole! :D

Thanks Sarah!

[Kacky]

Chart [Canadian magazine] website:

07-May-04: The Living End Dish The Dirt On The Vines And Jet, Preach Love Not War (http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2004/05/0708.cfm)

25-Mar-01: The Living End Hate Lazy Journalists (http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2001/03/2503.cfm)

[Sarah]

It's amazing that something can be on the net since 2001 and it's only been discovered today! Thanks Chels!

[Kacky]

Yup! Anytime. :)

[Colezy]

Thanks a bunch Chels :)

[Colezy]

mmm can someone (Nicole for example :p ) scan finally Juice magazine please? I don't remember seeing quality scans around...:)

I swear I did that AGES ago...the one with the yellow background, right??

Also, am I meant to be scanning a Kerrang poster still? The one with them standing in the middle of the road and scott is standing on his bass??

Anything else I've been asked to scan for anyone??

I'm starting to scan all of my stuff anyway, but if there are requests, I'll do those first :)

[Amur]

YEAP I still need everything that I asked before =)

[Amur]

oh.
this thread is definetely has to be updated with some SCANS =)

[Colezy]

I shall possibly scan more stuff tomorrow when I fiddle around with my printer when i put the new ink cartridges in it :) I'll see how I go.

[Amur]

mmm...nice! :)

[Colezy]

:)

I actually already have a shit load of stuff scanned but I wanna put them all into folders and stuff within my TLE folder so yeah..once that's done (hopefully tomorrow) then I shall upload and post away! :D

[Kacky]

Awesome Nic! Thankies. :)

[Amur]

...and month after...
they were still waiting :)
*blush*

[Colezy]

One (http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/10243)

Two (http://www.messandnoise.com/events/9916)


extra characters

[Amur]

very nice article about SOE doc preview!

[Kacky]

Thanks Nic! :)

[The Dying Start]

Thanks Fezzmot.

[WHITE FALCON]

i found this
has anyone seen it?
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~barrmb/livingend/noframes/bio/
look like some old school shizz right here

[Kacky]

Thanks! :)

[WHITE FALCON]

its got some real old pictures on it!

[Colezy]

That's cos it's a real old site! :p

[Amur]

I've seen most of these except this one:
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~barrmb/livingend/images/livend1.jpg

hehe Chris's thin knees :D

[Deadcat Kaye]

mm we all love thin knee's.

*cough* :p

[WHITE FALCON]

omg just found the most fucked up thing.
im so scared lol
i dare someone to read this
http://www.geocities.com/darrenhayesunderwear/read/sgtle.htm

[The Dying Start]

Hahahahahaha. Oh yeah, i remember that!

[WHITE FALCON]

hahahha please explain glenn

[Amur]

mm we all love thin knee's.

*cough* :p

depends on whom they belongs to =)

[Amur]

omg just found the most fucked up thing.
im so scared lol
i dare someone to read this
http://www.geocities.com/darrenhayesunderwear/read/sgtle.htm
that sounds just awful =)
that bitchy girl who wrote this delirium deserve to get dysgraphia one day (yeah-yeah I know that's impossible if you're not sick since your birth but anyway!)
if Chris really was just a bit like that, I highly doubt I could listen to TLE :D

[mel_bound]

Isn't there one of Chris and Scott as kids too? eeeeew.

[Deadcat Kaye]

geezuz, how many of these things are there?? :eek:

[The Dying Start]

Not as many as there are of you.

[Sarah]

There is a article in today's Herald Sun on the boys...apparantely there is some stuff on their website too, but i'm too pissed off to concerntrate and find it

[Shadow]

I have the herald sun article, and will scan it later. Few interesting tidbits in there.

[Deadcat Kaye]

Right, well, I'm going for a walk now to go get the paper :p
What page is it on?

[Sarah]

24 of Hit 24 10 24 10

[Sarah]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/hit.jpg

[Colezy]

Get that people - head to www.heraldsun.com.au to see Chris talking :)
I can't find it though! :p

Sounds exciting!! :D - Not long until June 2nd!!
Thanks Sarah :)

[Deadcat Kaye]

Haha I just got it **last paper there too**, after nearly being hit by a zillion cars crossing the road..Car accident at the end of my road :(
Traffic Jam ahoy.

WOO
MOMENT IN THE SUN :D
KID
LOADED GUN

:D

aaawwww yeaahh

[Sarah]

yeah i can't find it either...

[_jimmy_]

Found this on Ultimate Guitar just now

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/the_living_end_new_album_details.html

[Kacky]

Thanks Sarah and Jimmy! Wee! :D

[Absolution]

Great to see the guys back in the headlines, we always get the Herald Sun so no problems getting my hands on it.

Btw, what happened to Scotts hair?!? :D

Can't wait for the new album!

[Kacky]

He got into a fight with a lawnmower. :)

[mattheal]

You should see what he did to the lawnmower

[Amur]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/hit.jpg
thank you Sarah!
jun 2th - only 1,5 weeks left :)
waiting for someone to scan that picture in higher resolution :p

[Colezy]

Ahhhh crap. I forgot to see if the newsagent had any copies of this left today :(

[Craigels]

The Daily Telegraph had an article on TLE too. I will put it up tomorrow or sunday depending on hen i come on next.

[Sarah]

Ahhhh crap. I forgot to see if the newsagent had any copies of this left today :(

i'll check at work tomorrow (well tonight) night if we had any left over.

sorry bout my crappy scanner once again Yana! :p

[Amur]

i'll check at work tomorrow (well tonight) night if we had any left over.

sorry bout my crappy scanner once again Yana! :p
hehe that's ok, I tend to forget about little thing like this pretty fast!:)

[Colezy]

i'll check at work tomorrow (well tonight) night if we had any left over.

sorry bout my crappy scanner once again Yana! :p
Thanks! That'd be great if you do! :)

[BennyD]

anyone checkout that Jesse Blaze Snider clip of him doing prisoner of society?

[mel_bound]

Yes. Ew.AS IF THAT'S NOT TEN CHARACTERS

[_jimmy_]

That was terrible

"Shut up Jesse,just shut up"

[Sarah]

Thanks! That'd be great if you do! :)


nup, we'd sold out sorry.

[Colezy]

Blah. That's ok. Thanks for checking though! :)

[Deadcat Kaye]

Ziljan mag has a picture of Andy StrachEN...
Spelt wrong BUT Mel is being all like "GUNS" over it.. :p

[Colezy]

Lolz, what's new?! :rolleyes:

:p

[Kacky]

Scannage? :D ;)

[Craigels]

Here is that article from The Daily Telegraph from a little while ago (hopefully it works):

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/Timb777/scan0001.jpg

[##thelivingendfan##]

oooh.. purrddyyy

thx =]

[Colezy]

Thanks! :)

[Kacky]

Yet again, my heart is a-flutter. So excited for the record! THANKS.

[Amur]

Here is that article from The Daily Telegraph from a little while ago (hopefully it works):

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/Timb777/scan0001.jpg
haha,do they REALLY look excited?!?! :D
thanks for scan!

[Colezy]

http://blogs.abc.net.au/triplej/2008/05/the-living-end.html



http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jmag/issue_18/img/chrischeney_jmag_full.jpg

THE LIVING END

Ohhh yes. Although writer’s block and tour fatigue almost buried the LIVING END, they’ve beaten the odds to come back with a killer new album, due in July. You can whet your appetite with the first single on triple j in June, plus this month’s jmag has a candid interview with the Melbourne trio. Here’s all the Living End goodness from Chris Cheney’s interview with Jenny Valentish that we COULDN’T fit in the mag.

You’d toured your previous album, State Of Emergency, so hard that the well was dry when it came to writing again. What happened?
Chris: I can’t write on the road. I always come home with a tape full of ideas, but never completed songs, it just doesn’t happen. We’re a better band than that. We take our time so we don’t burn out too quick. We probably haven’t managed our career in the best way because of that, in the sense that if we were smart then we would just do as many TV appearances as possible and do all those things.


Is hooking up with a producer like John Agnello a tense time? It’s like handing your life over to someone.
It is. I’ve made plenty of recordings where I never want to listen to it again, so I figure if I’m in the zone I want to get it right. I’m really precious about this because with one record we went through hell. Although even the records before that I find very difficult to listen to.


Oh, two out of five ain’t bad!
Yeah! It’s purely because they sound juvenile — they’re full of enthusiasm and not much else! But yeah, you know… you’ve gotta have some regrets, don’t ya?


It sounds like you have the ears of a producer; the ability to listen over and over, and hear every little nuance.


Yeah. It can do your head in if you’re not careful. You can start going around in circles and before you know it you’re scratching your head, going: “I just don’t know any more.” There are only 12 notes in music, but it’s the order you put them in. You can work on ideas for ages, but if you go too long on it you might as well turn around after an hour and get away from it. A few beers normally helps!

[Colezy]

PART TWO (cos it had too many letters to fit in one post!)



Will you write for other people?
I don’t know. I would like to do that, and I think it would be a good way of getting out my frustrations of being a country music fan and being into really classy pop songs. Some of it works for us but not all of it. At the end of the day we sound best when it’s an energetic rock song. There’s a bit of pop in what we do but I understand that if it’s too pretty sounding it just ain’t gonna work for us. But I like those kinds of songs! The more singer-songwritery strummed acoustic guitar songs. I’ve got a bunch of them and I’d love to be the kind of writer who can give other people songs.
I enjoy putting a song together and finding the right arrangement that melodically makes sense and feels like it was meant to be. It’s all in the arrangement, and that’s what John Lennon said he was all about — it’s not all about fancy chords and singing. I’d like to do more of that outside this band. I don’t know my way around a studio very much but there are engineers that can do that. As far as working with other bands and cutting the fat off songs, finding what they don’t need — the less is more approach — working on harmonies and finding the hook in a song, the pop side of things, I’m really into that. So I like being able to listen to someone else’s song and pick how I could better it.


Do you dream about playing?
Oh yeah, I definitely go to sleep with ideas, song ideas and guitar voicings and stuff. Of course, I wake up the next morning I can’t remember any of it, but at the time I’m writing like a masterpiece, in my head, that moment before I go to sleep. The pad and pen are always very nearby.


How do you get a double bass sounding so heavy?
Double bass sounds enormous! If it’s played too fast it loses its depth, but it’s like in any song: AC/DC sound enormous on a song like ‘Back In Black’ but there’s not actually much playing — there’s a lot of space in it. The double bass, if it’s in a 100mph psychobilly song, doesn’t sound very big, because it’s like: diggadiggadiggadigga. But if it’s like: doom, doom, doom, it’s got these frequencies and these lower octaves that you just don’t get out of a normal bass. There’s so much sound coming out of that thing because it’s hollow. Same with my guitars, because they’re hollowbody guitars — we can actually produce quite a racket if we try! You just have to think about it in a smart way and not overplay.


I can’t think of any other band with a double bass doing that.
No, well most bands with a double bass are…


Keeping it trad.
Keeping it trad, yeah. But we’ve never done that. We’ve never hidden the fact that that’s where we came from, and that’s where we learned to play, by playing at ’50s rock’n’roll dances where they’d keep telling us to slow down because we were playing too fast. That’s when we were neo-rockabilly, playing all that late-’70s, early-’80s English stuff. We learned to play that the same time we were learning to play ’50s Sun Sessions. But even back then I could quite happily put on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John and get a kick out of it. I always knew we weren’t going to be playing ‘Rock Around The Clock’ and ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ for the rest of our career!


It’s unpopular not to have a purist attitude on that kind of scene.
Yeah. I mean, when we started to bring in extra chords to our songs (laughs) it was a no-no! But I’ve never shied away from the pop thing, and if I can write a hook that gives you a shiver down the spine or a punch in the heart, then I’m satisfied. But that’s not necessarily what that music’s about. Rockabilly’s all about the energy and playing as fast as you can. It’s a different kind of thing. To me it seems like we came from that but like any band should, we’ve evolved. We also loved Led Zeppelin. They came from the same place, playing all those rockabilly guitar licks, and the blues thing and the jazz thing, then taking it somewhere further.


Last time we spoke you said this album might be heading back into a rockabilly direction, but you didn’t sound very convinced.
Didn’t I?


No.
(Laughs) Yeah, well I guess... I don’t know whether it has after all this. Sometimes you can try and write something in a particular direction and it just doesn’t happen. What comes out comes out. There’s a couple that are probably a bit more like our early stuff, but I definitely think — even from the feedback that we’ve got from these shows — that there’s an energy and these songs are more reminiscent of our early stuff. It’s more exciting. It’s probably less tricky and less fancy, more ballsy. But it’s not a rockabilly record, no (laughs). The elements that people know of that music you can probably still recognise because of the three-piece factor and the space that’s happening. There is a lot of space in that more traditional stuff, and you have to learn to fill that space as a three-piece.

You had a music stand in your studio. Are you writing up the score for songs?
No, basically just lyrics with chords. If there’s anything too tricky I record the various parts and then try to notate it.


So it’s just a simple Mbox set-up?
Yep.


That’s it?
I’ve got a four-track out there too, like a minidisc four-track, and a dictaphone and Garageband. I demo here first, writing the song and whacking it down in an arrangement which can take hours and hours sometimes. I’ll get an arrangement together that I think is really good, then I’ll take it to the guys at the rehearsal studio in South Melbourne. We’ll set up my Mbox and a whole lot of microphones there and just do our own guerrilla recording. That’s not a bad name for a studio!


Do you have the old pair of tights set-up out there?
No I don’t, actually. (Laughs) Yeah, the pop filter, it’s called! That’s to stop the ps and stuff because the rest of the microphone pops and you can’t get rid of that. It’s made of a coathanger and a pair of pantyhose. But no, I wear all my pantyhose.


Are you spending hours twiddling pedals to get the perfect kind of tone?
No, I kind of move to that next. There are a few songs that have been written from using different pedals — using delays and an octave pedal — but the majority of the time I get to that later.


Do you bounce ideas off Andy and Scott, or bring them finished songs?
I normally like solitude. Most of our albums, I’ll write 80 per cent of the songs at home on an acoustic guitar then bring it to the guys, I’ll just play it to them. It’ll either get the thumbs up or the thumbs down to begin with, then we just bash it out. Normally we get a song out of it.


Are they quite polite though? Can you tell if they’re thinking: nah, I don’t think so.
Sometimes we get to a point like, look that’s a great song, but it’s just not the kind of song the Living End is gonna play. Save it for the solo project. We’ve got tons of songs like that. Some of them end up as b-sides, like we’ve got quite a lot of acoustic tunes as b-sides. We all love that sort of stuff, but with this album we’re narrowing it down a little bit and trying to really maintain the hard rock.


So are you really going to slog this album when it comes out and go on tour for two years?
Oh, probably. We don’t know how to do it any other way. We’ve done that with every album, it’s always been two or three years touring and two or three years in between albums. Which is kind of crazy. I always say this, but I wish we had released more music. It just hasn’t worked out that way for a reason.


Get those double albums out!
A double album? Yeah, I’d love to. It’s convincing everyone else of that!


What vocal exercises do you do before going on stage?
I have a bit of a wail and Scott and I run through some Everly Brothers tunes. And Andy has to sit backstage and drum for 20 minutes. Our songs are just really full-on. And I’m afraid I can’t go on stage without a drink.


Don’t you need a piss, though?
You just sweat it out. That’s kind of the party trick — I play the guitar with a beer bottle during a song called ‘E Boogie’.


What’s the story behind the Meatloaf picture on your bar, by the way?
We played on The Footy Show in Sydney and he was on the show too. There was a photographer there who wanted to get a photo of us, but it was strange because I offered Meatloaf a drink and he’s so over the top that he got down on bended knee and started kissing my hand, saying “Thank you, thank you!” Everyone in the corridor thought WHAT is going on? The other guys from my band turned around and there’s Meatloaf on bended knee kissing my hand, I was like what the fuck? I was spewing because the photographer didn’t get a shot of it.

[strahanie]

Wow, Chris really slammed people recording the shows!

[Sarah]

he sure did! and gear-heads too.

thanks for the other part of the interview Nic :)

[thelivingvines]

Wow, Chris really slammed people recording the shows!

where.... did I miss something?

[Deadcat Kaye]

In the Jmag article...

It's fair enough too what he said...SOMETIMES there is a time to actually watch the show..

[mel_bound]

"the solo project"

:eek:

[Habibster]

I would love for Chris to do a solo project, but not for a few years yet :)

Sadly though im thinking that this could be one of the last living end albums, hope i'm wrong though! :o

[Sarah]

I was kinda thinking that with the last one. There wasn't that 'we're really excited and we're gonna start doing new songs asap' talk that there normally is (and makes sense after reading the jmag)...glad we're getting another one!

[Colezy]

Same here. Although, i seriously reckon that they've only got a few (one, maybe two) albums left in them as TLE. Esp if they continue the crazy touring that we all know they do.

It's great for us as fans cos we get more chances to see them play, but not so good if we want more albums from them in the future!

Then again, sometimes you never know what you're gonna get next with those guys! :p

[Kacky]

Chris and I are teaming up for his "solo project", it's going to be filled with some of those unreleased non-TLEish songs. I, Chelsea, will be playing the famous cowbell as well as the triangle, flute, loon call whistle and the baseball bat.

Thanks again for the scannage. :)

[WHITE FALCON]

^^^hahahah nicee :)

ahhh the rest of that interview was great.
mmm solo project chris cheney. im not sure.
and yeah i think he's got a definate point about the phones especially at those really small gigs. i'd feel almost embaressed if i was that close to them recording it right up in their faces. i only would do it to figure out what he's playing coz im a guitar freak.

although it would be cool to watch when you get home haha

[Deadcat Kaye]

I took only photo's at St. Kilda festival..
The rest I didn't bother much :p

It's good to get abit fo recording but not the whole gig..I mean..C'MON
TLE!!

Good music to dance too!

[damo0945]

omg you messed up "to" again haha

[Kacky]

Hahaha. I thought you were talking to me so I examined my post again, but then I realized it was Amy. :p

[Deadcat Kaye]

Well I dont think my english teecher is going too be reading the forum :p

[Colezy]

I think it was the Bendigo gig, that I noticed that SO MANY people had their phones up in chris' face...especially when he was right in our faces doing the e-boogie thang that he does.

It made me feel bad when i was using my actual camera trying to get photos/videos.

[Kacky]

I feel bad for blinding them myself! But it's nice to have a few shots. :)

[Colezy]

I try not use use the flash...depends on what camera i'm using. Sometimes you get really good shots without the flash though. Again, depends on the camera you have really.

[Kacky]

Yeah, some cameras aren't the greatest without the flash! When you're up-close though, you don't really need it depending on the lighting for the stage/venue.

[##thelivingendfan##]

I think it was the Bendigo gig, that I noticed that SO MANY people had their phones up in chris' face...especially when he was right in our faces doing the e-boogie thang that he does.

It made me feel bad when i was using my actual camera trying to get photos/videos.

The Bendigo gig was really bad with that!
i was there and all i could see were phones and stuff!

[mel_bound]

I _never_ take photos, videos or anything at gigs, mainly coz my phone is a nokia 3315 and I can't use cameras full stop, but I'd be so paranoid my device might get broken and you aren't really living in the gig the are you? It's silly.
Though I do count on others for pics for the collection :p

[Deadcat Kaye]

Well the camera I borrowed for St. Kilda gig is sitting on my bedside table with the screen still smashed..In need of a repair.

The sister still doesn't know :p

[Colezy]

Will scan the other pics when I finish doing tea :p

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8532/scan0001go1.jpg

[Colezy]

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/750/scan0002pk1.jpg

[Jonnno]

Any chance of a scan of the Gyroscope article from this month's jmag? fenks

[Colezy]

Sure. I'll do it when i finish the TLE stuff :)

[Jonnno]

Ah thats awesome, thanks! :)

[Deadcat Kaye]

Don't worry Colezy Kid!

I already had it scanned onto the computer :p

here ya go jonno :p

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6026/gyro3jm7.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gyro3jm7.jpg)

[Jonnno]

baha, thanks amy and ta anyway nicole.

[Colezy]

Don't worry Colezy Kid!

I already had it scanned onto the computer :p

Mine would have been so much better than yours :p


More TLE pics..these are for Yana who asked me for them...someone else also did too..can't remember who! :p

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7905/scan0002km7.th.jpg (http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan0002km7.jpg)

That pic was resized to 25% of it's original scan size...it was freaking huge! Still is pretty large! haha



*more to come soon.

[Colezy]

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1166/scan0001to3.th.jpg (http://www.thelivingend.com/vBforum/%5BURL=http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan0001to3.jpg%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1166/scan0001to3.th.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D)

One more to come :)

[Colezy]

And here's the last one!

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8266/scan0003yb8.th.jpg (http://www.thelivingend.com/vBforum/%5BURL=http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan0003yb8.jpg%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8266/scan0003yb8.th.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D)

[WHITE FALCON]

hooray for GIANT pictures and 24 inch monitors :)

[Kacky]

Oooo, sexy! Thanks Nicole!

[Colezy]

hooray for GIANT pictures and 24 inch monitors :)

Bahaha. They must take up most of your screen! :p


No worries guys :)

[Colezy]

Can anyone get the TLE link to work? I can't.

http://www.nova969.com.au/site/shows/merrick_rosso_kate.aspx

[Neo]

I got this message:

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.


It seems to be trying to get to a login page though, so maybe you have to log in first or something

[Colezy]

That's what I thought. Can't be stuffed creating an account! :p

[WHITE FALCON]

nah its only that link because the rest work fine :(

[Kacky]

I'm sure some smart cookie will get it to work! :)

[Amur]

More TLE pics..these are for Yana who asked me for them...someone else also did too..can't remember who! :p

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7905/scan0002km7.th.jpg (http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan0002km7.jpg)


hoho,is that from j-mag??I hope so!:p
thanks for scans as well!

[Deadcat Kaye]

It's from Jmag!! :D

[Amur]

It's from Jmag!! :D
it means I have it somewhere between Tassie and Russia now :p
huge thanks to Nicole, once again!

[Colezy]

Yay. No problems :)

[Kacky]

hoho,is that from j-mag??I hope so!:p
thanks for scans as well!

Haha, I loved your reaction 'hoho!' :p

[Amur]

Haha, I loved your reaction 'hoho!' :p
it meant to be "wow wow" or something like that.

...

:p

[Amur]

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1166/scan0001to3.th.jpg (http://www.thelivingend.com/vBforum/%5BURL=http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan0001to3.jpg%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1166/scan0001to3.th.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D)

seems like Chris had enough time to glue some fresh 70's wallpapers in his bar-corner!

[Kacky]

I love that wallpaper!

[Colezy]

Me included. But i've already said that somewhere else in the forums. But I love it so much, I'm saying it again!

[Kacky]

Back off Nicole, it's mine! :p

[Amur]

I definetely see something (or maybe someone??) more worthy in that picture. :rolleyes: :p
ehehe

[Sarah]

I definetely see something (or maybe someone??) more worthy in that picture. :rolleyes: :p
ehehe


yep, if the girls aren't interested in that its now mine :p

[Kacky]

Yes yes, that too!

[Amur]

yep, if the girls aren't interested in that its now mine :p
how unfair!!
I noticed it first!
what a nice vintage telephone,and now it's gone to Sarah.ahah

[Sarah]

Yes yes, that too!

nope too late. You and Nicole get to fight it out for the wallpaper. Yana and I will fight it out for the other 'thing' :p

*raises fists*

[Colezy]

Um, excuse me.

I posted it first, so I saw it first, so therefore 'it' is ALL MINE! (plus the wallapaper, phone and alcohol!)

:p

[WHITE FALCON]

yeah well.... i was there when the interveiw took place so i beat you all :)
and its all mine. everything
the car, the house, the dog, the boat
The whole fucking lot :)

[Amur]

yeah well.... i was there when the interveiw took place so i beat you all :)
and its all mine. everything
the car, the house, the dog, the boat
The whole fucking lot :)
*falls dead*
....

[Colezy]

Haha, nice one Arin! :p

[WHITE FALCON]

ohhh thank you thank you. ill be here all night :p

[Deadcat Kaye]

Late this morning on Triple J they played an interview with Chris from 1996!...and I recorded it :D
I think I mighta missed some of it BUT later tonight if I remember I'll chuck on on the computer :)

[Colezy]

YOU BETTER REMEMBER!! :p


Also, does anyone know anything about 'The Reel' on Triple J? Apparently there's gonna be a TLE thing on it soon.


Don't Miss...
Robbie, Marieke & the Doctor need your help forming a SUPER VILLIAN, and the evil Doctor will reveal why. They have an amazing Like A Version with Birds of Tokyo and talk to our very own HACK producer James West about his brilliant new book. Zan winds back the clock with The Living End on this week's THE REEL, and takes 5 with VHS OR BETA. Dools & Linda talk shit with Chk Chk Chk and Caz Tran rolls out some tunes from WA funk outfit The Bamboos.

[Colezy]

Actually, now I think about it, the reel thing was probably what you recorded :p

[Amur]

'96, oh that should be interestinG!
:rolleyes:
I was like...4.

[Sarah]

oh man, you know how to make a girl feel old!

lol, I was 14 in 96.

really looking forward to the interview Amy!

[Deadcat Kaye]

geez...people ACTUALLY wanna hear the interview...

EFFORT!

I have to WALK to my room now :p

what site do I use to upload sounds??
any funny tricks about megaupload or is it straight forward?? :)

[Kacky]

AWESOME! Can't wait to hear it.

[Deadcat Kaye]

See if this works...

This is like a breif snippet..
'96 Interview #1 (http://www.supload.com/listen?s=4R9NN5TCPE5H)

here's the second one!!

'96 Interview #2 (http://www.supload.com/listen?s=PF4R0SRK3QH6)

ENJOY!

If it Works.

[Colezy]

Thanks Amy!! :D

There are some available for download on the triple j site, so maybe one day they'll put this one up too!

[Sarah]

awesome job Amy!!

"nah, there's no pressure"

haha, famous last words :p

[Deadcat Kaye]

bahahaha I think we should somehow play this interview to Chris.. :p

No Worries guys..I'm glad it worked :eek:

[Colezy]

This is a link which belongs in the ebay thread but I cbf finding it :p

Check these out (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/LIVING-END-Aussie-Novelty-Money-Notes-set-of-3_W0QQitemZ360058112549QQihZ023QQcategoryZ59953QQs sPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) :p

[Deadcat Kaye]

hahaha Rising Sun photo XD

I remember I saw an article in the paper..and being the n00b I was, I saw that picture of the boys dressed up..and all I though was "fucking try hards...they arn't TLE..what si this some japanese cover band?"

I didn't realise it was them until after I watched the video clip :p

[damo0945]

pretty sure the top left one isn't even them...

[mel_bound]

It isn't, that's pretty much the dodgiest 'shop job I've seen. tsktsk.

[Amur]

oh man, you know how to make a girl feel old!

lol, I was 14 in 96.

really looking forward to the interview Amy!
don't worry,Chris was 21 already!:p
how old HE is!

[Amur]

See if this works...

This is like a breif snippet..
'96 Interview #1 (http://www.supload.com/listen?s=4R9NN5TCPE5H)

here's the second one!!

'96 Interview #2 (http://www.supload.com/listen?s=PF4R0SRK3QH6)

ENJOY!

If it Works.
wahhhh, thank you!
nice to hear.:)

[Kacky]

Thanks Amy! :D

[Deadcat Kaye]

That's okay :cool:

haha It's a blast from the past! :p
"No pressure...yet anyway"

[Habibster]

The Living End Make A Jailbreak Out Of AC/DC Lane (http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=5152)

Not sure if it's been posted.

Short but sweet.

[Kacky]

Thanks Habibster! :)

[Habibster]

it's all good..

Undercover pics (http://www.undercover.com.au/Gallery.aspx?id=296)

to save the lazy people from searching :p

[Kacky]

Thanks again!

[Colezy]

Thanks for that :)

[Colezy]

Here's a link to the Chris interview that Amy posted a while back. I haven't listened to it yet, but it should have the start of it on there :) (I know amy said she didn't miss much, but yeah).

LINK!! (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/zan/blog/s2265155.htm)

[Kacky]

Thanks again! :)

[Colezy]

S'ok - again! :p

[Deadcat Kaye]

Okay so this is a Gig review of the Triple J gig...
The reviewer really knows his stuff...
*cough*

Chris, Owen and Andy came out firing....
Newer songs like We Want More and Raise The Alarm

Anyway...here it is, decent enough photo with it for me to chuck it up on my wall :p

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7476/tj1cw6.th.jpg (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tj1cw6.jpg)

here's a larger thing of the picture.

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5544/tj2rz2.th.jpg (http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tj2rz2.jpg)

[Sarah]

I love it when people get their info wrong! :p

thanks for the pics!

[Colezy]

I have read SO MANY (well, two or three :p) reviews lately where they've called him Owen instead of Scott. Gah! Get it right people!


*edit - I've read that review somewhere online the other day....

[Deadcat Kaye]

hahaha I just looked in Inpress this time AND THERE IS AN ACCURATE REVIEW!! (i've always liked inpress better)
by someone else.
And a awesome picture of Chris :D

The scanner made the article lookcrappy though.
I can try get last weeks beat and inpress if someone wants me to send them the article :)

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3463/tj3zb2.th.jpg (http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tj3zb2.jpg)

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5111/tj4ek9.th.jpg (http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tj4ek9.jpg)

[Colezy]

YES PLEASE! :p

[_jimmy_]

Hey all

There's an interview with the boys in the latest issue of Blunt.

Theres a black and white picture of Chris on the front cover.

Issue 71 and it's $6.80

enjoy! :D

[Colezy]

Thanks Jimmy :)

[Sarah]

Thanks again Amy, and I'll be picking up a copy tomorrow JImmy :)

[Colezy]

Random find:

http://www.clan-spirix.com/tle/SOE_final-Inside&Back.pdf

[_jimmy_]

what in the world..it looks so,lame~ :p

[Kacky]

Thanks Nic! :)

[Sarah]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/blunt711.jpg

i think i figured out the problem with my scanner too...see? :)

more to come...

EDIT, but not with photobucket obviously...its a bit small!

[Sarah]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/blunt712.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/whitenoise1.jpg

[Sarah]

AAANNND

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/bobrox/blunt713.jpg

[WHITE FALCON]

wicked thanks so much
but how do you make it so we can read it? :)

[Sarah]

dunno, but i can read it so your eye sight must be pretty average :p

i'll have a look at making it bigger tomorrow

[WHITE FALCON]

hahah are you serious
nah it might be the screen im on.
ill have a geeze when i get home
but it looks really interesting
ohh less tehn a month now :)
ps i was just on your mysapce #2 one.
you have some fuckin insane stuff and story's
realllly jealous!

[Kacky]

Thanks Sarah.

Still want a copy though. :p