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The Odd 30 Foot - Mark Hughes from Concrete Press, Newcastle Australia 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, has it always been Grunts? I was under the impression that it was grunt. Yeah, a lot of people just can't get past that. It's grunts, it's plural not singular. It wasn't meant to refer to the word grunt at all. And the name, I can tell you where it comes from, I could tell you half a dozen ways of explaining it by the reality is, we just wanted a name that meant nothing. It was just a series of words, which just rolled off the tongue. I'm assuming a lot of the songs off this album gaslight were recorded
different That's how it works with us, yeah. We do in reality spend pretty much the same amount of time that any other band would spend focusing on their music, like in terms of recording or being in the rehearsal room together or playing. We don't just get that social time in between. So when we get together it's usually for a specific thing. Usually to record something? Yeah. And I'm very much a believer in time and place for the recording. When I write something I want to record it as soon as I possibly can. I don't care how much it develops over the next five years I want to know exactly where it started from, in case at some point I destroy the song and I want it back to what it was at the beginning. Because sometimes you can over-do something. What I liked when I listened to your album was the differences in sound, especially like when you played the Legend of Barry Kable. (Live track) I think it has a lot to do with the types of songs though as well. I didn't want this to be a safe listening experience. I don't like that. I like albums that in total, are a whole experience. But some things make you feel uncomfortable and some areas of the album, when you're coming up to it you'll go "Here's that nasty song again" Or "here's that songs that makes something go in my imagination, I don't like albums where 1,2,3 are the songs you've heard on the radio and every groove matches into each other it's a very smooth, user friendly experience. I like a little more rock with my roll. I want a bit more excitement and involvement. So, it's not a comfortable album to listen to but you've got to give yourself over to it. What about the photograph of Lebanon on the front cover? It implied a certain era of Australian music but it was shot to shit. It was all kinda like exploded and stuff and it was implying we don't fit into the music industry. To me it was an imagery of an old battered landscape, which represents how we sometimes feel in the band. We cop a lot of shit, even from people who've never heard the band. And you've proved on the album that you guys can play together live. I'm just one part of it. Individually as a musician I don't amount to
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