The 2nd part of turning the little keyboard ditty called 'Triumph' into the final version of the song 'One Will Hear The Other' was to get into the studio with the rest of the band and jam it out. Since it started out on keyboards I thought I'd take advantage of the Jupiter 6 that was in the room and plugged it into my amp. Karl played bass, Tom drums ...
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Start Of An Idea
May 19th, 2008

So I was thinking I’d show you how ‘One Will Hear The Other’ started out.was around at my friend Dave’s house and he’d just scored these new software synths that you can play on you computer. One was an emulation of the classic Prophet 5 keyboard (while working on Churn, Jaz Coleman had told us that it was the synth that P.I.L. used to use so we were intrigued - ...
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Back @ York Street
May 5th, 2008



just arrived back in Melbourne after 5 interesting days in NZ. On Friday we played a secret sorta mini show at the Fu Bar in Auckland with Jimmy Christmas’ new band Luger Boa (amongst others) in front of a very packed, pissed and appreciative crowd. No soundcheck, just rocked up, played loud and had a great time. It’s good now people have finally had a chance to hear the new album cause I love it ...
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NZ #1!
May 1st, 2008



So Beautiful Machine managed to make it to number 1 in New Zealand thanks to everybody who bought the album and needless to say, we are over the moon and very, very gratefulto you all.Last time we released an album in NZ it came out the sameweek as another Wellington band called Fat Freddy’s Drop (who we usedto go see when we were younger play as a band called Bongmaster) ...
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New Scar
April 11th, 2008



Last show of the Australian “One Will Hear The Other” Tour at the Sands Bar in Maroochydore is one I won’t forget in a hurry. Not only was it a good show with lots of musical highlights, jolly japes and fun times (care of The Galvertrons and the Horsell Common lads) but ever since, every time I look in the mirror, I’m reminded of it because of the new scar I have above my left ...
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