The Sunset Strip | Musician/band
The Sunset Strip
Phone: +6195103102
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22.01.2022 While waiting for the new enjoy the old! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBFPepYeS08&feature=youtu.be
22.01.2022 I've taken 4 rides now on the "crystal ship" and with each "arrival" comes a different trip! Thanks a bunch Waztradamus Brown
21.01.2022 If you've ever enjoyed our stuff don't hesitate to review it here. We love getting feedback.
20.01.2022 I was digging through all my old mags and books collecting stuff for the fantastic book Maree Robertson is creating about the Geelong music scene back from the early punk days up to the amazing work that the late Dave Thomas created (The Bodies to Sister Anne to White Noise to Bored! and beyond). This is going to be a long-overdue history with lots of previously unpublished pics and writing. Anyway, amongst all the detritus I came across a review I'd forgotten about from Dave... 'not boofhead' Lang in his fanzine called 'Year Zero'. This was one of the best fanzines of the era - excellent writing (except maybe the the fanzine-de rigeur and ironic use of 'aint'), literate (possibly the only fanzine I've ever read that uses semi-colons! Ha), professional layout and decent graphics (all the stuff most fanzines of the day generally lacked). Seems he was a fan of The Sunsets. Here's his 1994 review of Nothing Lost Nothing Gained.........."By golly, am I impressed with this little mini-frisbee or what? Damn straight I am...in fact I'm even tempted to say that it's superior to their totally great Scrap It Out CD from a little while back (well, a long while back now), and a mean feat that most certainly isn't. Anyway, on with the review McDuff: five songs, one (kind of) unlisted track from '88 (featuring Chris Wilson), the new stuff once again featuring those two small men with big attitudes, Tim'n'Joel, and every track is pretty goddamn stunning. Slothful, lethargic, self-indulgent,melodic, drugged, yet undeniably great. Best track here is the beautiful number "While My Light Still Burns," but there's no way you can call any of the five as something resembling a dud or throwaway (so please don't don't). "Here She Comes" is kinda odd, though; a semi-mersh sounding country twang opus not unlike The Feelies, Yo La Tengo or The Scene Is Now. I aint complaining, just name-dropping. Yes, I do highly recommend this, and yes, it IS one of the year's best releases (shit, OK, last year's) and anyone who (stupidly) dismisses this as lame, cliched, "emotional" indie rock or some sort of retro FM radio extravaganza a la The Eagles or something is speaking out of their backside. Come to think of it, The Sunset Strip are probably the only local band not called Dumb & The Ugly, The Powder Monkeys or The Dirty 3 whose releases I actually eagerly await upon release. Bizarre or what?!" Thanks Dave! See more
19.01.2022 Warwick's new electronic toy. Will make our next album - recording, cutting and putting vinyl in sleeves, answer unanswerable questions, scratch parts we can't reach and make our coffee (or herbal tea for Dubya) - all in 8-bit glory!
18.01.2022 Warwick and I are diligently (if that word can ever be realistically attached to The Sunsets!!) recording the follow-up album to Crystal Ships. It's working title is Grapefruit and it continues the vein of 'freeway to the spaceways' stuff we've been doing since we kick-started releasing again in 2017 with Endless Sea. Following that will be one we've been slowly working towards completing since 2010 (now that's more like our level of "diligence"!!) called Lonely Surfer and which mines more of our very first album's mix of country and crunch. So keep your ears peeled for Grapefruit - coming soon.
18.01.2022 Cosmic tones for mental therapy
17.01.2022 While waiting for the new enjoy the old! Holocaust 1990 https://youtu.be/Xv65XE1Obxo
14.01.2022 If anyone ever asks me what it was like to live through 2020...
13.01.2022 Fantastic review of Crystal Ships in Rhythms magazine. Reviewer Ian McFarlane always championed The Sunsets back in the day and he continues to get what we're trying to do to this day. Never thought we'd be compared to Cluster and Popul Vuh but we'll take it with glee! Thanks yet again Ian. (click pic to expand to see full review)
12.01.2022 Posted a new photo: "'Crystal Ships & Infinite Arrivals' is available now on CD and Vinyl"
09.01.2022 While waiting for the new stuff here's a classic bit of old stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1R48jFl4o&feature=youtu.be
05.01.2022 Posted a new blog entry "Check out the preview of tracks from side 2 of our next album In Transit Satellite. It's more of our Krautrock/psychedelica meets The Stooges approach. Full album coming soon." https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7ty3h7
04.01.2022 Remembering Charles Mingus, born on this day in 1922 in Nogales, Arizona. Here he is playing All the Things You Are in 1968.
04.01.2022 Here's a local guy diving into the depths of a psych ocean (and lotsa other cool underground stuff as well - I'm just listening to a very Barrett-era Floyd tune). Self-recorded and well-motivated (wish we were so prolific but that's my fault). Anyway, check out his stuff and listen to his radio show if he still has it (not sure). I really appreciate musicians who stay true to their own muse and just want to put it out there. No need for fame or cash (not that it isn't appreciated!). Check it out. Lotsa' variety so if you don't like one track check out a few more cos there are so many moods/style. https://www.reverbnation.com/paisleysky/songs
04.01.2022 Here's an old interview from 2013 I'd completely forgotten about. Nothing too revelatory for old fans but might be interesting to newer ones perhaps - - https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com//the-sunset-strip-inter
02.01.2022 Baile de serpiente de Janik & Arnaut (1953).
02.01.2022 Lounge room concerts More cosmic tones for mental therapy
