In 1981 a teenage Martin Kennedy watched Steve Kilbey and The Church play at a strange hippie festival in Australia. They were outliers at this festival and he fell in love with their look and sound. He recorded their set on a walkman, and the songs helped spark the beginning of his music career.
Just a year before, an equally fresh-faced Steve Kilbey formed The Church in Sydney, the very beginning of their public life as accidental hit makers. Forty five years later Martin and Steve find themselves working together on their ninth (add a bunch side projects to this epic side project and they’re about 20 albums in) studio album Things We Did On Earth. It’s always so simple: Steve calls Martin: hey we’re touring…
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The post-rock supergroup Speed of the Stars has released their long-awaited second album. The band features Steve Kilbey of Australian psych pioneers The Church; Frank Kearns of Irish alt-rockers Cactus World News; singer-songwriter Hugo Race, and Barton Price of 80s Aussie chart stars Models.
Recorded at Puccini Floating Music Academy near Pisa, and produced by Race, While Italy Dreamed…. through Summers of Haze comes nine years after the band’s debut, which was initially a collaboration between Kilbey and Kearns, who had met while touring the US in the mid-80s.
“A few years back I read Hugo Race’s most excellent memoir Road Series about his adventures touring and making music all around…