the Hummingbirds: c/d

i still miss that album

this video is pretty ott goofy though, let's be honest
i guess that's kinda cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGCMgm5R7T8&feature=related

^^record company fiddling

One can only hope. Would have loved to see the pitch meeting for that one.

for foreign readers: Simon and Alannah are currently both in The Aerial Maps, and the Hummingbirds played two reunion shows last year (one festival with five original-era members not including Robyn, and one headline about nine months later with a ring-in bassist [and bonus ring-in gtrst on one song])

lovebuzz is one of my favorite dollar-bin albums ever.

to this day i still don't know if that (awesome) 4th song on tail is called 'sick on' or 'sick on self pity'

I'm rather shocked to learn that Simon Holmes died, and that I didn't realise sooner. :(

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/jul/21/the-hummingbirds-were-a-vital-part-of-australian-music-history-simon-holmes-will-not-be-forgotten

Big tribute show coming up next month: http://www.factorytheatre.com.au/events/2017/12/03/ratcat-custard-ups-downs-more-hindsight-a-night-for-simon

the remembrance by Tim Byron that the Graun review quotes might as well be linked directly: https://inmemoryofsimon.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/my-time-with-simon-holmes/

Simon was a warm & sweet guy offstage, and always focused when on. I hadn't seen him since a secret Simon & Allanah / encoring as Hummingbirds gig early last year. Just ten minutes walk from my house, I found out about it half an hour before, when the regular music trivia at another local pub was called off for the week because too many regulars were going to the show. But we didn't talk that night - I was too busy catching up with ppl I might not have seen for years, including the fill-in bassist (at whose encouragement they'd relearnt the songs), folks that had played with him in Fragile and others, and Tim above.

It's better, I think, to have that as a last memory. Instead of saying 'hey' if he was coming out of work as I was passing, or congratulating him on the show, to have been brought together with people from across the city by the chance to see him & Allanah sing.