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The Triffids
I mixed The Triffids for a while in the early 80s after knowing them at school in Perth.
That particular photo was taken when Dave and I took the train up to Newcastle to help load in the PA for the band we were supporting (I can't remember who it was).
At that time it was usual for the support band to be expected to provide two people to help set up and load out - with a failure leading to a penalty of $100 ($25/person/direction) being levied against the band. As most musicians earned nothing, or close to it, for actually playing they would often do the loading for the cash. In this case Dave and I were the loaders, and the rest of the band arrived a few hours later in Rob McComb's trusty white Kombi.
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Saw The Triffids in Sweden 1986 on a very known Rockfestival (Hultsfredsfestivalen)... Great band!!
Have several LPs with them... Lovely 80s music...
Excellent picture and story. “Born Sandy Devotional” was such a big record for me. Tried to get my band to rewrite “Wide Open Road” with very limited success. Could never find a band to hit the same notes. Maybe Tindersticks. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing that story. Really liked that band.
Very good. And thanks for sharing both the pic and the backstory. It's odd having feelings about folks who died but we didn't know, whereas you of course have a more direct line when it comes to DM, BUT I still miss him, that time, those days and their unrealized possibilities. His and ours both. Thanks again.
Yep, what an incredible album. I did a solo bicycle tour through Laos and listened it like crazy. Lonely Stretch, then Wide Open Road, then Life of Crime, gotta be up there as one of the strongest sets of three songs in a row out there... Too young to have caught them back then, really wish I had been able to see them live...
That's the one Dave took of me. We must have been early.
These are incredible. Thank you. And maybe this thread might inspire a few more people to listen to the Triffids, too (and Dave McComb’s solo album Love of Will).
I always thought there was something singular about the band, and that that quality was the result of several other qualities: instrumentation, phrasing, landscape, longing, lyrics. Whatever it was, it made its mark. For me in London, it made the other side of the planet a live thought in my mind, somehow full of colour, almost synesthetic.
Thanks again.
Checked now and it was 1986 on the Hultsfredsfestival..
That clip was from a venue called The Playroom on the Gold Coast in Queensland. I think it may have been early 1984.
The band came back from a couple of years in London and what was really noticable was that they were tight, they could play.