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About Us
At school, no one liked us. Any of us. Except Mary, who was school captain. So, it became our burning ambition to earn the love and respect of strangers. We made a band.
Initially, no one liked the band, so we put personal likes and dislikes behind us and tried to earn the love and respect of our audience by sleeping with them.
Several years later, still unloved, we had made many acquaintances. Finally our hard work paid off. We had wide airplay in the UK, were roaring up the UK indie charts and were signed to a credible label. The only problem was, we lived in Australia. So, knowing the love of strangers is more important than personal happiness, we set off for England, where we toured and played gigs and were on the radio often. We had a little blue transit van, from which we dispensed happiness to drab lives.
They loved us. We loved them.
We would have stayed and loved them more except that we had no money, slept on dirty floors (except Wayne and Jua’s, which was clean and lovely) and ate fried food at every meal.
And, we had to keep our own company, and, as much as we love the company of strangers, we hate each other with the grim loathing typical of pop groups.
So, we came back to Australia and went on holiday for 7 years.
More recently we have started making some new music and will be putting out some unreleased back catalogue.
What do we do? We are a pop band. Always have been. We love what everyone else loves. We like things to be bright, shallow, ephemeral, mass produced. If you sense subversive tendencies, your senses have deceived you. You are projecting something other onto our benign and likeable product. We love you. All we want is that you love us too? Is that so difficult?
Even As We Speak are:
Matthew Love, Mary Wyer, Anita Rayner, Rob Irwin, and Julian Knowles
Other Projects:
Mary is earning the love of audiences with Her Name in Lights, a new project with Simon Holmes (ex Hummingbirds), Almond Cafarella and Simon Gibson (Modern Giant). Their album, “Into the Light Again”, will be released November 2004 on Laughing Outlaw Records.
Matt is working on his alternative country band “Matt Love and the Rusty Halos”. A few years ago he released a 7", “3am“ on Moonscreen Records, featuring: Another Beer, My Old Shotgun and Ambition. It’s available through Little Prints http://www.microindie.com
Julian plays laptops and experimental music with Social Interiors, releasing stuff through Extreme Records and gets occasional pop fixes guesting with old mates, Big Heavy Stuff.