October 14th, 2017
Finally we’re proud to go live on our website – yep, if you’re reading this then everything has gone to plan.
We’ve been writing and producing music for the past few years together as OLDER and the number of tracks have crept up on us. We thought it was about time we released an album, or a ‘collection’, which we are working on now. Getting the housekeeping in order was equally important so we thought we’d behave and get the website up first.
Farewell the quarter acre dream
October 13th, 2017
We live rural. We didn’t used to.
We lived in 1/8th acre yard (500+sqm plot of land) in suburban Auckland. We had a veggie plot, around 15 fruit trees and ditched the cars in the driveway to make way for a workshop to build things ‘n stuff.
A year ago when we sold up and moved down country. We’d written and produced Banshee on the cusp of a revelation, as with many of our tracks, an audio diary of what was happening in our heads. Our heads are very busy so it take a bit to break through into song!
Bear with us…
January 24th, 2016
We’re not. We’re OLDER.
But I’M SORRY was written half a lifetime ago by Jel and we thought we’d give it a brush down and shine up a few edges.
One of the slower, more methodical songs you will probably hear from us, it was written – yes, before the internet. Maybe I need to write a letter…maybe I need to make a call. Shocking as it may seem, we used to do that sort of stuff.
December 26th, 2015
Being ordinary bores us. We try to go there as little as possible.
… but at times we smile and nod only in the clear knowledge that we can always rely on insanity to keep things real.
Insanity – like selling a perfectly adequate house (goodbye The Bunker) a buying a 90 year old bungalow with original un-insulated walls that smelled like boiled cabbage. It has a backyard though of particularly well composted soil. Noted. Old punks never die, they just move to the country and grow veges. It isn’t the country. That’s the next step. For now, it’s smack in the middle of suburbia. Er, well.
November 10th, 2015
Well, that’s how Jel recalls it. SLOW BLINK is our first track together as OLDER.
For months we’ve enjoyed the studio, fondly referred to as ‘the bunker’ as it’s housed in a freshly renovated downstairs room; a small room with no external windows and a little spooky.
During renovations we’d found a large plastic jar of intravenous needles hidden in the rafters…and the empty shotgun cartridges that appear every few months outside our door…that probably got the imagination going too. Not that it stops us spending hours there every evening making music.