There comes a point in recording vocals where excitement can actually become a bit dangerous. You finish the mix, chuck the headphones on, turn it up loud and think, “Yes. That’s it, brilliant – release it now!” And sometimes it is ready. But more often than not, I’ve learned to...Continue reading
I was talking to a fella once about music and he was telling me about this fairly famous local band he absolutely loved – the sort of band he’d follow from one end of the country to the other. You could tell he was genuinely passionate about them and I...Continue reading
When you meet new people around our age the conversation eventually gets to the standard question: “So, what do you do?” When we say, “We’re musicians,” the conversation almost always just… ends. “Oh.” And then silence. No one really asks anything further. No one says, “Would I know your music?”...Continue reading
Human+ was our second OLDER album, released in 2021, and looking back now it feels tied to one of the strangest periods most of us have lived through. When we started writing it, the world hadn’t fully tipped upside down yet. The album wasn’t intended as a “lock-down album” or...Continue reading
This is the record equivalent of a ‘shelfie’. There’s probably three or four hundred albums sitting there – vinyl, proper vinyl. It’s having a bit of a revival these days, a bit of a comeback. Many moons ago we bought 500 records for $500 as a random job-lot. And yes...Continue reading
There’s always that one piece of gear, isn’t there? The one that sits in the back of your mind for years… a bit of a dream. For me, it was a Rickenbacker bass. I’ve been playing bass for a long time now. Forty-five years, give or take. Started out like...Continue reading
Sometimes, just sometimes, a song taps me on the shoulder early and goes, “Yep, it’s me.” That’s exactly what’s happened with track number 4 on our current album-in-progress unofficially known as Skip Ad. I appreciate Track #4 isn’t exactly a chart-topping title just yet, but… to be fair, Blur’s ‘Song...Continue reading
There’s a part of making music that almost no one sees. Not the polished version, not the final mix, not the one that lands on an album or gets played live. I’m talking about that in-between space, the stage where something exists… but doesn’t quite know what it is yet…...Continue reading
It’s a bit surreal about looking back and realising just how much time has passed without you really noticing it happening. Nearly ten years ago, we filmed a little video called At Home With OLDER. At the time, we were sitting there talking about songs we were writing for what...Continue reading
There’s something about old gear that sneaks up on you. You don’t think about it for years, then one day you’re standing there wondering what’s the oldest bit of musical kit I still own? For me, it turns out to be this bass. It’s a 1980s Japanese bass guitar, nothing...Continue reading
I’m as passionate about making music now as I was 40 years ago. That hasn’t changed. And I think that’s the bit that matters. Because you see it all the time. Brilliant musicians, far better than me, just… stop. Lose interest. Move on. And that’s fine. Nothing wrong with that....Continue reading
I’m Julie, the singer in OLDER, which still makes me laugh a bit because if you’d told me years ago this is where I’d land, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. But here I’m, still doing it and still loving it! I take the lead on vocals, but if I’m...Continue reading
This little self-filmed piece, At Home with OLDER, goes right back to 2017 before our debut SILENCE album officially landed in 2019. Because this is us. Jel and Julie. Married, otherwise not related. Still very happily married (just for the records) nine years later as this video resurfaces. We’re really...Continue reading