Ade’s brief history.....
Played drums in bands since mid-80s around Adelaide and
gradually learnt guitar, which enabled me to write songs more easily. Because I
only play by ear I didn't really follow traditional learning paths and norms in
music. So I guess, influenced by early Floyd and The Church, I went
off on my own little psychedelic tangent.....
Written 300-odd songs and have always
discarded any ideas which fit into a top-40 type niche.
AAAArrrgh!!!
After meandering through rhythm and
blues, surf, rockabilly and the like, I met Hugh Wilson and Greg Jones in 1992
and formed Spiraled, playing often swirling songs with a Ride/Pixies
tinge. This was more definitely where I was headed. Went on to form Thrive
with Wilson in 1994 with me on guitar/vocals and experimented with a more
leafy sound. Played in Whirlpool on SA's west-coast for a while and then The
Zoids with Hugh Wilson again, as a psyche-pop duo complete with drum-machine.
Made some nice recordings and wrote some great tunes together.
Greg Jones had an idea to get a
stripped-down punk outfit happening so I moved back to drums and we became Pogo
in 2000, mixing punk, indie, mod and psyche-pop influences in a grungy
blancmange of 'teetering on the edge' rock. Started mainly doing punk
classics but the originals-itch came back and now we’re full-on
originals-going-for-it-sort-of-thing-you-know...
Lyrically I've often delved into
the unlikely topics of natural disasters and the food chain. Writing from say,
a venus fly-trap's point of view when it's about to eat a fly does more for me
than writing about having a 'rockin' good time'. The mood of
imagining meteorites hitting the earth interests me a bit more than the
sequenced bursts of bubblegum music. Takes one to the 'other side', cliché.
Used to write mainly for my own
listening and through the 90’s had no idea about the possibility of mp3s and
the internet. Now averaging around 7 000 listens and downloads a
month in my various cyber-guises, including Pogo,
Her
Garden (11 albums inc. 3 double), The
Zoids, Moonfish and Hobgoblins.
mp3s…
http://www.mp3.com.au/hergarden
homepage…