Something For Kate / Bluebottle Kiss
Fear Of Girls
In*Press (Melbourne street paper)

Murmur stable mates Something For Kate and Bluebottle Kiss get along brilliantly after their recent Unipaloser National Tour. They have similar philosophies and music backgrounds. Frontmen Paul Dempsey of Something For Kate and Jamie Buchanon of Bluebottle Kiss mused as most songwriters do for almost an hour. Glenn Peters extracted the more interesting moments of conversation.

Fear Of Surfers
SK: "I used to live in Burleigh Heads."
BB: "I know."
SK: "I can't bring myself to write a song about it. Burleigh Heads did not endear itself to me that much."
BB: "I'm sure some of your songs are about when you were living in Burleigh Heads but it seems that your spent more times in the garage than out on the beach. Making model aeroplanes."
SK: "Well exactly. That's what the captain song is about."
BB: "Some of the new songs that I've been writing are about growing up in Bondi, the heat and the broken buses and being terrified of surfing at South Bondi because you thought you would get your head punched in. Vague ambiguous references to Sydney beach culture."
SK: "I was terrified of surfing at 19th Avenue, Burleigh Heads."
BB: "When my brother and I progressed to a fibreglass board and went to South End, everyone out there were mutants. They were out there to kill. They did not care if you were ten or eleven years old. They would scream, and yell and intimidate you. When I smell a certain kind of surf wax called survival wax, I feel nervous."
SK: "Drug crazed tribal surfie lunatics."
BB: "I went out surfing at Moruobura a couple of years ago and there were all these skin head guys all screaming and yelling. They must have all gone to the barber at the same day."
SK: "Getting your hair cut the same day as your mates is always reason for yelling."

Melbourne V Sydney
BB: "I can't believe how much you can play down in Melbourne. It's amazing that you can do two or three shows in one weekend." SK: "We've got four gigs this week."
BB: "That's crazy. Over here you just can't do it. It's not just us. A lot of other bands just don't play. You can only play The Annandale and the Sandringham."
SK: "So you only have two venues?"
BB: "They opened up the Vulcan which is a small place like the Sandro but it's risky playing there. You only play there if you can't get gigs anywhere else. You look bad if you play there. You're either hardcore punk or just a band starting out."
SK: "Thanks for the warning."
BB: "The Thing is that I'm sick of playing The Annandale, so I think it would be cool to play at The Vulcan, get a really good bill together and make it adventurous. People will not stay outside The Annandale and The Sandringham to see a band."
SK: "Because coolness is on the line _ So Sydney has two venues, yet it is the centre of the Australian music scene I believe."
BB: "I don't know how anyone could say it is. I suppose we have The Metro. I think it's the hardest place to crack."
SK: "I was only kidding. I think Melbourne is."
BB: "So do I."

Blokes On Tour
SK: "Unipaloser did turn into a bit of a porn fest after a while. We won't go into that."
In*Press: A bunch of blokes on tour with some porn.
SK: "And a girl, just to provide a balance. Ten guys and one girl. That was balanced enough."
BB: "She probably had seen enough testosterone to never want to see a guy again."
SK: "It wasn't that bad. There were certain parties that made it very blokey."
BB: "The bus ride from Rockhampton got out of control. I thought I was in one of those buses that groups of guys hire out and tour around the city, yelling at everyone on the street. Our bus passed through the twilight zone, a metamorphosis where it turned into a bloke bus." SK: "It was funny. We can narrow it down to certain drummers. All us singers and guitarists _"
BB: "We gazed out the window, broodingly staring at the horizon."
SK: "We had our heads stuck in a Science Fiction or philosophy book. They were screaming at girls on the road and we were reciting Kafka."
BB: "Fond memories."

Those Comparisons
BB: "Our new LP, Fear Of Girls has been accepted in a huge way by the Melbourne press. One reviewer wrote for our whole review, `Buffalo Kiss'. Underneath our review was a review of Violetine which read, `Violet Tom'. I saw Violetine once and they sounded nothing like Buffalo Tom. I suppose sometimes we sometimes do sound like Buffalo Tom, but it would be ridiculous to say the whole record sounds like Buffalo Tom. I remember reading about Buffalo Tom and when they first started they were being called Dinosaur Jnr Jnr."
SK: "We are copping a lot of Bush comparisons lately even though we've been around in Australia before anyone knew who Bush were."

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