”Things had started to
move fairly quickly once The Saints recorded Stranded (Fatal Records) in mid ’76.
We recorded three albums over the next two years as well as doing a fair it of
touring, and for a while things were looking very promising, however, business
problems, compounded by personal and artistic differences meant the band didn’t
get around to recording all the material I had lying around….so forty odd years
later it occurred to me that these songs might well have made up a hypothetical
4th album….The Church of the Simultaneous Existence…..the songs that refused to
die….performed in much the way they would have had the band not split up in
1978’’
– Ed Kuepper
I de to seneste Mod Strømmen
udsendelser har Ed Kuepper været repræsenteret med solomateriale. De fleste
kender ham som primær sangskriver for Australiens finest, The Saints. Efter de
gik i opløsning i 1978, dannede han Laughing Clowns, som han spillede med frem
til midten af firserne, hvor solokarrieren tog fart.
Sidste år besluttede Kuepper sig
for at fejre fyrreåret for udgivelsen af The Saints debutplade ’(I'm) Stranded’.
Han gendannede halvfemser støj-outfittet The Aints under navnet The Aints!. Og drog på landevejen med bassisten Peter Oxley fra Sunnyboys, trommeslager Paul
Larsen Loughhead fra The Celibate Rifles og The New Christs, samt jazzpianisten
Alister Spence og trompetisten Eamon Dilworth. Undervejs begyndte Kuepper også
at præsentere bandet for sange, han havde skrevet til The Saints. Sange, der
ikke havde været plads til på gruppens tre plader. Dét er der nu kommet en
skidegod plade ud af. Hør ’The Church of Simultaneous Existence’ herunder.
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