The Aints! spiller The Saints. Eller….

”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.