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About Me

my formative musical years were spent playing guitar in the post rock style... pretty and heavy. while bands i was in rose briefly and collapsed (vagus, springs) i was also making ambient experimental music on a digital 4 track, collecting gear, thinking, pacing, working, drinking a lot, going insane and falling in love.in 2005 i started recording demos for a band i was trying to form with some friends. the songs took shape but the band didn't, and those demos became the music of aheadphonehome.also in 2005, my partner stella and i leased an ex tyre factory and converted it into the beautiful studio you see on the album cover. i bunkered down there throughout 2006 with my computer.. surrounded by guitars, a fuzzy old organ, synthesisers, drum machines, old radios and tape decks, and a bunch of op shop records that ranged from the timeless tropical sounds of "songs of hawaii" to the cleverly titled "learn french in record time". friends dropped by to contribute parts and advice. we had big parties.the album that emerged from this era is called "in the static". it's a very personal ode to ideas of home, impossible quests for perfection, the passage of time, love, insomnia and dreams of how things might be.the studio is now home to the monthly festivale that is hangar. check out the loflyhangar myspace in the top friends for details.. in the static is the second release from the lofly label, following restream's 2006 release "loopsforstereogram". it is available from rockinghorse and skinny's and online at www.cdbaby.com.over this australian summer, i'm having a well earned break after working in the public service for the last 732 years. please send friend requests and messages - i will get to them early next year.i am hoping 2008 will see a new album (or two), and a lot of touring.

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Member Since: 8/18/2006
Band Members: phil laidlaw
I got my background from Backgrounds Archive!

Influences: music: restream, the rebel astronaughts, sonic youth, mogwai, manitoba, caribou, fourtet, the kingsbury manx, colleen, pavement, malkmus. bluebottle kiss, not from there, gota cola, sandpit, gaslight radio, augie march. broken social scene. the national, redsunband, ahmad szabo, the books, clue to kalo, robot fox, nina nastasia, my bloody valentine, radiohead, sadness is in the sky, wilco, sounds like sunset, cocteau twins, springs, boards of canada, 2 dollar guitar, sebadoh, sigur ros, machine translations, godspeed you black emperor, trail of dead, M83, art of fighting, elbow, vagus, i am kloot, bloon, seaplane, del toro, rival flight, doves (lost souls era), underground lovers, icehouse, stereolab, electrelane, later blur, dj shadow, the arcade fire, yo la tengo, brittle buildings,working in the public servicewriters haruki murakami, tom robbins, bret easton ellis, jack kerouac, milan kundera, jonathan safran foer, hanif kureishi
Sounds Like: a beautiful mess
Record Label: lofly
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

yes, you can buy in the static... here:

aheadphonehome's debut album "in the static" is available in a couple of record shops in brisbane.. rockinghorse and skinny's. you can order it online from cdbaby, and you can download it there ...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:05:00 PST

holidays shouldnt be a last resort.

tomorrow i am heading off with stella for 4 months. a new niece to visit in yorkshire, then london, france, spain, a good spell in morocco and finally italy. we will be back in brisbane in late feb. t...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:55:00 PST

tripleJ interview: here

on sunday night i had a chat to fenella kernabone on the sound lab - triple J's home for sounds that are a bit stranger than wolfmother. she played a couple of songs from my record too. the show is up...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:44:00 PST

first album review

published in rave - 24/10/07..> AHEADPHONEHOME In The Static ..> (Lofly Records...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:36:00 PST

letter to lucas

i think the themes (wars) are:isolation vs connectionconsumption vs spiritualitycorporations vs peoplethe edges battle for the middle corporations have some advantages mainly that they have claimed th...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:54:00 PST

splendour

dry, hard, dusty. sun stuck in haze. young blond orange women. richie-hiltons everywhere. pete dohertys fucking themselves for a weekend, not a life. surrounded by fashion, the dirty three won out.
Posted by aheadphonehome on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:09:00 PST

boxing's been good to me

as i recall rainy nights were good for sleeping now they aren't. i swear i can feel the negative charge moving something darker through the dark.. and i'm curious as to what that could be. and it's ...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:59:00 PST

after the glow

the scene the stage the set talk becomes slow and there's one thing i'll never forget hey you gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent hello there i just realised that some people actually read ...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:26:00 PST

we made a place to play

we made part of the warehouse into an venue. literally underground. the block slopes so the stage is back under the footpath, which is good for noise reasons and subsequently for staying up late reaso...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Tue, 08 May 2007 11:57:00 PST

mystique. disclosure. blogs.

some bands use this space as a bulletin board to update fans: (we have a new song. our bass player died. we are appearing on letterman.) brian eno hates the way music and image collude these days to...
Posted by aheadphonehome on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:11:00 PST