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i [love] Space

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About Me


hello friend.
‘i [love] Space’ have decided to take an indefinite break from playing music. we’ll all no doubt be kicking round in different and other’d guises, so treat us with the shouting-a-round-at-yr-local friendliness yr reserve for those sit-com xmas specials where all yr fave scenes from the past are re-lived, minus the fluff.
a tip of the hat, firm handshake, and most sincere & heartfelt head’s up to everyone who’s watched a show, listened to a record, clapped, shouted, laughed, cried, or tried to stab us after a show over the past few years. they’ve been times we’ll tell our grandkids about, and the people we’ve sailed through on our journey with have, to sink into most hated cliché, made it all possible, and most certainly all worthwhile.
our best to yours, always.
iLS
i [love] Space is a 4-piece band from Sydney, Australia.

[love] is a heart symbol. visualise.
Formed in 2004, with an indie single 6phase finding itself on rotation on JJJ and community radio, the band underwent a line-up change in 2005, before releasing a limited edition (200 handmade copies) single, birds.attck in February 2006.
birds.attck was selected by Channel 10 as the soundtrack to commercials to promote television show The OC for the week Feb 7th-14th, before being put on med-high rotation by JJJ and high rotation on community stations including FBi and 2SER. in limousine windows put on high rotation on community stations including FBi and 2SER.
In May 2006, the band released its debut EP, Sinful Sounds From A Vintage City (Reverberation). The EP is currently in its second pressing.
JJJ added birds.attck to their MP3s page, and the track was subsequently downloaded over 12,000 times. JJJ also recorded the band live in their studios for Home & Hosed. This performance was filmed for JTV, and screened on ABC on August 18th. birds.attck was included on the Home & Hosed vol. 4 compilation.
in limousine windows was chosen to feature on a CD sampler for the September 2006 edition of Rolling Stone Australia. An interview with the band was included in the issue.
i [love] Space has toured with Youth Group and Bit By Bats, and played alongside the likes of Magic Dirt, Gaslight Radio, Faker, theredsunband, Hot Sauce, Expatriate, The Devoted Few, and The Cloud Room (NYC) to name a few.
Brooding, epic indie pop, and the best thing Ive heard come out of Sydney all year ... a band who manage to harness eclecticism whilst maintaining their own coherent, confident sound.
- Beat Magazine
with their debut EP, Sinful Sounds From a Vintage City, theyve created a hook laden melodic masterpiece that continues to resound within you, long after the CD has stopped playing.
- Faster Louder
.. somewhere in-between shoegazer and indie pop with a dash of British swagger.
- Your Gigs (Live Review - Essential Festival)
..one of those bands where you want to know which way they may go next..
- Drum Media
earlier this year, we pimped out The OC.. dig on..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/29/2005
Band Website: welovespace.tv
Band Members: Joel Werner (vox/guitars/melodian)
Ben Hay (vox/guitars/banjo)
Andrew Day (drums & percussion)
Scott Ward (bass)
Influences: sparkle sparkles, macaroni, cure for polio, round the world solo everythink, dream, perkin's paste, ticker tape experimentation, gravity, ockham's razor.
Sounds Like: the plural of 'fishes' is 'and how!'. [love] is a heart symbol. visualise. i [love] Space compose sound via ticker tape machine, edit by garden shear & perkins paste, and end at sparkle sparkle with an oft-tinged black approach to post.pop/indie.rock founded on crafted, meticulous guitar tones and instantly catchable melody.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

We [love] FBi (94.5 FM)

Thanks muchly from the bottom of our downstrokes to Sydney's FBi Radio for adding our new single Knew You Then to rotation! Join up during their Block Party Supporter Drive to win a whole heap of the...
Posted by i [love] Space on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:09:00 PST

i [love] Space - NEW SINGLE!

Hi everyone, We've just uploaded Knew You Then, our brand spanking new single to our MySpace page. It's to radio next week, then to pressers and shows and stores and ears.But for now, it's just here.H...
Posted by i [love] Space on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:00 PST

Live Review: Laura Imbruglia, i [love] Space + Ghosts of Television @ The Hopetoun Hotel

In the end, this became a battle of the bands.   To go in chronological order, Ghosts of Television felt like an experiment still to reach a result. The band appeared uncomfortable on stage, dork...
Posted by i [love] Space on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:46:00 PST

Live Review: I [love] Space @ The Hopetoun, Sydney (07/10/06)

It's official, I've run out of adjectives. Or rather, I can't afford to lose them. I could have begun this review with a rather florid estimation of I [love] Space but what's the point of ex...
Posted by i [love] Space on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:47:00 PST

Home & Hosed - Volume 4

birds.attack, the single we've been whoring out for almost half a year now, will appear on JJJ's upcoming compilation CD Home & Hosed Vol IV which made for much excitements and prompted a ridiculo...
Posted by i [love] Space on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:57:00 PST

EP Review (part 4 - Drum Media)

From DRUM MEDIA (Ross Clelland)   I [Love] Space Sinful Sounds From A Vintage City EP (Reverberation)   Their languid builds to sometimes passionate strangulation from Joel are so close to...
Posted by i [love] Space on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:41:00 PST

EP Review (part 3 - 'Faster Louder')

From Faster Louder www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/music/5012/   I Love Space - Sinful Sounds From A Vintage City Reported by: icutmyownhair - Monday, Jun 19, 2006. 05:18   It would seem...
Posted by i [love] Space on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:30:00 PST

EP Review (part 2 - 'Beat Mag' - Melbourne)

From Beat (Melb)   SINGLE OF THE WEEK I [Love] Space Sinful Sounds From A Vintage City EP (Reverberation) Brooding, epic indie pop, and the best thing Ive heard come out of Sydney all year. Open...
Posted by i [love] Space on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:21:00 PST

EP Review (part 1 - 'Time Off' - Brisbane)

From Time Off (Bris) I [LOVE] SPACE Sinful Sounds from a Vintage City (Reverberation) This is the second official release from this Sydney band, who have already got Richard Kingsmills seal of approva...
Posted by i [love] Space on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:21:00 PST

Triple J Live Recordinks

by hammer of thor and stool of drum (thru limousine windows)it's frames within frames...maaaaaaan!frenk shoes pedal feetride the lightingrazzy ravs and rawks (with rists)walls as tall as shadowsroll t...
Posted by i [love] Space on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:54:00 PST