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Formed during winter and spring of 2007 in Melbourne, lowercase n started as a simple jam catch up in the spare room of a dingy flat before solidifying at Bakehouse Studios in North Richmond.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/11/2007
Band Members: Antony McMullen
-Guitar/Vocals
Gwyn Edwards
-Guitar/Vocals/Keys
Meaghan Hocking
-Bass/Vocals
Influences: Bluetile Lounge, Galaxie 500, Low, Yo La Tengo, Radiohead, Sandro, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake
Sigur Ros, Severed Heads, Nico, The Kinks, Nick Cave, David Bowie, Smog, Massive Attack, Bjork, Stereolab, The Beatles, Beach Boys (particularly Pet Sounds), Bob Dylan
The Twilight Zone, The Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno & Horkheimer, the Epistle of St. James, George Orwell, solidarity, Tove Jansson, William Gibson, spring rain, lazy cats, Motown girl groups

Sounds Like: Could this be folkgaze meets whimsy? Could this be slowcore kosmiche lock-groove jam? Nah, essentially an indie pop band with touches of acoustic folk, shoegaze and space rock mixed in for good measure ... at least so far.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

About the lowercase n

   Name: Antony What you wanted to be when your grew up: Spaceman First instrument you learnt to play: Guitar First album bought: I want to hold your hand  single, by the Be...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Hiatus

Baby's, brouhaha's and saunters around Tokyo. What have you been doing these past months? ~mrh
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:53:00 GMT

Overstaying a musical welcome?

I've been re-reading the Belle and Sebastian biography lately, and it makes me think about bands who have put out some really amazing early stuff but then get spoil it all by putting out some just ave...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:23:00 GMT

Full Moon

aaahhhwoooo.   MRH ~ 'n'
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:29:00 GMT

Rehearsal and frog

It has been hot this week in Melbourne. The people are slowly heading back from holidays into the city and other places. We are back to the rehearsal room this Sunday. Bakehouse is a great place to do...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:26:00 GMT

What is folk?

A journalist in The Wire music magazine recently wrote that describing music as folk simply because a musician or band uses acoustic instruments does not wash. This seems a fair point. We had describe...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:14:00 GMT

A rose bush

A child fell in to a rose bush and asked, "why did the rose bush hurt me?"ajm ~ 'n'
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:07:00 GMT

Post Christmas/New Year

For some reason a greater feeling of optimism can occur on the new year. For the 'glass half full' brigade this can come as a bit of a shock. An old associate in the indie schmindy game has offered h...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:50:00 GMT

Happy Holidays

All in the lowercase n camp send there best to everyone. May the sesson give peace, joy and see you all safely and happily into the new year Much love to you all. :~lowercase n~:
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:50:00 GMT