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About Me

It all started way back in 2003 some time, when Ollie and Will had a late night jam somewhere out in the Melbourne badlands. Ollie happened to be playing an old grandma organ called "Genie", and so a legend was born. Ollie liked the idea of being the keyboard-bassist as well as the keyboardist, having much bass-playing experience from his long stint in Melbourne band "Past Ollie's Bedtime", but soon decided against that idea. Ryan soon joined the band, which still only really existed in the minds of those who thought it was a cool idea. Later that year, Ollie and Ryan had a sleeping-pills-and-Tiger-Beer-fueled brainstorming session on a flight from Singapore to London, and, in between boughts of hysteria, laid down some generally awesome ideas for what the band could do musically. It was a long list, and we're still gradually getting through it. On October 1, 2003 we all gathered at Ollie's house to record what would become "Jam 1", which turned out better that any of us expected. It became the blueprint for what would eventually happen at the live shows: start off with a song we know, then gradually let it run off the rails and then jam the fuck out for an hour, with occasional tightly arranged fusiony material. The first gig didn't come until around about June 2004, supporting The Conglomerate (another fine band that Ollie is in) at 303 Bar. It went down okay, the general consensus being that "the audience may not have actually enjoyed that as much as we did!" We played 303 whenever all three of us were in town (ie not often), and Genie gigs became a once-every-four-months deal. Until January 2006. Five times in a month. We weren't sure whether to take six years off or keep rehearsing. Rehearse we did. We've also recorded a whole heap (about five days) of stuff now, and are SLOOOWLY editing it into something cool that you'll all be able to wrap your ears around soon. Until then, check out our first jam ever (Good Bits) and various live bits and pieces as we put them up. "Cuba Jam" and "Here Come the Scissors" are a few bits we've (tentatively) finished for the album. Enjoy. We're also one third (approx.) of the live incarnation of Jackson Jackson. Check them out too. If they're doing a gig, we're probably involved.

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Member Since: 12/19/2005
Band Members: Ollie McGill - Keys
Ryan Monro - Bass
Will Hull-Brown - Drums

Record Label: Blowtorch
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

GLog 32: Studio Days 17 Thru 20 Inclusive

We've finished the album. I need some sleep. Later.Love RyanP.S That was too short, wasn't it? I should also add that the album is rad rad rad rad rad. Thanks to everybody who ...
Posted by The Genie on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:22:00 PST

Glog 31: Gigs

Hmm, what are we up to again? Ah yeah, thirty-one. That's it.Well we've been pretty busy, but not on the album. I wish we had. But we've been working our arses off trying to su...
Posted by The Genie on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:27:00 PST

GLog 30: Changes

Well, we had a great time at all the gigs in March. Thanks to everybody who came down to check it out. It's always fun to do shows whenever we can. Unfortunately, we can't do ...
Posted by The Genie on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:14:00 PST

GLog 29: Gigs and not gigs

Hi all Unfortunately we have had to cancel the Avenue gig this Friday for reasons beyond our control. We really hope nobody planned to fly interstate to see that one. That may sound ...
Posted by The Genie on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:59:00 PST

GLog 28: Fans

http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1155402 866453Check it out. This is a page of dudes (extreme synth head dudes) commenting on Ollie's Moog Solo video. Here's one of my p...
Posted by The Genie on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:36:00 PST

GLog 27: Studio Day 16

We're starting to notice that patterns have been forming in our behaviour during the editing process. If something doesn't sound cool, there are only a handful of ideas we come up with:"Put it backwa...
Posted by The Genie on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:52:00 PST

GLog 26: Studio Day 14 and 15

Well this thing's really coming together. All those little tunes we wrote on buses and planes and in cars and soundchecks have evolved into little many-horned beings of their own. We'll ke...
Posted by The Genie on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:39:00 PST

GLog 25: Studio Day 13

Unlucky day 13. The studio may have a real patchbay now (superseding and rendering redundant Scotty the Human Patchbay - but he still hangs around the studio) but we ran out of leads. Went out to ge...
Posted by The Genie on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:53:00 PST

GLog 24: Studio Day 12

We've all heard the story so many times. Boy meets girl. Boy buys house. Boy makes recording studio. Recording studio eats house. Boy flees house. Boy outwits studio by building another house up...
Posted by The Genie on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:11:00 PST

GLog 23: Studio Day 11

Contradictory Quotes of the Day:Ollie 1:20PM "We don't want things to be repetitive."Ollie 1:26PM "If things are cool, they get permission to be used twice."Well we're finally getting back to work. T...
Posted by The Genie on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST