WE'VE GOT A VERY SPECIAL TREAT FOR YOU!
Illustrious Artists is proud to release a compilation disc of all those rare Pictures tracks everyone keeps asking about! Going right back to the very beginning, The Fantastic Sounds Of The Pictures is a collection of early, unreleased, demo and alternative versions of tracks that's a must-have for anyone who has ever loved this band. It will be available at the three Sloan shows and in stores soon - grab one while you can!
Tracklisting:
Run And Hide
When I Was A Boy
Don't You Wanna Know
You'll See
Skinny Ass Bop
I Dealt A Rollercoaster
Shouts Out To Ya!
Downhill From Here
You Don't Care Much
Heavy Daze
Oh Miss O
How Do You Feel
A Thousand Years
Milkshake
Maps
Little Brown Bottle
She Brought It All Back
Silence
Handle With Care
Nobody can blend melody and riffage quite like The Pictures. It's in their blood, second nature or something. Davey Lane joined You Am I when he was still a 19 year old kid, making his recorded debut on 2001's Dress Me Slowly, while Luke Thomas chased the major label dream for several years as part of FMR-signed act Lavish before hooking up with Davey in late 2001. Drummers Brett Wolfenden and Johnny T both made lasting and significant contributions to the band's history during their respective tenures.
It's been a rollercoaster ride since Davey formed The Pictures. Blowing other bands off stage as the support act, getting praised royally by several well-respected onlookers, mixing tracks at Abbey Road and sound tracking a Pepsi commercial are just some of the high points they've experienced. But to reach those highs there have been many challenges to overcome - You Am I commitments, band break-ups, line-up changes, UK record labels dissolving into thin air; you name it, it's probably held The Pictures up at one point or another.
Through it all, though, The Pictures have kept on spitting out the killer rock 'n' roll, as cuts like "Ground Control', "Somethin' I Don't Know" and "See Ya Home Tonight" will readily attest. Debut album Pieces of Eight is the culmination of years of experience, frustration, exhilaration and inspiration, and was undoubtedly one of the best local rock releases of 2005.
After receiving ecstatic reaction to a handful of new tunes playing in support of The Vines in Melbourne and Sydney last year, the band are as ready as ever to record their second long-player and their most definitive collection of songs yet.
Buy Pictures CDs Online! Pieces of Eight plus EPs and singles; international shipping available.
The Pictures have new management! Chrissie Vincent is now looking after them and can be contacted at:
[email protected]
Mobile Phone: +61(0)418 598 929
Office: (+613) 9527 1994
Address: 1/315 Orrong Road, St. Kilda East 3183
