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About Me

Red Light Union formed in late 2005 when a young man by the name of Rich turned up on the doorstep of Nik, half naked, dishevelled and his hands covered in tomato sauce. Nik initially horrified and disturbed by what he had just witnessed, took Rich in and began restoring him to health. The first few weeks saw Rich remain in a room slowing removing all furniture until it was bare, all the while muttering indecipherably. Nik, fascinated by this unusual behaviour, set up a voice recorder in the room and began monitoring Rich's activity. He began to realise what he heard were not insane mutterings but in fact indecipherable melodic memories uncontrollably spewing from his mouth. Nik began to meticulously catalogue these melodies in an attempt to decipher them. He sort the help of nurse Em to help monitor Richard's behaviour. The only time Rich left his room was in the dead of night where he would scurry around the house collecting various items and taking them into his room. Nik only became aware of this when he couldn’t find the tomato sauce or the vacuum cleaner. On a particularly uninteresting day, Rich emerged from his room in broad daylight and in clear and succinct English spoke the words, “We are ready” and he was right, they were…

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/19/2006
Band Members: Nik - drums
Em - bass
Rich - guitar and vocals
Influences: Bands we are listening to, are influenced by or just like in no particular order... Eric's Trip / REM (green era) / Pavement (crooked rain era) / At The Drive In / Fugazi / Neutral Milk Hotel / The Flaming Lips (pre at war with the mystics) / Guns n Roses (appetite) / Nirvana / Depeche Mode / Wolf Parade / The Jesus and Mary Chain / Trans Am / Dinosaur Jr (lou barlow years) / The sidewalk regrets/ Husker Du / The National / Silversun Pickups / Interpol / Pixies / Japanther / Bright Eyes / These Arms Are snakes / Tv On The radio/ Joy Division / The Arcade Fire / COG / Sandpit / Burning Airlines / Supergrass / Sonic Youth/ The Jesus Lizard / Damn Arms / Handsome Furs / Sunset Rubdown/Bakelite / Bob Dylan / The bronx / Radiohead
Sounds Like: What you're hearing
Type of Label: None

My Blog

recording

pffft i thought the new tracks would be up in a week. who was i kidding? myself i guess. anyway we have finished recoding the first three tracks and yeah two of them turned out great, the third we are...
Posted by red light union on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:15:00 PST

RLU in the studio

So work on the new demo / e.p began today. nik and I travelled to sigmund sound studios and began work with clint .nik again proceded  to once again impress by recording all three drum tracks wit...
Posted by red light union on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:44:00 PST