Bluebottle Kiss

Infobox musical artist
Name = Bluebottle Kiss

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Origin = Sydney, Australia
Genre = Rock
Indie rock
Years_active = 1993–present
Label = Nonzero Records (Australia)
URL = [http://www.bluebottlekiss.com/ Official website]
Current_members = Jamie Hutchings
Ben Grounds
Ross Dickie
Jared Harrison
Past_members = Ben Fletcher
Peter Noble
Richard Coneliano
Simon Fuhrer

Bluebottle Kiss is a guitar-based, indie rock band from Sydney, Australia.

History

Formed in the mid 90s, Bluebottle Kiss took their influences from the late '80's American indie scene which included artists such as Sonic Youth and the Afghan Whigs, singer-songwriters of the '70's such as Neil Young and Van Morrison as well as the very creative Australian independent scene of the same period with artists such as The Church and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The band quickly signed to Murmur, an imprint of Sony Records, initially Bluebottle Kiss found only limited commercial success due to a challenging sound that ranged dissonant and rustic sounds to folk tinged melancholy pop.

Although dropped from Murmur after 1997's "Somnambulist Homesick Blues", Bluebottle Kiss continued to make records on their own with various indie imprints. 1998's "Tap Dancing on the Titanic" was issued on the now-dormant Troy Horse label. [ [http://www.amo.org.au/label.asp?id=273 Australian Music Online :: Labels :: Troy Horse/MDS ] ] 1999's "Patient" was released on Citadel Records - whose legendary catalogue includes New Christs, Died Pretty, The Stems and more recently Knievel. [ [http://www.amo.org.au/label.asp?id=331 Australian Music Online :: Labels :: Citadel Records ] ]

The band briefly decamped to the USA after this before regrouping as revamped four piece in 2001.

In 2002, long-time music fan, Nick Carr - inspired by labels such as Citadel - started his own label, Nonzero Records, in order to release Bluebottle Kiss' "Revenge is Slow" album. [ [http://www.amo.org.au/interview.asp?id=1043 Australian Music Online :: Interviews :: Nick Carr - Nonzero Records ] ] The album was also released in the US on the In Music We Trust label. [ [http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/label/ In Music We Trust Records ] ]

The relationship between Bluebottle Kiss and Nonzero Records has endured, with the band's sixth studio album - the 2 CD "Doubt Seeds" - being their third full-length release, among numerous singles and EPs, on the label. "Doubt Seeds' was produced by Jamie Hutchings at Linear Recording studio in Sydney.

Discography

Albums

*"Higher Up the Firetrails" (1995)
*"Fear of Girls" (1996)
*"Patient" (1999)
*"Revenge Is Slow" (2002)
*"Come Across" (2003)
*"Doubt Seeds" (2006)

EPs

*"Double Yellow Tarred" (1995)
*"Somnambulist Homesick Blues" (1997)
*"Tap Dancing on the Titanic" (1998)
*"Girl Genius" (1999)
*"Gangsterland" (2001)
*"Last Playboy in Town" (2004)
*"A Little Bit of Light" (2005)
*"The Women Are an Army" (2006)
*"Slight Return + Out Seeds" (2007)

ingles

*"Rust and the Time" (1996)
*"Autumn Comes Too Soon" (1996)
*"Helping You Hate Me" (1996)
*"Return to the City of Folded Arms" (1999)
*"Ounce of Your Cruelty" (2001)
*"Father's Hands" (2002)
*"Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time" (2003)

Demos

*"Sonic Elevator Music for the Masses" (1994)

References

External links

* [http://www.bluebottlekiss.com/ Official band website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/bluebottlekiss Myspace page]