Chasing Storms This Friday

I don’t talk about it much to others; don’t like to let them know what I’m thinking. Touring throughout 2007 taught me a lot, when to open my mouth and when to keep it shut. Gave me an opportunity to reflect on “Vices” and envisage the future.I plan to tour again this year, come back to all of your cities and towns, consider being in attendance because it’ll be riveting…

Adelle

Adelle released their debut album “When Your Vices Aren’t Vices” independently in the later half of 2006 after recording and mixing it themselves. The disc was a rampant success running rife though alternative/indie circles.

Adelle spent 2007 in hot pursuit of their audible accomplishments touring east coast Australia tri-monthly. Upon returning home from the “She’s The Inventor” tour, their final and most exhaustive tour of the year (spanning a whole month) they were ready for their next studio effort.

In the months to come they combined their unusual yet innovative flair for song writing with audio engineer/producer Guy Cooper’s (Serotonin Productions – Transport, A Secret Death, The Combovers) aptitude for distinctive tone. What ensued was a 10 track epic conspiring in the culmination of the ‘Hello Sane Age Sins’album.

“Hello Sane Age Sins” LP is a rendering of raw sound with cunningly astute production, the songs have groove with thrashings of rock and moments of calm, the lyrics are clever yet sharp with shades of malevolence. To me this disc is an anti-movement, awe-inspiring insubordination, like dancing in the underworld, defiance personified.

Adelle hit Woden Youth Centre this Friday, November 28th with Pleased To Jive You, Slovac and Tell Me Bluntly. Check out the bands myspace at http://www.myspace.com/adellegroup and click on the following link to download a free sample song from the soon to be released album “Hello Sane Age Sins” http://www.thoughtcoercion.org/carddownload_mp3s/Vella_Lavella.mp3

Chasing Storms

PostOp Productions is proud to be bringing back Brisbane’s Adelle for another all age show at Woden Youth Centre. They hit town on November 28th, with Pleased To Jive You, Slovac, and Tell Me Bluntly. Keep your eye on Mission1.co.nr for another interview with Adelle, as well as an exclusive song download. 

Also just a reminder, voting is still open to choose the support bands for our show with A December Truth on December 12th. Hit up the forums at mission1forums.proboards.com/index.cgi

Free your mind with free music

Who managed to catch Adelle on their last tour? It’s a shame if you missed it, not only did you miss an awesome show, you missed out on getting a free copy of “When Your Vices Aren’t Vices”. We at Mission #1 though are very privledged to be able to offer our readers two exclusive downloads from the upcoming release “Hello Sane Age Sins”

The Attic & Lace 

They’ve Said Triage

Enjoy. We’re looking for new writers to take over some columns who writers have gone missing on us. Anyone interested? Hit me up on here, myspace.com/postopproductions or postopprod{at.]gmail.com

Hello Sane Age Sins

Forming in Brisbane in 2005, Adelle are quickly making a name for themselves. After independently releasing their debut EP “When Your Voices Aren’t Vices” in 2006 and touring extensively on the back of it throughout 2007, Adelle are back with “Hello Sane Age Sins.” Mission #1 caught up with Michael Parker, Vocialist and guitarist for this unique quartet.

How did the band form?

Adelle was formed in late 2005 during the moments of darkness that define the most interesting part of a solar eclipse. It was exhilarating but over much too soon, observers on the day used adjectives to the likes of captivating and mesmerizing when describing the unison. By late 2006 we had gathered enough intelligence and appropriate auditory material to reproduce discs in sizeable quantities. This first “hearing” was aptly named “When Your Vices Aren’t Vices” due to our large number of personal defects and an even more personal choice to disregard and ignore them. We toured compellingly on this release throughout 2007 assimilating fans in an assortment of environments and realities.

Is there much sadism in the Adelle camp?

Not really, we’re more about creeping you out. Inflicting pain or humiliation on someone is likely to trigger specific predictable reactions in return (namely fight or flight) and predictable equals boring. When threatened or engaged in conflict our actions are designed to induce that uncomfortable sinking feeling in the pits of our rivals stomachs. In fact the trick to this is sexual masochism.

How are you guys looking forward to the upcoming tour? Anything you’re particularly looking forward to or dreading?

The only thing we dread about touring is the fact that we can not log into Second Life every few hours to cause havoc on the B&D rooms with our clown hats and water pistols. Apart from that it is like a party 24/7. My average day on tour consists of waking up, drinks with lunch, chill, play a show, free drinks at venue, chill, party in the room, round of Ouija board then a cooked breakfast about 2-3am before bed. Please note, on travel days all of these event still occur to an absurd degree while in transit.

Tell me about recording Hello Sane Age Sins…

We recorded the tracks with Guy Cooper of Serotonin Productions [A Secret Death, The Combovers, Driven Fear]. After exhaustively doing all the production and recording on “Vices” ourselves this was a welcoming change. Working with talent like Guy and the new crew at Darther Music has not only made the whole project more professional but has given the rest of us a lot more time to lurk the Internet for things like the leaked Veronicas pictures. Words still out on whether they are real or not though. On the more professional note I mentioned above…

“Hello Sane Age Sins” LP is a rendering of raw sound with cunningly astute production, the songs have groove with thrashings of rock and moments of calm, the lyrics are clever yet sharp with shades of malevolence. To me this disc is an anti-movement, awe-inspiring insubordination, like dancing in the underworld, defiance personified.

What were some of the main ideas/themes/inspirations behind the album?

This CD is about doing whatever we feel like providing the vibe is right. However this is simply a reflection of how we write music. You get the feeling a lot of bands write songs and if they don’t turn out enough like their favourite songs at the time they scrap them. This results in a battering of standard sound upon my ear drums neither impressing nor upsetting me, just leaving me speculating about what it feels like to be a drone. In stark contrast to this we let everything fly in all areas of songwriting from pre to post production. Try everything, say anything; if you think it might work it probably will, if it doesn’t use a crazy effect and see where that leaves you. I guess if I had to cap it off it in a statement I’d say open your mind, awaken the senses, be well read and versed even better, don’t follow, thinking for yourself is a choice and you’d be sensible to make it sometime.

Tell me about the voice-overs you use in your songs…

I assume this question pertains to the “new” song on the myspace. Scott recorded this song titled “The Big Picture” using Reason and his laptop; essentially it is a bridging track for between now and when the album is released. It goes well with long winding roads at night or banned substances. The voice over your referring too is that of Edgar Mitchell who is an astronaut that walked on the moon. In this particular snippet he is discussing the occasions when he was briefed by NASA about the existence of extraterrestrials.

Plans for the rest of the year?

When we get home from tour we will be finishing up three new motion picture projections for the album with possibilities for a fourth somewhere in the stratosphere. There are tour follow up shows in NSW planned for October, a weekend up north in the works and a big 2 week tour in Nov/Dec right round to Adelaide. As far as SE QLD is concerned there is a whole stack of shows planned across the city and the coast when we are once again blips on the radar. On the song writing front we have started pre-production on the 3^rd album and are due to start recording later this year. Meanwhile we are shopping “Hello Sane Age Sins” LP to labels and promoters domestic and abroad before its release.

Anything else you’d like to talk about that I haven’t asked?

Sure, at our shows you can get free download cards. You receive a username and password off the card (emblazoned with the CD artwork) and are directed to www.thoughtcoercion.org where you can download 2 unreleased songs off the new album… You can also get them by becoming a field representative; contact us via myspace www.myspace.com/adellegroup for more information.

Adelle are on tour now, hitting Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, the Central Coast and Brisbane. For more information hit up their myspace,   http://www.myspace.com/adellegroup