Who flew before?

Here's another batch of albums for you:

The "Before Birdmen Flew" Collection.

I can name a heap of lesser known Australian artists from the 80's, and even a select batch from the late 70's, but pre Radio Birdman? Nada. I suppose that's where these come in.

I originally grabbed these off a Russian Torrent Tracker, though a customary Google search found that Ice-10 may be the original source. In any case, I've re-tagged and re-uploaded the files, so you can listen to Volumes One, Two, Three and Four at your leisure.

Going through my archives, I've found that more and more rarer albums are finding releases, either through compilation tracks or sites like CD Baby or Bandcamp. I'll list up some of these as I work my way through my collection, but in any case, until next time!

Once a week he said, that'd be easy he said!

Alrighty now, maybe once a week was a 'little' ambitious.

So how about the posts come as they do, and I'll try to post some really obscure Australian stuff? Here's one for you right now!

A limited, out of of print solo effort by Something For Kate frontman, and all around Legend, Paul Dempsey. Out of the 500 copies pressed, there is only a single copy between the SFK Bandmates!

I present, Scared Of Horses - (1998) An Empty Flight

I originally tracked this down through a torrent in the middle of 2014. A limited iTunes release was seen in 2011, but that has since passed, and the album once again faded into obscurity.. until it stirred today.

Round 2

Well, we'll try that again.

The spotlight uncertainly stirs again.

As promised from the last blogpost (last year!), here's the 2002 Whirlywirld compilation: The Complete Studio Works. (MP3 Format for now)

Even having three separate releases making up this compilation, the album feels whole, and complete opening and closing on two very solid tracks. I believe one more track has been officially released on the Alternative Animals compilation, which may join this post on another day.

Out of print for quite some time, but certainly worth tracking down. CD Baby have a few copies of the CD left, amongst other sites, but I can't see a physical re-release happening for quite some time.

Here's hoping I stick around a while longer this time. Even with the threat of uni looming once more, I'm planning for at least a post a week.