In the meantime, get your Peabody/heroin fix next Saturday night 26 April, at the Sing Along Festival taking place at the Hapmshire Hotel in Camperdown. The guys involved with putting on gigs at this place are doing a sterling job. It’s an incredibly difficult task to set up an existing pub as a new live music venue in Sydney so make sure you support this rather than sitting at home watching re-runs of The Biggest Loser, feeling sorry for yourself because you are indeed a loser who couldn’t even make it on to this shit reality TV show - which is especially demoralising after your rejection from Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader.

Anyway, my point is, get along and support the venue or it won’t exist. And neither will God or Santa and their twin sons, Shane and Kevin.

Check it out - Peabody is heading over the seas which girt this country (Australia, dickhead!). The April sun in Cuba may treat you so right, but it’s the April sun of Asia under which Peabody will bathe their lily-white arses.

Check the tour page for dates, or peruse the flyers below.

Excited? Yes siree-bob!

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These will be co-headlining gigs which means we will genuinely be tossing a coin on the night to see who plays last and assumes the status of “hero”. Gold and virgins will be showered upon said heroes. Be gone now, for it is the still of the night that irks me so, like your deadly silence before you break my heart. I’ve said too much.

Don’t forget to check out the U-Sync site to buy the entire Peabody back catalogue - either in physical or digital formats. Scroll down for a direct link.

There is a new album on the intern’s mind, to be released in the not too distant future so please report to this website regularly for details.

You know how very soon some us will have to vote to see who runs this quagmire? Well why don’t you get some voting practice in by voting for The Devil For Sympathy single and video.

Vote for the song on Triple J here

Vote for the clip on JTV here

In the early afternoon Bruno finished off his vocals. Part of this included redoing the verses of “The Weight Just Right” to suit these fruity French vocals Sarah Blasko added to the song on Friday night.
Chamie started laying down his back-ups. Rob sang a falsetto part in “Wrecking Ball” and Jamie sang a Balls to the Floor (or is it wall) harmony in “Wrecking Ball”.

We were gonna do percussion today as it was meant to be the last day of tracking but we’ll just do it first thing tomorrow morning and then move on to the mix.

Well that’s about all I’ve got to say about that.

During a break, Jamie got on the acoustic guitar and had a tambourine which he was playing with his feet. Graeme got on the bongos and Trumpy played some other fruity percussion instrument. Add to that Jamie’s wails of “save mother earth… I can hear mother earth cryin’…” and you’ve got yourself a sensitive, singer-songwriter, bluesy, rootsy, acoustic fucking HIT - much in the mould of Jamie’s heroes, John Butler, Pete Murray, Xavier Rudd and Jack Johnson.

After that, the wonderful Sarah Blasko came in to lay down some sexy whisky and ciggies-type vocals on Song For Val, Got You On My Radar, Got Your Hooks In and a very cool, counting-in-french bit on The Weight Just Right. Chamie suggested that the song, with Blasko’s french touch and my ocker Aussie accent, sounded like an Aussie backpacker in France. Blasko basically added a bit of class to this whole circus. Jamie also did some singing on Got You On My Radar.

Up next was Robert F. Cranny who made a start on his keyboard bits. He’ll have to do most of them tomorrow but he’s made a good start. It’s Friday night and there’s lots of people around so there’s plenty of drinking going on. Good times… good friends… right guys? Guys?

I hate my life.

They both sounded like we were playing at Wembley. We had quite a lot of problems with noisy pedals and amps. I think something in the wiring of the studio was giving it an extra “buzz”. Anyhoo, we got through those little problems and proceded to rock. I layed down guitars for pretty much all the songs, with my favourite being Wrecking Ball. I used my trusty Rickenbacker for that.

Nothing much more to tell… the new Jazzmaster got used on a couple of the more “indie” sounding tunes. While the SG was used on Got Your Hooks In, for that “AC/DC meets the Pixies” feel.

Day 3 has gone along a lot better than yesterday, in terms of productivity and overall “vibe”.

We finished tracking drums and bass on The New Violence and Got Your Hooks In. They were done in the larger outer room at Razors Edge studios for a bigger roomier sound and it sounds pretty cool. Then we started tracking guitars on Killing Ira, Got You On My Radar, Au Expose and Wrecking Ball. Jamie and Trumpy, Producer and Engineer respectively thought we should get Lemmy to do vocals on Wrecking Ball. Dickheads.

Finished the evening with a few beers which when you pour a bit of Stone’s Ginger Wine into the bottle with the beer you get an alcoholic and yet therapeutic to the vocal chords elixir of good health - ching ching!