The story:

• Band requests remix of forthcoming song
• Producer provides said remix
• Band breaks up
• Producer gets permission to post on his blog

So here it is as a free mp3 download. You can hear the original on their myspace.

The track was slated to appear on Ovell’s debut EP, but various factors led to their untimely demise. The band has given me the “all clear” to set the remix free and live its life on the interwebs.

It’s unmastered and thus not entirely like the finished product it was meant to be, but I hope you enjoy it.

Joe Hardy: putting the “bed” back into “bedroom musician”

I don’t love banging on about my own music projects on my blog, but I’ll make an exception here as it’s something I’m pretty excited about…

I’ve been working on getting a live one-man show together, and I’m finally able to announce a couple of low-key warm-up dates that I’m doing. They’re both fundraising/charity music festivals that I’m really eager to support, and details are as follows:

• FEVA’s “How Sweet the Sound” festival
  Line-up features many “G” bands including Gethsemane, Guava and my sometimes band-mate Greg Cooper
  27th September, doors open 4:30pm
  Tickets $25 and must be bought in advance
  http://feva.org/hsts
• Re:Action Festival (Newtown)
  (The tentative line-up I’ve seen includes some pretty great Sydney bands – definitely worth staying tuned for the announcement)
  22nd November, doors open 4pm
  Ticket price TBA – will be provided through Moshtix
  http://www.reactionfestival.com/

Depending on how well the FEVA show goes, I’ll probably start looking at booking support slots around the place shortly. If you’re interested, e-mail me at joe*at*hardy*dot*id*dot*au.

I’m calling the show “guitronica”. This sophisticated word means that I use laptops, synths AND guitars (it’s all pretty high tech or something). The whole thing is un-sequenced and largely improvised, so expect mayhem. In test performances lullabies have been known to turn into storming rockers, and vice versa. You never know what you’re going to get. It could also just fall to pieces at any moment.

I haven’t made a recording of any of the tunes, with the exception of this demo that I did some time ago. Consider this your (very rough) taster:

• Isle of Rhodes (demo)

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Carly and Joe Hardy are pleased to announce a co-produced effort that saw release on the 8th of September. The project, titled “Nadia Rose” was launched at a quiet event at 12:11pm and shortly thereafter saw rave reviews with even the harshest critics proclaiming that she was “pretty cute”.

The final stages of production, like all great creations, were not without strong external influences. In the stage known as “labour”, Carly and Joe were inspired by the likes of Low, the Flaming Lips, Lamb, Feist, Crowded House, U2, Gomez and many more (translation: longest. labour. ever.) Nadia was born to the sounds of “One Tree Hill” by U2.

Nadia has already been displaying a healthy response to music. She particularly enjoyed her first listening session of “Kid A” by Radiohead (happily cooed throughout the first three songs, fell asleep to “How to Disappear Completely”, slept peacefully throughout the remainder). She was unavailable for comment as to when her first guest submissions to Joe.Blog would be submitted.

Her listening pile is steadily growing:

Thanks so much to everyone that was thinking of us throughout the labour process – we really appreciate it.