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Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground - Kritzler, Jimi
  • Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground - Kritzler, Jimi
  • Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground - Kritzler, Jimi
  • Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground - Kritzler, Jimi

Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground - Kritzler, Jimi

Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground - Kritzler, Jimi
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ISBN 9781922129352. Melbourne Books. hb. 496 pages. 24 ills. 21 x 25 cm.

Noise In My Head documents the music, song writing, aesthetics, lives and struggles of 50 of Australia's most innovative and creatively significant bands and artists at the creative peak of their careers.
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ISBN 9781922129352. Melbourne Books. hb. 496 pages. 24 ills. 21 x 25 cm.

Noise In My Head documents the music, song writing, aesthetics, lives and struggles of 50 of Australia's most innovative and creatively significant bands and artists at the creative peak of their careers.

The book provides a rare insight into the most happening cult music scenes in Australia. The author, Jimi Kritzler is both a journalist and a musician and is personally connected to the musicians he interviews through his own involvement in this music sub culture. The interviews are extremely personal and reveal much more than any interview granted to street press or blogs. The interviews deal with not only the music and song writing processes of each band but in some circumstances their struggles with drugs, the death of bands members and involvement in crime.

The book is complimented by previously unpublished photographs of all the bands interviewed.

The Australian underground scene in the last five years has been heralded not only in Australia but also in Europe and particularly America. Known as the Australian Invasion, in America, many of the bands interviewed in this book have received a great deal of hype and press in America with many of the bands signing to American record labels. Bands featured in the book like The Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Royal Headache, Uv Race, Circle Pit, HTRK, Lost Animal, Oren Ambarchi, Total Control, Witch Hats, Deaf Wish, Blank Realm, New War, Holy Balm, Fabulous Diamonds, Garbage and The Flowers, Straight Arrows, xNoBBQx, Naked on the Vague, Kitchens Floor and My Disco are all on American record labels and have all toured America at least once. Eddy Current Suppression Ring even lent their song Memory Lane, to an American telecommunications company advertisement, which was played repeatedly during the Super Bowl.  

“Being in a band isn’t simply the gloriously hedonistic existence most people imagine. Often it is thirteen hours driving in a cramped van only to play a show to fifty people. It is being ripped off by promoters, fighting with your band mates and being consistently broke. It is hauling heavy equipment upstairs, arguing with security guards and sound engineers. It is recording LPs on a budget of $300 and coercing brilliance out of nothing.”