TELAFONICA

i've done some prints of the clowns which i included the file for below. these were done for a print exchange in a run of 17 (most of which you can see if you click on the picture) to see how it goes, but i like them a lot and so am keen to do lots more for the zine/booklet for the album.

well, there's a few gigs lined up for the next couple of months, so we should get a move on with starting to try and put it together and rehearse. so far, there's the one on good friday and paddy macguires with underlapper and sui zhen. i've also booked us in for just like now at mars hill cafe on may 10 - i think it's going to be the last of the regular just like nows, so i thought telafonica could finish it since telafonica started it. we'll be playing with karoshi. there's also a possibility of a gig on april 5 at midi in the city at the loft bar at uts. we played there last year but it's a bit more of a laptop type of thing than a band kind of scene, and there's also the possibility of a clash with another gig with some friends from melbourne called koshowko, so that one's not confirmed yet. and lastly, we've just got another gig on thursday, may 29 at the excelsior hotel in surry hills. again, underlapper look like they'll be on t...

i went to cdr sydney last night, which is the thing run by mark pritchard and lorna where artists take a track on cdr and they play them all, through a huge soundsystem, mostly so you can see how they're sounding. i took item number along. it was one of the last tracks they played, so it was fairly late and empty by then, but i got to hear it very very loud. it actually sounded quite good. as was always suspected, there was a little too much bottom end. but i've never actually heard telafonica through a good, loud system - the only time it's normally possible is when we're live at which time we're on stage so it doesn't sound at all the same. so it was great to hear our stuff standing up well next to the other things there. i've also added some textural stuff to it in the way of recordings of people reading extracts from kodwo eshun's more brilliant than the sun. i've effected those so you they are still intelligible but, as i said, work mos...

bec and the girls and i spent the weekend at toowoon bay so i had lots of relaxing time to play around, so i did. so here are a bunch more ideas for pages in a zine/booklet. david, i've been thinking, and i have no idea where in the world you are at the moment or your ability to access and download net stuff, but what would you think if i mailed you the .psd files of all of these and then you can play with them and do proper designer things to anything you want to? i kind of am in the mood to make these at the moment, so i'll just keep churning stuff out, but i'd really like it to then get at least quality controlled at your end, if not completely overworked by yourself - design tennis, perhaps? so, here they are, let me know if i can get the full files to you somehow...

here's a few more booklet ideas i've been working with. the clowns are a 4-colour screen print (cmyk) and the others would be b&w laser print on coloured paper.

"Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their past mistreatment. We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations – this blemished chapter in our nation’s history. The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia’s history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry. To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communiti...

steve - how would you feel about making a/some video clip(s) for a/some of the new song(s)? not as in things to project as we play live (though they could theoretically be used for that) but as in things that we try to get played on tv.

i've been poring over some of the books and magazines you left and have been rather inspired to do things. so i've been playing around with a few things. i think the booklet idea is going to have to be what we use, just from a cost point of few, thoug we could also have some foldout sections of up to a3 size, but those would have to be greyscale (+ screenprint) - i only have full colour printing up to a4. on an interesting note - imojjen's best friend gave her a little notepad for christmas. it's of interest to us because it was a personalised notepad with imojjen's name printed on every page. now, obviously, you can't get those in shops (with her name on it). imojjen's friend's dad made it. he works in printing and has the glue to be able to make loose sheets of paper into note pads - you know the type that each sheet tears off really easily? i think it could be a great possibility for the booklet. it also opens out nice and flat so you can see ...

just in time before your imminent departure, we've got a date confirmed for our first hughesless show. it's going to happen on friday, march 21 (good friday) at paddy macguires in haymarket. also on the bill will be underlapper and most probably sui zhen - two of the types of artists i think we most need to be on bills with (i.e. not really rock, not really electronic, but bands for a stage rather than a dancefloor). i think it's a great bill. now we just need to get a telafonica set together!