Graham Avenue

To say this record has been a long time coming is a bit of an understatement. The band originally got together in the Sydney suburb of Lurnea in 1976. We were four young men all attending the same school who wanted to be rock stars and exit a dreary life in the suburbs.

We played covers of all our favourite rock bands and like all teenagers wrote maudlin love songs about girls, who for one reason or another, couldn’t recognize our well hidden talent.

The band went the way of most school bands. Members got girl friends, others left school for jobs and life just generally got in the way of the music.

Time passed, people scattered, until technology and the death of a friend allowed four old men who live in separate parts of the country to be friends again across the internet.

We found that suddenly we had plenty of things to write songs about. A whole lifetime of experience – love, betrayal, life, death, sickness, wealth, the future, the past and the planet.

The songs contained here were started in 2015 over the Internet using Garageband as a scratchpad and Logic to assemble demos. The final versions were re recorded at A Sharp Studios in Sydney under the auspices of Richard Lake and Daniel Natoli and with the mixing skills of Steve James.

It has taken us four years to complete this record and it has been a labour of love. You could argue that it’s taken us fourty  years. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making the record.

Extratime. May, 2019