left as in sinister is sydney's only gothic label, it's very well known outside australia for being quite transgressive and having some avent garde acts, like me for example. i never heard of lais until i met val, he explained how the label was huge in the early eighties and his idea to relaunch it, however we both knew australia didn't have a market for the more challenging areas of music, it's a safe market, pop, rock, punk, metal, etc, but anyone who thinks outside the box is considered to threatening, however we knew there were a small group of people, a potential market somewhere in the suburbs that would dig it. so we made music together, down in that basement, next door to the mortuary. yeah that's right sydney's only gothic label was right next door to the mortuary and let me tell you we saw some strange apparitions. val's been freaked three times me once.these poor souls are wandering around lost and shocked, we have to send them on there way, it's quite strange but you get used to it.
apart from the sound basement being a halfway home for disembodied spirits it's also on production avenue, so i often sing the words, 'we gonna rock down to production avenue, gonna take you higher.' when i am not meant to, just as a joke.
the studio is covered in stuff, dark paintings, drawings, and sculptures adorn the corridors, it's particularly interesting at night when the bands come in to rehearse. some i speak to mostly i don't. i quite like the band, 'this piano has been drinking.' who i really find entertaining and their main man solomon is a cool cat.
this morning i'm in the big room with a bad voice, it's going hoarse and all i have to do are a few vocals. the first is the song i wrote a few years ago, 'occult diary.'
i nail it in two takes. wow, what's going on, i'm actually singing well.
we move on to tweaking the other songs and by lunch i'm heading home, mission accomplished.
val and i are so in tune with one another it's ridiculous. we just come from the same planet.
yeah occult diary sounds great, needs some wild guitar funk on it and one other instrument, maybe a sax or hung. there's room to play.
anyways soon i will have snuff music finished. it's gonna be interesting, listen up.