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I think it was Dylan who said that we’ve got enough songs – we don’t need to keep on writin’ ’em. We don’t need to invent any more of those kind of albums. I took it further than someone like Ryan Adams, who would just copy every other cunt that did it before him. I’ve been there and done that, y’know? Everyone has been there and done that. As far as doing another acoustic record, though… I don’t think I’d ever do it again. I like that you can just grab a guitar and just bang out a song. Is that fair to say or do you still get something out of performing as Gareth Liddiard? Something quite far removed from that of solo, acoustic music.
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This might be going out on a limb, but listening to Feelin Kinda Free is somewhat indicative of the kind of music you’re interested in making now – ie. MF: You mentioned the Strange Tourist record. GL: That’s true, actually! I’ve left it too bloody late to change me name now, though. MF: Let’s not forget Iggy Pop changed his name from Jim Osterberg… Gareth Liddiard is not a very rock & roll name, y’know? It’s not Iggy Pop. It’s the same with anybody – I mean, when Cher went solo, it wasn’t all just her, was it? She had all these people around her, helping her. Even that was a collaboration – that was me with Fi and with Burke. When I did make that album just as myself, it was just that. I’ve had people ask if I’m gonna make another solo record To me, Drones records are like solo records. She’s been a sole constant, too, since then – she plays on every album – so I think there’s at least a degree of consistency. That’s what I consider the beginnings – and Fi joined a couple of years later. We moved to Melbourne, and that’s when things got a bit serious, and that was about 1999. We just did it to differentiate it from the other random weird little jams and projects we had going on at the time. In ’97, we just started labelling our four-track cassettes as The Drones. Gareth Liddiard: I dunno… it’s a name, really. Do you perceive yourself as such – or do you think that is part of the appeal of The Drones the fact that there is no sole constant? The band started in Perth with a completely different line-up to the one it has now, and each of the last four Drones records have marked some sort of change : Gala Mill was Rui’s last album, Havliah was Dan’s firs t album, I See Seaweed was Mik e’s last and Steve’s first – and now, Feelin Kinda Free is the first album with Christian back on drums. Everything around the band, however, has been in a near-constant state of transition. Music Feeds: The Drones, as a band, has been around for nearly 20 years now. “One of ’em keeps flyin’ out the door, but the other one’s too thick to realise he’s gotta go, too. “There’s two fucken sparrows that have decided to move in,” he drawls in his unmistakably-ochre manner. When Music Feeds speaks with Gareth Liddiard, he is speaking from the home in regional Victoria that he shares with his wife, Drones bassist Fiona Kitschin.
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So much so, that when they put out something as envelope-tearing and rulebook-throwing as their latest LP, March’s Feelin Kinda Free, it’s met with rejoicing and adulation from those that have seen them through every last Bernard and Chris. This isn’t detrimental, however, as those that love this band are wholly-committed to them. They exist on the fringe, and there they shall endlessly remain.
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They’re an ugly band that are going to continue making ugly music for those outside of the inner circle. Their albums are not a Mother’s Day gift. They’re never going to get in the Hottest 100. What did we learn from these exchanges? Simple: The Drones are not a user-friendly band. “Why don’t you make music like The Living End?” “The songs are quite long,” explains Luscombe when describing the band to this hapless punter, “and they’re often very dark and about really depressing things.” “That sounds awful,” the punter replies. Years before, Drones guitarist Dan Luscombe made a satirical video (sadly now forever lost to the ether of the internet) in which he recalls a verbatim interaction he had with someone at a festival that mistook him for The Living End’s Chris Cheney.