Military Strongmen
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Release Type: SP
Launch Date: 00-00-0000
Release Date: 10-11-1997
Recorded Date: 00-03-1997
Studio: track 1: Sing Sing Studios - tracks 2-4: Revolver Studios
Total Length: 00:13:02
Producer: track 1: Neill King
Engineer: track 1: Neill King - tracks 2-4: Laurie Singara
Artwork: Ben Steele
Notes: Second release of recordings from debut album
Released on CD, Cassette and Limited Edition Vinyl
Military Strongmen slightly remixed from album for release as single(heavier guitars)
Press Release: "This time last year if you'd told us that this is where we'd be in a year's
time I don't think we would have believed it." While Jebediah vocalist /
guitarist Kevin Mitchell may sound a little gobsmacked at the band's 18 month
ride and rise from enthusiastic rehearsal room proposition to bona fide national
touring act, there's certainly nothing gee whizz about the band's music or their
attitude.
You know when you've walked into that indefinable 'it' because you
don't walk into it all that often. Well, here it is: Jebediah combine
infectiously raw pop with some neat punk rock savvy and literally throw it at
you from the stage.
"Even in rehearsal, when we're doing something new and
we're all getting into it, we still like to jump around and go nuts," says
Kevin. "I remember some rehearsals when we'd never played a gig and we'd be
playing and just knocking over these mic stands, jumping around. It was
crazy."
Adds guitarist Chris Daymond: "It's that thing where everybody wants
to be a rock star or something. You know when you've got the tennis racquet and
you're jumping around in the lounge room? This is the same thing except that ...
we actually play music and people actually like it."
Actually, they like it a
hell of a lot. Jebediah's debut EP Twitch, debuted at #1 at home in Perth, and
airplay on Triple J and Recovery not to mention several eastern states tours
with bands like Snout, Automatic, Bluebottle Kiss, Something For Kate, Big Heavy
Stuff and Ammonia, has seen to it that their national star is shining even
brighter.
If Twitch opened the door, the band's new single Jerks of
Attention kicks it off its hinges Recorded at Birdland Studios, Melbourne the
punk pop drive-by kiss is accompanied by an equally frenetic video that Rage
just won't stop playing. Straying a little from the more structured approach of
Twitch, the single also features the live faves Denver and Bosco. Revel in
'em.
Jebediah will be touring nationally through February to follow up
appearances at Homebake and The Big Day Out. Meanwhile, stay tuned also for the
debut album. It just gets better, it just gets bigger.
"The way we've
been doing things has worked up until now" Kevin summarises. "Brett once said 'I
don't know what it is that we're doing, but let's keep doing it 'cause it's
working'. So we'll just keep on doing what we're doing."
