SPLIT EP : BLUELINE MEDIC/TED LEO & THE Rx CAT#:CASA05 Blueline Medic Newtown Rag (exclusive track) The Decision (exclusive track) Red Signs (exclusive track) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Angel's Share (from Shake the Sheets 2004) Six Months in a Leaky Boat (with full band - exclusive) Loyal To My Sorrowful Country (with full band - exclusive) Released Feruary 28th, 2005 on casadeldisco Blueline Medic recorded at Sound Park, Northcote with Idge at the helm. Ted Leo recorded and mixed by Ryan Massey at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California. Anglel's Share recorded at Stratosphere Studios NYC. Mastered by Joe at Crystal Mastering Melbourne. ALBUM : SELF TITLED CAT#:CASA04 All the Glitters So Lonely Family Cast In The Shadows Sell Out It's Black Channelling A Bleeding Heart Released February 7th, 2005 on casadeldisco Recorded at York St Studios Auckland by Steve Roberts. ALBUM : DAMNATION CAT#:CASA03 Damnation Devil¹s Interval Back in your Life Fire Song To Return to the Sea I Want A Divorce Idiot Van Deiman Hit By Lightning Good Behaviour Solar / Sonar Blackout. Murder White Noise Released Septemebr 28th, 2004 on casadeldisco Recorded at Metropolis Audio, Shanty Town, Toyland, The Nunawading Bunker and a rooftop in NYC. With Sloth at the helm. Album Notes from Tom: Ah Johnny Farnham. Tour Diary here ALBUM : SAY WHAT YOU WANT -------------------- ---- CAT#:CASA02 Say What You Want The Useless Exclusion In Between Harmony Blackheart Btarbled Down to the Bone Reason Inside | Listen to Quicktime file Faded Magdolene(Love like a Holocaust) Released July 12th in NZ and July 26th in Australia, 2004 on casadeldisco. Released in August in the UK and Europe Recorded at York St Studios in Auckland by Andrew Buckton. Album Notes from Ryan: Recording our new album really began in October 2003 when we recorded a new single - "Inside" - which set a precedent for how the album would be recorded and how it would sound. Drums were done at York Street Studios, one of Auckland's best. All following tracking (bass, guitars, vocals etc.) were done at Studio 203, Andrew Buckton's (our engineer) own studio. Using two studios got us the most time for our money, and Andrew is always most comfortable working in his own studio. The rest of the album began in February when we started work on the next single "Say What You Want", and carried on until the end of May. Working at a previously unchartered level of attention to detail (our previous album was tracked in just over a week) proved hard to fit in around full-time jobs and Andrew's other commitments and we had to force ourselves at times to find creative solutions, including a week where the studio was relocated to Ryan's basement (the band's practice room). By early-May 'studio-fever' began kicking in, sore throats abounded and assistant engineer Ben fell down the studio stairs and smashed three bones in his right wrist (tequila was involved somewhere too). Vocal duties were shared by Ryan and Milon, something of a first for a Sommerset record, Milon even adjusting to a last minute decision that saw him take lead vocal duties on "Say What You Want". When all tracking was finally completed (the album spent more than two weeks with "just a little more to do") Andrew had a week to mix the ridiculous amounts of guitars and vocals before he and Ryan went over to Sydney's Studio 301 to master the album. ALBUM : QUICKER WAYS TO BLACKER EYES- CAT#:CASA01 Louder Than A Jumbo Jet Got the Cure? Hit The Kick | Listen to Quicktime file Hang Tight Steppin the f#*k out Tigerish Swing the lead Self made man Hell outta here | Listen to Quicktime file Kerosene Language Saved by guitar Bloodshot Eyes Released Nov. 2003 on Casadeldisco/Shock Recorded at Yikesville and Sing Sing Studios. Album Notes from Brett: warped made a record once. we ended up calling it 'quicker ways to blacker eyes'. it was put together in 2003. we started intense writing/rehearsing in january and the record was in shops by november.the process felt like 100 years, not 10 months. we tracked the drums and bass at sing sing platinum. matthew tanner of casadeldisco fame reckons it was his lucky studio. so yeah, drums n' bass.....22 songs = 2days. twas engineered by a lovely, talented fellow by the name of matthew voigt. shane o'mara was there to oversee proceedings and to wear white bonds t-shirts. then we moved over to the yikesville complex in yarraville. shane live and works there. we then plugged away for an eternity doing guitars and vocals. we worked and re-worked. did and re-did. chopped and changed. you get the picture. slipped back over to sing sing platinum (lucky studio) to mix it all together. this took a week of our time. ran the pro-tools versions to half inch analogue tape to: a)make it sound nice, b)kick it ol' school just a lill' bit and c)to keep the albini in us all a little bit happy. this was a long week. we argued a bit. when the week was over i got to see further play at the forum, then the nation blue play a secret show at the greenroom, then got really drunk at cherry. earn it i did. so i grabbed the dvd masters, jumped on a plane and got steven smart to master the little bastard at 301 studios which is in alexandria, a suburb of sydney. that process took 2 days. we'd scapped some songs by that stage, knocking the record down to 12 tunes. at the end of the 2nd day, i walked to jjj with a freshly master rekkid under my arm and handed it to the music directors. ended up becoming album of the week upon release. hooray. i probably ate at sarays the night mastering was finished because i've been known to do that. the end. Check Brett's diary for months of detailed descriptions....here