We shared a record label with Gotye. Wally liked our album and asked us to do a remix or cover of one of his songs for the Mixed Blood compilation. We instead took a 30 second track and wrote the rest of the song around it. I think of it like we made him Dido to our Eminem. This elegant tune qualified Gotye to win his first ARIA award and the album broke into the top 50 albums chart.
I formed a band in my garage at the age of 14 and it was pretty much the same core of the band until the age of 31 when we slipped apart. Along the way we released 4 albums, a couple of EPs, had 10 singles on Triple J, toured the country a lot, won 10 WAMi awards, an Australian Live Music Award, helped Gotye win his first ARIA, and played with a lot of great bands. All of the Fourth Floor Collapse albums and some of our other music is available on Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify.
Not sure what’s going on with the vision here, but it’s all about the music, maaaan.
Again, youtube have done something funky with file res since I uploaded this.
When I was growing up I had an illustrated picture of foxes above my bed. It scared the shit out of me. But later (and changing foxes to tigers) it inspired the story in this lullaby about protective tigers looking after a child as they sleep. I wrote it before I had a daughter but for a long time she’d ask me to sing this to her in her bed (along with songs like Golden Slumbers). It works as a proper lullaby.
I worked on most of the artwork for the band, from posters to T-shirts and merch, to logos and the album art and so on. This is a collection of some that I’ve worked on, often in conjunction with art directors or designers.
Created with Tim Forte who also designed the last band logo.
Created with Stef Langton.
Created with WeBuyYourKids.
Photography by Allan Myles.
Created with John Cheese. Photography by Allan Myles.
Photography by David Boehm.
