WE ALL WANT TO

paulTim Steward – he is from Screamfeeder and loves cheese
Paul Daly – he is from Nerang and loves ciggers
Dan McNaulty – he is from The Narcotics and loves champers
Todd Hutchinson – he is from Adelaide and loves to hate Jazz
Skye Staniford – she is from the stars and loves love

danWe put this band together slowly. It went through a few different line ups. In 2006 I started scouting people to pay my solo album live; Paul signed up, and I’d spotted Dan playing in the Narcotics – he lived just around the corner so I got him over and we set up the kit in the bedroom and started going through the songs. He seemed to know what he was doing, and along with Terry on the bass, Dom on Keys, and Kellie, Mel and Amy on backing vocals we had a band and started playing.

toddThe line up was a still little shaky though and it didn’t really feel like a proper group as such, where everyone could write and put in ideas. Dom moved to Melbourne, Terry said it wasn’t for him and the girls all went their separate ways. We met Todd via a friend from Adelaide, and as soon as he got his keyboards out we knew we had to have him.. he knew the songs already. Skye was the icing on the cake. We had a couple of singing sessions at my place where I kept telling her: “sing louder!” She sang loud and was in.

mg_5106-largeWe started rehearsing regularly and writing tons of songs. We got a bunch of them ready and recorded our first session with Darek at his studio, then after a couple more sessions we had a selection of songs to choose from so we put out our first EP: Back To The Car. Todd’s work mates Adam and Patrycja donated their skill time and made our Back To The Car video for us. It took us ages to think of a band name, and playing under The Tim Steward Band was getting tiresome. We spent months sweating over a bunch of not-quite-right names, until we hit on this one. I knew it was right as soon as I heard it, and bulldozed the decision through. Finally named, we released the EP, and spent almost all of 2009 holed up in studios around the place recording songs for our first album.