Fur Patrol "Collider" 2003

A New Zealand band bursts into national consciousness, tops the charts and relocates to Australia to build momentum. In many ways Fur Patrol followed a well-trodden path and, like many other bands, their story includes the waxing and waning of self-belief, clocking up the miles in crappy vans, contractual grief and those shining moments on stage or in the studio that made all the other stuff disappear...
...What didn’t happen was world domination, but Fur Patrol’s legacy – two EPs, three albums and a collection of memorable singles – demands respect.
Lead singer and songwriter Julia Deans made a tight team with bassist Andrew Bain, guitarist Steve Wells and drummer Simon Braxton. Bain and Wells are Wellingtonians, they hung out at high school and might have played together in a Christian rock band. They were definitely playing in a Wellington band called Svelte in early 1990s when they met Julia Deans.
Deans had moved to Wellington from Christchurch and was gaining what she called her “tertiary education” playing guitar and singing vocals for a local thrash Irish cover band, Banshee Reel. The daughter and granddaughter of artists, Deans had taught herself guitar at 15 and soon started writing and performing her own songs. By 1995 she was getting bored with playing covers so recruited Bain, Wells and Braxton to help develop and record some demos. After weeks of rehearsing they decided to take the jump and booked a slot at Bar Bodega. What they needed was a name. Inspiration came in the form of hair removal ads and Fur Patrol was born. - audioculture
trax:
1 Precious 2 Get Along 3 Rocket 4 Enemy 5 Into The Sun 6 Softer Landing 7 Fade Away 8 Someone You Really Want 9 All These Things 10 Art Of Conversation 11 Little Heart 12 Dominoes (Bonus) 13 All the People (Bonus) 14 Beautiful (Bonus) 15 The Lover (Bonus)
…served by Gaius…