No certainty attached : Steve Kilbey and the Church / by Robert Dean Lurie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lurie, Robert Dean, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock groups--Australia.

Rock groups.

Rock musicians--Australia--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Church (Musical group).

Kilbey, Steve.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For almost thirty years, the Church have crafted music that blends a rich variety of styles in a beautiful, multi-layered sound. They have encompassed pop, psychedelic, progressive, and straight-ahead rock, yet always remain distinctive, thanks to the inimitable vocals and lyrics of front man Steve Kilbey. Based on extensive interviews and featuring over 70 rare photographs, No Certainty Attached is the first comprehensive biography of Kilbey and his band. It charts their personal and musical ups and downs: the commercial heights of The Unguarded Moment and Under the Milky Way, the creati

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Preface: It's a Miracle, Let it Alter You; 1. You Are a Paradox to Me; 2. When I Was a Kid, I'd Look at the Sky; An interlude (I); 3. I've Got a Milk-White Electric Guitar; 4. You're Vanishing Again, After Everything We've Said; 5. Camel Dust Heralds Our Arrival; 6. Just a Spark; An interlude (II); 7. You've Got to Go; 8. New Christ Beneath the Drumkit Moon; 9. A Fire Burns Inside Me; 10. To Be In Your Eyes; 11. Saying Sweet Life Is a Downright Drag, Down to the Very Last Seed in the Bag; 12. I'll Write You a Letter from the Cyclone's Eye

13. They Say It Makes You Dizzy Your First Time Up There14. The Golden Dawn; 15. For a Moment We're Strangers; 16. Destination Starts to Unfold; 17. Our Instruments Have No Way of Measuring This Feeling; 18. The Pursuit of Adulation Is Your Butter and Your Bread; 19. Lost My Touch; 20. You Make Me Drift Up and Float, and Fall Like a Stone; 21. More About the Blank Years, In the Wilderness; 22. Happy Hunting Ground; 23. Wish I Knew What You Were Looking For; 24. Anesthesia's Coming to You; 25. Don't Go Looking For Me; 26. I've Been Listening to Myself Too Long

27. Til the Day Comes When You Realize28. In Shallow Dreams, Life Was Beginning to Take a Shape; 29. All I Ever Wanted to See; 30. You're Still Beautiful; The Final Word; Sources

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-319).

ISBN:

1-891241-94-X

OCLC:

823388404