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Guy Blackman

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Chapter Music label hunk and beautiful music songwriter
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Can’t Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 is out today on double vinyl! Here I am modeling it at @licoricepie Records. I’ve had those CSI comps in my head and life for nearly thirty years now, since starting work on the first one in the late 90s. The original CDs came out in 2001 and 2007, but they look great as double LPs, and there’s a whole side of bonus tracks on each! So much amazing music got made during that era in Australia. Go grab one from your favourite record store or order a copy from me at the chapter website or Bandcamp :) by @guyblackman

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great to have the don of independent music @guyblackman on Press Colour to chat about Chapter Music’s new digital sub-label @chapterepilogue who are reissuing a bunch of gems from the Australian underground on digital platforms for the first time much respect 🤩 listen back on @3rrrfm by @guyblackman

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Ben and I had dinner with @marcusrechsteiner last night at the HSV Cafe Annapoorni in Carrum Downs, after visiting the Hindu temple that it’s connected to. The food was great and the temple was amazing, and it’s always nice to see Marcus. taken in Annapoorni Temple Cafe by @guyblackman

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Which of these records should I bring to @thecurtin tonight for my front bar dj set 7.30-midnight? by @guyblackman

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Episode 59 features Guy Blackman.

Alongside Ben O’Connor, Guy has been one half of @chaptermusic . Originally creating the label in Perth in the early ‘90s, they would go on to be behind countless Australian releases over a 30 year period, putting out music for the likes of The Cannanes, The Goon Sax, Twerps, Dick Diver, Laura Jean, Sweet Whirl, and The Stevens. Today, Ben and Guy have taken a step back from putting out new releases, mainly focusing on compilation albums and reissues.

On this episode, Guy speaks about the beginnings of Chapter Music, his current day to day, navigating relationships with bands and artists, the state of Australian music, and more.

Hope y’all enjoy. by @guyblackman

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On my first trip to Japan in September 2000, I played a couple of solo shows in Tokyo on the way to the US to play bass in the Cannanes. It was this short trip that inspired me to go back there in 2002 to live for 18 months. @skiyonari organised the shows, I played with his band Smiley, I remember Kenji @rovthecat was there and Masato @clover_records_japan
Photos by Cuba Enomoto by @guyblackman

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Footage from nearly 25 years ago of Sleepy Township playing our last show at the @puntersclubfitzroy, before Alison moved to the UK. Someone (who? I forget) custom-made shirts for us and the Sleepy Township Dancers were in attendance. Was during the final week of shows at the Punters Club before it closed in February 2002.
Thanks to old friend Helen Pappas for rescuing this video from an old tape. by @guyblackman

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Another sweet memory from my early 2000s Japan era, covering Beat Happening's Indian Summer with Tokyo band My Pal Foot Foot, at Penguin House again in December 2003. Thanks to Masato Saito from @pervenche_band for making this video and putting it on a CDR for me 23 years ago! by @guyblackman

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I just found an old CDR of photos and videos from my time in Japan in the early 2000s. Here's a sweet video of my band Guy=Smiley (was me and friends from the Tokyo band Smiley) playing a song called Spirit Of the Time at Penguin House in Koenji, Tokyo, March 2003.
Masato Saito from @pervenche_band and @clover_records_japan on drums, Michio Kawada on guitar and Iwabuchi on bass (I forget his other name!).
Also on the bill that night was Jeremy Dower @personalcomputermusic and My Pal Foot Foot @dogsnightsong ! by @guyblackman

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Me in my butch factory-hand era, working at Corduroy Records & Detective Agency in the late 90s / early 2000s. In hindsight it was probably the best job in the world. Thanks to bossman Nick Phillips for sending a bunch of these pics today, which also feature Kellie Laing, Andrew Britton and Nick. by @guyblackman

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“Bluetile Lounge appeared fully formed to me in a vision at the UWA Refectory sometime around mid 1993,” writes @guyblackman.

“I was a 19 year old stripling in Perth, occasionally waking up in time to attend uni lectures, when this friendly guy from my English Lit class told me he was playing in a Battle Of the Bands at the Ref at lunch.

“I went along with no expectations, but then Bluetile Lounge took the stage, playing just two songs in their allotted 20 minutes. They were unassuming in dark flannel shirts and murmured vocals, but possessed a magical twin guitar interplay and performed the most languorous, slowed down country-rock ever heard.”

@bluetileloungeband will play their first show in a quarter century, and their first ever show outside Perth, at Melbourne’s Brunswick Ballroom on Thursday 2 April.

Read Guy’s chat with guitarist and singer Dan Erickson and guitarist Gabrielle Stokes via the link in bio. by @guyblackman

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