Buddy Glass was born in Santiago, Chile during a time when Pinochet’s military dictatorship still imposed a strict 7pm curfew. He was born at 1am. This hankering for being out when he shouldn’t, has stayed with him ever since. In 1983 he moved to Sydney, Australia with his parents. Ten years later he started a band with his high school friends. They wrote some songs, released some albums, did some tours. Then something happened. Booze and narcotics took his mind and soul hostage and Buddy Glas...
Buddy Glass was born in Santiago, Chile during a time when Pinochet’s military dictatorship still imposed a strict 7pm curfew. He was born at 1am. This hankering for being out when he shouldn’t, has stayed with him ever since.
In 1983 he moved to Sydney, Australia with his parents. Ten years later he started a band with his high school friends. They wrote some songs, released some albums, did some tours. Then something happened.
Booze and narcotics took his mind and soul hostage and Buddy Glass became a moral, creative and intellectual guttersnipe. No more songs. The depravity went on for years.
Eventually, with his brain still on strike and yet another relationship making its way down the S-bend, Buddy Glass packed his bags and moved to Lyon, France, where a bitterly cold European winter and some healthy isolation from people and technology (there might have been some cheap French wine involved, too) finally broke him free from the shackles of unproductive degeneracy.
The result was a lengthy list of songs, ten of which you will find on his debut, self-titled album. Road-tested in the bars of Lyon and recorded and mixed by Tim Kevin upon Buddy’s return to Sydney a year later, Buddy Glass highlights the musical and lyrical surge Buddy had while he was in Franco-captivity. “I came to Lyon to stick my fingers down my creative throat, and up came this album. I think I’ve thrown up worse things”, Buddy wrote to me on the back of a bar coaster.
Time is a Serpent is the first taste of this album by Buddy Glass. It's a joyous proclamation of Godlessness dedicated to Clive James who publicly told everyone who fussed over his leukaemia diagnosis to "stop worrying because nobody gets out of this world alive". Being a long-time fan of humour in tragedy, Buddy Glass took that line, added his own observations on how ridiculous life can seem when you truly believe (as he does) that "this wall has no other side", and turned the song into a depressingly cheerful singalong the whole family can enjoy!
Buddy Glass is out August 2013 on vinyl & CD through China Pig Records. Clive James is still alive, 5 years after being diagnosed with leukaemia. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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