The Ending Goes Forever Podcast

Tim and Kellie talk about FIVE ROOMS, how it came about, what we did and how we did it. We explain the album title, *despite only really mentioning 3 of the rooms. We talk / go off on tangents about working with producer Anna Laverty, Kel’s tenuous grasp of modern recording technology and more.

At the end of 1991 into the early summer of 1992 we recorded our first album, Flour. Tim and Kellie chat how it came about and how we made it happen. There’s lots we don’t remember, or we half remember, or we think we remember, it was a long time ago!

In 1993 we drove to Sydney in Tim’s van, to record our second album Burn Out Your Name. We remember all the strange and funny details around the recording, and the songs themselves, and Kellie dives into her diaries for some “on the ground” insights into what we got up to.

Tim and Kellie chat about our “weird” third album Fill Yourself With Music. We were listening to a ton of early Flaming Lips at the time, we discuss their influence, as well as those of Sebadoh, and Seam, amongst other early 90s heroes of ours. Kellie reads from her diaries from during the recording session

In 1995 we recorded our fourth album Kitten Licks. The recording took place at Rocking Horse Studio outside of Byron Bay, and it rained solidly for 13 of the 14 days we were there. Kellie reads from her diaries about the rain, and about everything else; our new drummer Dean, our producer Paul McKercher, and the excitement surrounding our new batch of songs.

In 1999 we were stuck in a “weird label situation” where we weren’t allowed to record and release the songs which would become Rocks On The Soul, so we decided to make an album of covers. Tim and Kellie chat about working with Magoo; it was the first time we’d recorded digitally and was a hugely fun and creative session.

In the middle of 2000 we traveled to Melbourne and spent three winter weeks in a tiny studio with producer duo The Pound System. It was a great if somewhat confronting session; Dean especially feeling pushed into unfamiliar territory with the extreme editing of parts in the then-new(ish) digital recording domain.

In 2003 we recorded our sixth album Take You Apart, in Brisbane and Melbourne. In a sharp left turn from the previous album, Rocks on the Soul, the songs were our straightest set yet; a collection of very simple pop/rock tunes written in standard tunings and with traditional arrangements.

In 2015 we’d been touring again, promoting the vinyl re-issues of our earlier albums, and our manager encouraged us to start writing songs again. We released the first single, Alone In A Crowd, and ended up recording a dozen more, which ended up coming out as our 7th album Pop Guilt.

After a failed attempt to tour America in 1993, we released an EP at home in Australia which was to be the bridge between Burn Out Your Name and Fill Yourself with Music. Felicitator was a random collection, with acoustic tracks and demo versions as well as fully formed new songs, which would never appear anywhere else.