THE SOMELOVES

The Someloves were led by Dom Mariani and Darryl Mather each of whom was also in two other Australian garage bands, The Stems and The Lime Spiders. Mariani had met Mather in 1984 when Mather went to Perth to recuperate from what was thought to be leukaemia and saw The Stems playing at the Old Melbourne Hotel. During The Stems first trip/tour of Sydney in 1985 Mariani and The Stems drummer, Gary Chambers, stayed four months in a house on Terminus Street in Petersham that Darryl shared with Bill Gibson (who had just formed The Eastern Dark).

For the first recording session, Gary Chambers was on drums and on bass was Christian Houllemare, a musician from France, who had played in a French band, Bad Brains. Bill Gibson and John Rooney provided the harmonies. The tracks were mixed a few months later by Alan Thorne at Trafalgar and quickly picked up by John Needham at Citadel Records. The single "It's My Time / Don't Talk About Us" was released in 1986 as The Someloves, a name that Mather coined that came from a Real Kids' song, "Some Love Like Yours". A second Someloves single began to take shape in 1987.

In September 1987 Mariani went to Sydney to remix what was to be The Stems' final single, "Sad Girl". Mariani was staying with one of Mather's friends when they did The Someloves' recording of "Know You Now / Don't Have To Try". Mather sent the tapes to Perth, where Mariani, amid the post-Stems tumult, finished the vocals in early 1988. Mather had plans for the second single and sent it to Mitch Easter (who Mather admired through his band Let's Active and his work with other bands like The dBs), with a request that he mix The Someloves single."Know You Now / Don't Have To Try" was released in 1988 on Mushroom's subsidiary White Label.

In 1989 Mushroom allocated a budget of $60,000 for an album. The bulk of the album was recorded in Perth at Planet Studios in 1989 with a variety of personnel including Robbie Scorer on drums, Tony Italiano on bass, Mitch Easter on guitar and keyboards and Angie Easter on keyboards. The Someloves debut album, 'Something or Other', was released in 1990. 'Something or Other' is widely considered one of the essential power-pop recordings and is highly regarded among power pop collectors. Its re-release by Half A Cow in 2006 as a two-CD compilation, 'Don't Talk About Us: The Real Pop Recordings of the Someloves 1985–89', includes a critical review of Mariani and Mather's inter-related stories, substantial interviews and a bonus disc of non-album singles and remixes.

Members

Darryl Mather (vocals, guitar), Dom Mariani (vocals guitar), Christian Houllemare (bass),
Gary Chambers (drums), Tony Italiano (bass), Robbie Scorer (drums), Mitch Easter (guitar,keyboards),
Angie Easter (keyboards)

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Someloves