Interstate tours followed, including the Gold Coast Big Day Out appearances, and a slot on the Brisbane Livid Festival. After extensive touring and notable supports, the band recorded their second EP, 'Our Dolelove', in Melbourne during the winter of 1997 with the assistance of Charles Bickford from the Paradise Motel. Extensive touring was undertaken in support of the EP, including a national support with Even and Header. In late 1997, Gaslight Radio recorded tracks for the third EP, 'Is By Bus', with Lindsey Gravina at Birdland studios in Melbourne. The song, ''Is by Bus'' received notable airplay. Phil Roubin departed the band, prior to their relocation from the Gold Coast to Melbourne.
Gaslight Radio's debut album, 'Hitch on the Leaves' (September 1998), was released to critical acclaim: Ian McFarlane described it as "a fine example of indie guitar-pop," while AllMusic's Ned Raggett rated it as four out of five stars. He explained, "it is a wonderful debut album from this quintet, equal parts pretty Cocteau Twins-inspired shoegaze and fragile rock drive... they don't sound like a cloning of any one group in particular, partially since the group turns from total feedback overdrive to subtler, slow-motion approaches."
In December 1999 they issued a six-track EP, 'Sleeveful Of Slight', via Silvertone Records with a new bass player and drummer installed, the band recorded new material. Five of its tracks were recorded in October with Tim Whitten producing. Cameron Webb of Oz Music Project felt the title track is "easily the best track here and is forged from the same mould used for the previously released 'Is by Bus' and 'Spindlings of the Summer'." Webb observed, "Upbeat catchy pop with skewed guitars and abstract lyrics have become the trademark of Gaslight Radio and there is no shortage of those elements here. However, it is nice to hear a more minimalist approach taken to most of the other tracks where drums have been stripped back and a greater prevalence bestowed upon the organ."
A six-track EP, 'Chapter 6: The Hard Luck Knights', was released in 2002 via Love + Mercy / Inertia Records. Oz Music Project's Jasper Lee opined "it follows nicely onto their last release, the 7" 'Sleeveful of Slight' and is broken down into two single tracks and four demo recordings... Not much to fault here, it's very much a Gaslight Radio disc, with their sound relatively intact through the years in the musical wilderness."
'Z-Nation', the group's second album, was issued in 2003 via Love + Mercy / Inertia with Gravina, Michael Alonso and Glen Berry producing. According to Sam Fell of Mess + Noise "it was a polarising release. Still, it was a record that found the band comfortable in their own musical skin; one where they developed their signature wall of sound. 'I like that album. Not many people do, but I do,' Rory Cooke jokes. 'Marty and I had been doing it for a long time by that stage, we knew how to do it, realised strengths and weaknesses of certain things'." Lee opined "the band have added several members to their ranks, the sum total of their parts being a fuller version of their earlier incarnation. The ever-languid vocals of Rory Cooke still glide through the band's defining jangly indie rhythms with a seemingly enhanced vigour."
Gaslight Radio released a compilation album, 'Magic Castle Broke Songs', in August 2004. It included tracks from their first four EPs. The group's third studio album, 'Good Heavens Mean Times' appeared in July 2006. Darren Levin of The Sydney Morning Herald observed "the members had to weather homelessness, doomed relationships and Melbourne's hottest summer in 45 years. Tracked in five days at Birdland Studios, most of the album was written on the lounge-room floor of bass player Michael Regan's flat, where songwriting brothers Martin and Rory Cooke were temporarily housed." In August 2007, New Zealand group Cut Off Your Hands, performed "Is by Bus", on Triple J's Like a Version program. In 2009 Gaslight Radio disbanded with Rory and Martin Cooke pursuing their own projects.
Members
Rory Cooke (vocals, guitar), Martin Cooke (vocals, guitar), Phil Roubin (bass) Simon Piper (drums)
Nick Treweek (2nd drummer), Matt Davis (keys), Emily Fullerton (keys), Alex Jarvis (guitar)
Peter Mclean (guitar). Michael Regan (bass) and Cameron Teys (drums)
Gaslight Radio's debut album, 'Hitch on the Leaves' (September 1998), was released to critical acclaim: Ian McFarlane described it as "a fine example of indie guitar-pop," while AllMusic's Ned Raggett rated it as four out of five stars. He explained, "it is a wonderful debut album from this quintet, equal parts pretty Cocteau Twins-inspired shoegaze and fragile rock drive... they don't sound like a cloning of any one group in particular, partially since the group turns from total feedback overdrive to subtler, slow-motion approaches."
In December 1999 they issued a six-track EP, 'Sleeveful Of Slight', via Silvertone Records with a new bass player and drummer installed, the band recorded new material. Five of its tracks were recorded in October with Tim Whitten producing. Cameron Webb of Oz Music Project felt the title track is "easily the best track here and is forged from the same mould used for the previously released 'Is by Bus' and 'Spindlings of the Summer'." Webb observed, "Upbeat catchy pop with skewed guitars and abstract lyrics have become the trademark of Gaslight Radio and there is no shortage of those elements here. However, it is nice to hear a more minimalist approach taken to most of the other tracks where drums have been stripped back and a greater prevalence bestowed upon the organ."
A six-track EP, 'Chapter 6: The Hard Luck Knights', was released in 2002 via Love + Mercy / Inertia Records. Oz Music Project's Jasper Lee opined "it follows nicely onto their last release, the 7" 'Sleeveful of Slight' and is broken down into two single tracks and four demo recordings... Not much to fault here, it's very much a Gaslight Radio disc, with their sound relatively intact through the years in the musical wilderness."
'Z-Nation', the group's second album, was issued in 2003 via Love + Mercy / Inertia with Gravina, Michael Alonso and Glen Berry producing. According to Sam Fell of Mess + Noise "it was a polarising release. Still, it was a record that found the band comfortable in their own musical skin; one where they developed their signature wall of sound. 'I like that album. Not many people do, but I do,' Rory Cooke jokes. 'Marty and I had been doing it for a long time by that stage, we knew how to do it, realised strengths and weaknesses of certain things'." Lee opined "the band have added several members to their ranks, the sum total of their parts being a fuller version of their earlier incarnation. The ever-languid vocals of Rory Cooke still glide through the band's defining jangly indie rhythms with a seemingly enhanced vigour."
Gaslight Radio released a compilation album, 'Magic Castle Broke Songs', in August 2004. It included tracks from their first four EPs. The group's third studio album, 'Good Heavens Mean Times' appeared in July 2006. Darren Levin of The Sydney Morning Herald observed "the members had to weather homelessness, doomed relationships and Melbourne's hottest summer in 45 years. Tracked in five days at Birdland Studios, most of the album was written on the lounge-room floor of bass player Michael Regan's flat, where songwriting brothers Martin and Rory Cooke were temporarily housed." In August 2007, New Zealand group Cut Off Your Hands, performed "Is by Bus", on Triple J's Like a Version program. In 2009 Gaslight Radio disbanded with Rory and Martin Cooke pursuing their own projects.
Members
Rory Cooke (vocals, guitar), Martin Cooke (vocals, guitar), Phil Roubin (bass) Simon Piper (drums)
Nick Treweek (2nd drummer), Matt Davis (keys), Emily Fullerton (keys), Alex Jarvis (guitar)
Peter Mclean (guitar). Michael Regan (bass) and Cameron Teys (drums)
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_Radio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_Radio
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