180 Grams
180 Grams: the stories behind remarkable albums. 180 Grams? The weight of a collector's edition vinyl record. We'll take you right into the process of albums you love, as told by the key players. The studio bickering, main stage triumphs, tense late night phone calls and sold out launches. It's an Access All Areas listening experience that pulls apart how records are conceived, born and grow up in public, from the early demos to the risky creative decisions right up to the finished product. You'll hear fresh stories from the bands, managers, label big wigs and small wigs, booking agents, icons, all eager to talk about their part in a modern classic. 180 Grams will help you hear albums in a new light, beamed into your brain from a different angle with a deeper perspective and juicy, often spicy insights. Hosted by Mikey Cahill, music and culture journalist.
Episodes
"The difficult second album" - Danny Roberts, A&R manager
This season, the story of Run Home Slow, The Teskey Brother's second studio album released 2nd August 2019.
Following the success of their self-produced debut Half Mile Harvest in 2017 the Warrandyte locals quickly garnered attention in Melbourne, Sydney, London, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles.
To repeat the feat will be no easy task.
Told over 6 episodes, we fol...
Two Teskey Brothers become four (adding Brendon and Liam) as the band emerges from a decade outside Melbourne to sell out city venues.
They release Half Mile Harvest (debut studio album), get some industry attention, sign management and navigate intense label interest as they prepare to record album number two.
Charismatic Englishman Paul Butler is recruited to produce what will become Run Home Slow.
"My first thought was, wow, wha...
An international record producer arrives in Warrandyte and they try to start work but things quickly fall apart; band dynamics, equipment and timeline.
The process is much less like their first album.
They’ve only got 3 weeks, while producer Paul Butler is in Melbourne, to record all the parts.
The band have been so busy in the lead up and they’re not ready when they start.
An assistant engineer is hired - SOREN! - and ...
It’s hot outside the studio, a cooking cauldron of emotions and sidelined expectations.
Paul Butler must leave in just over a week but at what cost?
As momentum gains the creative differences on the album grow.
There’s no time to spend time on the strings, the backing vocals, the horns.
The Band, Paul and Soren have to use every waking hour.
ARTICLE: The wisdom of album Producer Paul Butler
Feisty WhatsApp messages, a missing bass player, a showdown and another grueling overseas tour.
A band meeting in early January puts the work ahead in perspective.
Then before the month’s out they’re off to tour Europe.
Mixing the tracks, Brendon and Sam still can’t get their ideas to match up.
But labels and the band want the album done.
By April Brendon walks out of Crystal Mastering in Thornbury with the finish...
Three singles will be released and there's a big show to play before the album drops on 2 August.
The first single is ready to go then the Australian label Ivy League suggests a change.
Singles two and three come out while the band is in the US then the UK respectively.
They're booked to play youth festival Splendour in the Grass and there's one plane that can get the Band home.
Special thanks to JazzFM for the allowing...
Not just the album, released on 2 August 2019, but the Colors Session recorded in Germany too sends a Teskey wave around the world.
This record is not going to promote itself!
The Band is booked to support Tash Sultana through the US before the Australian album tour at the biggest home-country venues they've ever played.
And the awards show they've watched since they were kids, the ARIAs, announces the 2019 nominations.
Jeremy gets her on the phone and just says “What?!”
“Oh, my God, what's wrong?” said Al Parkinson.
“There's a Grammy nomination for The Teskey Brothers. Sam's been nominated for a Grammy!”
A bloody Grammy! Best engineered album - non-classical.
Along with producer Paul Butler and mastering engineer Joe Carra.
What's it like to go to a Grammy ceremony?
Find out on this fish-out-of-water bonus epis...
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