If you’re on the East Coast of Australia in April, come and check out The Basics’ first shows on the back of our recent With This Ship single release.

Here’s the new track that Kris, Tim and I worked on over the last few months. It’s the first single from a forthcoming Basics record, so keep an ear out. You can get it on 7″ vinyl, cd single and digitally through iTunes.

The Basics- With This Ship [2009]
(dir. Matt Arnold. prod. Josh Butt)

Canadians. Like Drawing Blood is finally available on your Apple iTunes store. Yes, it is a while after it was available in the US. I know this hurts. Please accept my apologies.

And this

I’ve had this stack of 200 records I’ve collected over the last year sitting next to my desk for the last three months, and today I pulled out a beauty. Imagination’s 1983 album Scandalous.

The track New Dimension is a bit of a revelation. And then there’s the film clip!:

Soooo…you know TV On The Radio were once a three-piece right?

And then there’s the Golden Age film clip:

Is it just me, or were Imagination reborn in 2001 in New (Dimension) York City, as an experimental rock/pop/doowop/freejazz band with one member sporting more of a ‘fro than in the ’80s, one with a squarer jaw and the other with a skin pigmentation lightening problem and a new pair of glasses?

Surely this proves it?:
Imagination On The Radio

If not, then certainly I must be considered as the token white guy in the inevitable 2009 reformation of Imagination?

shiiiiiiit maaaang, i NEED this book