The Nation Blue - 'I See Colours'
For a while there,
The Nation Blue were Australia’s
premiere post-hardcore / rock’n'roll band, garnering some big-name
supports and trekking across the globe, making it as far as Brazil.
Their 2007 disc
Protest Songs built them quite a fan base and
a few friends (and tour buddies, such as Dave Grohl, which publicists LOVE to include in
their press releases). And then… they kinda fell off the radar.
‘I See Colours’ is the latest release from this Melbourne trio and
it comes with a pretty harrowing backstory courtesy of vocalist/guitar
Tom Lyncoln.
“‘I See Colours’ is about having my drink spiked on New Years
1999/2000 and falling down a flight of stairs onto a slate floor and
then waking up during a CT scan and thinking I was dead… I ripped the
tube outta my arm and bent the needle and destroyed my arm…took me
three days to sit up in bed, four days to walk again and a week of
phone calls to find out what happened to me.
“Still don’t really know but think it was a girl at party…
toxicology report says I had 3 x the maximum dosage of MDMA in my
system and this song is a description of what I saw when I first woke
up. In contrast I wanted to write a really tweaked chord progression
and pack the song full of ghost notes. Tick.”
The band are playing this very week:
Nov 21 2008 - ROXANNE PARLOUR - MELBOURNE, Victoria
Nov 28 2008 - SANDRINGHAM HOTEL - SYDNEY, New South Wales
Nov 29 2008 - HUNTER VALLEY FESTIVAL - HUNTER VALLEY, New South Wales
Nov 30 2008 - LAKE TUGGERNONG FESTIVAL CANBERRA, New South Wales
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