The origins of this enigmatic five piece begin by visiting a Mornington Peninsula seaside town in Melbourne called Mt Eliza. Anyone who happened to be walking down the beach near Oliver's Hill in the month of January 1999, might have even witnessed its protracted birth. In a remote corner surrounded by rocks, Michael Kratochvil sat showing James McMaster Hay a new song he had written. Already, it bared the signature sound of Michael's erratic and frenzied folk guitar playing, combined with an id...
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