1. The Invisible Man*

2. Nine-to-Fivers’ Daily Grind*

3. The Man Who Used To Be On TV*

4. Open My Eyes

5. Inside This Skin*

6. I Can’t Live With Anyone But You*

7. Arizona

8. I Will Be There

9. I Wanna Get High

10. A Long Way To Go

*Re-mastered bonus tracks with Heavy Weather CD.

What they were saying... about Splurge

Splurge’s debut CD was chosen by Jeff Jenkins in InPress as one of his favourite releases of 1999. Chaos Music listed the CD at No. 2 in its Best Indie Releases of the Year.

Jeff Jenkins, InPress Magazine
“Greg has been doing this thing for a long time.We recall seeing his band the Every Brothers at the Club in 1989... they were the best band to come out of Adelaide since Cold Chisel. Splurge is every bit as good as the Everys. Like Grant McLennon, Greg has a voice that is expressive and emotionally direct and these songs are good, particularly The Man Who Used To Be On TV and the plaintive Open My Eyes.”

Chaos Music
“Hands up everyone who likes melodious pop? I’ve got something for you. Splurge - encrypt this name into your memory.”

Juice Magazine
“Think Jesus and Mary Chain, smooth vocals, toe-tappin’ rhythm section, percussion, sitar and piano galore. Twelve tracks with particular highlights including Nine-To-Fivers Daily Grind, The Invisible Man, Inside This Skin and A Long Way To Go. A most definite recommendation.”

Adrian Pertout, Beat Magazine
“The melodically strong Invisible Man sets the scene for a musical journey into the radio-friendly world of Splurge, where the easy going voice of Greg Williams, jangly guitars, reverb splashed tambourines, running bass lines and a solid four-four beat create the very dreamy translucent soundscape.
Nine-to-Fivers’ Daily Grind follows on with a more energy-packed performance and a definite sixties quality that rocks, while The Man Who Used To Be On TV returns to the Splurge pop formula. Open My Eyes is somewhat of an eighties reincarnation: it’s difficult not to be reminded of those memorable sonic accomplishments by Steve Kilby and the Church a decade ago or so. It’s actually refreshing to hear some melody back in pop, which 90s trends have unfortunately stripped away from a lot of music, and Splurge ‘Self-titled’ is in essence a return to this lost song form.”

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Front room to warehouse to cabin...

This record started out in the front room of Nev’s narrow Richmond terrace in 1997. Once a week we would get together and record songs and it wasn’t long before we needed a band to play them.

Nev brought Owen in to play drums but we still needed a bass player. Greg Arnold was just back from overseas and could play a bit of bass so we invited him along to rehearse in the big warehouse on Spencer Street and suddenly it sounded like a band.

It didn’t take long really. We got the first batch of songs together rehearsing once a week for a few months, then recorded them to see what we sounded like. Most of it sounded pretty good but it wasn’t a record yet.

So we worked on a few more songs and took them with us up to The Cabin in Hall’s Gap, where we did some guitar overdubs and then set up the band in the big log-cabin living room to rehearse and record before we went back to the studio to finish the record.

When we got there we listened to The Cabin versions—two of them were fine just like they were—it was the beginning of Splurge’s long romance with the sound and the mood of that place! The other songs sounded like a band too.

Hear some of the songs that didn’t make it onto the record on the MP3 page.

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The Band:
Greg Williams: singing, rhythm guitars, tambourine
Neville Hill: electric guitars, bass (6, 8), electric sitar
Greg Arnold: harmony singing, bass, electric guitars (6, 8), piano, hammond
Owen Smythe: drums, percussion

Produced and arranged by Splurge.
Recorded and mixed by David McCluney at Atlantis,
except the basic tracks for I Can’t Live With Anyone But You and Inside This Skin and too-many-to-mention guitar overdubs, which were done by the band up at The Cabin in Hall’s Gap.
Mastered by Michael Hepworth at Atlantis.
All songs written by Greg Williams, Control
with Neville Hill, Control (4, 5, 9, 10), Greg Arnold, Rondor (3, 4, 9), Owen Smythe, Control (4, 9), except (8) by Greg Arnold, Rondor.
Artwork by Splurge Multimedia. Cover pic by Greg. Guitar pic by Owen.

Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of these recordings is prohibited.
All rights of the record producer and owner of the work reserved © ℗ Greg Williams 1999.

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