Rob Roy: A Live Compilation

TRACK LIST:
1. My Disco - Installation Of Camaraderie
2. International Karate - A Minor Role In A Major Movie
3. Colditz Glider - Halfmoon Bay
4. Grey Daturas - Mutany At Sea
5. Sinking Citizenship - The Blank Song
6. Laura - Ariadne

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Rob Roy: A Live Compilation is only available to buy from Polyester Records and Missing Link Records in Melbourne.

REVIEWS:
A few years ago, it felt like The Rob Roy was everyone's second lounge room. On the weekends it was the meeting place for Melbourne's art-rock scene, where bands with a friend or two would be ensured a good turnout but have to play through the noise of a hundred conversations starting with, 'oh shit, how are you?' Even on school nights, after writing uni essays by the pool table before the gig started, I never stayed alone for long. Almost every arty band gigging in Melbourne at the time took to The Rob Roy's stage, between one wall of mirrors and another with a giant picture of Johnny Cash giving the finger. Because Of Ghosts, Laura, School of Emotional Engineering, Princess 1.5, The Sensational Alex Jarvis Band, This Is Your Captain Speaking, Sunwrae Ensemble, My Disco, Colditz Glider, International Karate and Audiophile (now known as The Instant) all played memorable sets there within what seemed at the time like a short few months. Recorded and mixed by sound engineer Nao Anzai and compiled by band booker Brad Murray, this compilation (now available via Melbourne's Missing Link and Polyester Records) could have been just a nostalgic collectible for those involved. But it's actually something more. Each track flows together in the same way the nights used to, in a flurry of wild notes occasionally slowed down to a dreamy instrumental piece and culminating in Laura's ten-minute "Ariadne". The only difference between this and the memory of having been there is better sound quality and less cigarette smoke.
- Mess+Noise Magazine, Andrew Ramadge, June 2007

Unlike the barren dry patches of the state's drought-striken interior, however, this dry patch bore some fruit Ð The Rob Roy is one of the better live rock and roll venues around town (leaving aside oneÕs thoughts about the saltiness of the salt and pepper squid in the front barÉ that was a few years ago anyway). And the bumper harvest is set to continue with "Rob Roy: A Live Compilation", just released, featuring six prominent Roy-dwellers making guitars do funny things in the mirrored den out the back. "Sorry for shit fucking up," says someone from Grey Daturas following their "Mutany At Sea". But my ears couldnÕt pick much over the 27 minutes of the album that was fucking up at all. The sound is crisper than a British touristÕs bum-cheek dermis after too many unclothed hours at a Mt Eliza beach, and the musicianship is more intricate and well thought out than a Stephanie Alexander faux-French soup recipe. The barrelling bass of My Disco's "Installation Of Camaraderie" starts preceedings, and has them pulling off their left-handed Mark Of Cain impression (albeit for skinny blokes) with deftness in ample quantities. Colditz Glider's "Halfmoon Bay" operates at breakneck pace, but is eclipsed by meandering epics like International Karate's "A Minor Role In A Major Movie" and Laura's "Ariadne". Meanwhile, the noise workouts of Grey Daturas and Sinking Citizenship grate things up nicely, and presumably left the punters wandering back from Bimbos that night fairly flummoxed by what's happening inside.
Beat, Andy Cole, March 2007


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