Big Heavy Stuff - Live at triple j 2004 - Limited Edition Vinyl

Released 3 June 2024

Big Heavy Stuff: Live at triple j 2004

Recorded live at triple j in 2004

Single LP (140gm), with unseen photographs (Limited Edition of 250)

Includes audio digital download 

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2004, Big Heavy Stuff had just released their fourth and final album, Dear Friends and Enemies. In the same year, the band appeared twice on triple j, recording both a Live at the Wireless performance as well as a moody and beautifully stripped back cover of Björk’s Hyperballad for Like a Version.

Love As Fiction Records is proud to release both performances for the first time in collaboration with Big Heavy Stuff, on the forthcoming album “Live at triple j 2004”, licensed thanks to the ABC.

The album features the entire Live at the Wireless recording of seven songs from Dear Friends and Enemies as well as Hyperballad, on limited edition vinyl. The Live at the Wireless recording has rarely been aired, only having been broadcast twice in 2004, and in the process of licensing the recordings it was found that the original tape had been recorded over. Fortunately, Nick from Big Heavy Stuff, ever the band’s archivist, had the foresight to obtain a flat transfer of the recording in 2004.

"This record is a document of a band at its peak. We’d finished our career defining album “Dear Friends And Enemies,” after spending at least a year seeing it through various creative stages. We couldn’t wait to share it with people. The Bjork cover was recorded after the tour and was the bands final recording to date.” – Nick Kennedy, 2024

The album art was designed by Matt W. Bayes and includes new photographs from renown photographer Sophie Howarth. The inner record labels feature a retro style design complementing the black and white theme of the record.

Side 1

Hyperballad*

Her Small Mouth

Mary I’ll Colour You In

Billy

Side 2

Black Heart

Mutiny

I Should Have Seen This Coming

Homesick

Greg Atkinson - guitar / vocal
Carolyn Polley - lead guitar / vocal
Elliot Fish - bass / vocal
Nick Kennedy - drums
David Trumpmanis - live samples
Recorded March 15th 2004 & mixed triple J studio 227 by Greg Wales
Assisted by Linda Radclyffe
All songs: Atkinson/Polley/Fish/Kennedy
except
*BHS :
G.A. - vocals
Sophie Glasson - cello
C.P., Tanith Sherman & Ben Fletcher - bv's and juju.
Written by Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Recorded live to air 2004 by Cameron McCauley

All tracks licensed through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Thank you Nick Webb, Basil Cook, Camille Qurban, Natalie Waller, Greg Wales, Peter Fenton.

Mastered by Chris Hanzsek 2024

Graphic Design by Matt W. Bayes

Band photographs by Sophie Howarth