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The album 'Mad Stream' has been a long time coming for me. I wrote the title track in 1995 living in a loft in Amsterdam above a Moroccan 'coffee' shop. I had released two albums of my music before leaving Australia ('Side of Clues' with the band Nude and ' Temple ' a duets album with Mike Nock) and I was keen to dive deeper into composing for improvising musicians. I've recorded several times in the last ten years but 'the album' kept eluding me. It wasn't until 2002 when I was firmly back on Australian soil that I found the right elements to completing the first 20th Century Dog LP - band chemistry, the right recording studio with the right engineer and the right compositions in order to make a statement that I felt was worthwhile.

The music I had written was not in the mainstream so the right band was imperative. Carl Dewhurst (guitar) and I have been playing for over 19 years and he understood my vision but it wasn't until I played the music with Simon Barker (drums) th...