Artist: Splurge
Album: Splurge Unheard: A Selection of Rarities
Track: Kiss Me (Unreleased, The Cure For The Cure)

More Splurge Unheard - New Bonus Track Added

The download of Splurge Unheard, a selection of rarities spanning 1997-2007, released to celebrate our 15th anniversary, now includes the home demo of Song of Love.

The selection includes new mixes of three never-before-heard tracks - one from each Splurge album - plus and six other unreleased and rare recordings.

Buy now for $8 and get immediate download of the 10-track album in the high-quality format of your choice, plus unlimited mobile access using the free Bandcamp listening app.

Package includes booklets, inserts and cover art for each Splurge album, as well as the bonus track.

Listen/purchase: Splurge Unheard: A Selection of Rarities by Splurge

Artist: Splurge
Album: Wait For The Sun (Demos)
Track: This Life

EAR CANDY SPLURGE FOR CROWDFUNDING

There’s only 16 days to go in our crowdfunding campaign to record and mix our new album - http://www.pozible.com/splurgewaitforthesun
How about some ear candy? This Life is the first of our demos to be previewed here - http://splurge.bandcamp.com/album/wait-for-the-sun-demos-2 - with more to come…
Here’s some eye candy too if that makes it any easier…
http://vimeo.com/79089017

Listen to: Wait For The Sun (Demos) by Splurge

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Track: When I'm Down (Unreleased, The Cure For The Cure)

Splurge Unheard #6 - When I’m Down. This track was recorded and mixed for The Cure For The Cure but it was swapped at the last minute with Get Up And Watch TV in the final track selection (what were we thinking?). Released as a B-side to the limited-edition single She’s Not The One, the track also appeared on Popboomerang’s “Electric & Eclectic: Rarities Volume One”, attracting attention from Beat in May 2011:

“Most compelling is Splurge’s haunting performance of an original entitled When I’m Down - a moving, solemn moment of introspection via Greg Williams’ expressive vocals and his band’s intensely foreboding rhythms.”

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Track: I Need Your Love (Unreleased, Splurge)

Unheard Splurge #5 - I Need Your Love by Splurge. The Two Gregs do their best John and Paul impersonations (which is which?) on this song recorded for Splurge’s debut album but omitted from the final track listing. The song pre-dates Splurge. Greg Williams’ acoustic version was released on vinyl-only “Here and Now” (1990)—a collection of home demos on Greasy Pop records—and re-issued on vinyl and CD with “Louder Than Words” (1991), by The Greasy Record Company.

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Track: Song of Love (Unreleased, Splurge)

Unheard Splurge #4 - Song of Love by Splurge. Happy all the time! This song is a co-write with Steve Housden of LRB (don’t ask). It was recorded for the first Splurge album but omitted from the final track listing. Just too much love, I guess… but the Two Gregs later added it to their set as The Every Brothers in an unrecorded Dragon-inspired, scarf-waving piano version.

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Track: Kiss Me (Unreleased, The Cure For The Cure)

Unheard Splurge #3 - Kiss Me by Splurge. Unreleased track from “The Cure For The Cure”. This recording wasn’t completed for the album - was a bit of an ugly duckling. Greg Williams has added a new vocal, with Leticia Maher singing backing vocals. The rest was already there, but buried: Neville Hill plays bass and jangles on 12-string, Owen Smythe comes in late and kicks it along, and James Black chimes in with the ‘brown’ guitar and synth flourishes. Ta da!

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Track: Under Your Thumb (Unreleased, Heavy Weather)

Unheard Splurge #2 - Under Your Thumb by Splurge. Unreleased track from the album “Heavy Weather” (2002) by Splurge. This recording by David McCluney at Atlantis was recoverd from the original ADATs as a complete take but with only a guide vocal. Greg Williams and Greg Arnold finished the vocals, then added some acoustic 12-string and wig-out!

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Track: Something About Love (Unreleased, Splurge)

Unheard Splurge #1 - Something About Love by Splurge. Unreleased track from the album “Splurge” (1999) by Splurge. This recording was made in the first sessions for our debut album. It was completed but not considered for the final track selection. “What were we thinking?” said Greg Arnold when I extracted this from the ADATs.

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Track: I Don't Feel It

Cabin Flashback #7 - I Don’t Feel It by Splurge. Yes, we do have songs shorter than five minutes. But no, they aren’t as much fun to play as this one. This song has a strong connection to The Cabin voodoo. Greg Williams wrote it on the couch just behind the door and we came back to lay the guitars on thick and heavy!

Artist: Splurge
Album: The Cure For The Cure
Track: The Cure For The Cure

Cabin Flashbacks #6 - The Cure For The Cure by Spurge. In 2003 and 2004, Cure sessions moved to The Cabin, with producer James Black, Neville Hill and Greg Williams (Owen Smythe recorded his drums and left for the UK). Neville played guitar for days while Greg made the tea and James explored the ‘mindless’ possibilities. What other albums end with the title track?

Artist: Splurge
Album: Heavy Weather
Track: She's Got No Soul

Cabin Flashback #5 - She’s Got No Soul by Splurge. Counting down to pre-production in the Cabin (14-15 September) for the new record… the original vocal for this track, along with all the others on “Heavy Weather” (2002), was recorded at The Cabin. I think we had to re-do it because it was a bit too raw. The track featured “The Martini Seven Brass” - Paul Erdley, Steve Kellock and Mark Mason - we’d love to have you back, boys…