Listening to ‘Steve Lane and the Autocrats’ latest album, Birds Taking Flight. Met up with Steve last week, really great to see him – it had been a long while. Steve & band have been out on the road touring their new release. The album sounds fantastic. Steve wanted me to listen & tell him what I thought. Hope it’s OK buddy, I’m going public on this one. If I had to put some kind of ‘stamp’ on it, I’d say flavours of Josh Pyke, Killers, Beatles & classic 80’s legendary Aussie band Sunnyboys. It’s a great sounding record (engineered by David Carr), with a wealth of catchy songs and plenty of depth, thoughtful & intelligent lyrics and excellent pop sensibility. Good on ya Steve. Big thumbs up! Here’s the video clip for the first track, April Tuesday…

Played in a band with Steve many years ago when we were both just out of high school. We both had plenty to talk about last week. Couple of guys who’ve taken quite different paths with our careers – and yet so much in common. Plenty of war stories to share between us. Seems the music industry is the same all over the world.

Fires out.