The Cassette Box

We remain outside the box for this week’s entry, and we also continue with the Australian theme from last year. What we have is another tape from Kathy, this one sent to me in late 2001. It consists of three live sets recorded from Triple J over the course of the summer (well summer in the UK, winter in Oz) of 2001, so let’s get to it!   Artist: Various Album: Something for Kate, Alex Lloyd, Coldplay UK Record Label: N/A UK Release Date: 2001 UK Single Releases from Album: N/A   Something for Kate – Live at the Wireless: First up we have a set recorded by Something for Kate for Live at the Wireless (recorded on the 16 th of July and first broadcast on the 30 th of the same month). Something for Kate were actually a pretty big deal in Australia at the time, having just released their third album Echolalia a few weeks previously, which reached number two on the ARIA Albums chart. I don’t think I’d really heard anything by them before receiving this tape, but I do remembe...

Today’s tape is another excursion outside the box and is actually the second tape that Kathy sent to me. As I recall she sent this at the same time as Songs from Down Under, so the summer of 2001. It’s a bit of a mish-mash featuring an Alex Lloyd radio set, some early Whitlams tracks, a selection of tracks from Area-7’s latest album and various other tracks she thought I might enjoy.   Artist: Various Album: Alex Lloyd – Live / Area-7 + Whitlams UK Record Label: None UK Release Date: 2001 UK Single Releases from Album: None   Alex Lloyd – Melting, Desert, Black the Sun, What a Year, Lucky Star  and  Snow: Six tracks recorded for Triple J’s Live at the Wireless programme sometime in 1999. I first heard Alex Lloyd in the year 2000 when ‘Black the Sun’ was Mark & Lard’s record of the week, and liked what I heard enough to mention him to Kathy not long after we started e-mailing. She was also a fan, and so made sure to include this set when she sent me some tapes fo...