K-Line played its last gig in December 2004, bringing to an end both one of the most fun and the most frustrating bands I’ve ever had the pleasure to play in. In September that year we’d finally finished recording 3 songs that I think we’d started in February…and which had certainly been written for a good deal longer than that. Way too long for a punk band. The original reason for recording them at all was to form our half of a split mini-LP with friends, Killerest Expression. They completed theirs 6 months before we did and then the label decided to not pursue it anyway, which is just as well because they’d have had a long time to wait for the K-Line contribution. As a result of the delays and other problems I was getting restless and had already rehearsed and recorded the 3 Liquidman songs with Damion, Sid & John (in 3 days) as an antidote to the frustration of recording with K-Line. When these songs were finally finished I was so past caring that I’m not sure I even played them through together more than once. The memories from that time weren’t good and so I kind of gave up on the songs. Last year someone asked me what they were called and I honestly couldn’t remember the titles.

Anyway, 2+ years later I’m finally able to listen to these songs with the required degree of detachment and guess what? They’re actually pretty darned good and definitely worth a listen. Interesting also because they also show the different writing styles of myself, Rich and Paul. Homeland or Die was mostly written by me (Rich added the excellent chuggy end section), Radiate was mostly written by Rich and Hibernate ‘88 was mostly written by Paul. Zac wrote all the lyrics and we arranged them all as a band. If you liked the K-Line releases then you’ll definitely like these; if this is your first taste of K-Line, then it’s as good a place to start as any and look out here for more stuff in the future.

• Homeland or Die (4.7MB)
• Radiate (6.6MB)
• Hibernate ‘88 (3.5MB)