LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The Drones formed in Perth in 1999. In early 2001, Rui and Gareth headed east and for some reason settled in Sydney. There they lived in a Mitsubishi van on a dumped mattress with two mutts for three weeks before heading south. To stay in the shittiest caravan park in all of grey Victoria. They survived low-rent Saturday night fevers of violence before finding a bass player and a drummer. The new Drones were formed. They recorded their manic, poetic debut album, "Here Comes The Lies", soon afterwards. It was an exuberant, soulful, harshly beautiful and darkly comical affair. It also received huge praise all over the world and is now heralded as an Australian classic. Now in 2005 after innumerable headline shows, a slew of singles, inclusion on compilations all over the world and a successful tour of the U.S. and Europe, the drones are in the height of their powers. Well and truly established as one of the most intense and gifted bands in the world, on stage and record.