History

“Accordion players were outsiders, we had to find our own audiences and chart our own course.”

Not one single person came through the door. As the manager gingerly approached us I remember the keyboard player asking, “Are we still going to get paid?”

“Now, while it’s a given in this industry that every band needs to ‘pay its dues’, before ‘making it’, nobody really outlines what this looks like.”

“KC’s wasn’t without its troubles. The club would be absolutely empty until midnight when patrons already plastered would roll in from other venues.”

“Without a doubt, he was the king of the punks at the time, a real character with his mohawk hairdo and covered in tattoos but he was a natural leader … “

“Gobsmacked, I sat in Tony Geary’s office at EMI, the Australian home of Parlophone, the iconic recording label of The Beatles.”

The philosophy is to find a fail point, fix it, then find another, fix it, and repeat. “We invest in critical reliability.”

“After the ice hockey game the venue was turned over to the skating public, and we’d be the background music. You might say the reception was as cold as the ice.”

“…this was some kind of magic emanating from an instrument you could fit in your pocket.”

“They were pretty unique, they had a huge following and crowds loved them.”

There are a lot of other units we’d like to add to our collection – I’m sure they’re out there somewhere!