loaded and true in melb

 we record an album with snowy and play a show with chateau - saturday 5 december at the tramway hotel in fitzory north. 4pm and free entry. 

things

We are playing a morning time show at the Bundanon art gallery on Sunday 1 November at the Art Museum Forecort. There's more info here: https://www.bundanon.com.au/whats-on/opening-weekend-betty-muffler-mehwish-iqbal/

Lone Blue Diver at Franks Wild Years

DJs Loaded and True at Franks Wild Years

Hiddenness Songs online

 

our new EP Hiddenness Songs is now available on download/streaming

Alec Marshall: guitar
Jake Core: bass
Oliver Mestitz: drums

Recorded by Blue Divers at Franks Wild Years record bar, one morning while the shop was closed, in Thirroul, NSW. Mixed and mastered by Liam 'Snowy' Halliwell.

01: If I Have Lost My Knowledge
AKA Si Ay Perdut Mon Saber, composed by Ponç d'Ortafà (active c. 1170–1246). Learnt from a recording by Jordi Savall from the 1990s. If I Have Lost My Knowledge / If I Have Lost My Mind? We made a minimalist power trio arrangement, extended it and communed with ghosts.

02: Muss Blues II
Old music we used to play in Hot Palms c. 2012-15.

03: Ghost
Some newer music, played around here and there.

04: Solstice
This one I wrote for Dusty Anastassiou to write words for, which did happen. A demo of the vocal version exists, and we played it live a couple times in the band Loaded and True.

05: Splish Splash In The Creek
This music was originally written for a show with Loaded and True. I try to write new stuff each time that band plays. We played it a couple times, then I thought it better fitted my other band Blue Riders, and we recorded it for a Blue Riders album that remains unfinished.

It’s been four years since I’ve released any new music, but I have been active in writing, collaborating and recording, it’s just nothing got finished and released. To hopefully lift the curse, we had to take these old and new musical ideas from projects near and far, and try to do them justice in our refined power trio arrangements. We played a couple shows like this - drums, bass and guitar - and this EP basically documents what we sounded like live. There are very few recordings of the live band in existence, and we have had many different versions - instrumental, with singing, large ensembles and small. Because we barely play outside our home town, all these ideas and new music goes unheard by anyone that isn’t part of the handful of people who come to our gigs. It is a bit hiddenness. This is a glimpse into one version of the band, documented for anyone to hear. I hope this EP breaks the dry spell, and we see all this other music come out of hiding soon.

DD

 dick diver and this book about their album 'calendar days' rules. more books about underground australia. two members released this beautiful album recently too and i have had it on repeat 

Hiddenness Songs

We made a new EP, recorded live one morning. It is out on Friday 2nd October. It will likely be available on CD at Franks Wild Years in Thirroul, where it was recorded, and Repressed Records in Sydney, before that date.

Alec Marshall: guitar, Jake Core: bass, Oliver Mestitz: drums

blue riders

squiggly ranch demo

 

Shows, September & October 2026

We will be playing a little daytime thing in the park in Bulli on Sunday 13 September, Jordan Ireland also playing. I will do a solo set at Franks Wild Years in Thirroul on Wednesday 14 October opening for Andrew Tuttle & Darren Cross. And we will be playing our first Blue Mountains show in Katoomba on Saturday 17 October. 

BLUE DIVERS: SUN 13 SEPT, Turning Light Festival, Bulli NSW (free)

LONE BLUE DIVER: WED 14 OCT, Franks Wild Years, Thirroul NSW (tickets here)

BLUE DIVERS: SAT 17 OCT, Katoomba House Show, Blue Mountains NSW (get in touch for details)