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GIDDY UP
Twenty-two is a great age. You can do what you want. But
what do you want? You think you know everything, when, really,
you know very little. And you believe that love will last
forever. "Because as long as I live, I'll be loving you,
darling, just the way you are," Lacey Cole sings in Lazy
Colts' latest single, Twenty Two, an epic evocation of a
glorious time. A time of share houses, mixtapes and drunken
pashes, when everything is so dramatic and real. "Being
a sentimental guy, I have very fond memories of my relationships
at 22," Lacey, 30, tells Howzat! "For me, it was definitely
a time of self-discovery. It's a pretty volatile and exciting
landscape to navigate when you mix people discovering who
they are and who they want to be with all at once … I would
try to find all the things that excited me about art in
my relationships. If they weren't there, I'd manage to put
them there somehow. Unfortunately for my relationships,
I listened to super sad songs, watched pretty tragic films
and read the Old Testament. It was all very melodramatic
and I don't think my girlfriends appreciated it. These days
I've managed to separate the two a little better and live
vicariously through our songs." The best thing about 22
is things are never as bad as they seem. Hearts will mend
and there's plenty of time to heal all wounds. Lacey admits
the song is really about "me convincing myself that everything
is going to be okay in the wake of a relationship breakdown".
Twenty Two is on the Sydney band's debut album, Trojan,
which reminds Howzat! of The Triffids. Lacey liked a description
of his band's sound: Over-enthusiastic funeral dirges. Lazy
Colts come to Melbourne for the first time this week - Saturday
at Wesley Anne, Sunday at Labour In Vain. "We're really
excited. We've played with a lot of artists from Melbourne
when they visit Sydney and lots of them have told us we
sound like a 'Melbourne band', so hopefully it feels like
a homecoming, a 'together again for the first time' kinda
thing."
A PEARLER
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Deborah Conways's String
of Pearls - one of Howzat!'s favourite albums - Deborah
is playing the album at the Playhouse at the Arts Centre
on 22 Sep.
HOT LINE
"What a man wants is seldom what he needs" - Bernard Fanning,
What A Man Wants.
CHART WATCH
Illy's single featuring Vera Blue jumps from eight to two.
Papercuts ILLY FEATURING VERA BLUE (number two)
In My Blood THE VERONICAS (eight)
Say It FLUME (16)
Cheap Thrills SIA (28)
This Girl KUNGS VS COOKIN' ON 3 BURNERS (29)
Never Be Like You FLUME (34)
As Aussie albums occupy the top three spots, Human Nature
score their fourth number one album.
Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II HUMAN NATURE (number one,
debut)
Skin FLUME (two)
Wildflower THE AVALANCHES (three)
Wings Of The Wild DELTA GOODREM (five)
Ripcord KEITH URBAN (seven)
Of Dirt And Grace - Live From The Land HILLSONG UNITED (14)
A Version Of Now PETER GARRETT (16)
50 Best Songs PLAY SCHOOL (18)
Telluric MATT CORBY (22)
Jukebox HUMAN NATURE (24)
The Best Of THE WIGGLES (26)
Drinking From The Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung HILLTOP
HOODS (30)
The Positions GANG OF YOUTHS (35)
Since I Left You THE AVALANCHES (37)
This Is Acting SIA (38)
Soul Searchin' JIMMY BARNES (39)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Twenty Two LAZY COLTS
Oh No You Don't BENNY WALKER
Favourite Guy THE GLORIOUS NORTH
Beyond The Valley PALACE OF THE KING
It Still Matters PETER GARRETT
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