| Bluebottle Kiss | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | Rock Indie rock |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Nonzero Records (Australia) |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Jamie Hutchings Ben Grounds Ross Dickie Jared Harrison |
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| Past members | |
| Ben Fletcher Peter Noble Richard Coneliano Simon Fuhrer |
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Bluebottle Kiss is a guitar-based, indie rock band from Sydney, Australia.
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Formed in the mid '90s, Bluebottle Kiss took their influences from the late '80s American indie scene, which included artists such as Sonic Youth and the Afghan Whigs, singer-songwriters of the '70s, such as Neil Young and Van Morrison, as well as the very creative Australian independent scene of the same period with artists such as The Church and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The band quickly signed to Murmur, an imprint of Sony Records. Initially, Bluebottle Kiss found only limited commercial success due to a challenging sound that ranged dissonant and rustic sounds to folk tinged, melancholy pop.
Although dropped from Murmur after 1997's Somnambulist Homesick Blues, Bluebottle Kiss continued to make records on their own with various indie imprints. 1998's Tap Dancing on the Titanic was issued on the now-dormant Troy Horse label.[1] 1999's Patient was released on Citadel Records - whose legendary catalogue includes New Christs, Died Pretty, The Stems and more recently Knievel.[2]
The band briefly decamped to the USA after this before regrouping as revamped four piece in 2001.
In 2002, long-time music fan, Nick Carr - inspired by labels such as Citadel - started his own label, Nonzero Records, in order to release Bluebottle Kiss' Revenge is Slow album.[3] The album was also released in the US on the In Music We Trust label.[4]
The relationship between Bluebottle Kiss and Nonzero Records has endured, with the band's sixth studio album - the 2 CD Doubt Seeds - being their third full-length release, among numerous singles and EPs, on the label. "Doubt Seeds' was produced by Jamie Hutchings at Linear Recording studio in Sydney.