I collect records and make music with them


Now defunct Weekend State began as 2 High School friends learning to play guitar in the mid 90s writing a bunch of songs together in the process. 

After gigging these songs with a band for years but without resources to record an album, Weekend State are now the product of some very talented session musicians brought together to give life to the music which otherwise would have been lost.

Some bird is the story of a battle.  A band torn apart by the separate needs of the head and heart.  A band fighting to balance an awareness of good taste, with a love of all that is cheesy and wrong.  Every week, the true shining spirit of alternative rock music, as exemplified by such great bands as Low, Wilco,  and The National, is battered and debased by noxious filth better suited to a Spin Doctors improv jam, or a Shakespear’s Sister covers band.  Honestly, sometimes it’s really upsetting to listen to.  However, we remain aggressively resolute in our commitment to understated good taste.  All of us.  That’s right.

Obviously, this means we take a bit longer to do stuff.  We’ve been going a little while longer than our meagre output might suggest, due to this nerve wracking ‘creative’ process.  Our productivity was not increased by singer Dan’s throat surgery – a procedure necessitated by years of enthusiastically making up for what Mother Nature had neglected to bestow, by way of talent.  This left some bird as a largely instrumental band for the best part of a year.  We kept going though.

We probably shouldn’t be encouraged.



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