The Love Mussels on the Fringe
Published: February 22, 2021
A rare and wondrous thing in these slipper-and-cardigan nostalgic time-tunnel Covid days, an original band playing original independent music at an Adelaide Fringe event!
Don’t be frightened — original music did not kill and maim punters when it was prolific some decades ago; and it still won’t! At least, The Love Mussels’ music won’t kill yer!
Something of an enigma, The Love Mussels are a hippy-trippy psychedelic band like no other. Forged in the hard drinking clubs and pubs of Australia producing a sprawling array of diverse albums such as Dirty World, Castro’s Last Cigar (banned in Cuba), Comfortable and Relaxed, Lobster Bisque, Seafood Bisque and the unreleased and much anticipated Monterey and a rumoured double live recording and DVD from the disastrous 2006 Global Conspiracy Tour, and now, something completely different — a vinyl album (and CD for the digital mob) of new music themed around the life, loves and some other stuff concerning Albert “Fuzzhead” Einstein: It’s All Relative Redux.
Touching on the mysteries of space and time, the famous equation (not beer = happiness, the other famous one about … er … relativity, I think), his cast-aside first wife and his somewhat underwhelming meeting with the almost-equally-famous-at-the-time Tagore, among other related stuff, It’s All Relative Redux will be played in its entirety at the band’s 2021 Fringe event, as well as a few extra juicy bits selected from previous Mussels’ albums.
From lush acoustic grunge ballads to psyche-electric rock, The Love Mussels are a force to be reckoned with in the Indi music scene. Accomplished musicianship and singing, well-written and produced songs played against a psychedelic backdrop in a very special live music venue, the Mussels continue to prove the past and glorious days of ‘new’ music are still throbbing with life.
So, The Love Mussels are back; and they are bigger than before. Political, provocative, probing and unforgiving in their pursuit of sonic purity, these ‘grandfathers of Australian grunge’ continue to rock-on and reveal more and deeper layers to their storied career.
Make an effort to feel the love on March 13 at Divercity, Grote Street, the City for the 2021 Adelaide Fringe.
This link should get you near the mark: the-love-mussels-it-s-all-relative-af2021