Wes Davidson - vocals,guitar
Kristy Wilson - vocals,guitar
Nick Maskell - bass
Chris Rostron - drums
Discography
*'Plunge' ep -1998*'Clippings' Candle Compilation -1998
'Neon', 'Dishworld', & 'Coffee'
*'Party On The Sideline' ep - 2000
'Neon', 'Dishworld', & 'Coffee'
*'Party On The Sideline' ep - 2000*'Banter' Candle Compilation - 2000
'Welcome To Our House' & 'The Apocalyptic Song'
*'Feast' Candle Compilation - 2002
'ESP' & 'Strong Soft Little Good One'
'Welcome To Our House' & 'The Apocalyptic Song'
*'Feast' Candle Compilation - 2002'ESP' & 'Strong Soft Little Good One'
Album Tracks - Real Audio
*Blanket from 'Party On The Sideline'
*Games from 'Plunge' EP
Interview - Real Audio
*Triple J Radio Interview - Jan 2001
A Break-Up Message From Weave
‘Weave played their last shows at the Candle concerts in 2002. Chris (the drummer) was travelling in Canada at the time so we had a friend fill in on the drums. So really the last show Weave played with the full line up (Wes, Kristy, Nick and Chris) was at Ja Ja's in Brisbane in late 2001. The beginning of 2001 marked the start of changes in the band. Kristy had moved to Sydney for work, Chris was planning to travel to Canada indefinitely, and both Wes and Nick were busy being up-right citizens, earning good money working full-time. All of these things contributed to all members collectively putting the band in the too hard basket.
So what are the members of weave doing now? Kristy still lives in Sydney and is working at MusicNSW coordinating the Indent project. She is currently working on an eight track EP with Byron Bay based producer Christian Pyle (from Acre) and playing solo shows in her new home town. Wes is working as a physio in Brisbane and is also working on an album for a new band, which has yet to be named. Nick works at the Zoo in Brisbane. Chris is in Brisbane working as a computer guy in the city. Nick and Chris often get together and play over beers and have named their project the Latrobe Terrace. Nick also plays bass in a Brisbane band 'Fagan'. Luise (original bass player and founding member) is working in Rockhampton for the ABC Radio as a producer.
We would like to thank anyone who listened to us or helped us along the way.
Cheers. - WEAVE’
Party On The Sideline EP
Great news, the new Weave EP 'Party On The Sideline' is now available from Candle. The 5 track EP includes some great new songs like 'Party On The Sideline' and 'Truffles' plus live favourite 'Blanket' and a new re-recording of 'Welcome To Our House'(originally recorded on Banter.)
‘Blanket’ starts the CD at a ferocious pace, with straight ahead fast pop which is a signature for the band. “I'm the reason you can sleep at night, beneath the blanket of security I provide” rings the chorus, a taunt an army friend of the band often recites about his profession. The self-titled track ‘Party On the Sideline’ is a gem of song that celebrates doing things outside the spotlight and without the media glory. ‘Truffles’ changes the pace of the CD and it’s about the famous French fungus (and also Tasmanian) which is a delicacy found in forests with the aid of pigs to dig them out.
‘Welcome To Our House’ highlights the positive nature of the band, back in power pop mode. The country tinged ‘Not Goodbye Now’ is a fitting closer.
The Story of Weave
The story of Weave begins in Brisbane. A small country town disguised as the largest city in Queensland. A place where if you see someone on the street who you don’t know, either: a) you know them but they’ve just had a haircut and are wearing sunglasses, or b) they’re your old housemates, brothers ex-boyfriend/girlfriend’s macrame class tutor. Its almost as if Brisbane radiates a mysterious force connecting every one of its inhabitants (not dissimilar to the mysterious force radiated by tumble dryers which removes one sock from each pair after every use). It seems almost inevitable then that the members of Brisbane pop band Weave find their lives inextricably intertwined.
The mysterious Brisbane force struck early for Kristy and Luise who met in primary school in Bundaberg where they founded and nurtured their musical partnership. The pair were then drawn to Brisbane to attend university where they met Wes. Wes first saw Kristy perform at a college function singing an anti - whaling song accompanied by piano and saxophone. In a rare moment of clarity Wes could sense something beyond her smart-casual yet stylish attire, beyond the Richard Marxish accompaniment, within this sultry songstress was a smouldering core of white hot molten rock.
The trio soon compared notes. Wes discovered that Kristy and the spritely, multi-instrumentalist Luise had penned a handful of tunes which were most pleasing to the ear. Wes found that Kristy had an impressively sizeable collection of shoes, her wardrobe in fact resembling a kind of orphanage for shoes. He also found that the size of Kristys wardrobe was only surpassed by the size of her heart (which was devoted to the rescuing of lost soles). Wes was also startled by the boundless energy Luise seemed to throw around, as well as her sleeping habits, both of which can be paralleled with that of the hummingbirds. Her early morning singing when on tour would make the band feel heaps more rock (if not sleep deprived). Kristy and Luise found that Wes also had written a couple of corker tunes and luckily for Wes decided that the somewhat irksome contents of his wardrobe could be taken on by them as a kind of improvement project.
Weave now needed only a drummer and with the help of the afore mentioned Brisbane force they didn’t have to look far before coming across the incredibly cool Dave. Weave found themselves entertaining at many a university function and soon began to instigate their plan of global rock domination. They entered the 1996 national campus band competition and won their campus and state heats and trundled down to Canberra to compete in the national final. Here they were fortunate enough to be featured on the ABC’s Recovery TV programme but were unfortunate enough to receive the whooping of their lives in the actual competition. Or more truthfully they didn’t win but there were so many great people and so much free alcohol about that they hardly even noticed.
Weave finally rcorded their first ep ‘plunge’ in 1998 and on a couple of tours of the east coast set about telling the rest of Australia (or most of the eastern part anyway) that listening to Weave is good fun. Both these tasks required the enlisting of new drummer Chris. Chris soon taught the rest of Weave that rockness isn’t about what type of guitar you play, but about how much self abuse you can take without technically dying. Word has spread about Chris’s machine like metabolism and the band plan on financing their next recording by selling samples of Chris’s liver tissue to medical researchers in aid of their developing a super-liver for use in transplants. After a brief tour playing alongside one of their favourite bands the Simpletons, Weave were delighted to be recruited to the Candle Records empire. Delighted not only for the obvious reasons but also because it increased tenfold the number of loungerooms which Weave could decorate with their belongings while on tour. Later on that year Weave proved tough enough to appear on the bill at the livid festival where the members were fortunate enough to play in front of one of their largest audiences ever, and also to almost pluck up enough courage to talk to some of the stars of their favourite bands.
Since the beginning of 1999 Weave has undergone a series of magnanimous changes, changes technical, physiological and audiological, changes which would uproot and replant the very core of their being, changes so numerous and diverse that the band themselves even considered taking on the monicker ‘The All New Weave’ (and would perhaps have persisted with this name if they hadn’t been disturbed by the ill repute that the prefix ‘the all new’ cast upon their once favourite game show ‘the price is right’). Weave’s changes may be headlined as follows:
Nick Maskell chooses Weave over didgeridoo
Brisbane born and bred Nick Maskell, also known as captain, masko, and many other amusing rhymes, derivatives and combinations of his actual and nick-names (haha that’s funny) replaced Luise as Weave’s bass player. The band, impressed by Nick’s skills on the bass and his many names went on to discover that Nick added an element of rock to the band that they had previously never experienced. This may be due to the fact that Nick’s sometimes painful knees (resulting from a childhood accident involving his brother, gravity and a pane of glass) often cause Nick to adopt a stance and facial expression whilst playing which is not unlike actual rock angst. Nicks position in the band however solid now, was shaky initially due to his enthusiasm for the didgeridoo. Wes has an intense dislike for the use of the didgeridoo in anything other than its intended indigenous musical styles, and Nick has joined the band under the agreement that Weave’s music and the didgeridoo shall remain entirely separate entities.
No more Mr/Mrs nice Weave
Midway through 1999 Kristy and Wes embarked on a shopping spree which would change the face of Weave forever. They returned from their mission with one hundred and ninety eight kilograms of room shaking, ear bleeding, ‘we’re so loud our fans will have to stand in Logan to hear us properly’ fender amplifier. No longer would their previously cutesy, fairy-assed pop stylings be sneered upon by the more body pierced and leather wearing bands. In fact the wall of sound belched forth by Weave’s gargantuan stack make the rantings of Atari Teenage Riot sound like karaoke for angry young people and the warbles of korn seem like the elevator music at Curtain Wonderland.
For Weave CD Reviews & Interviews visit the menus on the left.
Weave have a seperate mailing list, to join email:
partyonthesidelines@hotmail.com
Visit a Weave fansite at http://bris-pop.tripod.com
*Blanket from 'Party On The Sideline'
*Games from 'Plunge' EP
Interview - Real Audio
*Triple J Radio Interview - Jan 2001
A Break-Up Message From Weave
‘Weave played their last shows at the Candle concerts in 2002. Chris (the drummer) was travelling in Canada at the time so we had a friend fill in on the drums. So really the last show Weave played with the full line up (Wes, Kristy, Nick and Chris) was at Ja Ja's in Brisbane in late 2001. The beginning of 2001 marked the start of changes in the band. Kristy had moved to Sydney for work, Chris was planning to travel to Canada indefinitely, and both Wes and Nick were busy being up-right citizens, earning good money working full-time. All of these things contributed to all members collectively putting the band in the too hard basket.
So what are the members of weave doing now? Kristy still lives in Sydney and is working at MusicNSW coordinating the Indent project. She is currently working on an eight track EP with Byron Bay based producer Christian Pyle (from Acre) and playing solo shows in her new home town. Wes is working as a physio in Brisbane and is also working on an album for a new band, which has yet to be named. Nick works at the Zoo in Brisbane. Chris is in Brisbane working as a computer guy in the city. Nick and Chris often get together and play over beers and have named their project the Latrobe Terrace. Nick also plays bass in a Brisbane band 'Fagan'. Luise (original bass player and founding member) is working in Rockhampton for the ABC Radio as a producer.
We would like to thank anyone who listened to us or helped us along the way.
Cheers. - WEAVE’
Party On The Sideline EP
Great news, the new Weave EP 'Party On The Sideline' is now available from Candle. The 5 track EP includes some great new songs like 'Party On The Sideline' and 'Truffles' plus live favourite 'Blanket' and a new re-recording of 'Welcome To Our House'(originally recorded on Banter.)
‘Blanket’ starts the CD at a ferocious pace, with straight ahead fast pop which is a signature for the band. “I'm the reason you can sleep at night, beneath the blanket of security I provide” rings the chorus, a taunt an army friend of the band often recites about his profession. The self-titled track ‘Party On the Sideline’ is a gem of song that celebrates doing things outside the spotlight and without the media glory. ‘Truffles’ changes the pace of the CD and it’s about the famous French fungus (and also Tasmanian) which is a delicacy found in forests with the aid of pigs to dig them out.
‘Welcome To Our House’ highlights the positive nature of the band, back in power pop mode. The country tinged ‘Not Goodbye Now’ is a fitting closer. The Story of Weave
The story of Weave begins in Brisbane. A small country town disguised as the largest city in Queensland. A place where if you see someone on the street who you don’t know, either: a) you know them but they’ve just had a haircut and are wearing sunglasses, or b) they’re your old housemates, brothers ex-boyfriend/girlfriend’s macrame class tutor. Its almost as if Brisbane radiates a mysterious force connecting every one of its inhabitants (not dissimilar to the mysterious force radiated by tumble dryers which removes one sock from each pair after every use). It seems almost inevitable then that the members of Brisbane pop band Weave find their lives inextricably intertwined.
The mysterious Brisbane force struck early for Kristy and Luise who met in primary school in Bundaberg where they founded and nurtured their musical partnership. The pair were then drawn to Brisbane to attend university where they met Wes. Wes first saw Kristy perform at a college function singing an anti - whaling song accompanied by piano and saxophone. In a rare moment of clarity Wes could sense something beyond her smart-casual yet stylish attire, beyond the Richard Marxish accompaniment, within this sultry songstress was a smouldering core of white hot molten rock.
The trio soon compared notes. Wes discovered that Kristy and the spritely, multi-instrumentalist Luise had penned a handful of tunes which were most pleasing to the ear. Wes found that Kristy had an impressively sizeable collection of shoes, her wardrobe in fact resembling a kind of orphanage for shoes. He also found that the size of Kristys wardrobe was only surpassed by the size of her heart (which was devoted to the rescuing of lost soles). Wes was also startled by the boundless energy Luise seemed to throw around, as well as her sleeping habits, both of which can be paralleled with that of the hummingbirds. Her early morning singing when on tour would make the band feel heaps more rock (if not sleep deprived). Kristy and Luise found that Wes also had written a couple of corker tunes and luckily for Wes decided that the somewhat irksome contents of his wardrobe could be taken on by them as a kind of improvement project.
Weave now needed only a drummer and with the help of the afore mentioned Brisbane force they didn’t have to look far before coming across the incredibly cool Dave. Weave found themselves entertaining at many a university function and soon began to instigate their plan of global rock domination. They entered the 1996 national campus band competition and won their campus and state heats and trundled down to Canberra to compete in the national final. Here they were fortunate enough to be featured on the ABC’s Recovery TV programme but were unfortunate enough to receive the whooping of their lives in the actual competition. Or more truthfully they didn’t win but there were so many great people and so much free alcohol about that they hardly even noticed.
Weave finally rcorded their first ep ‘plunge’ in 1998 and on a couple of tours of the east coast set about telling the rest of Australia (or most of the eastern part anyway) that listening to Weave is good fun. Both these tasks required the enlisting of new drummer Chris. Chris soon taught the rest of Weave that rockness isn’t about what type of guitar you play, but about how much self abuse you can take without technically dying. Word has spread about Chris’s machine like metabolism and the band plan on financing their next recording by selling samples of Chris’s liver tissue to medical researchers in aid of their developing a super-liver for use in transplants. After a brief tour playing alongside one of their favourite bands the Simpletons, Weave were delighted to be recruited to the Candle Records empire. Delighted not only for the obvious reasons but also because it increased tenfold the number of loungerooms which Weave could decorate with their belongings while on tour. Later on that year Weave proved tough enough to appear on the bill at the livid festival where the members were fortunate enough to play in front of one of their largest audiences ever, and also to almost pluck up enough courage to talk to some of the stars of their favourite bands.
Since the beginning of 1999 Weave has undergone a series of magnanimous changes, changes technical, physiological and audiological, changes which would uproot and replant the very core of their being, changes so numerous and diverse that the band themselves even considered taking on the monicker ‘The All New Weave’ (and would perhaps have persisted with this name if they hadn’t been disturbed by the ill repute that the prefix ‘the all new’ cast upon their once favourite game show ‘the price is right’). Weave’s changes may be headlined as follows:
Nick Maskell chooses Weave over didgeridoo
Brisbane born and bred Nick Maskell, also known as captain, masko, and many other amusing rhymes, derivatives and combinations of his actual and nick-names (haha that’s funny) replaced Luise as Weave’s bass player. The band, impressed by Nick’s skills on the bass and his many names went on to discover that Nick added an element of rock to the band that they had previously never experienced. This may be due to the fact that Nick’s sometimes painful knees (resulting from a childhood accident involving his brother, gravity and a pane of glass) often cause Nick to adopt a stance and facial expression whilst playing which is not unlike actual rock angst. Nicks position in the band however solid now, was shaky initially due to his enthusiasm for the didgeridoo. Wes has an intense dislike for the use of the didgeridoo in anything other than its intended indigenous musical styles, and Nick has joined the band under the agreement that Weave’s music and the didgeridoo shall remain entirely separate entities.
No more Mr/Mrs nice Weave
Midway through 1999 Kristy and Wes embarked on a shopping spree which would change the face of Weave forever. They returned from their mission with one hundred and ninety eight kilograms of room shaking, ear bleeding, ‘we’re so loud our fans will have to stand in Logan to hear us properly’ fender amplifier. No longer would their previously cutesy, fairy-assed pop stylings be sneered upon by the more body pierced and leather wearing bands. In fact the wall of sound belched forth by Weave’s gargantuan stack make the rantings of Atari Teenage Riot sound like karaoke for angry young people and the warbles of korn seem like the elevator music at Curtain Wonderland.
For Weave CD Reviews & Interviews visit the menus on the left.
Weave have a seperate mailing list, to join email:
partyonthesidelines@hotmail.com
Visit a Weave fansite at http://bris-pop.tripod.com