Dancing On Sinking Sands

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1.	Finger 04:51	buy track
2.	Our Love 05:23	buy track
3.	Rolling Thunder 03:10	buy track
4.	Dance 07:08	buy track
5.	Pistol 04:25	buy track
6.	Dirty Sheets 03:29	buy track
7.	Girl So Mean 04:23	buy track
8.	Lucille 03:16	buy track
9.	Ghosts In A Bullring 05:45	buy track

about

Linda J and Bean Johnston were once upon
a time one half of punk legends Little Ugly Girls, the
most famous Tasmanian band never to release a record.
Dissolving LUGs somewhere around the turn of the
century, they reinvented themselves as Melbourne rock
darlings The Dacios, releasing their album Monkey’s
Blood in 2009. Linda J and Bean Johnston’s creative
partnership spans literally a lifetime; it has to -- they’re
brother and sister, and this new album is in fact
dedicated to their parents.
Dancing on Sinking Sands sees the duo leave behind the feedback
stained rock dynamic, of which they’re masters, and lay their hearts
open with ten new torch songs - a series of allegories of romantic
love, abandoned love, mad love and a love of life. Reminiscent
of Patti Smith’s later work, Thalia Zadek, or even Nick Cave’s
Boatman’s Call, Dancing on Sinking Sands sees the Johnston kids
dip their hands into the well marked ‘Country’ and lets tradition
glaze the songs with a classic shade of melancholy over the album’s
two halves - ‘Dancing’ and ‘On Sinking Sands’.
It’s a narrative folding backwards on itself evenly as it unwinds,
telling both stories of found love and faded love at the same time.
As Linda tells us, “…the idea with the album title is that the joy and
sorrow of love sit together without begrudging the imperative of their
dual existence, and in a broader sense, it’s the idea that through
adversity we fight the good fight”. Casting herself as the Queen of
Heartbreak, Linda plays her characters like a white Etta James.
She’s Gena Rowlands fronting the Burrito Brothers.
Dannie ‘Bean’ Johnston’s guitar snakes a spine through these songs
with an economy, maturity and a deftness of touch only a lifetime
of playing can provide – illustrating Linda’s fables of desolate love
with country inflections one minute and the next providing a steady
canvas on which his little sister can join the dots between the stars
that appear at dawn.
The album features a superb array of guest musicians, whose
formidable talents are exploited to compliment the sparse acoustic
arrangements that Bulls are known for as a live band.

Contact Bulls:
bullatthegate@hotmail.com; Bulls on facebook.com;
Phone Linda J: 0402 456 184 or Bean: 0409 010 465

credits

released May 1, 2012

Recorded and Mixed by Idge @ Soundpark Studios.
Produced by Idge,Bean,Linda & Gus with notes from Matt Bailey.
Mastered by Nao Anzai at Reel 2 Real Mix Master Studios.
Artwork design & Layout by Luke Fraser.
Front cover artwork by Linda J.

Linda J-Vocals, Electric Guitar & Tambourine.
Dannie 'Bean' Johnston- Electric & Acoustic Guitar & Backing Vocals.
Angus Boyle-Drums.
Dan McKay-Drums on 'Lucille', 'Dirty Sheets' & 'Girl So Mean'
Kim Volkman-Electric Bass, Dobro on 'Pistol'.
Tim Deane-Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar, Piano, Organ, Piano Accordion, Mandolin & Harmonica.
Anthony Paine-Upright Bass on 'Lucille', 'Dirty Sheets' & 'Girl So Mean'.Acoustic Bass on 'Our Love'.
Jane Dust- Piano on 'Rolling Thunder' & 'Ghosts In A Bullring'.
Lilith Lane-Piano on 'Finger'.
John Dickson-Backing Vocals on 'Girl So Mean'.
Idge-Congas on 'Our Love' & Timpani on 'Pistol',Tambourine. .

All songs written by Linda J & Dannie 'Bean' Johnston.

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Bulls Melbourne, Australia

BULLS are Linda J and Bean, one half of Tassie punk legends LITTLE UGLY GIRLS and the sonic rock'n'rollers THE DACIOS. BULLS is their country/folk band.

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