Ep380: Riding the Wave with CIVIC
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
CIVIC is on the crest of the next wave of Australian bands about to crash the shores of the US and Europe. Today we talk to Jim McCullough and Lewis Hodgson on the early days of the band, the rare records, making "Future Forecast", "Taken By Force" and what's next for the band.
Topics include:
- Big Jim joins the call, then Lewis
- Is the band in a healthy place?
- CIVIC at SXSW - Austin
- What's the rarest vinyl pressing of "Taken By Force"?
- Classified info
- March 2022 gig at the Sydney Chippo hotel
- More SXSW talk
- Keith Morris' cheese board
- Formation of CIVIC / recording "New Vietnam"
- Various pressings & collectability of "New Vietnam"
- Are you close to quitting your jobs?
- Selling, Sucking, Blackmail, Bribes
- "Future Forecast" Flightless Pressings
- Sharing drummer with The Murlocs
- Any idea what's happening w Flightless?
- Cover art and album name for "Future Forecast"
- Working out the band name
- CIVIC logo
- Working with Rob Younger
- The cover photo of "Taken By Force"
- Themes within "Taken By Force"
- More songs for the next album
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Lewis from Civic. |
| 0:02.1 | Hi, this is Jim from Civic. |
| 0:03.9 | We're talking to Nate on the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:06.1 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective |
| 0:10.1 | sleeves for your vinyl collection. |
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| 0:15.8 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. |
| 0:18.6 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:22.4 | Well, greetings, friends and homies alike. |
| 0:25.5 | My name is Nate Gather Round for what is sure to be a glorious episode 380 of the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:31.5 | The podcast for record collectors and music nerds, where we be getting all the facts of the records on the record. And this week, |
| 0:38.9 | we have the band Civic on the show. Now, those of you who regularly listen to the vinyl guide |
| 0:45.2 | know that I am based out of Sydney, Australia, and by total coincidence, I've been privy to a |
| 0:51.3 | close-up view of what's been turning out to be an amazing boom time |
| 0:55.7 | for Australian music. Some phenomenal bands have been coming out of Australia in recent years. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm talking bands like the Chats, Amel and the Sniffers, King Gizzard, I mean, lots of bands that |
| 1:07.3 | are growing their art and fan base in Australia, and then, of course, exporting |
| 1:11.8 | to Europe and America and other parts of the world. |
| 1:14.6 | Now, luckily for everyone, there's a whole new wave coming, and it features bands like |
| 1:18.6 | Coffin, these New South Wales, fly to Dubai, and many more. |
| 1:23.2 | And riding the lip of that next wave is Civic, a five-piece band from Melbourne, who just released a new LP, taken by force, which is produced by Rob Younger, who you may know from Radio Birdman. |
| 1:36.3 | And taken by Force is a hell of a record. |
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