![]() ![]() It hadn’t been brought to songwriting sessions because of their more democratic, experimental approach. Kilbey had a demo of the song that would become Milky Way on his home eight-track recorder, with little more than bass and acoustic guitar parts. Another track floated around that manager Mike Lembo wanted recorded. Nine songs had been rehearsed intensively. It was just one more.”Ī year later, in 1987, The Church were ensconced at The Complex in Los Angeles, making the album Starfish. After all, I wrote four or five songs a week. I said, ‘what about “sometimes when this…” and she said, ‘yeah’ that’s good.’ She said, ‘what about “destination,"’ and I said ‘yeah … "Despite your destination."’ We agreed on the lyrics within about three minutes.Īfter that, Kilbey "didn’t think that much about it. On the porch, under stars, they sketched out words. Jansson heard it and offered encouragement. My chord progression fell out of the sky.” “The whole thing may have taken a minute. “Gee the second chord sounds good … on the bass note is a f…ing F-sharp!” The remaining chords fell into sequence seamlessly. Kilbey started with an A-minor chord with a bass note an octave down “being stoned I could hear a world of possibilities in that chord.” From nowhere came a sequence. Old childhood toys of my brothers sat on top.” In a cabin in the backyard, he noodled on an old piano, “slightly out of tune. “There were birds and flowers and snakes,” said Kilbey, “she had a big deck you could sit on and see the sea.” After dinner, he snuck outside and smoked a joint. Steve Kilbey and his then partner, Karin Jansson, were visiting his mother, who lived across from the inlet. Smiths Lake is where The Church’s Under the Milky Way was written. Out on the lake are a billion phosphorescent reflections. It’s far enough from Sydney to escape metropolitan light pollution. At night, glissando Australian insects buzz and marsupials wobble though the undergrowth. In daylight hours, pied oyster-catchers wade in search of molluscs. An eternal planetary rhythm fills and empties the lake. Across a mile of shallow sandbars, warm seawater flows, twice a day. Since time immemorial, this has been Worimi Aboriginal Country. Smiths Lake is a languid tidal inlet on the Australian east coast, flanked by gentle slopes of thick, eucalypt rainforest. ![]()
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