The Tolnex Archives Vol. 3: The Home Alone Years Part 4 (1996)/Slight Return (2001-2004)

by Geoff Towner

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1.	Gathering The Hooves Of A Fortress Bound 02:02	buy track
2.	The Macro-Biotic Non-Genius After 12:00 04:52	buy track
3.	Genetic Fuck-Up, Not Jackpot 01:43	buy track
4.	Violation (Opening A Can A Worms) 02:46	buy track
5.	Gouda Cheese Pig Garden 02:14	buy track
6.	Tapdancing Ammonia Overlooks 01:00	buy track
7.	The Blue Motel Vs. The Seed Mask 03:25	buy track
8.	Speed To My Window, My Love 03:24	buy track
9.	Things Just Get Harder With You (In 1962) 03:04	buy track
10.	An Introduction To Paradise 03:08	buy track
11.	Dream (With A Bad Cold) 03:04	buy track
12.	15 Reasons For Sinning 05:41	buy track
13.	Unworthy Of Your Attention 03:09	buy track
14.	When Is It OK To Stop Feeling? 04:32	buy track
15.	Broken Hearted High School Boy 02:48	buy track
16.	My Heart Is Rolling… 02:28	buy track
17.	…I Wouldn't Change A Thing 02:49	buy track
18.	Wrong Way, Go Back (For Garth) 01:59	buy track
19.	I Can't See No Future (orig. demo) 03:02	buy track
20.	Inside I Can't Hear Rain (orig. demo) 04:45	buy track
21.	Song For Peter Archer (orig. demo) 04:03	buy track
22.	Lay-Z Boys Of Petersham (orig. demo) 02:17	buy track
23.	Steamer (orig. demo) 03:04	buy track
24.	Christmas Wish List (orig. demo) 01:58	buy track

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Tracks 1-14: Audiotone "Volume One" cassette
Track 15: Even Deeper from the H. Records cassette compilation "Exhibit A"
Tracks 16-24: Geoff Towner "Made-Up Songs [Improv]" cassette

Now fully entrenched in "Newtown life", I was spending most nights seeing bands and drinking beer. This next tape began as an experiment: recording songs totally impromptu & often late at night when I came home from being out, often with ridiculously nonsensical song titles. Some were bass & vocals, with others guitar & vocals... and some were kinda good ("Speed To My Window...", "Things Just Get Harder...") and some were TERRIBLE! "Tapdancing..." is just me tapping something for a minute! These were all recorded in my bedroom at Linthorpe St from 14/8/96 to 25/9/96 and was handed out to at least one person (Challinor). Several names were chosen before settling on Audiotone (Slo-Mo, Monochrome...) and this was pretty much the last of my shitty home-recorded tapes for a while.

One night in 1996 a bunch of us went to Cafe Blue to see our friends Eat The Menu (later The Mercy Bell) play. Afterwards we all went back to my house and my mate Richard Vogt recorded "Broken Hearted High School Boy" on his video camera, for inclusion on a tape released with his excellent 'zine "Circumstantial Evidence". I was still heavily in the throes of improvisational songwriting, an artform which i think was getting my Sal Paradise songs shelved, as I wasn't "finishing" lyrics to any of them. By October 1996 I did my last show with Sal Paradise and concentrated on just playing bass with el Mopa.

Fast forward to 2001! During our tenure with el Mopa, our drummer Bon & I started A Gold Star Secret: a vehicle for our own songs. This kept us busy from about 1997 to 2004-ish. But in 2001 I started a new improv song tape which was never released. 3 songs from 2001 followed by 2003 "working out" demos for the fourth Gold Star album. It ends with a 2004 demo of "Christmas Wish List", which ended up on a Traffic Sounds Christmas compilation, re-recorded by Bon, and was the final ever Gold Star song.

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released October 28, 2023

Geoff Towner: vocals, guitar, bass, shortwave radio, Colourbox LP, percussion, recording
Richard Vogt: recording on track 15

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Geoff Towner Sydney, Australia

Geoff Towner is a Sydney-based musician & visual artist who has played in and done artwork for a variety of bands, including The Dead Tree, Sal Paradise, El Mopa, A Gold Star Secret, Decoder Ring, Darren Hanlon & others.
He currently is a solo artist. ... more

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