Frenzal Rhomb’s ‘A Man’s Not A Camel’ 25th Anniversary Tour Is Coming Soon!

Frenzal Rhomb announce a run of Australian shows in October to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their majestic, iconic, exalted album A Man’s Not A Camel. That’s the one that delivered the super hits Never Had So Much Fun, We’re Going Out Tonight, You Are Not My Friend and taught us an important historical fact about dinosaurs.

“No one can remember who decided “A Man’s Not A Camel” made sense as an album title, but after spending month after month dragging our exotic Australian accents around the US, a few tired colloquialisms kinda stuck, and “Eating The Arse Out Of A Low-Flying Duck” would have made a heaps weirder album cover.

Also, a stack of the record got written in Vincentia, near where Lindsay had schoolies week a couple of years earlier, so the regional Australian vibe was strong. My main memory of that was realising we’d booked a house in the middle of retiree-filled suburbia and having to put the mattresses on the windows to avoid noise complaints, and Gordy falling asleep on the beach, awaking to much 3rd degree burns and amusement.

We made the album in two sittings, at the sadly-soon-to be gone Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, and at the sadly-absolutely still here Total Access Studios in Redondo Beach California. Eddie Ashworth was at the helm, and after we’d drunk his house out of beer and mixed his fine aged bourbon with diet cola, he knew the sort of band we were and sorted the sounds accordingly. We also discovered the in-house engineer was a fellow-Australian Jessie Moss, who added to the parochial vibe of the record, and the bar tab.

Due to the drinking only small memories remain, like Jay and Lindsay sitting on rusted furniture on a Hermosa Beach balcony trading booze and rhymes as we wrote the verses in “It’s Up To You”, spilling a beer over the expensive microphone hanging in the chamber of a grand piano as we tried to get bonus harmonic vibes on “I Miss My Lung” (you can definitely hear it), Fletcher making a bet with us that ‘I Miss My Lung’ would get to the top of the charts (which he still owes us for), and our esteemed manager Chris Moses standing on Jay’s chest as he lay face up on the ground singing, to add to the realism of the secret track “I Don’t Wanna Go To Work Today”.

TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW – WED 10th JULY, 10AM [AEST]

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