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Here it is! Your Christmas pressie…….

KJ: You want me to lie down in the foyer!? (credit: Tracey Trompf)

THEY’RE YOUR BLOODY FAMILY! - FREE. Great for intimate and group listening………downloadable, danceable and podable…… at 3:50, it’s the perfect pop duration. They’re Your Bloody Family! (just like conception) is the result of pure abandon. And yes, there was pain in spades but let’s NOT dwell on it. Ready, set, GO:

click-to-hear-They’re-Your-Bloody-Family

Did you get into it? Did those obnoxious neighbours call the cops with (yet another) malicious noise complaint? Did you dance so hard you feel a bit iffy? Note: Big Swifty (who, as you’re well aware, has just had a major nervy) has agreed to answer questions about his creative process….. (Stop press: 1:14pm Dec 18, Big Swifty has just issued his traditional post CD release statement. It’s in the comments section….)

So, have a look at our photo-essay and then give KJ and Big Swifty (Australia’s best-known Instant Gratificationists) their Xmas pressie – a comment! For first-time users of this facility, directions are under the pics. Warning: No comment, no more nothin’ from KJ and BS.

And while I’ve got ya VOTING IS OPEN IN THE WEBLOG AWARDS. Just click on this link and scroll down a little way to the voting board – and click on kerriejean. You can vote once every 24 hours until Jan 13th:

http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-australia-or-new-zealand-blog/

….just click on the ‘comment’ thingo and follow the simple instructions. The place to write your gems is at the bottom of the last published comment. *A little bit of counsel for people new to this caper. Your email (just called ‘mail’ in this case) address does NOT come up on site. And just ignore the ‘website’ space – not necessary!

Just when I thought everything was under control…….

Never been better!

What a weekend…….everyone working very hard in our own little ways to gloss over the fact that Big Swifty has had a complete nervy…….. all with the new Christmas track due out on Wednesday. (Don’t know whether I should be telling you this but it’s called: They’re Your Bloody Family!)

In the meantime, something crazy’s happened. Got to work and had 89 phone messages: all from Mandy in Sound Archives. Ring me KJ, ring me, bloody well ring, ring me you lazy….ring me KJ, you really are a piece of work…..etc, etc, etc…..

Now, Maaaandy’s not exactly my cup of tea (COARSE or what?) so I didn’t ring. Instead, I popped down to see her when I was good and ready….. (more…)

I’m EMBARRASSED - I’ve been (in retrospect) walking around boring everyone shitless with the LATEST on Big Swifty….he’s a genius, he’s produced Lovelace Watkins, Ian Moss WANTS him, he NEVER stops, we just clicked, he’s all CAN DO…. and with me he’s CAN-DO X 62 etc, etc, etc.

Well, the first thing I must report is DEVASTATION that not one of you got in touch and issued a warning. Something like this would have sufficed: Hang on KJ, this is all very new for you. You’re so worked up, so nervy you’re not thinking straight. It’s well known that artistic collaborations are the cockfights of modern times and the results are the same: Only one cock (or artist) leaves the ring alive!
BUT NO-ONE DID THAT FOR KJ, NO-ONE LIFTED A FINGER…… (more…)

Pic: An unguarded moment: KJ & Big Swifty after historic recording session. Dec 04 2008. Studio 252, ABC Headquarters, Sydney, Australia. Jesus I Could Do With A Root (All I Want For Christmas) sequel imminent. Re-live the magic: Hear it again and again!

JESUS I COULD DO WITH A ROOT (All I Want For Christmas)

The day I let myself go. And I’m NOT talkin’ a dirty old Your Rights At Work T-shirt in Aldis; I’m NOT talkin’ 15 weeks regrowth (you tell me, woman or racoon?) and I’m NOT talkin’ four fake fingernails backed up by seven nasty naturals.  No, I’m talkin’ CHANGED woman.  I’m talkin’ reachin’ in, gropin’ around, cryin’ out: Anyone there, anyone at home…..? And then, an inner-voice, a voice I haven’t heard before, comin’ right back at me - IT’S ONLY YOU KJ, JUST YOU. OPEN THAT DOOR, KJ. IT’S YOU, JUST YOU..! (more…)

Big Swifty is now in a possie to report:

OK folks, the news you’ve all been waiting for. Finally, after much backsheesh, a few carefully placed banana peels and a visit from some of my old associates, studio space has magically materialised this Thursday! (See Aunty, it wasn’t that hard, was it?……)

Can lightning strike twice?

I’ve had my PA clear my diary. I feel greatness afoot! Damn the GrimALDIs. Their New Year’s Eve light show (and the rest of Monaco) will just have to wait.

SO, it’s CONFIRMED! (more…)

*******Free KJ & Big Swifty track a bit further down the thingo – but first, read about the origins of the KJ & Big Swifty Project….And a warning: Adult themes everywhere.

You only need to rub up against one ONE person in life who believes in you – and magic WILL happen. And my ‘one person’ was Big Swifty. I meet Big Swifty in Aldis – we were both stocking up on cut price analgesics. He winced at me and said: I’ve got a migraine so bad I can’t focus but from what I can see – you’re ALL woman and it’d be a mortal sin if we never got the chance to work together.
That was on August 27th. Three days later, we were in studio (Oh, how I love saying that!) putting down: Jesus I Could Do With A Root (All I Want For Christmas). Big Swifty is back in Australia (which he finds very boring) after 16 years working all over the world with the best in THE BUSINESS (Oh, I guess I’ll get used to saying that!). But he doesn’t go on and on about who and where and when. Modesty is a lovely quality in a Svengali.

So, you’d be a fool unto yourself if you didn’t click on this and dance along to:

JESUS I COULD DO WITH A ROOT (All I Want For Christmas)

Did you have a good listen? Did you have a dance even if it was all by yourself? Let me know what you think (no feel) about Jesus I Could Do With A Root (All I Want For Christmas) because I’d like to do more things with BS if he’s not too busy…… (Great news! BS has just issued a statement – it’s in comments section).

credit: Tracey Trompf

….just click on the ‘comment’ thingo and follow the simple instructions. The place to write your gems is at the bottom of the last published comment. *A little bit of counsel for people new to this caper. Your email (just called ‘mail’ in this case) address does NOT come up on site. And just ignore the ‘website’ space – not necessary!