Under her spell, what could I do? Say "I'm in love with you"...

Ahh, the Breadmakers. I've been a fan of this band for almost 20 years. In my early teens, living in a small coal-mining town in Central Queensland, my main source for new music was watching/taping late night Rage. One weekend I came across their one and only video for 'Hoodoo Nightspot' and I immediately fell in love. I had no idea they were an Australian band, nor that they were a 'current' band. The song was pure rhythm'n'blues 60s garage rock and I assumed that they had long since retired. Hunting for their records in Rockhampton music stores was a fruitless task and I always came up empty handed.

It wasn't until I moved to Brisbane when I was 16 that I finally started to come across their records and was more than happy to discover that they were from Melbourne and still releasing records (having recorded their first album in 1990). And some many years later when I was living in Melbourne I finally got to see them play a couple of times. I think I may have drunkenly blurted my love to one or two members of the band as well.

My Breadmakers record collection isn't complete by any means, but I have their first five studio records (all released on Corduroy Records) and a couple of 7"'s, and since they're all long out of print and hard to come across in second hand shops these days I thought I should share them with you all over the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to put them up in any particular order. Just whatever is closest at hand when I decide to rip some more records.

First cab off the rank is their Continental Cool EP released by French label Farniente Records in 1996. Both songs on the B-side are taken from their double LP "Cool".

The Breadmakers - Continental Cool E.P. 7" (FAR EP 001)

A1. Continental Cool

A2. Bordeaux Wine

B1. Yeah Yeah Baby

B2. Blues for an Olive