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IT IS a Seinfeld moment. Youth Group drummer Danny Allen bounds into the interview and proudly exclaims to the band's frontman, Toby Martin, that he has just scored a "Costanza".
It is then explained that a 'Costanza' refers to an episode of sitcom Seinfeld in which the character George Costanza finds the perfect car spot and doesn't want to move.
In Sydney, like New York, a good car space with proximity to where you need to be can be as rare as hen's teeth. Which perhaps explains why Allen is so excited today to find a park outside the cafe. Both Allen and Martin are discussing the band's latest album, Casino Twilight Dogs, the follow-up to their debut Skeleton Jar.
Allen, the more animated of the pair, leaps about in his chair as he describes the recording process and the excitement of being in California for the Coachella festival, the state's annual music festival - kind of like their Big Day Out. The affable Martin chooses his words carefully when he speaks.
Especially when he's talking about that song - Forever Young. A cover of a track by '80s outfit Alphaville, the band were asked to record it by the producers of teen drama The OC.
The producers had initially heard Youth Group's song Shadowland and loved it so much they decided to use it in an episode of the show. From there, they commissioned the band to record Forever Young.
The song took on a life of its own when it was released in Australia, racing to the No.1 spot, the indie rock band attracting a gaggle of teen fans. The band were just happy it made it into the top 50.
'It was weird,' Martin says of the reaction to Forever Young. Searching for a way to explain it, he hits on the Socceroos' World Cup campaign to use as an analogy. 'Us having a hit song is like the Socceroos making the semi-finals of the World Cup when you didn't expect to make the tournament,' he says.
Youth Group formed in the late '90s. These days, only Martin and Allen remain from the original line-up. In 2004 the group added Cameron Emerson-Elliott (guitar) and Patrick Matthews (bass), formerly of The Vines, to their team. Matthews joined following his somewhat acrimonious departure from the Vines, after they imploded on stage at the Annandale Hotel.
Youth Group say they are grateful to have a new audience. Whether Forever Young is a curse - if it will be the albatross around their necks - depends on how they want to view it.
Certainly, there were many who saw the band support Coldplay on their Australian tour, who only seemed to clap when Forever Young came on.
That track is the last on the album. Quarantined, some say, as it is markedly different to everything else on the record. Martin knows some people will hate some of the tracks on the album. Then again, the band's profile means the album will reach a new audience, especially in the US.
Youth Group have steadily garnered a fanbase there, thanks largely to The OC and a little help from their friends, the band Death Cab For Cutie, who brought them on tour last year.
Death Cab and The OC are inextricably linked as the band is the favourite of the show's Adam Brody, who plays Seth. While neither Martin nor Allen are what you would call devotees of the show, Allen admits to having a near brush with celebrity at an LA party. As he recalls it, Brody was getting drum lessons from Death Cab's drummer.
'Later, he (Brody) walked out of the party and I was this close to going up and saying hello, but he was going one way and I was going another and it would have looked pretty stupid to chase him.'
Ah, the travails of youth.
* Youth Group's Casino Twilight Dogs is out now
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| Casino Twilight Dogs | ||||
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| Released | 15 July 2006 (Australia) 30 January 2007 (US) | |||
| Recorded | December 2005 – April 2006 | |||
| Studio | Velvet Studios, Sydney; Seedy Underbelly Studios, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 41:15 | |||
| Label | Ivy League Records ANTI-/Epitaph Records | |||
| Producer | Wayne Connolly | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [1] |
| Rolling Stone | [2] |
| The Daily Telegraph | [3] |
| The Australian | [4] |
| The Sun-Herald | [5] |
| Herald Sun | [6] |
| The Age | [7] |
| Sunday Age | [8] |
| Sunday Herald Sun | [9] |
Casino Twilight Dogs is the third studio album from Australian band Youth Group, released in 2006. The album came several months after the Australian chart success of the band's cover of Alphaville's 'Forever Young', which had been recorded for the soundtrack of the US TV drama The O.C.. 'Forever Young' had received extensive radio airplay and become a platinum-selling, No. 1 single in Australia, its success taking the band by surprise as they mixed Casino Twilight Dogs. The song, although different in style to their self-written material, was added as the album's final track.[10]
The album includes one song, 'The Destruction of Laurel Canyon', that details a 2005 mudslide in the famous Los Angeles neighbourhood, and another, 'TJ', about Aboriginal teenager Thomas 'TJ' Hickey', whose death led to the 2004 Redfern riots in Sydney.[10] Drummer Danny Allen said 'Start Today Tomorrow' was among a series of songs singer Toby Martin had often played at solo gigs—'ones we hadn't tackled that just sound good on their own with guitar and voice. I've been blown away when I've watched him play some of these songs and it's great one of them is on the record for others to have that experience.'[11]
A limited edition CD/DVD version of the album was also released in Australia. The US release of the album features a different track order and replaces 'Let It Go' with 'Christmas Windows.' Music videos were produced for the singles 'Forever Young', 'Catching & Killing', and 'Daisychains.'
'Forever Young' was ranked No. 7 on the ARIA Charts list of top 100 singles for 2006;[12]Casino Twilight Dogs peaked at No. 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart and is the band's highest-charting album.[13] It reached No. 32 on the New Zealand Albums Chart.[14]
- 1Track listing
- 2Personnel
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Youth Group except where noted.
| Australian version | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | 'Catching & Killing' | 3:12 |
| 2. | 'On a String' | 3:14 |
| 3. | 'Let It Go' | 3:10 |
| 4. | 'Start Today Tomorrow' | 3:25 |
| 5. | 'Dead Zoo' | 3:07 |
| 6. | 'Under the Underpass' | 3:29 |
| 7. | 'Daisychains' | 4:22 |
| 8. | 'Sorry' | 3:28 |
| 9. | 'TJ' | 2:37 |
| 10. | 'The Destruction of Laurel Canyon' | 5:04 |
| 11. | 'Sicily' | 2:13 |
| 12. | 'Forever Young' (Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens) | 3:59 |
| US version | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | 'On a String' | 3:14 |
| 2. | 'Sorry' | 3:28 |
| 3. | 'Catching & Killing' | 3:12 |
| 4. | 'Dead Zoo' | 3:07 |
| 5. | 'Under the Underpass' | 3:29 |
| 6. | 'Sicily' | 2:13 |
| 7. | 'Daisychains' | 4:22 |
| 8. | 'Forever Young' (Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens) | 3:59 |
| 9. | 'Start Today Tomorrow' | 3:25 |
| 10. | 'The Destruction of Laurel Canyon' | 5:04 |
| 11. | 'TJ' | 2:37 |
| 12. | 'Christmas Windows' | 3:37 |
| Limited edition bonus DVD | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | 'Forever Young' (Video) | |
| 2. | 'Shadowland' (Video) | |
| 3. | 'Baby Body' (Video) | |
Weekly chart[edit]
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[15] | 10 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[16] | 32 |
Personnel[edit]
- Toby Martin – vocals, guitar
- Cameron Ellison-Elliott – guitar
- Patrick Matthews – bass
- Danny Lee Allen – drums
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Additional personnel[edit]
- Tim Kevin – keyboards ('Under the Underpass', 'Let It Go', 'Sorry'), string arrangement ('Start Today Tomorrow')
- Matthew Steffen – double bass ('On a String')
- Shirley Simms – vocals ('Let It Go')
- Carol Kaye – bass, bass 6 ('Start Today Tomorrow')
- Atom – vocals ('The Destruction of Laurel Canyon')
- Wayne Connolly – 12 string, percussion
- Andrew Lancaster – synthesizer strings ('Forever Young')
- David McCormack – synthesizer strings ('Forever Young')
- Amanda Brown – violin
- Sophie Glasson – cello
- Rowan Smith – violin
References[edit]
- ^Allmusic review
- ^Rolling Stone review
- ^Kathy McCabe, Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2006.
- ^Ian Cuthbertson, The Australian, 29 July 2006.
- ^Craig Mathieson, Sun-Herald, 16 July 2006.
- ^Cameron Adams, Herald Sun, 13 July 2006.
- ^Shaun Carney, The Age, 21 July 2006.
- ^Guy Blackman, Sunday Age, 23 July 2006.
- ^Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 23 July 2006.
- ^ abCameron Adams, 'Young at chart', Herald Sun, 13 July 2006.
- ^Noel Mengel, 'Young talents' time', The Courier-Mail, 13 July 2006.
- ^ARIA charts end of year singles chart, 2006Archived 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Hung, Steffen. 'Youth Group – Casino Twilight Dogs'. Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^Hung, Steffen. 'Youth Group – Casino Twilight Dogs'. New Zealand Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^'Australiancharts.com – Youth Group – Casino Twilight Dogs'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^'Charts.nz – Youth Group – Casino Twilight Dogs'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
