Lush - Ciao! The Best Of (Vinyl) Alec Bathgate so plain old James Milne

so plain old James Milne ceded to the ubermensch that has become one of New Zealand's finest contemporary songwriters and performers the celebrated singer of songs that is Lawrence Arabia

Tom was playing and continues to play in a feminist punk band as well as various jazz acts in Auckland

Where I End And You Begin

restricting ourselves to instruments which we play live and keeping all production to a minimum to focus on the band sound itself

And those frivolous moments like Rocky Mountain are balanced out by more earnest tracks such as You and I and They Write Words To People Who Are Dead

Lush - Ciao! The Best Of (Vinyl) Alec Bathgate so plain old James MilneA classic compilation from Lush. 18 tracks which demonstrate with considerable panache just what was great about Lush. 'Ciao!' takes on the band's legacy in reverse order, showcasing the later pop punches like 'Single Girl', 'Ladykillers' and '500 (Shake Baby Shake) all taken from their amazing swan song 'Lovelife', before going onto explore the weighty themes and dense guitar textures of 'Split', working back to the Robin Guthrie produced 'Spooky' to