Lost Of Love – The story.
Has to be seen to be believed” Time-Off
“The best band I have ever heard in my entire life” Edward Guglielmino
“BEST BAND EVER!!” Ben Preece
Infamous Australian outfit “Lost Of Love” formed in early 2006 after James Obrien (“The Boat People”) Jackie Marshall, and Edward Guglielmino decided that Brisbane needed a band that went out of its way to piss off punters. “Lost of Love” became legendary very quickly. Spurning vehement opposal from punters and music industry boffins alike, the band soon had an arsenal of pithy review with which to recruit new fans:
“You fucking sucked, I would probably stand up in court and swear on the bible that you should serve back to ass life sentences for raping my ears” – Marty Brown (One of Brisbanes Best Musicians, Sound Engineer at The Troubadour)
“Lost of Love”‘s debut gig at the now demolished “Alley Bar” resulted in a massive bar fight, where three of the audience members and two of the band members were evicted. One of the evicted audience members Mick Elliot soon after the fight quit his alt-counry rock band “Mexico City” to join “Lost of Love”. LoL’s third gig at the no longer extant venue “The Columbian” featuring their new distorted dobro player Mick Elliot and new bass player Chris Brady was legendary, as not one of the members of the band were functioning on the same vibrational dimension.
“Lost of Love”‘s most infamous gig resulted in the police being called and the stage manager pulling the gig. The gig was in the Valley mall. It was a front page story in “City News” the very next day. The band emerged valiant as proponents of their self-coined “Freeguardist” ideals which can be roughly summed up by a Richard Flanagan quote from “Gould’s Book Of Fish”, being:
“Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation and reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults and is easily ivied over with paid praises”.
Inevitably, “Lost of Love” continued its turgid existence until early 2008 when the lead singer Edward Guglielmino was advised by his doctor to quit the rock and roll life style. He continued to play music, albeit gentille acoustic gigs around Australia and Europe, and in a much more left wing sad white boy music fashion, no longer performing sex acts on stage, rather performing wussy ballads about his ex-girlfriend. Jackie Marshall went off to Europe to travel with gypsies, and James Obrien focused on his pop band “The Boat People” in order to try and pay of the mass of debt that “Lost Of Love” incurred during 12 failed recording sessions. Chris Brady now lives in exodus in the UK, and the drummer who wishes to be no longer associated with “Lost of Love” in any way has gone on to play for Robert Forster and “Flamingo Crash”. And so the band fell to ruin.
Months passed and each of the founding members dealt with the vast negative-LoL hole in their lives via various unfulfilling pursuits involving slow cash and bottom-of-the-food-pyramid riders. Thus Edward Guglielmino, during the worst tour of his entire life and reaching the end of his despair makes a rare indulgent call-for-help to Jackie Marshall from his derelict hotel room in Geelong. During their fateful conversation they agree to reignite Lost Of Love in a bid to reestablish some grand new hub for catharsis in their respective flailing existences. Jackie promptly calls James Obrien, James calls Mick Elliot, Mick calls the drummer, who hangs up on him immediately and continues his line of coke. Edward calls Brady, Brady hangs up on Edward immediately and finishes his joint. Thus only 50 percent of the band is back together for a 1am slot on the 8th of August at The Troubadour:
HOWEVER it is THE BETTER HALF!
Come see these worn out rockstars re-united in attempted to revitalize their washed up solo careers and compensate for their new less interesting projects!
Once seen, everyone states, that “this is the best band in Brisbane” or they may state something else, but the chorus of cheers, and the increadble music drowns out the useless criticisms.
