Underminers

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“A dream you touch the surface of / Ain’t a dream that’s good enough” (from A Dream You Touch The Surface Of) Many of our best songwriters balance passion for music with parenthood and day jobs. Even unsung, they are compelled to create. It’s certainly true for two of the most criminally undervalued songwriters working in Australia, Justin ‘Happy’ Hayward and Chris Morris, the duo at the core of Underminers. “Baby can you wait a little longer / Before I join the throng and / Say my whole life was wrong…?” (from Self-Made Man) Beyond The Stars, the second album from these pop craftsmen, delves into the central dilemmas facing any thirty-something practicing artist: disillusionment, balancing your craft with your responsibilities and what you gain and lose with the resulting shifts in priorities. Working with producer Dave Beattie ('The Hard Word', Snog), and despite a backlog of great songs, Hayward and Morris started fresh for the new album. “With Beyond The Stars, we made a conscious effort to write a set of songs from scratch, Lyrically, I was looking back over my 20’s. I was in bands all that time, but at the end of my 20’s I went back to Uni and became a teacher. As you get older, you start focusing on other things: family, home…” Hayward muses. “A big part of the album is about losing connections. You lose that contact with people you were really close to in your 20’s.” This is powerful, intimate songcraft, celebrating simple joys like birth notices posted in the

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Heart Part Of Your Mind

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Let's Get T-Shirts Made

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Beyond The Stars

Lets Get T-shirts Made

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Pb:100

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Popboomerang Records Present: Electric & Eclectic Rarities

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(free) It's Always Summer At Popboomerang

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it's always summer at popboomerang

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Popboomerang Records: Making A Big Sound! #2

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Popboomerang presents: PopGeekHeaven.com

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Popboomerang 2010 X-Mas Party Sampler

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(free) Popboomerang Records: Making A Big Sound! #2

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