The Band:
Band History:
In 1993 Bodyjar released their first EP Time To Grow Up. Sporting blue singlet shirts, and long flowing locks ("Yeah I wanna look like Axel Rose" Says Cam) they went on to concour the world. A video for Time to Grow Up was soon done afterwards with the chaps running like crazy amongst the children of a local kindergarten. "We wanted to go back to our roots, and we found that this was the way about it." (Gotta start a band for one reason or another right?) A few months later, and Take a Look Inside was hitting the shop shelves.
Bodyjars next mission was to join the ranks and tour overseas with the likes of Blink182, Face to Face and the Vandals. The album is then released in Japan, America, Canada and Europe.
After this hectic time, Bodyjar then returned to Australia to continue thier touring frenzy. During this time they released another single from Take a Look Inside, the double a-sided Gee and Al / Do Not Do which did quite well for the boys taking them straight to number 1 on the AMR single chart. "Errrr, yeah, offcourse we care.." says Ben....*What's AMR?"
Whilst in Australia Bodyjar recorded their next album under the title Rimshot, from which comes the cool ass single, Glossy Books. Firmly established as one of Vermonts finest punk pop outfits, the band tours melbourne extensively. "A weekend of good times were had by all!" Says Ross. Meanwhile, Rimshot is released in Japan, America, Canada, Europe and for the first time, into the Asia Pacific region.
Sporting a new pair of Vans, Bodyjar take to the tarmac and tour throughout Japan, Singapore and Thailand with New York hardcore band H20, then push north again to the USA and Canada where they record their newest album, No Touch Red....
....April '97 saw them on the way to Canada for a festival called Snojam and to record our not so difficult third album No Touch Red. We were excited at the prospect of recording these songs for the third and final time (after having already done demos and then 8 tracks of all the songs) with US producer Jim Munroe, famous for work on some of our all time favourite punk platters including Farside - Rigged and Game Face Three to Get Ready, but anyway, we dug the mans work, and with Bill Stevenson and Stephen Edgerton (Descendents/Black Flag) mixing the songs at the legendary Blasting Room in Colorado where a large percentage of our personal record collection was recorded, it felt like we had assembled the ultimate recording team, and for us it was. And as Grant said "there's no way it can sound really shit." We all agreed. The tour was cool, big festivals right across Canada, it was such a big thing and lots of time to look around the huge country with lotsa driving. At the end of the tour we practised once in an old warehouse and then found our way to the very comfortable Morin Heights studio at Montreal. We soon found out why the studio is so popular built on a river in a picturesque setting complete with canoes and hotel-like atmosphere. The studio seemed to have a history of land mark recordings, anything from The Police Synchronicity to the Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever and the Ramones classic Too Tough to Die all recorded here. Going by the gold records on the wall Bryan Adams likes this place too....
By the time you have read the previous, Strange Harvest is released as a 7 track EP, with album tracks such as You Say and You've Taken Everything as well as live tracks recorded at New York's legendary CBGB's. Strange Harvest sold more copies than No Touch Red, OVER 38! copies sold.
In 1998 the band toured the country as a part of the Vans/Warped tour, and also released the single Remote Controller which was good. Then came the No Touch Red tour with those lovely peeps from Down By Law. Even cooler huh?
