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In The Winter City 02:12
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Another Guide To Life 01:10
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Puppies On Prozac 01:35
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Paging Mr Right 02:29
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Subversive 03:54
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Lie To Me 02:24
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Catch Fire 01:15
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I'd been performing my poetry for a few years at the time this was recorded, so this is a bit of a time capsule. I was very young, my voice was much less the gravelly monster it is now.

Over the course of a long day in mid 2002 Matt Dufty and I recorded seven tracks; all the vocals, the music, everything. It was mixed and mastered later but all the basic tracks were done on that day in the Bootfull Audio studio in North Carlton, below One Eye Dog Recordings.

And it still sounds fucking good. Matt did a great job. Most of my later work I recorded myself, and I learn as I go, but this has a really polished feel. While not losing the ranting, whiny quality that was so much a part of what I did. Some might say still do.

Matt and I met through Emma Ireland back when she was Empress of EAZE Productions. We were doing gigs on Tuesday nights at Revolver in Prahran, which lead into the original Babble gigs (Planet Cafe/Bar Open). EAZE was also the crew that I did my first Fringe show with, a huge and oddly religious beast called 'Iconocenturi' that involved about thirty different artists. Matt is a very talented violinist and producer and a funny, funny bastard.

We also worked together on my track from 'You Talking To Me?' the music/poetry compilation. I think we spent nearly as much time turning Emilie Zoey Baker's laugh into a techno track as we did on my piece. Somewhere on a disc or an old hard-drive I imagine that techno laugh track still exists. Some day you may find yourself dancing to it in a club, having no idea where it came from.

Diatribe was also featured as a bonus on the album 'This Late Hour'.

Oh, an the launch, god what a mess of mayhem! I launched this as part of the first Overload Poetry Festival. I'll write up an article for my website describing the madness of all of that. A memorable and foolhardy experience.

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released August 8, 2002

Poems by Steve Smart, produced and arranged by Matt Dufty.

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Steve Smart Poetry & Music Melbourne, Australia

Steve Smart is practically indestructible. Hard headed and stubborn, he may not be the most famous poet in the world but no one can say it's from lack of trying. All of his poetry and music albums are right here at Bandcamp.

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