A grunge icon and a former Bad Seed join The Saints for a special Australian tour this November.
Mark Arm is sitting in the warehouse at Sub Pop records in Seattle. He's just clocked off from his day job at the label but his mind is elsewhere.
After being largely ignored in Australia, the band decamped to the UK where they made two more incredible albums before the band's classic line-up fell to pieces. Arm is not the only new face in this iteration of the band. Sunnyboys bassist Peter Oxley, who has accompanied Kuepper in The Aints and his recent solo work, will hold down the lower end with original Saints drummer Ivor Hay.The great Mick Harvey — founding member of The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and an esteemed solo artist — joins Kuepper on guitar.
And while his lips have mostly remained sealed so far, he couldn't resist letting a visiting Australian in on the secret. "It all started before Chris died and then kind of got paused for a little bit. It's just been this really long, ongoing process."The band's fervent fans will be beside themselves with excitement about this unexpected development in The Saints' long and complicated story. The good news is Kuepper – for whom The Saints is just one of many musical projects across his long career – is genuinely very excited as well.
"I found it inspiring in a way that I didn't think that I would. I thought I'd enjoy this, but I'm actually thinking, 'This is going to be really great.'
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