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Originally released on 10 inch (Vest Records 1992)

Recorded at Troy Horse Studio, Newtown, Winter 1991. Engineered by Michael Levis

The Plunderers wanted to play more songs from their back catalogue so they formed two spin-off bands: Hippy Dribble and Captain Denim. Stevie Plunder, Nic Dalton and Geoff Milne released two records under the name Hippy Dribble – Wild Strawberri and “Cheerleader” and one 10 inch by Captain Denim titled Fade.

Captain Denim played the more laid-back songs, mostly from the very early Plunderers days when they were influenced by the likes of Buffalo Springfield, Country & Western and folk rock. In a Sydney Morning Herald interview in August 1990: “We have heaps of Velvetsy, Triffids-type songs we wrote when we first started. Captain Denim is for all the people who have heard the Plunderers and thought we were just a thrash pop band – Captain Denim is their chance to like the songs we do. Whereas the people who like the harder stuff will see Captain Denim advertised in the paper and think, ‘No, they’re too wussy for us’.”

Captain Denim’s live debut was supporting Hippy Dribble at the Sandringham, Newtown in December 1990. The band wore denim from head to toe (of course) and, apart from their own originals, played songs such as “You’re So Vain”, Buffalo Springfield’s “Burned” and even Don McLean’s “Everybody Loves Me Baby, What’s The Matter With You?”.

In the winter of 1991 they recorded four songs at Troy Horse – “Last Time” and “Dying (So Long)” from Get Set Go days and “Crayon Cafe” and “And So The Story Goes” from 84-85 Plunderers. The band gave themselves appropriate pseudonyms (Geoff Jag, Nic Lee, Stevie Leisuremaster) and, when they rung up Michael the engineer to find out his last name for the credits, they were very surprised that it was actually Levis!

Fade was released on 10 inch under their own Vest Records banner, each cover with its own denim star (glued on by Stevie, Geoff and the Plunderers manager Caroline Pegram; jeans supplied by the girls from North Sydney Girls High) and hit the stands sometime in mid-1992. Like all of the Plunderers records, the 10 inch is now deleted but all the songs appear on the Silver Apples compilation.

“But history lessons aside, the sound is more important than the statistics. The disc happily presents a collection of slinky, mellow songs (like “Filthy” and “Dying”) and zippy pop tunes with its fair share of ‘ooh oohs’ (“Lurve”) and ‘woo woos’ (“Crayon Cafe”) and ‘ba ba bas’ (“And So The Story Goes”). The trio also turn up the faders on the rockier tracks such as “Take A Ride” and “Dog The Bone”. Tunes like “Spree” show an ever-economical side to the band with each of the above styles cropping up in five minutes of music. And don’t forget the psychedelic “Last Time” – weird vocals and creepier backing vocals amidst a swinging ’60s beat. All in all a top album. Plunderers fans will love it, and so, quite possibly, will you.” – Melanie Jones, Rip It Up, March 1995

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