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AUSTRALIA - YKB : NORTH HOLLYWOOD HILLBILLIES

Yves Klein Blue recently finished recording in North Hollywood, which by all accounts is kind of like Broadmeadows crossed with those just-off-the-highway towns in the Goldcoast.  Not much to see or do except grind out their album one bit at a time.

"On the very first day we thought we were ready and we were just going to record it live so this was really devastating," says Michael, the band's singer. The band puts this down to their producer, Kevin Augunas' unique brand of tough love. "We had these songs we thought were done and he'd question it and tell us to cut the crap and it would sow the seed of doubt and that was it"

Between sessions and hours spent re-writing, the guys did manage to live a little of the LA dream by eating heaps of weird shit, playing a gig at Viper Room, and venturing into Hollywood proper which they celebrated by buying hats. Here are some pictures they took from the trip. Kind of a nice intro to our upcoming Vice Photo Issue which is out next month.