Hola!

Hola!

My name is Simon Carter and I am a solo artist from Sydney, Australia.

Previously I had a band called The Cops (www.myspace.com/copsaustralia), but that has since broken up and i'm off on my own adventures.

Early this year, I ran into the very first drummer for The Cops, a Mr Rory Toomey (also of Meta Bass 'N Breath) at a N.E.R.D. concert and moaned and whinged about how I couldn't find a band. His response was "I've got a whole band for you." Three weeks later I was playing with a shit hot band which included Toddy Smith (from The Cops) on keys, Rory Toomey on drums and percussion, Rob Young on bass, Paul "Pablo" Hurrell on guitar and Nick Beswick on second keys (yes, TWO keyboard players...why not?).

I wanted to do a little experiment. I wanted to see if it was possible for me to record an album for next to no money, and to make it sound good. We made a sound-proof door, got the bar sorted and moved into my little studio in Summer Hill (by little I mean 3m by 3m!). As it turned out, the thing ended up costing $400. We finished recording the album in July 2009 (Beck popped in from time to time and guests on the album, and Jason Walker provided beautiful pedal steel guitar).

"The Black Book Of The Universe" is produced and engineered by me and mixed by Rob and I in my apartment. One of my favourite people on Earth, Russell Hopkinson is putting the record out on his Illustrious Artists imprint, which is quite fitting cos he put the first Cops EP out, and has shown my songwriting a lot of love over the years.

And that's about it for now. I'll be launching the single in late Nov/early Dec around the traps so stay tuned for dates.

xoxo Simon