Trouble At Church

I've long had a soft spot for Australian psychedelic band The Church.  Despite this, it's been obvious for some time that something wasn't quite right.  A series of unexciting releases, side projects, supplementary releases and reissues couldn't hide the fact that a killer album was overdue.  Now news has filtered through that one of the band's two outstanding guitarists, Marty Willson-Piper, is no longer a member.  More shockingly, lead singer Steve Kilbey is now referring to The Church as "his band"!  Marty's replacement is Ian Haug from Powderfinger.  I'm keeping an open mind on this one although it seems like a new band to me...Back to happier times, I've never shared the video for the band's big 80s US hit "Under The Milky Way" (Marty plays the first guitar parts on this one), anyway so here it is:

More interesting news is the Steve Kilbey is touring with Robyn Hitchcock, sometime Soft Boy and sometime genius.  Keep up with The Church at https://www.facebook.com/thechurchband