AS Colour backpack featuring False Peak base logo and Lost Hikers artwork by Apolonija Lucic.
100% polyester with PU coating
One large main compartment, smaller front compartment, side pockets, adjustable shoulder straps
YKK black nylon zips
One size 42cm x 25cm x 15cm
15 litre capacity
Available with any record release. Iron On image used only as display.
15 year anniversary of the release is celebrated with the first ever pressing on red, heavyweight vinyl, remastered with two bonus** tracks. Also included is a photo booklet. This is the first contribution to the Lost Hiker series, and limited to 100.
THIS IS A PREORDER and is estimated to release on January 15, 2021
Track Listing:
Learn Today Earn Tomorrow
Reckless Pronto
Playing Hard To want
Sidewalk
Hearts
There's A Shirt of Yours At My House
The Safety
High Miami High
Keeping Up Appearances
More Than Tape
Burn Collection**
Again, Again, Again**
Kate Cooper- Guitars & Vocals
Ross Hope- Guitars & Vocals
Ian Rogers- Bass Guitar
Nicola Phoenix- Drums (tracks 1-10)
Marieca Page- Drums (tracks 11-12)
Recorded, mixed & produced by Magoo at Black Box Studios in Feb/Mar 2005.
Bonus Tracks 11 &12 recorded & mixed by Magoo at Black Box Studios in 2007.
Mastered by William Bowden at King Willy Sound.
This year marks 15 years since Iron On’s debut album, Oh The Romance, was released. I never imagined that I’d see this album released on vinyl, especially not in 2020. But here we are.
In many ways, 2005 feels like a lifetime ago. And yet, I still have so many memories from that defining period of my life. I was twenty-five years old, and everything felt big and important. I had big dreams and big plans. I also had big anxiety and big heartache. But when a new song started to click in the rehearsal room, or when I stepped on stage with Iron On, I could escape all that. And I suddenly felt alive. It was a period defined by high highs and low lows. The making of Oh The Romance was no exception.
We wanted Oh The Romance to be a progression—sonically and musically—from our first two EPs. We wanted huge guitars and plenty of hooks. Our in-joke at the time was that we wanted an album with ‘more hooks than a pirate convention’. Our first two EPs—The Understudy and Everybody Calm Down—were sprawling, unhinged and experimental. We still wanted these things—they were inherently ‘Iron On’’—but we also wanted Oh The Romance to be an album that people could dance to. In essence, an album that sounded like the love child of The Woods by Sleater Kinney and Weezer’s Blue Album. So we asked ARIA-award winning producer, Magoo, if he would steer the ship and, to our amazement, he said yes.
For this special fifteenth anniversary vinyl edition of Oh The Romance, we have included two bonus tracks: ‘Burn Collection’ and ‘Again, Again, Again’. These songs were demoed with Magoo in 2007, but never mastered or released in any official capacity—until now.
For long-time fans of Iron On, I hope you enjoy this audio journey back to 2005. And for those of you who might be listening to Iron On for the very first time, welcome to the romance.
—Ross