The Vasco Era at Mojo's

Someone wise once said you get your whole life to write your debut album and a couple of months to write your second. Second albums are often rush-released, written on beer coasters in the back of touring vans, and pushed forward, blinking, into the spotlight before the time is right.

 

And then there are the second albums that offer something special; that rare and exhilarating sense that you are listening to a band's evolution - a record that, upon its completion, leaves you with the sense that you could say "I was there when" as though you'd been there, alongside the artists, to witness the birth of something special.

 

Lucille is one of those records.

 

The Vasco Era burst onto the Australian music scene some five years ago in an arrival that was difficult to ignore. The noisy Apollo Bay natives presented a range of musical conundrums: a surf coast band fuelled by a furious racket; a three-piece that made as much noise as a whole festival; a band that seemingly ran alongside the other entrants in the new rock race and yet outran them all. The country sat up and took notice, and their 2006 debut, Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside, chronicled their journey to that point.