Music
Writing and Recording with Pia
Pia Andrews (then Pia Waugh) and I played music together for a couple of years around 2010-2011. We wrote some songs together and Pia brought some of her excellent songs for us to play together. We recorded a few demos, most of which were completed in a couple of sessions. These are my favourites...
Credits
- Pia: vocals, rhythm guitars, drum sequencing, bass (Leave You Blue, I'm the Luckiest)
- Martin: vocals, rhythm & lead guitars, harmonica, organ, bass (Greed, Tar, Cover My Eyes)
- Keith Matthews: drums on I'm the Luckiest - recorded to match a previous demo and hand quantised by me for this mix, so I'm to blame for any timing issues
The Taken
The Taken were a Canberra, Australia based rock band that was active between 2003 and 2008.
Personnel
Most of the time, The Taken were:
- Craig Birnie: drums
- Michael Ellerman: guitar
- Keith Matthews: bass
- Martin Schwenke: vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Kelly Yeoh: vocals
Other people to play with The Taken include Danny Roberts (original lead guitarist), Richard Pearce (drums - many practices, 1 gig), Warren Jackson (drums - 1 gig), Adam Kerz (saxophone - 1 gig).
Live at The Pot Belly Bar (2007)
This was one of The Taken's best live gigs. These are the final 6 songs taken from the 1st set. We started off a little slow but we had definitely warmed up by this stage. Richard Pearce played drums on this performance. The recording quality is poor but Keith Matthews did some magic to make it listenable.
Closer To You
Kelly wrote the lyrics for this, wanting me to do something musically interesting with it. Instead, I turned it into a power ballad! Although I liked it, most of the band did not, so it was rarely played. However, as the band began to fragment, I decided I wanted a recording of this.
We recorded a guide track with Keith on drums and me on guitar. Keith added bass. I added a guitar or 5 - the guitar solo is first take - and I added the organ part. Kelly did a couple of vocal takes over following weeks and we decided to use the both. Keith and I tweaked the mix and adjusted timing issues for quite some time. We then moved on to other things and I pulled out this mix a long time later... and it is pretty good. :-)
Copyright & License
The attached sound recordings are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The compositions themselves have copyrights as follows, with all rights reserved.
With Pia
- Greed: Copyright 2010 Pia Waugh
- Leave You Blue: Copyright 2010 Martin Schwenke, Pia Waugh & Melynda McDonald
- Tar: Copyright 2010 Pia Waugh
- Cover My Eyes: Copyright 2010 Pia Waugh
- I'm The Luckiest: Martin Schwenke & Pia Waugh
The Taken
- Brothers: Copyright 1993 Martin Schwenke
- This Is Love: Copyright 2000 PJ Harvey
- Nothing To See Here: Copyright 2005 Keith Matthews, Martin Schwenke, Craig Birnie & Kelly Daly
- Empty Arms: Copyright 2004 Martin Schwenke & Melynda McDonald
- My Friend The Blues: Copyright 1989 Peter Schwenke & Martin Schwenke
- Dance In Circles: Copyright 1988, 2005 Martin Schwenke, Peter Schwenke & Keith Matthews
- Closer To You: Copyright 2005 Kelly Daly, Martin Schwenke & Keith Matthews
