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Whenever Love is Obliged, Music Forms
Life in Berlin was a trailing time for the band. Brenna reformed Wet Kiss with new members Tore, Dino and Tomas, daniel eventually left back home to continue the group bodies and Brenna had to fend for herself. Now, she was determined to become an actress. She landed a small role in an underground film Sounds Expensive in 2023, she also made the soundtrack available on Nina Protocol. Back in Australia communicating over the phone Brenna fired their drummer, Ruby Rabbit, and Daniel dog would take over drumming… later they would quit as well. After a few months and a long break the aus iteration of the band would re to perform and Brenna would fly home for 2 festival Rising festival and the EightySix Festival. WET KISS was signed to an independent label, DCR, in 2023.
Eventually after a few years Brenna would return to Rat City to focus on the band's success. Wet Kiss started to record their second full-length album, which would be called “Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse. Wet Kiss started to get lots of interviews, lots of publicity, and lots of photo shoots.
Recording of the records demos began as early as 2022. 10 possible demos for the upcoming record were produced including Pink Shadow, Chick from Nowhere. Plans to release the album the following year in 2023 did not come into fruition as the band’s previous label Dero Arcade took an indefinite sabbatical from releasing records and daniel dog and Brenna O moved to Berlin in June of 2022 following the breakup between the band and their then producer, Piggy. That same year bassist Ben Addictionand and pianist Al Amor came to Europe to perform three performances. While these shows aided the project in gaining European exposure, plans to launch a full-scale European tour were unsuccessful, it was too soon.
As a new year dawned daniel dog returned home to Melbourne to focus on their poetry press No More Poetry and their own project, the new bodies of divine and infinite eternal spirit, with Ben and Aldo and Ruben, respectively. Aldo, Andy McEwen and Ruban Stoney started their own project Tung Dissolver which was met by astonished faces across Melbourne. And ‘bodies’ released All the Songs I Know About Fire. During this period Brenna, left to her own devices, dedicated her time to developing the already recorded songs as well creating new ones, teaching herself guitar and getting singing lessons for the first time with opera singer Amber Fasquelle. This was a period of deep thinking for O “I had huge highs and huge lows but it was the time I decided without a shadow of a doubt to commit myself to bohemia, I would never pursue the regal career ever again I am a writer” O bleaches her hair peroxide blonde, and aside from the re-growth never lets it go mousy again.
Dog returned to Berlin in the summer of 2023 and by this time the project had gained more notoriety as O developed more confidence in performing solo while opening for the act Bar Italia. O who had written about drugs in her previous work began experimenting with cocaine usage more regularly, this marked another creative shift as the fictional elements of the characters and world she was creating started infiltrating her real life. These partying experiences formed the general basis for the new album. O and Dog continued playing shows with session musicians bassist Dino and guitarist Vincent with the Roland 505 taking the main drumming role. After a lengthy and unsuccessful recording session and a lack of interest from Dero Arcade in releasing a new record, O communicated with Thomas and Lady Ben and the band decided that it was best for the project if they all recorded together.
Knowing she must return to Rat City to record the record Brenna reached out to Australia’s Chapter Music, they offered the band a double slot in their upcoming Eighty Six festival and a larger than normal paycheck, Brenna O and Dog purchased their return tickets using credit companies like PayPal and afterpay and left town for Rat City. Upon returning the band was met with recognition and positivity. Guitarist Ju Sugar was picked up by the band as well as backing singer Agnes Wailin’ dubbed Screamin’ for their tenacious belts, Wet Kiss became a 7-piece. Moving to Berlin did the opposite of what they feared and desire for Wet Kiss had increased if not left a distinct aura of mystery about the band. The band has now been in Melbourne for 4 months performing, growing and writing songs with alternating lineups. Dinosaur City head Jordanne Chant who released All the Songs I Know About Fire decided to manage the band for free assisting O with financial planning and bookings and has agreed to release the project’s upcoming album in 2024. O was also awarded a 7000 Euro grant from the German government to produce the record. Production on the record will take place at Ritzland and will be engineered by Andy McEwen.
the detail:
Dress Rehearsal 2019 - 2020
1st Preview 2021
Opening Night 2022
Vaudevillian Desires 2022 - 2023
The Fame Game 2024
Standing Ovation
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