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Sofa
was a band from 1993 to 1997. Born out of quiet desperation and romantic
naiveté, the four founding members stuck together for the duration,
devoting themselves to the sonic transmission of discomfort, confusion and
loss, picking up the odd sympathetic listener along the way. Mostly Sofa
wrote songs in a 10' x 10' room, playing and then discarding them every
few months, after a sullen gig or two. Bitterness and defiance competed
with self-doubt and resignation in an interminable circular movement. You
had to laugh, which Sofa often did, in alternately sinister and self-deprecating
fashion, behind the closed door of the rehearsal space.
Oh the good times they had, lapping up the rare kind word like submissive
dogs before retreating again into resentment, embarrassment and despair.
And throughout this long history of falling on deaf ears, Brad and Scott
played the valiant archivists, saving every piece of band-related arcania
to look back on misty-eyed and bilious as it all fades to black. |
Ian
and Keith lacked the encyclopaedic instinct, but they all cherish the
times now spent getting drunk together, poring over scrapbooks thoroughly
annotated and exquisitely maintained, circling into a disappearing solipsistic
mythology.
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