 It's a music project rather than a band, founded on songwriter, bassist, Guitarist, Sound Engineer and Producer Rob Mayes, and various guest vocalists and musicians.
Astro64 started in March of 1999 when Rob took up a job managing and engineering at a new digital recording facility in Christchurch New Zealand.The protools based suite finally gave him the tools to put his musical ideas to hard disc and into a listenable format.
Rob continued his songwriting but decided to take a different route than his previous musical outing in musical groups AD, Heartland, Dolphin, Throw, Springloader, and Delphy, which had all collapsed when various members had drifted off to do other things.
With Astro64 Rob hopes to achieve a continuable project for his musical output which won't be centered around a defined group as such, but a moving flow of suited artists and colaborators, hopefully making it easier for fans to keep a track of his musical output. The first released Astro64 song is Wasting It On You.
Wasting It On You is a pure power pop song,
lots of hooks and loud pop guitars. It stemmed as it always
does from a cool chord pattern happened up on, and in
an effort to write an "up" piece this one hasn't
been given the heavy treatment, just upfront singalong
vocals, and the power pop backing, and ok, the guitars
are pretty amped but the overall feel is highly poptastic,
and all in 2 and a half minutes. About Wasting It On You
Wasting It On You was started in London, where
Pete Thomas (drummer with Elvis Costello & the Attractions) and
Rob were laying down drum tracks for possible use with
Delphy. "We were jamming round at the end of the session
and I jammed the basic chords for this song out, Pete
doing a straight drum track off the cuff for it. At the
end of the track Pete passed me the ultimate compliment
and said that "a certain bespectacled fellow could
do to write a few more songs like this one", I assume
referring to Elvis Costello.
The rest of the track was completed in May of 2000, with
local singer James Scott putting the vocal and backing
vocal tracks down. The lyrics are a lateral love song about being in a
relationship with a terminal procrastinator, who you love
despite their being continually on the phone, attending
to some emergency, or just waylaid, while you stand and
twiddle your thumbs, waiting for your relationship to
happen. Ain't love grand?
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