Aug 17, 2026 · 47 min · 10 segments
In this episode we discuss Something For Kate’s "Electricity", Motor Ace’s "Chromakey" and 78 Saab’s "Never Ending" and a whole lot more. What are your thoughts on these songs and the artists…
it's almost like what are the songs we're talking about oh that's a good question good question we're listening we are talking about electricity by something for k chroma key chroma key by motor ace and never ending by 78 sarp now i think this episode should be called interlopers because let's face it, 78 Saab and Motor Ace aren't really 90s bands.
They released like five songs between them in the 90s, but who cares? We'll shoehorn them in here anyway.
I think it was 12 songs between them in the 90s.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Okay, maybe I was playing.
But even something for Kate, they're still more of a 2000s band.
Yeah, but they formed, and I'll get onto that, they formed in Melbourne in 1994, so they were a 90s band.
Dempsey and Hindman knew each other from school, Padua College on the Mornington Peninsula.
James Raine went to school in the same area, and the Fovs went to school in the same area as well.
Originally called Fish of the Day, the group changed their name after Dempsey's dog.
He had been left a note by his mum saying, buy something for Kate, a Jack Russell terrier Dempsey's mother had.
Dempsey's mother later sold the dog, but they had told Dempsey the dog had escaped.
But about a year later, his mum let the dog slip and confessed.
The band played the Melbourne scene and grew a fan base from there.
In 1995, Sony Music signed them to the Murmur label, which was also the home of Silverchair.
and blue bottle kiss two other bands were also on that label a single called dean martin was picked up by triple j and they gained national exposure on youth on the youth station jasper lee of the oz music project declared that it shows the vast potential of the melbourne band dempsey's voice proves that under a thick layer of morbid morbid rock guy there's an emotionally brittle heart lies within February 1997, the band released their first album, Elsewhere for Eight Minutes, which was recorded in Auckland and produced by Brian Paulson, who worked with Wilco and Slint.
Carol had recently married and wanted to leave the band, but he remained for the recording sessions, and he was replaced by Toby Ralph.
At that point, Dempsey wondered if the band was going anywhere, but once Ashworth joined, everything just clicked.
And there you go.
That was the start of Songs OK.
it's almost like what are the songs we're talking about oh that's a good question good question we're listening we are talking about electricity by something for k chroma key chroma key by motor ace and never ending by 78 sarp now i think this episode should be called interlopers because let's face it, 78 Saab and Motor Ace aren't really 90s bands.
They released like five songs between them in the 90s, but who cares? We'll shoehorn them in here anyway.
I think it was 12 songs between them in the 90s.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Okay, maybe I was playing.
But even something for Kate, they're still more of a 2000s band.
Yeah, but they formed, and I'll get onto that, they formed in Melbourne in 1994, so they were a 90s band.
Dempsey and Hindman knew each other from school, Padua College on the Mornington Peninsula.
James Raine went to school in the same area, and the Fovs went to school in the same area as well.
Originally called Fish of the Day, the group changed their name after Dempsey's dog.
He had been left a note by his mum saying, buy something for Kate, a Jack Russell terrier Dempsey's mother had.
Dempsey's mother later sold the dog, but they had told Dempsey the dog had escaped.
But about a year later, his mum let the dog slip and confessed.
The band played the Melbourne scene and grew a fan base from there.
In 1995, Sony Music signed them to the Murmur label, which was also the home of Silverchair.
and blue bottle kiss two other bands were also on that label a single called dean martin was picked up by triple j and they gained national exposure on youth on the youth station jasper lee of the oz music project declared that it shows the vast potential of the melbourne band dempsey's voice proves that under a thick layer of morbid morbid rock guy there's an emotionally brittle heart lies within February 1997, the band released their first album, Elsewhere for Eight Minutes, which was recorded in Auckland and produced by Brian Paulson, who worked with Wilco and Slint.
Carol had recently married and wanted to leave the band, but he remained for the recording sessions, and he was replaced by Toby Ralph.
At that point, Dempsey wondered if the band was going anywhere, but once Ashworth joined, everything just clicked.
And there you go.
That was the start of Songs OK.
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