Doubt Seeds

Bluebottle Kiss
Performing at Annandale Hotel, Sydney, February 2006
Background information
Origin	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	Rock grunge indie rock
Years active	1993 (1993)–2009 (2009)
Labels	Murmur/Sony Nonzero
Website	bluebottlekiss.com
Members	Jamie Hutchings Ben Grounds Ross Dickie Jared Harrison
Past members	Ben Fletcher Peter Noble Richard Coneliano Simon Fuhrer

Bluebottle Kiss, sometimes seen as BBK, were an Australian guitar-based, indie rock band formed in 1993 by mainstay, Jamie Hutchings, on guitar and vocals. They have issued six albums, Higher Up the Firetrails (1995), Fear of Girls (1996), Patient (1999), Revenge Is Slow (2002), Come Across (2003) and Doubt Seeds (2006).

Bluebottle Kiss were formed in Sydney in 1993 as a grunge trio by Ben Fletcher on bass guitar and vocals, Jamie Hutchings on lead guitar and lead vocals, and Peter Noble on drums. Their influences are from the late 1980s United States indie scene, which include Sonic Youth and the Afghan Whigs, singer-songwriters of the 1970s, Neil Young and Van Morrison, as well as the Australian independent scene with the Church and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The band were signed to Murmur, an imprint of Sony Music Australia.

Their debut studio album, Higher Up the Firetrails, was issued in April 1995. It was recorded at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre with Wayne Connolly producing (Underground Lovers, You Am I). Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt they did not use a regular studio setting "in order to capture a certain ambience. The album ran the gamut of sounds from quiet dirge to chaotic noise." They supported shows by Beck, JSBX, Crow and Silverchair.

For the group's second album, Fear of Girls (August 1996), they used US producer, Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Afghan Whigs). McFarlane opined "[it] covered a lot of ground, from tough, noisy art-rock to bleak ballads." Late in 1997 Noble was replaced on drums by Richard Coneliano.