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On a night in early 2003, Phil Morgan stood onstage in a small room at the University of Sydney strumming a battered Stratocaster, singing “Sister Morphine” in his dark and tortured voice to a small crowd. In an inspired moment, Luke Collings got up from the crowd, took his own guitar onstage, and began playing a haunting slide guitar to accompany the song. A seed was planted that night that was to bear fruit sometime later… By late 2005 a change was in the winds. Luke was bandless, frustrated with the shallowness of the rock music that had once consumed him, and desiring to stretch himself personally and musically. Phil still had his own band going, but they had been gigging less and Phil needed a new creative outlet. One night the two met up to reminisce over past gigs and play a little guitar. They sang old songs and traded licks, and at the end of the night Phil said that he hadn’t felt so good about playing guitar in a long time. At the same time, Carl English was ready to