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“If it takes adventures and stories to make a band, Melbourne’s “The Sound Movement” has it all. In the summer of 2004, with the exception of their guitars and pedals, Andrew and Kat sold all everything they owned and bought one-way plane tickets for London via Tokyo. They left the country at a time when bands such as Jet and The Datsuns dominated the airwaves. Australia was more about rock, rock and more rock. “We didn’t fit in”. Although influenced by Australian greats such as The Triffids and The Church, their brand of shimmering, UK influenced, post-punk, indie shoe-gaze didn’t seem to work in their homeland where rock still heavily dominated. They arrived in the dead cold of Japan’s winter – no money, nowhere to live, no jobs and unable to speak the language - not the best thought out plan you might think! Despite the madness, immersed in the concrete urban neon jungle of inner- city Tokyo, they continued writing and recording. Holed up in their tiny flat, situated next door