Bloods
There’s no other city on the planet as synonymous with the 90s as Seattle. And for Marihuzka Cornelius AKA MC, singer, guitarist and songwriter in Bloods, growing up in Western Sydney during that pre-Internet age, it might as well have been another planet. It seemed so far away, so mythic in stature. A sort of paradise, or nirvana, where outcasts, misfits and music reigned supreme.
Pouring through rock mags and staying up late watching music videos on Rage, trying to catch a glimpse of her flannel-clad rock heroes, it would’ve seemed unthinkable to teenage MC that one day she’d be standing in a studio in Seattle about to record with her own band.
Not just any studio either, but Jack Endino’s Sound House (y’know just the guy who recorded Nirvana’s Bleach, no biggie), with Steve Fisk on production and mixing duties (yep, the dude who’s worked with Soundgarden and Mudhoney) and using the very amp Kurt Cobain played through on his band’s debut record. Oh yeah and guess what, teen MC, Cheryl Waters is playing your band on KEXP, your publishing is signed to Sub Pop and your new EP is coming out on Seattle label Share It Music too. TEENAGE MIND BLOWN.
So what do you do when your teenage fantasy becomes reality and the city you’ve loved from afar starts loving you back? You do what any self-respecting 90s tragic would do and dedicate your EP to it, just as MC and her bandmates Dirk Jonker (drums) and Mike Morgan (guitar, bass and backing vocals) in Bloods have done on their free-spirited EP, Seattle.