Dear Listener,Thank you for obtaining this copy of"May You Always Admire Your Trail Of Wreckage" deluxe edition.This package holds all the recorded output of Melbourne band My Lil Tornado. The first EP, A live performance, and the album May You Always Admire Your Trail Of Wreckage, or MYAAYTOW from this point on… for brevity.My Lil Tornado operated in Melbourne in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The name"My Lil Tornado" comes from a song by"The Kills" called"Last Day Of Magic". The first EP was recorded by what was going to be the line up for a band called Pigs Of Big. Featuring Nails Kelly on Guitar, and vocals, Alisha McGilp on vocals and keys, myself on guitar and vocals, Joseph Patrick on bass, and Andrew Bucknall on drums. The EP's rhythm tracks were recorded at Woodstock Studios, and overdubs at our home in Kew. The EP sat around for a few months after the Pigs of Big split, and the house split. Eventually in early 2009, the facilities and energy to mix my 4 songs came about, and work recommenced, eventually it was mixed, and mastered, and released as"Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory". The lineup at the time we released the EP had become myself on guitar and vocals, Drew Lynch (who'd played with my previous band"The Stars") on bass, Bucknall on Drums, and we'd added Eliot Keating on guitar. We launched it late June 2009 at Cherry Bar. Lishy came back to play keys for the launch, but was then added as a permanent member. The name"My Lil Tornado" comes from a song by"The Kills" called"Last Day Of Magic".The things I like the most about the EP are Nails tasty guitar solos on all of the tracks, and Lishy's attentive keys. What's So Great About Being Tough is my favourite track from that. I mixed it myself, and got it mastered by my friend Mick Letho. Sonically I find it shabby, but I don't care enough to go back.In March 2009 My Lil Tornado played one of the midweek"Collage" shows. An added bonus of that night was that the band was recorded to multitrack by the Woodstock studios boys. I immediately purchased the multis and started mixing them. Mixing that live show concluded last week 20/3/14. Nearly 5 years after it was recorded. The thing I love about this recording is it captures MLT as the noisy, squawly, indie rock band I always thought we were. Full of feedback, squeaks, lunges, rushes, and near train wrecks. It's not perfect, but it's passionate. Barely hanging on.The band continued gigging through 2009 until Bucknall announced that he wanted to quit. I loved the lineup as it sounded, and we were playing all the material pretty well. I asked Bucknall if he could stick around just to record an album. We booked in with Sound Engineer Leigh Evans at his studio in Collingwood, and recorded basic tracks in February? Or April 2010? I can't remember. Anyway the project went till about October that year. By that time we'd failed to find another drummer, and MLT folded due to various reasons. And once again I had the multi tracks for a future release for a band that no longer existed. I was a little heart broken. There were various attempts to mix it. But my audio monitoring was poor and results were unprofessional to my ear. The album was remixed 3 or 4 times over the next 4 years. Some tracks have been mixed 22 times, according to their version numbers. It wasn't as obsessive as it sounds, I had no deadline, and I had been developing my own recording facilities. Getting decent monitors etc. So eventually I abandoned mixing it in July 2013. I still hear things in it that I don't like, a poor balance here or there, a dragging rhythm guitar, over compressed bits and pieces. But to be honest I don't care anymore. I've grown away from where I was at when I was writing and recording this. And the massive amount of time spent mixing, was as much about accepting what this record wasn't as polishing what it was. Finishing this project now is just giving it its due, allowing it to go out into the world, clear the pipeline. The old me thinks it's great. The new me just thinks that it has a right to exist.Thanks for reading and gaining a few insights into this band and recording. I don't want to write an essay, and I've put more than enough time and effort into this project.This record can catch and kill it's own now.I hope you enjoy.Dave"Red" Whip. 27/3/14red@sthnocnrx.com