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Murray Paterson: Music from the Headland
Stu Nettle
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
When Needessentials launched in 2013 they did things very differently to other companies in the surf industry. Founder Ryan Scanlon, who honed his craft working for Quiksilver Wetsuits, stripped out marketing costs, tossed the frills and adornments in the bin, and passed the savings on to customers.
At the time it was a unique way to approach wetsuit manufacturing, though the idea has since been borrowed by other wetsuit companies. But I digress...
It's no surprise that a company that created a distinct style of business, also did things differently elsewhere. If you've been watching the needessentials films, you'll notice the soundtracks aren't lifted from radio, you won't have heard the songs before, but instead they've been crafted for the films.
One of the collaborators is the band HEADLAND, who, like needessentials, hail from the NSW Northern Rivers, and is led by Murray Paterson. When I put it to Murray that the needs films have propagated their own little ecosystem of surfers, filmers, musicians, and shapers, he described it as being more like a family - both literally and metaphorically.
........we used that footage for inspiration to create the music. We'd play it in the studio, project it, and then play along to it. It turned into an album, which then took on a life of its own. For some reason, I don't know why, it was very popular in Europe, especially in the UK, and so we released an album on vinyl over there, and since then we've released all our subsequent albums on vinyl in the UK.
That's how we've run HEADLAND. When we do live performance, we play along to the footage. And now, when we do needessentials stuff...say when we do live stuff for them, we show footage of Torren surfing and play along to that.
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