264:"I'd said to Vikki, you know, we should go round Australia. Let's, let's just get out of here, let's go travelling. You know, we were from this town where if we saw a car come through from over east with eastern states number plates, I mean I would just look at these cars and think wow, they're from over east. They're from Sydney and, and Wollongong and… you know and it was really exciting for us. So I bought this old van and I went and picked her up from school." – Donna Simpson, August 2007.
287:, the sisters had been travelling across greater Western Australia, playing the blues in rural bars based on what a town's tourist bureau described as the music scene for that area. After less than an hour conversation with Cunningham, Simpson asked him to join them in Colours as a trio. Upon return to Albany their "grandmother said 'Oh here come the waifs'" and they decided to rename their trio as
234:"we played in vats of blood, and all these fish guts. Yeah, it happened sort of three months a year. And there's three families that go out there, and we're the third generation actually, so our grandfather, and our father and now us and ah the, they sit on the beach and they watch for schools of salmon coming along, and it's a very old method of fishing."
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from 1993 to 1996. In 1996 they moved to the east coast and made the group a serious music career. In May 1996, their self-titled debut was released, three months after it was recorded. It featured three songs from Thorn: "Circles", "I Believe", and "Company". After touring more throughout the
363:, released in February 2017, led Thorn to reflect on their being together for 25 years, "I just sent an email the other day saying 'When the tour's over, when do we celebrate?' We need to have a party, we need to have something where we sit down and celebrate, just have a toast."
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