'Interstitium' is an Award-Winning Alt. Rock band led by Ian Irvine (Hobson) - also a writer/poet. Interstitium are completing the soundtrack to 'Century Storm: Songs of the Interstitium', a multiplatform story and alt. rock stage show set in various parts of the planet. Different songs explore different aspects of the 'Quantum Age / Information Age transition' humanity has been undergoing since the middle of the 20th century.
63 of Interstitium's songs have been played on 3 dozen radio stations in 14 nations, e.g. Radio TFSC (Germ.); High Energy FM (Trinidad); Only Rock Radio (Spain); Prospect Radio (UK): Raw Radio (UK); Target Radio 247 (UK); Rock on the Rise (US): #RKC Radio (Fr.); Finn Radio FM (Finland); Radio Quar (Italy); Zeno FM (UK); It Is Now Radio (UK); Wigwam Radio (Wales); K B Radio and CKKB 91.7FM (Can); Code Zero Radio (US); Duggystone Radio (UK); CBJ Radio (USA); Vault Radio (Scot.); Punk Rock Demonstration Radio (Calif., USA), SLE Radio (UK); Muse Boat Live (US/Slov.), Sound of Spitfire (UK); Barbwires Radio (Global); Lonely Oak Radio (US); Amherst Island Radio 101.3 FM (Can); From the Holler (US/UK); 382 Radio (UK); K-Dub Radio (US): Nu Rock Radio (US); 3MDR FM (Melb. Aust.); Ray and Joe Show (Flor., US); JJJ (Aust.); & Phoenix FM (Aust).
The following songs have received radio play since July 2020: A World of Danger, Beautiful Wound, Children of Goya, Dancing Like Heroes, Ruin, Let's Get it Wrong', The Wide Open Sky, Shot Down, Glory Road, Meet Your Maker, Here We Go Now, The Magic Mountain, Day of the Snakes, Stairway to Your Heart, The 7th Deadly Sin, Impaled, Judgement Day, Song of Futures Bright, Soul In Motion, The Last Summer, Another War, Purgatory, I Am Not Myself, Golem, Red-Brick Graveyard, Window to the Grave, The Idiocracy, Southern Lands, World on Fire, When the Boat Went Down, Renegades of Time, Gypsy Dancer, Model Soldiers, Comet & the UFO, Lie in Your Arms, Clear Glass Heart, No Love, The Ancient Scapegoat, Battlefield of Life, Winter of Ages, The Many Selves of Rowan Sweeney, Beaches of My Youth, Lay Down, Aftermath, Continental Divide, etc.. Plays at Indie, Underground and Commercial radio stations since July 2020 exceed 14K, and 28 songs have charted at stations for 228 Chart Events. The band have also feat. in over 200 radio shows. Overall, Ian has written around 250 songs, 131 of which have currently been pro-produced.
9 albums are currently linked to the Songs of the Interstitium project:
ALBUM 1: 'Open Communication Between Worlds' (2014, re-recorded 2019-20, 12 songs).
ALBUM 2: Ascent of the Red Dragon' (completed between 2018 and 2019, 12 songs).
ALBUM 3: 'Blue Tigers and Scottish Unicorns', (completed Dec. 2020,12 songs).
ALBUM 4: 'Songs for the Quantum Muse', (completed in mid-2021, 12 songs).
ALBUM 5: 'The Many Selves of Rowan Sweeney' (completed in Oct. 2022, 12 songs).
ALBUM 6: 'Touring the Land of Ghosts' (completed in July 2024, 12 songs).
ALBUM 7: 'Aftermath ... Everything and the Quantum Sink' (completed Jan. 2025, 12 songs).
ALBUM 8: 'The Citadel of Clouds' (completed Feb. 2026, 12 songs).
ALBUM 9: 'We Sing the Multiverse' (currently in production, 12 songs planned).
The albums have been produced across 3 continents - Australia (where Ian, Kara, Sue, and Ev are situated), Europe (via Peter Gaines and the Custom Anthems team) and the US (via Timmy de Armitt and team). Ian sincerely thanks all of the session musicians who have contributed to the songs so far feat. in the project.
The band is also linked to the Allied Indies music cooperative (2022-26). 5 songs have feat. on 4 Allied Indies anthology EPs organised by Jim Ferrell (a Florida-based muso/promoter).
INTERSTITIUM'S PRE-HISTORY
Ian Irvine, who was born in Manchester (UK), was lead singer and co-songwriter for 'Goya's Child (Original)' (renamed for a memorial project as 'Ian Irvine Solo') for 3 years when they were at the height of their creative powers. The band performed at venues across Victoria and Tasmania (Australia) - sometimes headlining, but occasionally supporting iconic Australian acts. Like many Australian bands they developed and were inspired by the high-octane Aussie pub rock scene of the era, but also played many university, nightclub, RAVE and festival gigs, often to large crowds.
You can listen to 33 re-imagined songs by G.C. Original (all co-written by Ian, i.e. 3 full-length studio albums), via: https://www.reverbnation.com/ianirvinehobsonsolo (also here at the Interstitium site). Note: Ian Irvine Solo is a memorial project instigated to honour deceased G.C. Original members Liam and James, and to record for posterity a significant part of the full G.C. oeuvre.
Ian has also published novels, short fiction, nonfiction and poetry since the late 1990s (with poems featuring in a number of Australian national anthologies). His novels explore dystopian Quantum Fiction story-worlds. He has also co-edited over 20 creative writing anthologies feat. over 300 writers. In his youth he had a short career as a professional cricketer (specialising in fast bowling) and was picked to play for New Zealand at U19 level (on 2 tours to Australia), numerous Auckland Province teams, as well as Worcestershire County Cricket Club (UK).
Given the influence of the 'Manchester sound' on many Interstitium songs (and on his earlier songwriting with 'Ian Irvine (Solo)/G.C. (Original)'), Ian is sometimes described as the 'Antipodean Son' - of the Manchester music scene', since he was born, and for a time raised, amidst a remarkable cluster of musos - many of whom became key contributors to the development of punk rock, garage rock, post-punk rock, etc. - i.e. bands like The Stone Roses, The Buzzcocks, The Drones, The Smiths, New Order, The Verve, James, The Happy Mondays, Joy Division, Simply Red, The Charlatans, Oasis, The Fall and so on, were all formed, played and recorded albums in Manchester between 1976-96.
