Seattle

There’s no other city on the planet as synonymous with the 90s as Seattle. And for Marihuzka Cornelius a/k/a 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, Che