When the members of Australian band Gerling woke up in Broome on September 11, 2001, no-one knew the world would be changed forever by the time they went to bed that night.
And the Sydney indie band certainly weren't prepared for the impact that day would have on their musical ambitions.
The band had just returned from a Japanese tour that saw them play the Fuji Rock festival alongside Oasis, Eminem and Neil Young, and then Australian shows with fellow Aussies Regurgitator, which brought them to Broome.
"Seeing this on TV, we're in the middle of nowhere, we've probably had a few drinks … it was all a bit surreal," guitarist and vocalist Burke Reid remembers.
Amid an incomprehensible tragedy and the most heightened social tensions in memory, Gerling had another problem.
The album they were set to release just days after the attack was called When Young Terrorists Chase The Sun.
Its front cover featured two men, running, with their faces hidden, one wrapped in a checked keffiyeh-style scarf.
The album's third track was called High Jackers Manual.
"I mean, the repercussions … everything just got pulled from the shelves, and everything had to be redone," Reid recalls. "It was a major hiccup."
Gerling's had taken off with the 1998 album Children of Telepathic Experiences, and its songs Enter…
