ROCK

Consisting of founding members Sam Scherr and Chris Pierucci along with recent inductees Jake Snell and Kate Mills, Capital City are Western Australia’s favourite exponents of scuzz-rock rhythm and blues.

The four-piece is armed with a brand new single Cazza Sizza Death-Ray Blues, which has just been nominated in the Rock category of the WAM Song Of The Year contest. The new track is available to download from the Captial City myspace site.

For those who came in late to the whole Capital City story, this Australian band fronted by a mouthy Israeli-born, Washington-raised Western Australian-based ball of energy, started in Perth in 2000. Their first EP ‘The God-Botherin’ Years’, recorded by Dr Alien Smith at Bergerk Studios in 2002, received great support from public radio and demon sales from the public. This release saw them win the WAMi award for Most Popular WA Punk Act and tour nationally with Aussie garage rock legends The Stems on their re-union tour at the start of 2003.

The second EP, ‘Capital City vs The Bangkok Lady Boys’, also a Bergerk! product, was another collection of tracks celebrating love, life, hate, death and Thai dudes who decide to the contrary. People reacted well to the new release, with Triple J adding lead track The Working Class Is After Us to high rotation.

In 2007 the band released its debut album ‘Bad Money’ on In-Fidelity Records. The LP, which was recorded at Perth’s Blackbird Studios with multi WAMi award-winning producer Dave Parkin (The Exploders, Red Jezebel, Snowman), received a heap of critical acclaim, including local release of the year from Xpress Magazine’s Mike Wafer.

Along the ride the band has supported the likes of Boss Hog, The Buzzcocks, The Datsuns, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, McLusky, Sons and Daughters and The Strokes plus ace Australian acts such as The Beasts of Bourbon, Dallas Crane, Jet, Magic Dirt, The Meanies, Rocket Science, Sixfthick, Spencer P. Jones & You Am I.

The forthcoming album, currently titled either ‘Fully Sik (sic)’, ‘Hand Shandy Devotitional’, ‘Dick Problems’ and ‘Waking Up Is Hard To Do’ is due out in the first half off 2009.

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www.myspace.com/capitalcityaus