Archive for 'F-J'
Jeremy Trezona Band
Formed in late 2010, the Jeremy Trezona Band is storming into the Australian music scene with it’s adventurous and eclectic approach. Fusing modern sounds, hard hitting riffs and rich textures together with it’s uncompromising jazz roots...
The Gypsie Howls
In 2011 The Gypsie Howls came full circle when the sextet played a ripping, rocking set to a massive moshing crowd at the Fairbridge festival, one that Lyndon Blue described as “tight, talented and punchy”. Years...
Hand Stands For Ants
Hand Stands For Ants – take a dab of fresh punk, a touch of cool funk, a sprinkling of smart-mouthed pop and a pinch of old school hip hop dry roasted in a hot, hot pan...
From Isolation
From Isolation, a four piece featuring ex-members of Defect Notice (Matt and Seth), The Hairy Buffalo (Moose) and The Last/Megrim (Josh). We have been together since early 2009 and after few line up changes we pulled...
The Jephasuns
It might be the isolation, the water or indeed the imported Belgian beer. Or perhaps The Jephasuns may just be held to ransom by the forces of nature which rule the city they live in. Either...
Hootenanny
Hootenanny are a two-piece rock/blues/punk/grit/trash band comprising of Jenny Aslett and Nan Hunt....
Fat Jackal
Fat Jackal’s sound can best be described as raw, garage rock with insightful lyrics and a rockabilly groove, showing the band’s natural and honest writing skills and dynamic performance abilities. Drawing influence from the musical giants...
Heytesburg
Dark and atmospheric; Heytesburg represents a modern take on psychedelic and industrial rock, combining Eastern, tribal and progressive influences with ambient soundscapes into a warped dystopian lyrical context that pervades the mind…....
Frighteners
ALTERNATIVE Frighteners formed in 2008 at a school for music producing in Perth, Western Australia, after realizing that their real passion was in the creation of music, and the stage was where their hearts truly laid....
Grace Barbe
AFRO-BEAT / REGGAE / ROOTS MUSIC With roots in the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Seychelles, home to a unique culture that fuses Africa, Europe and Asia, Grace Barbe (pronounced Bar-bay) is a singer, songwriter and...
James Teague
Channelling some of the more inspired moments in the annals of folk, country, blues, psych-rock and pop, James Teague has forged a sound that is remarkably distinctive, given his relative freshness to the live music circuit;...
Helen Shanahan
POP / FOLK / ACOUSTIC Helen Shanahan is a somewhat reluctant and accidental star in the making. She never meant to perform the songs she’d written. They were personal and private reflections - written only because they naturally...
Hybrid Aura
PUNK ROCK Hybrid Aura are a three piece hailing from south of the river of the fair city of Perth. Formed back when all three members were still sucking on their thumbs (muscaly speaking) Hybrid Aura...
The Jackards
SOUL / GRUNGE In 1993 Bill Gates sent a group of sixteen trained assassins to Sony headquarters to stop the release of electronic skip protection in portable CD players. Unfortunately Gates had underestimated the allure of...
Jingles
ELECTRONICA Jingles is a one-piece electronic act, cross-pollenating a variety of styles including funk, house and rock. Music is played with synths, samples, computers and drum machines. Tracks are often created through collaboration with artists, including...
Jupiter Zeus
STONER ROCK Formally known as Nebula, Jupiter Zeus is a new psychedelic stoner rock band from Perth, Western Australia. Nebula started life as a thrash/death metal band in Western Australia, and released 1 album entitled “Sadness...
Jellybred
STONER ROCK With Veritable Ease Jellybred Has Indoctrinated Audiences With Their Infectious Dirty Rock. With Ben Pearsons Incendiary Vocals & Arena Ready Riffs, Jellybred Evokes A Sleeping Demon Awakening To Resonate In The Rock Landscape For...
Hailmary
HARD ROCK Known for their passionate delivery and hard work ethic Hailmary is a band not afraid to go out on a limb. For their 2nd EP “A Million Miles And Days” the band traveled to...
Homebrewe
ALTERNATIVE / ROCK Homebrewe is a high energy unsigned alternative rock band originally based in the small coastal town of Albany in the Great Southern of Western Australia but now reside in Perth. The band is...
The Four Walls
ROCK / POP / ALTERNATIVE Officially forming in 05, The Four Walls played as a 3 piece for 3 years. A much more polished, straight up pop/rock sound, these days they play as a two piece,...
FAIM Project
THEATRICAL PUNK ROCK Formerly known as SIXGUN, based in Albany, and bored shitless. Moving to Perth to advance, learn, progress and digest this “scene” we had dreamed about and vaguely heard of, was exciting and valuable....
Injured Ninja
EXPERIMENTAL ROCK / NOISE / POST-PUNK Injured Ninja is an epic sonic force that confronts its audience with experimental Noise Rock and sythethsized electronic wizardry creating a new aural atmosphere. The mysterious Ninja, attacks loud and fiercely,...
The Homicides
SCUM / PUKE / KILLER ROCK THE HOMICIDES are a buncha creeps. Loud, crude, distortion fuelled kamikaze buzzsaw muscle…Degenerate garage trash…These are the people your parents warned you about…The instinctive swagger of a group with its...
Hypnogogia
PSYCH / INDI ROCK / ROOTS / FOLK Hypnogogia is a Perth based band formed in early 2006. The name Hypnogogia (pronounced as pretentiously as possible) is derived from the vivid, dream-like auditory and visual hallucinations...
Justin Walshe Folk Machine
FOLK / COUNTRY “A Justin Walshe Folk Machine live show sits somewhere between a campfire yarn, a sea shanty, bush poetry and a country rock hoedown. In a one hour set you might get an historical...
The Flairz
ROCK / POP Dion, John, Scarlett and Georgia are four teens from Perth with rock and roll heritage who like it loud. The Flairz brand of no nonsense, original rock’n'roll music has already gained them fervent...
From Deep Within
PROGRESSIVE ROCK / METAL From Deep within is a group of three very good friends from Perth, Western Australia, who formed a rock band in their last year of high school – 2005. Like many bands,...
Fractious
METAL / ROCK / PROGRESSIVE This vehicle of constant calamity started in mid 2003 when it was known by its previous name “In A Moment” and underwent some major alterations during the end of 2005 and...
The Ghost Hotel
COUNTRY / POP / ROCK The Ghost Hotel began life as a three-piece pop-rock band back in 2005. Formed as a vehicle for the songs of former Team Jedi bassist and guitarist Aaron Gibson, the band...
Jacobs Ladder
ALTERNATIVE / ROCK Jacobs’s Ladder hail from Perth, Western Australia. With the current line up of members coming together in mid 2008 they have been tucked away in the studio working relentlessly on their original music...
Felicity Groom
FOLK / INDIE / ROCK Felicity Groom is a singer songwriter from the west coast of Australia, playing a kind of dark folk music heavily inspired by blokes like Nick Cave, Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen;...
Harlequin League
INDIE / JUNGLE / PUNK Since their inception in 2007, Harlequin League have wasted no time in forging a reputation as a captivating and exciting live act. Being the first choice support for the likes of...
Good Little Fox
POP / INDIE Good Little Fox have seen pop music created, southern towns toured, EPs and vinyl singles released, friends made, kebabs consumed, oceans negotiated, Switzerland conquered, ironing boards lost, tight pants endured and parties enjoyed....
Gunslinger
ALTERNATIVE / ABSURDIST / EXPERIMENTAL Gunslinger may have only been around for a short amount of time, but they have been getting an amazing response from punters and peers alike. Catch their show and you’ll see...
FDEL
FUNK / BREAKBEAT / HIP HOP The man with more samples than a Columbian drug lord has cocaine. The dirty digger turn party break mystro DJ FDEL. From the humble home of Perth Australia comes the...
Hostile Little Face
ALTERNATIVE ROCK / INDIE Hostile Little Face is a 4 piece, original, ‘alt. rock’ act residing and playing in and around Perth, Western Australia. The band’s attempt to focus on all aspects of their songs results...
Gosia Basinska
UNDEFINED / JAZZ / ROOTS / INDIE / POP Polish born, Australian singer, musician and songwriter, Gosia Basinska has been writing and playing music for 14 years. After some time in girl rock bands, she moved...
Funkalleros
ALT-LATIN Formed in 2004 by Argentinian/Australian artist Abraham Dunovits who lives and works in Fremantle, Western Australia. Funkalleros have been playing locally at selected venues but the band shines in open air festivals. Funkalleros were finalists...
Jason Ayres
ACOUSTIC / POP / ROCK Influenced by the rhythmic pop of John Mayer, the vocal stylings of Jeff Buckley and the finesse of Ryan Cabrera, 24 year-old Jason Ayres is a West Australian based singer-songwriter who...
Fools Rush In
ROCK / POP In the winter of 2005, after a gruelling year touring with their legendary Australian punk band Tantrum, Ronan and Mark had an epiphany. They’d been honing their song writing skills for years in...
Gyroscope
INDIE / ROCK / GRUNGE Unlike so many others who find their feet performing in a myriad of other bands first, Gyroscope’s Daniel Sanders (vocals/guitar), Brad Campbell (bass), Rob Nassif (drums) & Zoran Trivic (guitar) formed...
The Jade Diary
POP / ROCK The Jade Diary is an Australian band with an evolving pop-rock sound infused with lush melodies and insistent, soul-searching lyrics. It all began, in an idyllic but isolated city called Perth, when Cheryl...
Into The Sea
METAL / HARDCORE / ROCK Into the Sea formed in late 2006 from ex and current members of Hope After The End, Alleged, As A Weapon & Break Even. Creating fast paced agressive music driven by...
Interview: Closure In Moscow
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