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featured artist:GalleonNamed after their favourite St Kilda cafe, Galleon, a four-piece indie-rock band was born in mid '08. Fronted by vocalist/guitarist Nick Deegan, with drummer Ryan Robinson, bassist Tim Anderson & guitarist Brad Iversen, they spent the best part of '09 writing & recording what would be their debut release, a small collection of songs hand-picked out of roughly 30 others. Now playing: 'Kamikaze' |
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featured 22 april - 14 may 2010
In choosing the songs for the debut release, Nick explains, "Writing an album is hard for many reasons. Just when you think you’ve written the opening single, a band member, the producer or your mum tell you in the nicest possible way that the song is shit.. It requires somewhat of a thick skin."
The songs were engineered and mixed by ARIA nominated Jimi Maroudas (Eskimo Joe, The Living End, The Little Stevies), and produced by Patrick ‘Patch’ Robertson, singer/songwriter of now defunct Australian rock band Motorace.
"We purposely gave ourselves time to record the album at our own pace, and hence the recording process was very chilled at times. I wrote the skeleton of one of our songs during a lunch brake. Patch and I then recorded the bed track to this, and wrote the rest of the parts together over the remainder of the day," says Nick.
The first of these above-mentioned songs to fall on public ears is ‘kamikaze’, a song schizophrenic in nature and a good first impression of Galleon’s knack for light and shade.
"The album we recorded has a 3/4 acoustic ballad, and it also has songs like kamikaze... myself and the band won’t write to a formula or with one strict style in mind. A person’s mood, where they are or what they did the night before can all have an influence of the kind of song they write on any given day," adds Nick.
As for the band name, "We were recording a bunch of songs in Melbourne with the four of us, and we still didn’t have a name. During these recording sessions I would leave the studio to write lyrics at this local café called galleon. We had a bunch of potential names, but Galleon ended up feeling like the most appropriate," says Nick.
Alongside the writing and recording, Galleon has taken time out to play a handful of shows between 2008 and now. Such shows including Schutzenfest with the Galvatrons, Ed castle with The Young Heretics, The National Jack Daniels tour and the 2010 Clipsal 500 after race concert with British India and Eskimo Joe to name a few.
Galleon release their debut single ‘Kamikaze’ through GREEN/MGM on May 7th.
