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The Laurels

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General Info

  • Genre: Psychedelic / Shoegaze / Soul

    Location Sydney, Au

    Profile Views: 217546

    Last Login: 3/14/2012

    Member Since 6/26/2005

    Website www.facebook.com/theelaurels

    Record Label Neighbourhood Noise/Other Tongues

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

  • Members

    Conor Hannan, Piers Cornelius, Luke O'Farrell, Kate Wilson

  • Influences

    The Zodiac i.e. astrobarry.com

  • Sounds Like

    Headphone music

Bio

The Laurels are a shoegaze band from Sydney whose psychedelic juggernaut has accumulated accolades, guitar pedals and fans in approximately equal proportion.

The band is comprised of 4 members.

Piers Cornelius - Guitar / Vocals

Luke O’Farrell – Guitar / Vocals

Conor Hannan – Bass

Kate Wilson - Drums

Formed in Sydney's inner-west in 2006, The Laurels share a range of visions and influences extending from sonic pioneers The Velvet Underground to the pure shoegaze bliss of My Bloody Valentine, the inner city filth of Australian legends The Saints and the trance-like psychedelia of Spacemen 3, all the way back to the lush pop harmonies of The Beatles.

After several nine hour rehearsals (mostly spent eating) they entered and eventually won the 2007 Sydney University Band Competition - a fair trade off considering the amount of money they had paid the judges. Not long after they begun their travels on the Hume Highway, cementing a loyal fan-base along the east-coast of Australia with their intense live show and sonic brilliance. The Laurels have been lucky enough to share stages alongside the likes of Low, Tame Impala, You Am I, Cloud Control, A Place To Bury Strangers, Love Of Diagrams and Belles Will Ring to name but a few.

To date the band have released a 7" which was launched at the Hopetoun Hotel (R.I.P) in 2009. Their debut EP "Mesozoic" is due out on July 8th!

Press

‘‘It’s not often that a support band upstages the headline act, but The Laurels completely owned Thursday night at the Oxford Arts Factory. Channelling The Jesus & Mary Chain by way of Primal Scream and Kasabian – no, seriously…so fucking good at what they do, you cannot help but get caught up in it all’’ – Drum Media

‘‘The Laurels are one of those bands that in a relatively short life have amassed a good share of acclaim without having released so much as an EP. What may come as a surprise is that they deserve the acclaim’’ – Fasterlouder.com

‘‘The Laurels are a pretty cool band’’ – Adam Franklin / Swervedriver

‘‘It would be hard to describe The Laurels without the sentence “coolest upcoming band in Sydney right now” in there somewhere’’ – Throwshapes.com.au

"They remind me of My Bloody Valentine, but within this forge their own path, heading more towards psychedelic territory. It’s a very compelling sound that slowly drags you in. They’re live show is very impressive and quite an experience. They’ve got screeching guitars, a dual vocalist setup and best of all, two leads that look like Craig Nicholls in different stages of his career (destruction?)" - openyoureyestomusic.com

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Music we like...

The Beatles, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, MC5, Neu!, The Stooges, Ride, The Telescopes, Can, The Sonics, Lilys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Nirvana, The Stone Roses, The Clean, Bailter Space, Love, The Saints, The La's, Swervedriver, The Verve, Look Blue Go Purple, Massive Attack, Blur, The 13th Floor Elevators, Scientists, James Brown, Link Wray & His Ray Men, Dead Meadow, Stereolab, Bo Diddley, Happy Mondays, DJ Shadow, Underground Lovers, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr, Caribou, Skip Spence, theredsunband, Black Tambourine, Public Enemy, Jefferson Airplane, Silver Apples, Air, Beck, Simply Saucer, Mazzy Star, Suicide, Neil Young, Pavement etc.

Top Friends (32)

The Laurels has 5003 friends.
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    the sun blindness
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  4. POND
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  5. Through The Forest Door
    Through The Forest Door
  6. Belles Will Ring
    Belles Will Ring
  7. silver moon
    silver moon
  8. decoder ring
    decoder ring
  9. The Red Sun Band
    The Red Sun Band
  10. Sounds Like Sunset
    Sounds Like Sunset
  11. The Holy Soul
    The Holy Soul
  12. Witch Hats
    Witch Hats
  13. whores
    whores
  14. Tame Impala
    Tame Impala
  15. love of diagrams
    love of diagrams
  16. Richard In Your Mind
    Richard In Your Mind
  17. The Slide Project(ors)
    The Slide Project(ors)
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    The Dolly Rocker Moveme…
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    Seekae
  20. EAST RIVER
    EAST RIVER
  21. Warhorse
    Warhorse
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    auschpáas
  23. Slight of Build
    Slight of Build
  24. Songs
    Songs
  25. ZEAHORSE
    ZEAHORSE
  26. Three Month Sunset
    Three Month Sunset
  27. THE DRONES
    THE DRONES
  28. skullsquadron
    skullsquadron
  29. Regular John
    Regular John
  30. Space Interlude
    Space Interlude
  31. Swervedriver
    Swervedriver
  32. Elfin Floyd
    Elfin Floyd

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