Tom - Low strings, Mikal - High strings, Julian - Loud skins and metallic rings, David - Hums, chants, hoarse whisperings.
Contact: info@bandsunflower.com
Dave:0412021089
Julian:0423429330
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Influences
British, American, 70’s and 90’s, so many things in between.
Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Jimi Hendrix, Nine Inch Nails, Led Zeppelin, Slayer, Guns & Roses, Muddy Waters, A Perfect Circle, Nirvana, Prince, Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Jeff Beck, The Strokes, The Roots, The Rolling Stones, ACDC, The Doors, The Who, Silverchair, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Foo Fighters, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, Pantera, James Brown.
Sounds Like
"Sunflower absolutely melt faces with their huge sound and an explosive live performance… a drummer who looks like The Animal, a guitarist who is jaw droppingly ferocious and a vocalist who shines." - Rave Mag
"It took only two songs and one SoCo & Coke to transform me into an instant groupie... their debut album cannot arrive quick enough." - Tsunami
"Sunflower have one of the most unusual sounds I’ve heard in a long time… it’s almost hard to brand them with one particular style, other than one that’s distinctly their own." - Courier Mail – Brizbands
Sunflower: A full time alternative, twice-a-week psychedelic, graveyard-shift blues and part-time experimental rock band. Sunflower is known for notoriously wild and passionate onstage shows, trademark magnetic double-neck guitar work, sweating while they "work", writing profusely and staying alive.
The band carve out a sparse living creating music used to strip paint from cars and houses, induce ear bleeds, sick days, sore necks and hangovers, and to generally run your life to the beat of their drum. Sunflower’s music also features furtively in Krishna mantras, and those rainforest-noise relaxation cassette tapes your mum used to play, and your primary school teacher used to calm the class down after big lunch.
Since igniting their local scene in 2007, Sunflower have smashed through over 100 shows throughout their home state, as well as progressing to playing host at premier venues and events across the east-coast. Playing live is the band’s passion, their lifeblood and musical livelihood. Just as likely to give you a blood nose as make you smile, Sunflower seek to create Rock’n’Roll from its glory days in their own design.
Debut Album, August 2009, La Reveille
Still loving your tunes since the first time i saw you play in the battle of the bands at the living room in the vally. Fyi you shoulda won that comp. Ill be at the album launch boys, love your work!
yea we are working pretty hard just had 52flicks gig and now working on Galvatrons show and Short Stacks gig and many more so we are rushed off our feet haha
how have you guys been going let us know if you need any promotional work done for anything like gigs, albums or even just publicity.
yea send spam when ever you like we are ok with that
Drums were recorded at Home Grown Audio with Justin. The rest was done at home with our good mate Joe Ritson. I think i've seen you dudes play at the Norville in Toowoomba a while ago, Your guitarist is amazing!
hey julian. Its sam from brisbane grammar. (on my bands myspace) That sheet music you gave me is really helping cheers for that. and congrats on the endorsement. I would be looking foward to your album release but im not fucking 18 :@.
"Also
hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the music
of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and abandoned
Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands inundated by
the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and lost times
from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
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