The Cooper Temple Clause, Radiohead, Aereogramme, Nine Inch Nails, The Faint, Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Boris, Liars, Black Sabbath, Aphex Twin, Nick Drake, Nirvana, The Prodigy, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, The Fall, Wolf Eyes, Baseball, Arab Strap, Jesus and Mary Chain, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wire, Tool, Primal Scream, Queen, Beatles, Modest Mouse, Boredoms, Gang of Four, Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Oceansize, Isis, Mogwai, A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Guided By Voices, Autolux, My Disco, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, TV on the Radio, mclusky, Vaselines, Parliament, Tangerine Dream, Red House Painters, Ignatius Pop & the Stooges, !!!, Pavement
Sounds Like
"A Friend of Mine have the antidote to all that is fucked up in the world right now" - 3d World
"a group of guys who sound like they decided to form a band because they had, in order of importance: (a) been dumped, or possibly left off the cricket team; (b) electric guitars and pedals which makes it go all fuzzy; (c) bad feelings about the world; (d) heard how people like Kurt could make misery sound cool; (e) an idea to outpour all of their resentment into a song; and (f) the intention to make up the melody later."
- Rave Magazine
"It would be remiss of me not to mention openers A Friend Of Mine, who played a solid set of their version of post punk which was tremendously powerful. Creating a pummeling wall of sound, the punters seemed genuinely appreciative of having their ears tested early."
- Beat
"A Friend Of Mine played the sort of music you might bulldoze a neighbourhood to: rolling waves of brooding guitar grounded by frenetic, precise drumwork... their variation in intensity and unpretentious character made them a band worth catching. Take Tool and splice their musical genome with that of jazz legends The Necks and you've got a rough idea."
- Inpress Magazine
"an interesting blend of genres and ideas…There’s a very obvious intelligence that warrants a second or third listen."
- Drum Media
"A FRIEND of Mine have a sombre, shy aesthetic. Their One Trick Phony single creeps up on you before launching into a Mother Hubbard guitar lead. It rates, mates."
- Herald Sun
A Friend Of Mine: They use two electric guitars, an acoustic guitar, many a pedal, a bass, they used to use a laptop but it was fired and replaced with an ipod, a keyboard or two, a drum kit, a tambourine or two, a sampler, two singers, and an egg shaker. There's only four of them. They write lots of songs, twelve of which are available on their excellent, excellent debut album, God Mode, available digitally through iTunes, and physically through the Waterfront Records' online store. They play gigs, some of which have included Trail of Dead (USA), My Disco, Magic Dirt, Damo Suzuki (from Can... the band, not Canada), and Birds of Tokyo. Some people have called it emo or grunge, but it's not true - they're actually decent people.
Bookings: band.afriendofmine (at) gmail.com or send a message through this very site. Call Patrick on 0414 609 862 if you're seriously impatient.
looking forward to melb shows. Hope some of you are still free to record on monday the 9th nov. theres new cousin betty songs online and i still plan to send youz some demoz. We should go to tazzie again soon and spew on hotels.
see, in school we were the loners; the rebels. but now we're just analog kids in a digital world, lost and confused. myspace 'acceptance' gives us the appropriate digital 'pep' to keep going on.
Nice Video. Those masked people are so mean to you guys!
I'm back in Melb with the mattelo's early november sometime. I was wondering if you knew any good analogue recording studio's which would be in cousin betty's price range (500 a a day or so). And did you want to play on some new cousin betty shit?
Let us know what you think and i can send you some demo's.
