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/Shooting/Jonballs, Vaselines, Parliament, Tangerine Dream, Red House Painters, Ignatius Pop & the Stooges, !!!, Pavement
Sounds Like
"It's like a cross between Nirvana and Joy Division, New Order and Helmet, Evermore and Placebo, Cog and the Nation Blue, Tool and the Necks, Arcade Fire and Brian Eno, Invertigo, Liars, Queen, Joy Division and 60s psychedelia, you're the new Nirvana, nice harmonies and i tell you what, your drummer goes off, you guys are like a time machine back to the early 90s but I mean that in a good way because you sound like [a whole bunch of grunge bands we've never heard], and you look like the Zit Remedy from Degrassi High [whoever the fuck they are], it kind of reminds me of Bright Eyes, kinda emo but not in a bad way, now you boys are very good but it's a bit gothic and you need to write some lighter stuff, like the Eagles." - Everyone who has ever described our music to us, put together
A Friend Of Mine. They use guitars, bass, pedals, laptop, keyboard, drums, sampler and two lead vocals. They have been doing this since they were in shortpants, but recording/performing under this name started in October, 2005. First EP came out 2007. It is cheap and critically acclaimed.
If you're bored right now, and you need something to do, you could help us in the following ways: http://www.mmf.com.au/ <- go there and let them know you want AFOM to play at Meredith this year. because it's true, you really do. also there's triplejunearthed.com/AFriendOfMine - you can give a couple of our tracks ratings, make them "chart" and then more people will hear them... you know... that kind of thing. then visit http://www.afriendofmine.com.au and join the email list.
Facts for the casual reader... Our first gig was at a friend's 21st, Oct 05. There was a Boxwars theme. Low on material, we did "Planet Caravan".
Celebrity cokehead Neil Wedd stood up at our third gig and bagged the crap out of us. We were loud, apparently.
We did a stint with screamodelic jam band Harmonilehre. We recorded ten hours of jamming, and played alongside Damo Suzuki (once in Can), who is every bit the legend he is said to be. We picked out of a hat to determine the order we went on stage. Great fun.
Most gigs involve technical difficulties and bleeding, though both in small measure.
Our shortest gig was 2 minutes, in a carpark at Monash Uni, where a goon screeched up in a car and said the Dean would fire everybody if we
played another note. We decided to stop.
We often wear clothes that were not intended to be worn by people of our stature/age/gender.
Our first decent support was the Tote's NYE 06 Lock In, with several reputable musical entertainers.
We like crude props, and emblazening crude slogans on ourselves and our clothing. This helps distract you from the music.
We have never, ever lost the "drink your rider first" game. We have never made it known to the other bands that such a game exists.
Davd often throws up before a gig, because apparently he can't burp. Chris and I learned to do that when we were babies.
Mid-2007, we released our joyously-received EP, with a joyously received residency at the Tote which, if you're Little Red, will send you
rocketing to stardom, but if you're not, it probably won't. Around this time Chris started getting some on the side, as Shooting At Unarmed
Men's drummer.
The year ended on a high as we were accused of theft by another band.
Our friend Lloyd is playing guitar and bass with us now, making us sound way better and we can do more different stuff.
We're just about to record our full-length album. It's brilliant, I assure you.
BOOKINGS: contact our "management" on 0414 609 862 or band (at) afriendofmine.com.au (or through this very site)
Debut EP "If Your Head Explodes You'll Never Make It" $10 digipak version available online and at all shows.
Buy Online
"A full and fierce debut EP from the ambitious songwriting team that is A Friend of Mine. Heavily informed by a late-period Radiohead, the boys also cite Mogwai, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails and Neutral Milk Hotel as influences and bear the marks of all these bands. Rich, dark and deeply creative, they move from glitch-based dreamscapes to murky ballads to industrial gothica in an album length collection of oblique but powerful tunes. Very, very interesting."
-Beat Magazine, Single Of The Week
"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, at times, was tremendously powerful. Creating a pummeling wall of sound, the punters seemed genuinely appreciative of having their ears tested early."
- Beat, 28/5/08
"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, Live at the Greyhound Review
"The music industry is plagued with perils and pitfalls that compromise artists' ability to evolve from amateur garage band to commercially attractive proposition. Judging by the title of its debut EP, local band A Friend of Mine has already grasped a salient (if statistically unlikely) lesson about life in the music industry. If Your Head Explodes You'll Never Make It is a mix of atmospheric rock moments, samples and emotive pleadings which resists temptation to dive into a well furnished musical pidgeon hole. Hopefully A Friend of Mine will not only continue to progress musically, but continue to raise public consciousness of danger of exploding heads."
-Beat Magazine 1078
hey dudez, exited to see u have an album coming up! Also when we have our new drummer ready for gigging were orginizing a show at the empress, Would you like to play? It would happen in August or September, so nothing to immediate!
Cheers-George
p.s-I think my Fake I.D will be ready for when you play at Ding Dong so i will be there for surez!
I'm loving Heroin Sheik guys. It's on my profile at the mo! Pretty different to your other songs. Ahhh fresh. Like spearmint... Haha (don't mind me, I'm a tool) I dig it. Hopefully catch ya soon! Xx
yeah thats cool, i was just raving on to my friends how OH YEAH IM ON THE VIP, the money's not the issue, its my dignity haha, wow, im still coming. see u tonight, best of luck.
hey guys, is it really sold out tonight? Am i still goin on the VIP list, fingers crossed... because of my unbelievably great spell checking, i wanted to bring "a friend of mine" :P umm what time could we both get in?
(maybe you've already noticed).. i'm starting to think i'm cursed..i have a natural ability to find spelling mistakes in many a thing.. and there's A COUPLE on your cd cover.. deep within the drawings.. WHY DID I HAVE TO SPOT THEM?..maybe they were put there on purpose?? oh god i have issues. do i score free tix to the next gig for being so perceptive?? anyway , can't wait to see you all live again.
Hey guys! Hope last nights gig was awesometown! Sorry I couldn't catch it.
Anyway, I was telling Davd that I've been shoving your EP into anyones ears that are interested and one of my best mates borrowed it and listened to it twice during a shift at work! Haha. Then again. So I was excited! I let him put it on his comp in condition he buys it and he said he would. Yyyyyeeeaaaahhh. He totally will too. He's a muso, so I believe him :D
Yeah... I'm a dork, I get excited over music, but esp you guys!
On another topic. Have you heard of Dream Awake? They're soooo good. They're going overseas too but before they do they're doing one more gig in Melb and I reckon you should check 'em out. They're on myspace. Type 'em in. Especially Davd, coz I wanna take you with me! (hope he reads this)
