Alexander Gow - vocals, guitar
Thomas Savage - piano, guitar, vocals
Eliza Lam - bass, vocals
Rohan Sforcina - drums and carriage robbery
Influences
The Pogues
Television
The Go-Betweens
Sounds Like
Management - Nat Bell @ Milefire Management
Booking AUST/NZ - Brett Murrihy @ The Harbour Agency
Booking UK/Europe - Paul Buck @ Coda Agency Booking North America - Kevin French @ Paradigm
The Age Melbourne Magazine - Album of the Month Aug 09
"Potentially be the freshest, smartest song writing partnership since
the Finn brothers"
4 Stars Rolling Stone
Following on from their successful debut EP In The Nude For
Love which featured the singles 'Seemed Like A Good Idea' & 'Lay Everything
On Me', Oh Mercy step out with 'Get You Back' - taken from their debut album
'Privileged Woes'. Recorded in the spare room, the size of a single bed, by
Myles Wootton - the band literally had to put the mattress against the wall
to record. The album was then mixed by Matt Voigt (Cat Power, The Dirty Three,
Paul Kelly) and mastered by Steve
Fallone at Sterling Sound (TV on The Radio, The Strokes)
After touring continuously for 12 months, including national
support slots with Sparkadia, Kaiser Chiefs, Little Birdy & Ben Kweller,
and appearances on the Laneway Festival bill and Come Together festival, Oh
Mercy will hit the road
again in the second half of 2009 in support of the album release as special
guests on the Lisa Mitchell national tour & Ben Folds Opera House shows.
The Age Melbourne Magazine Album of the Month August 2009
"They're delicately textured songs that invite comparisons
with The Kinks at their most introspective, but more potently the airy, folky
music of Belle & Sebastian - exquisitely literate and lyrical yet never
pretentious, unconfronting yet uniformly appealing." 4 Stars Herald-Sun
"Expect your new favourite band" JMAG 2009
'Get You Back' is taken from the Oh Mercy debut album, Privileged
Woes - release date August 21.
Phwoar! Now that you guys have been added to the Laneway lineup, I'll be seeing you there as well as Meredith and Falls. That's somewhere in the realm of creepy stalker.
hey! really like your stuff! wish i was going to the warehouse but sadly no. instead i look forward to seeing you guys at meredith! if you've got some time, have a listen to some of our songs and tell us what you think, cheers nat tessa and the typecast
Lovely to see you all last night, you are always so gorgeous. I still find it strange that I have still never really danced at one of your gigs! We'll have to change that some time. Ha ha and thanks for the shoutout Alex..I think I was too shy to say anything back or even smile, but anytime aha
Hopefully see you all sometime before Falls..although i believe I will be somewhere in the country during your couple of upcoming gigs :( Enjoy Meredith! I'm quite bummed that I can't go anymore.
