Hugh - vox / guitar / noodling Donnie - guitar / circuitry / tangents Muz - drums / general board game nazi Nat - rhodes / synthtechmology / vulcan mind melds Captain Grumpy - ace of bass / superannuation
Influences
WE LIKE (but probably sound nothing like):
Air,
The Amps,
Animal Collective,
Aphex Twin,
The Arcade Fire,
Archers of Loaf,
A.R.E Weapons,
Arlo Guthrie,
At The Drive-In,
Augie March,
Baby Bird,
Band of Horses,
Barry White,
Barry Adamson,
The Beach Boys,
The Beastie Boys,
Beck,
Big Bone Bennie,
Bjork,
Blackalicious,
Blonde Redhead,
Blues Explosion,
Brian Wilson,
The Breeders,
Brick Tamland,
Bright Eyes,
Broken Social Scene,
Broken Spindles,
Built To Spill,
Calexico,
Caribou,
Cat Stevens,
Catpower,
Children of Bodom,
The Church,
City City City,
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah,
The Compulsive Gamblers,
Cornelius,
Cream,
Creme Brulee,
Crooked Fingers,
The Cure,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dappled Cities Fly,
Dan The Automator,
David Axelrod,
Death Cab for Cutie,
Def Leppard,
The Decemberists,
Decoder Ring,
Deloris,
Desert Sessions,
The Devastations,
The Devoted Few,
Dig Dig Dig,
DJ Shadow,
Do Make Say Think,
The Doobie Brothers,
Don't Make Me Say What I Think,
Doves,
Dr. Fünke's 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution,
The Drones,
DVDA,
Echobrain,
Elbow,
Electric Six,
Elliott Smith,
Eric Bachmann,
Esquivel,
Faith No More,
Fantomas,
Flaming Lips,
Folk Implosion,
France Gall,
Funki Porcini,
The Gall Bladders,
The Grateful Dead,
Gaslight Radio,
Gillian Welch,
The Go Betweens,
Godspeed You Black Emperor,
Grandaddy,
Grand Salvo,
Gruffeluffagus,
Guns'n'Roses,
Handsome Boy Modelling School,
Holly Golightly,
Hypno-Toad,
Interpol,
Iron Maiden,
Iron & Wine,
Isaac Hayes,
Janes Addiction,
Joe Henry,
Johnny Cash,
Jose Gonzalez,
Joy Division,
Jurassic 5,
Kashmir,
Kate Bush,
Kenny Loggins,
Khancoban,
The Kings of Leon,
Kinski,
KLF,
Kyuss,
Laura,
Leonard Nimoy,
Light Says Solo,
Los Naked Mariachis,
The Lemonheads,
Laidback,
Led Zepplin,
Logh,
Lovage,
Low,
Love Outside Andromeda,
Machine Translations,
Mark Motherbaugh,
Massive Attack,
McClusky,
The Melvins,
Mercury Rev,
Metallica,
The Microphones,
Modest Mouse,
Mogwai,
The Moist Boyz,
Money Mark,
Monster Magnet,
Monkey Blobs,
Motley Crue,
Mr Bungle,
Mum,
My Morning Jacket,
Neko Case,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
The New Pornographers,
Nick Drake,
Nirvana,
N.W.A,
Okkervil River,
Oliver Mann,
Outkast,
Pavement,
Pernice Brothers,
Phil Collins,
Phoenix,
Pinchers of Loaf,
Pink Floyd,
The Pixies,
Placebo,
Plaid,
Portishead,
The Postal Service,
Primus,
Professor Horatio Hufnagle's Confabulous Fabtraption,
Pulp,
Quizshow Education,
QOTSA,
Quannum,
Radiohead,
Red House Painters,
Regurgitator,
The Reindeer Section,
REM,
The Rolling Stones,
Roots Manuva,
The Sadies,
Sage Francis,
Sausage,
Sebadoh,
Secret Chiefs 3,
Sepultura,
Serge Gainsbourg,
Sigur Ros,
The Shins,
Shellac,
Slint,
The Smiths,
Snow Patrol,
Sodastream,
Sonic Youth,
Soundgarden,
Sparklehorse,
Sparta,
Spinal Tap,
Spoon,
Soul Coughing,
Squarepusher,
Stars,
The Strokes,
Sufjan Stevens,
Superchunk,
Supergrass,
Tenacious D,
Thievery Corporation,
Tortoise,
Toto,
Tricky,
Type O-Negative,
U2,
Ugly Duckling,
Underground Lovers,
Uncle Doug,
U.N.K.L.E,
The Velvet Underground,
Ween,
Weezer,
Whitesnake,
Wilco,
William Shatner,
Woody Guthrie,
Wolf Parade,
Wyld Stallyns,
Xenu,
Yo la Tango,
Youth Group,
John Zorn.
Sounds Like
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Band bio's often make for particularly tedious reading, so we'll try to keep it brief:
We are a 5 piece based in Melbourne's outer south-east. Our debut offering is an EP we recorded ourselves called Yours Etc. We like it, and so have quite a few other people, you can read their reviews below. Various radio stations across Australia have been kind enough to give it a decent spin too.
We managed to play over 20 shows in '06, which is a fair start for us in between day jobs, rehearsals, and pie etc. We particularly enjoyed our recently concluded east coast tour with Deloris that covered Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra & Sydney, although we hope to improve our dietry habits next time. After a brief break, while we finally got around to doing some laundry and mowing the lawn, we're just getting down to recording our first full length album. We've got a fair few songs lined up already, and many more in the works, which means just one thing: the album should be pretty bitchin'. We're aiming for a mid to late '07 release, but in the meantime the Yours, etc. EP is out now through Inertia. Find it in all good record stores...
"Leading a relatively autonomous existence in Melbournes outer south-east, pitching woo have apparently been working at their glacial, wind-swept brand of electro-skewed guitar pop for a couple of years. The Yours, etc. EP, their first recorded offering, is an impressive way to kick things off. Fusing washed-out tonal qualities and subtle glitches, echoes and chops with classic indie pop melodic sensibilities, pitching woo's sound rests somewhere between legendary experimental quartet Hood and Melbourne indie stalwarts Deloris. Detached, bleak and wintry, yet glowing with a warm, affecting resonance, Yours, etc. is an unexpectedly mature and pretty debut." ~ Dan Rule,
Music Australia Guide, June 2006.
"Yours, etc., the debut EP from Melbournes Pitching Woo, is a stunner. The band effortlessly combine gently crafted arrangements with washes of reverb-drenched guitars and some of the best vocal melodies youre likely to hear within the atmospheric indie pop / rock style ... You will be consumed by the soundscapes the band have to offer perfect for chilling out and allowing yourself to become completely lost in. " ~ Steph Edwardes,
Rockus.com, June 2006."Yours, Etc is an EP full of simple and pleasurable music, and that is probably the greatest compliment I could give to a CD. The tracks on the latest release from band Pitching Woo are honest, heartfelt and highly enjoyable. A clever mix of alt-country and electronica, accompanied by crafted songwriting, make for a CD thats at home being played after a hard day at work or on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Worth a special mention is the final track Message from the Chairman, an instrumental piece that is both delicate and robust at the same time, a contradiction in terms, but one anybody would be comfortable with. The best thing about Pitching Woo is that they are from Melbourne, and therefore are another shining example of just how talented Australian artists are." ~ Mike Mutsaers,
Mediasearch, June 2006.
"There sounds to me to be a lot of The Church in the way this Melbourne-based band approach their music, not only the tonal quality of the singer Hugh Counsell, but in the way the songs seem to accrete out of the speakers. If that all reads a little theoretical it's because I'm not quite sure how else to describe Pitching Woo. There's something of a worldweariness and lethargy that still somehow comes across as deeply attractive, sort of like the songs of '80s UK experimental popsters The Blue Nile, mixed in with something of the sensitivity of The Go-betweens if Brian Eno was producing them during his Bowie period." ~ Michael Smith,
Drum Media , 16/5/06.
"Pitching Woo make sweetly bittersweet songs of love and life; the plangent If I Don't Sleep is cannily chosen as the opening salvo, with its plinking pianos and mournful vocals, but the dub-ish The Colder Front and rusty-stringed Who Put The Day Out also make impressive bids for your attention." ~ Clem Bastow,
Inpress, 29/3/06.
We, Aviator Lane, are playing our first show in Melbourne in 21 months at The Empress this Saturday (June 7). Doors are at 8pm and we're on second, inbetween Ildiko's Draft and Khancoban.
heard ur ep at a friend's place and remembered seeing u guys playing with deloris a lifetime ago...the recording was quite different to how i remembered u guys live...but...getting to the point...i simply really liked it...very much. now it puts me in a moral dilemma...do i track u down at my local music store who probably won't be stocking you or make myself a copy. hmm...ahhhh...errrr...the correct answer is: u're worth trying to track i guess..oh and hope the album recording goes well.
Stars' awesome cover of The Go-Betweens' "Cattle and Cane" now on our player! These guys did a great job capturing Grant's memory....come by and take a listen!
Hi boyze, just wanted to mention you made the 100th comment on the Paper Crane site, and if there was a prize for such an auspicious event, you'd be the winners! Isn't that great? You must feel as excited as we did when we won $30,000 worth of recording studio equipment! Oh what fun all these new toys are...
Hope you're all well. See you gigging sometime soon, I'm off to tennis. (Do any of YOU play tennis? If so, wanna join us in forming a team?)
Just checking in. Haven't heard from you guys in a while and I just so happened to be browsing on myspace and I clicked "Pitching Woo" in my media player. So I thought "I wonder what they're up to?" hence why I am contacting you now.
Are you guys coming upwards anytime soon? I live in Sydney for the time being (could be another 2 weeks here or until early next year) and would love you actually see you guys play live!
I would more-so like to take your photo.
Let me know the goss. Any more tunes in the works and all that jazz...
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it goes well gentlemen, it goes well. good to hear the skillz are being kept sharp. it's a tough and dangerous world the one we're in. yep. how about october for party under the guise of rocknroll?? around the middle of it? all good. stay bearded. mike x
thanks very much. i just bought your cd from joel. i've work with him at hoyts for the last 3 years and 10 months i think haha. i really like your sound...can't get it out of my head.
glad to have discovered you. keep the tunes coming. andy~
hey guys, how goes? I was listening to your EP today and, strangely enough, thought I'd 'say hi'. how's that for romance?? if i don't sleep is damn awesome. let's do a show together again sometime. hope everything's good. mike x
WHOA man, i didn't realise you guys were gigging again. I can't wait to see you, i bought the EP and it was absolutely one of the coolest things ever. I'll be at the evelyn fo' sho'
catch guys there
Benny
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