Request Fists In My Pocket on TV:
Request Fists In My Pocket on radio:
- CALL 8332 2999 - SMS 0409 945 945 or EMAIL reprazent@fbi.org.au
- CALL 1300 0555 36 - SMS 1975 7 555
- CALL 13 24 10 - SMS 199 11 969 - programming@nova9...au
Stay tuned for launch party dates, and interstate touring, to be advised.... (If you want to be personally advised, feel free to send us your email address.)
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Photo courtesy Vanessa Hunter
SUPER MASSIVE - BIOGRAPHY
Super Massive is all about classic pop songwriting, synth sounds of any vintage, deep, funky danceable grooves and the lustiness of a full blooded rock band. It's creative alterna-pop/ electro/rock. A heady brew of tasty playing and exhilarating grooves, with plenty of variety in the songs and sounds. It's as fresh as a snowflake and as black as your soul.
The band was formed in 2005 by singer, actor and contemporary tribal dancer Malina Hamilton-Smith and drummer & programmer Glenn Abbott (best known for his work in popular Australian band Machine Gun Fellatio).
In November 2007 the pair were awarded the prestigious Best Alternative Artist Award at the 2007 MusicOz Awards (Australia’s premier national music awards for unsigned and independent bands), for evocative, synth-rock song “Fists In My Pocket”, which you can hear on this page. Not bad for an act that hadn't yet had a CD release and hadn't received a scrap of airplay. The band was the cover feature on indie music zine LoopOz 5, and Malina managed the front cover of Drum Media that month too.
Talented young guitarist Marc Malouf began playing with the duo in 2007, and the equally as talented and super funky bassist Tak Tanimoto joined the band at the beginning of the year.
Sydney based, Super Massive has played headline and support shows over the past two and a half years at Sydney’s premier venues such as Home Nightclub, Sonar Sydney, Candy’s Apartment, Spectrum, The Supper Club at Will & Toby’s Taylor Square, The Hopetoun, The Annandale, @Newtown, Mona Vale Hotel, Fitzroy Hotel, The Excelsior Surry Hills, The Lansdowne, The Golden Sheaf and the Agincourt Hotel.
Photos courtesy Miss Lurlene and Tammy Stephens
Super Massive has also played at Glebe Street Fair and Marrickville Road Festival, alongside Belles Will Ring, Unkle Ho, The Seabellies, The Dardanelles and Deborah Conway. The band was scheduled to appear at last year's Peat's Ridge Festival, sadly cancelled due to an unseasonally rainy December.
Most recently the band played Surry Hills Festival - in its most successful year yet, with 90,000 visitors & participants - and supported youth charity The Oaktree Foundation's national Global Night Shift Concert to End Child Slavery, playing in a national line-up that included Evermore, The Hampdens, Tonks & Green & Tzu.
In January they made their first tour to Queensland and Northern NSW, performing in Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Brisbane and Surfers Paradise, as well as a return show in Byron Bay.
It was an eventful tour, involving all sorts of unexpected things such as a disco ball injury, a cut hand from leaping a fence, furniture devastation in Coffs Harbour, shockingly monsoonal weather, and new friends in Rufus Wainwright and his band, who caught a Super Massive show in Byron Bay, loved it and invited the band to their own show at the State Theatre & to hang out with them after the show. For all the gory details, have a read of the band's tour photo blog, above.
Super Massive's debut EP (which includes the award-winning song "Fists In My Pocket"), is out now in stores & online through MGM Distribution & iTunes.
Stay tuned for interstate touring in August and onwards.
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To get in touch regarding band bookings and any other enquiries, please call 0415 704 305 or email supermassive@aapt.net.au. If outside Australia, telephone +61 415 704 305
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