Rhys Bowkett (9"), Jason Bolt (9"), Matthew Altus (0.005")
Influences
The Kinks, The Who, Even, The Small Faces, You am I, The Beatles, The Creation, Sloan, Neil Finn, The pictures, Alien Dave, The Sights, Split Enz, Crowded House, Oasis, The Redwalls, The Bees, Rhys Bowkett, Teenage Fanclub, Grant (peter) Frampton, Patsy Bisco, Cato Salsa, Dallas Crane, The Any(every)ones, Rocket Science, SUPERGRASS, the 'stones, The animals,The Libertines, youre mum, no all of youre mums, Randy Briants Big Horned Band, Easy Beats, Razor light, The Drones, The Kaiser Chief, Starky, Hummel,Crack, Snout, BF5, Cotton Mather, The Trafalgars, Custard, Brown Town, The Dandy's, The Lovetones, BJM, Bowie, Chis and James "Oi Blackie" The Mighty Boosh, Black Adder, Spadgers, Donovan, The Faces, Joe Cole, The Action, Northern Soul, Marvin Gaye, Queen, Jason Bolt, Jet, Johnny Cash, VOX Amps, Rickenbackers, Fender Tonemasters, KOL, The La's, Noon Day Underground, Ash Naylor, NOT Death Cab for cutie, Dean Rohrlach,Sam Roberts, Wilco, Scrolley, The Shins, Ta-reeze, Fucktard, Spencer Davis Group, Spoon, T-Rex, Peter Coombe, The Troggs, The Turtles, The Beach Boys (Not the band just boys on the beach.. You know Matt likes to watch), The Verve, (old) Weezer,Spud Murphy The Yard Birds, The Moody Blues, All our birds on the side...(you know who you are... Pauline, Diana, Liz), Big Star, Cream, Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Tom Jones, Kamhal, Not Matt Altus... Not Matt Altus..... Not Matt Altus.... Not Matt Altus.....Not Matt Altus.....
The Trafalgars Bio
The Trafalgars formed in 2002 in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, where the boys grew up and attended school together. Sharing a love of bands such as Even, You am I, The Kinks, The Who, The Small Faces, Supergrass, and a plethora of rock and roll based acts, the boys began practicing away in the pool room, assembling a swag of catchy tunes. An “Oh crap we’re not quite ready for this!!!!” level of success was achieved at an alarming rate for the boys, where they played a “shiteload” of local and interstate gigs, honing their live act and building a following.
Moving from the Barossa to Adelaide last year the boys built a make shift studio in their lounge room to record a selection of new tunes they’d written since their last release. Thus far they have recorded around 20 new tracks, which are ready to be released upon the world for their debut album and your listening pleasure?. “All the days and the nights” a demo track the boys recorded was sent in to Triple J by a friend and is now receiving airplay and great reviews.
• Won Falls Festival Competition and played the main stage 2005/2006
• Recorded both CD releases with Craig Harnath at Hot House Studios in Melbourne (Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, Wilco, Jet)
• Debut EP “Thankyou Captain” Received DB Readers award for “Best EP”, and Awesam award for most popular “pop” act.
• Single “London Taxi” received high rotation on Triple J for several months. Was nominated for Hottest 100, and made 21 on Triple J’s Net 50.
• Recorded live set at Triple J studio for Home and Hosed
• Follow up release AA side “Sit With Me/ Sunny Side Drive”. Sit with me received air play on Triple J, Nova, Triple M and various local radio stations nationally and was nominated for Triple J Hottest 100.
• Received a Contemporary Music Touring Grant and toured the Eastern states.
• Various sold out shows including Ding Dong Melbourne and Jive Adelaide.
• Twice voted best Independent release by Superusers on Triple J’s Unearthed.
Supported or played with the following bands
Dave Graney Dave McCormack
End Of Fashion Even
Grinspoon Intercooler
Jet Nick Barker
Peabody Starky
The Anyones/ Everyones The Casinos
The Exploders The Hovercrafts
The Lazy Susans The Lovetones
The Mess Hall The Silents
The Trims The Vasco Era
& Many great local bands
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Hi there, we're launching our new album this Friday 6th November at Fowler's Live on North Tce. Support by The Shiny Brights and Kicks Tornado (tix on the door or http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=31066&ref=moshtix).. We're very excited, hope you can make it down on the night to help us celebrate! Cheers, SP ;)
Hey Guys, How's things? We've just uploaded some new tracks from our upcoming album to triple j unearthed. We would LOVE to know your thoughts on them so please check them out and drop us some reviews at www.triplejunearthed.com/thebatterykids Thanks Love The Battery Kids
Transmission LIVE this friday @ The Ed Castle showcases some of the next wave of Indie bands from around the country on the Awesome Foursome Tour. Featuring THE TOUCH (ade), THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (melb), VILLAINS OF WILHELM (bris) & THE SALVAGERS (syd) action cuts loose from 9pm.
Next Week Transmission Presents VAN SHE's gig at Fowlers on Friday July 3rd with the Official Afterparty at Transmission. Tickets are close to sold out so go to moshtix to secure yours now.
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Transmission is on this Friday @ The Bull & Bear. Original Resident DJ Travis is back.
News just announced - Transmission will be Presenting VAN SHE's gig at Fowlers on July 3rd with the Official Afterparty at Transmission. Tickets are already selling fast so go to moshtix and let your friends know so they dont miss out.
Hey there! Thanks to all who came to Jive last week and helped us sell the place out! Was a great night. If you didn't make it or just want to do it again, come along to the rocket bar this Satday 30th May!! See you there.
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