The Barbery Coast; The Dangles; Disaster Area; Tony Clifton; The Crescendolls; The Orange Organics; Dogs in Space; Wyld Stallyns; Deaf Leroy Perkins; Goggly Gogal; The Lone Rangers; Third Autistic Cuckoo; NWH; Human Pudding; Cylon and Garfunkel; Kylie Mole; Carl and The Passions; The Average Joe Band; Gourmet Scum; Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem; Berko; Funky-C Funky-Do; The Banana Splits; The Evil Clowns; Johnny Calhoun; The Wombles; Marvin Berry and the Starlighters; Mystik Spiral; Ruben and The Jets; The B-Sharps; The Nightmare; The Zit Remedy; The Bugaloos; ZaZu; Crucial Taunt; Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes; Downtown Sasquatch; Heidi The Hippo; The Larry Davis Experience; Shanna O'Callohan; Insensitive Spittoon; Smeg and The Heads; We're Certainly Dwarfs; Jem and the Holograms; Radical Posture
On stage the Adelaidian five-piece delivers a dense wall of delirious, melodic house-hop-disco-rock-dance at deafening volume. Founders Luke Eygenraam and Tim Whitt strive for “the energy, chaos and punk-rock spirit of history’s best live acts.” Ably assisting the core duo are loved friends and flatmates Tim Harper, Scott Somerville, and Jimmy Boss.
Punters who’ve already witnessed THE WATERSLIDES report a heavenly sensory onslaught somewhere between Daft Punk and The Flaming Lips.
The band has supported Modular thoroughbreds Van She and Bumblebeez; played the Big Day Out 08, Big Day Out 09, Parklife 08, and St Jerome's Laneway Festival 09; opened for Dukes of Windsor; been selected for the 2009 Coopers Alive! festival, remixed The E.L.F, No Through Road and Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!; and (evidently) learned to name-drop.
THE WATERSLIDES will host an extravagant hometown launch for the debut EP "Julie's Dumplings" in early 2010.
FROM FASTERLOUDER.COM.AU - "The Waterslides presented their style of peculiar remixed songs that exude vigour and make you just want to get up and boogie even if you are not usually that way inclined. Each band member, with the exception of the drummer, got up on the podium in front of the stage one at a time and did some freestyle dancing. Their show, although short, was jam packed with smoke machines, spontaneous group jumping, an impersonation of a burlesque dance thanks to one of the main singers and even a bubble machine..."
:) hehe its all about the fire hey? Thanks for not being in the band comp this year btw, we looked you guys up at the time and collectively shat our pants lol. You guys kick ass
Happy slidy people.. and scott ;) Just stoppin by to say hi and stroke some bass. yet to see you guys out in the thick of it... Missing out I am! haha looking forward to spinning that around soon. See you round the traps x
i used to write letters to grant piro when he hosted couch potato on sunday mornings....twice he read them out on air! i also received a signed photograph and a video about zebras in the mail. clearly he favoured me.
what happened to the halloween show that you guys were doing with the e.l.f. ?
No probs Waterslides peeps. We woulda totallly made it to your Friday night gig except we got too trashed at the RIU 1000th party the night before. But we will be there for ya Parklife gig! Onion wants to see some crazy arse new instruments with a fluoro twist.