Weezer, Fountains of Wayne, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello, Matthew Sweet, Butch Walker, Cheap Trick, Jellyfish, Lemonheads, They Might Be Giants, Nada Surf, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Fastball, You Am I, Ben Kweller, The Click Five, the Beatles, Rooney, Sloan, The Muffs, Icecream hands, Jason Falkner, The Posies, Enuff Z Nuff, the Salteens, the Zombies, Superdrag, Motion City Soundtrack, The tattle tales, Summercamp/ Tim Cullen, (early) Phantom planet, The Shazam, Beach Boys, Farrah, Coconut Records, Jason Falkner, Redd Kross, The Flashing Lights, Sugarcult , Teenage Fanclub, Big Star, Owsly, Klinger, Custard, E.L.O, Jon Brion, Wilco, Ultimate fakebook, Paul McCartney, Letters to Cleo, XTC, Zolof the rock n roll destroyer, the Weekend, Soul Asylum, Desedants/all, mxpx, Tsar, Afterpilet, The Wannadies, the fauves, the Greys, The Lolas, blur, the Get up kids, jebediah, Bob Evans, Ben lee, the Kinks, the living end, Ozma, silver sun, Darren Hanlon, Marvelous 3, Lucksmiths, Saves the day, Sekiden, Roger Joesph Manning jnr, the shins, Supergrass, Ratcat, Dave Rogers, Peabody, Pavement, Tim read, Pollyanna, the Rentals, , the Smallgoods, the Suits, Screamfeeder, the Sharp, Starky, Aerosmith, Totos, the davenports, Kiss chasey, Giggalo aunts, Mr brown, soap star joe, the Reservations, Montanna, lo-tel, Gin Blossoms, p76/Jerico/ Danny McDonald, Tomorrow people, Even, Anna Waronker, That Dog, Extreme, Groundswell, Treetops, Ken Stringfellow, The Advertures of jet, R.E.M, Bon Jovi, The Hollies,
The Jayhawks, John Davis, Johhny Monaco, Midtown, New Found Glory, Ryan Adams, Crowded House, The hippos, ok go,
Sounds Like
early weezer, meets early elvis costello, plus the lemonheads and fountains of wayne!
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Record Label
Thistime (JP) Rock Indianna(SP)Lojinx(U.K) Zip(US)
We have new tshirts available in Youth Medium, Youth Large, Small, Medium & Large
[Kate wears Youth Large & Zac wears Small]
Available in Blue & Charcoal. All t shirts are quality Love Police brand and feature cute Gramophone design. $25AUD each. (buy directly from us in paypal box to the left).
We have more tees and jumpers (or sweaters for our american friends)! Tshirts are available in guys and girls in a bunch of sweet colours and are $15! Jumpers are unisex and available in red (as modeled by zac), black and green and are just $20! crazy! you can buy them at shows or drop us an email for full size/colour/payment info. And the best part of all is that these were had screen printed by kate and amy!
mail us @ mail at thewellingtonsmusic dot com
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'Song For Kim' from Heading North For The Winter
'Freak Out' from Heading North For The Winter
Here is an acoustic version of 'I Get My Heart roken Every Day' from 'Heading North For The Winter'. It's a little preview of our new dvd which features four acoustic videos, all our music videos and a bunch of other cool stuff!
Here's the first episode of our 'Heading North For Winter' recording diaries!
And here's part one of our Japanese tour video!
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Melbourne Australia’s The Wellingtons are one of the hardest working independent bands on the globe. In their 5 years together they’ve released 3 albums through labels in Japan, Spain, U.K, U.S.A and Australia, touring all those countries and more, some twice over. In the process they’ve founded a faithful fan base world wide that includes members of bands like Motion City Soundtrack, Fountains of Wayne and The Posies to name a few.
Their latest album Heading North For The Winter received glowing praise from much revered music media, landing in 9 best albums of 2008 lists in countries as far reaching as Brazil and Spain as well as numerous U.S based radio station and publications.
To give you an unbiased description of the music itself we’ll leave it to those folks who wrote some of these reviews.
“The band's extra-large hooks started taking up residence inside my brain, and I could not stop hitting replay for a solid two weeks. Then I began to realize just how incredible this band is at crafting the absolute sugariest, stickiest, flat-out extraordinarily catchy music” “This is What We Do Now” U.S
“You can scarcely do better than Melbourne, Australia's, pride and joy, The Wellingtons. "Heading North for the Winter" (Zip) is bursting at the seams with catchy hooks, handclaps, soaring choruses, well-placed horn charts and an immensely appealing blend of male and female vocals. Imagine vintage Elvis Costello at his poppiest and punchiest, add in the above elements, and you get irresistible tracks such as "I Get My Heart Broken Every Day." Los Angeles Daily News
“The sunshiny goodness that is those Australian wonders, The Wellingtons have returned with an album of pure pop magic. The hard driving melodies of "Come Undone" has a Jellyfish meets Rooney vibe, and the utterly charming chorus is easily one of the best songs this year. Every song shines here and it's tough to come up with anymore gushing praise for this album, which hits peaks many times. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes, Heading North For The Winter is everything a great pop record should be – short, sweet and to the undeniably catchy pop point”. Powerpopahlic U.S
“They continue to do the amazing - which is to top the album that came before the previous one. No question - The Wellingtons have pulled it all together here. They never mess around - with each album having 10 songs. 10 perfect encapsulations of pure pop perfection. "Heading North For The Winter" is one of 2008 very best. HUGELY RECOMMENDED!! Not lame records U.S
“The Wellingtons - Heading North For The Winter - **** - A very fun album from this group, taking elements of both power pop and pop-punk, the band creates a powerful sound that starts hitting from the start and doesn’t stop. I can’t get enough of this record” POP UNDERGROUND U.S
“The Wellingtons specialize in upbeat power pop, blending youthful exuberance with a classic sound, and Heading North For The Winter might be their best yet. The first five tracks blast out of the gate in their best The Argument-meets-Rooney sound; the sixth, "Natalie", is a gem as well, recalling Big Kid and Jellyfish. One high-tempo melodic gem after another”. Absolute power pop U.S
“Their music is very reminiscent of an era gone by; the late fifties, early sixties, perhaps. The thing is, they've gone and taken it apart piece by piece, tweaked it in some places, took out what they didn't want, and put it back together. What they ended up with is an album of finely crafted and noticeably honed pop music that is solidly catchy and accessible through and through. . The members of The Wellingtons obviously have great pop sensibilities, because pretty much every song is radio friendly, and most of them are catchy enough to be a hit.
Heading North for the Winter has an insane amount of hooks and each song seems catchier than the last”. We rate stuff U.S
“The crunchy power-pop of the Wellingtons, from Melbourne, sounds a lot like those great American pop bands of the late 90's. Shades of Weezer, echoes of Fountains Of Wayne and a large dash of early Elvis Costello. It's energetic, extremely catchy and full of astonishing guitars”. Soundflat mail order store
“The Melbourne, Australia natives scoop up all that is cute, sweet and peppy from their environs and chuck it into three-minute ditties about — what else? — love and crushes with a five-second rebound rate. “Come Undone” is by far the album’s standout track and delightfully reminiscent of the title song and namesake of the Tom Hanks-directed, Liv Tyler-acted 1996 fake band biopic, “That Thing You Do!” Hand claps, punchy synths and Monkees-style drumming make the tune a toe-tapper bound to get stuck between the ears, and on “Freak Out” the “whoa-ohs” beg singing along” On tap magazine. U.S
“Everything that's fun, smart and sweet about indie guitar pop – sunshine hooks, big choruses and girl-boy harmonies. For those who lap up tight, riffy guitars and retro-style saccharine harmonies.” CD Baby USA
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Hola, hola!! It was so much fun having you in Leon, we loved playing together, you know the Wellingtons are the coooolest band in the world (oh yes!!). Good luck with your recordings, and happy summer!!
Hi guys! Thank you so much for such a great concert last saturday at Gruta 77 (Madrid). I really hope you can come some day to play at the Fuengirola Pop Weekend! Enjoy London and thank you also for helping me with the promo there... ;) Big hug to you all from Fuengirola!
Hi friends! its a pity that you dont came to Albacete! I cant go to Madrid because i work...but im still waiting that you came to Albacete again and see you ;)
Great music! Thanks for your friendship, and welcome aboard the Redline ship. Looking forward to sharing the journey ahead with you. Take Care, and thanks again. Peace, Karl
Found out I have a cousin who's an opera singer and another who's a trumpeter in a Latin jazz band. Who knew we were that musical? I'm also trying to remember I have MySpace. :)
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