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We Grow Up are an indie pop band based in Adelaide, South Australia. With obvious main musical influences being Elliott Smith and The Beatles, they aspire to match their predecessors by writing pop songs with substance.
The band has been playing live around their home town of Adelaide in various forms since early 2007. They are led by ‘core members’ Anthony Golding and Jonathan Mortimer, who are equal part songwriters for the band alongside drummer Tom Mackay.
We Grow Up released their self titled debut in 2007, on the back of which they won a national Triple J Unearthed competition to support Missy Higgins on the Adelaide stop of her Australian tour. They also gained repeated national airplay for their song ‘Social Moth’ on Triple J.
The band’s 2nd album Night Kitchen was released independently in February of 2008 to overwhelmingly positive reviews from South Australian street press. Soon after it was released, Night Kitchen attracted the attention of Nic Dalton from ‘Half A Cow’ records, who went on to re-release the album nationally in October of 2008. This led to further rave reviews from street press, magazines, and blogs from all around Australia, as well as further Triple J airplay
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We Grow Up have played with and supported bands including Missy Higgins, The New Pornographers, Institut Polaire, Khancoban, Sneeze, and Cuthbert and The Night Walkers.
The band has just begun the recording of their 3rd album (tentatively titled ‘Kids in Love’) which will most likely see release in early 2010.
Praise for Night Kitchen:
“Night Kitchen is so accomplished and well-crafted that it’s hard to believe it came from
such a young group. God only knows what We Grow Up will be capable of in the future.” -Time Off Magazine
“The songsmithing on this record seems to me like a divine promise … Sure, Night Kitchen is great – but such a shit hot debut has to beg the question: What’s next? Here’s hoping it’s a long life together. - Rave Magazine
“The fact is ‘Night Kitchen’ is an astonishingly accomplished piece of work, and one that suggests that the band are on equal footing with some of the best songwriters in the country right now” - DB Magazine
“They always have a casual confidence in their ability to win you over with storytelling lyrics and the kind of warmth you get from having friends around a microphone in your living room” - Sydney Morning Herald
“Filled with atmospheric passages, fragile liturgies and surprising chord progressions, We Grow Up’s accomplished sound and production on Night Kitchen is an impressively creative calling card akin to Crowded House at their Together Alone peak.”. - Rip It Up Magazine
"There are so many great tracks on Night Kitchen. Even the more left-field ones, such as ‘Fingernails’, are incredibly beautiful songs. The band aren’t afraid to try something different with the arrangements and the whole thing comes across like a pop merry-go-round". - Half A Cow Records
“It is rare to see such adventure so well executed on a debut, particularly when a band so obviously defies any tendency to-wards fad or fashion, rather following their own distinct muse.” - Alternative Media Group
Our filmclip for Office Christmas party. Thanks to Charlotte and David!
Sat Dec 5th will be one very big night indeed, when we return to Jive, with special guests Colonel Kernel and Aphelion. Check out this footage from our last show at Jive in August: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-OreW9Rlj8
Hey there Yoddi, Special Patrol would like to invite you to their official album launch this Friday the 6th of Nov at Fowler's Live (Corner North tce and Morphett St Bridge, Adelaide). Doors at 7pm. Playing before them are The Shiny Brights and Kicks Tornado. Tickets can be bought for $14 at www.moshtix.com.au or on the door on the night. The new album is called The Stranger's Dozen and is in stores and on Itunes now! We'd love to see you there! Always yours, Special Patrol.
No problems, and thank you! Radiohead's music does create a mood like no other, that's for sure.
I was going through my cd collection today to find a little paper slip containing a split disk with yourselves and Brother Sister which I can remember saving from being hit by a car on Rundle St one day. I totally forgot it existed until now but I'm glad I've re-found it and you guys! I'll defiantly have to come see you play sometime!
Sure thing my friend, but it ain't a free entry list, it's just for express entry and a badge. I'm not sure what the situation for free entry is yet, if I cant fit you on there I will.
Friday October 2, The Honey
Pies are opening for Skye Harbour.
with Jupiter Lead at Rocket Bar, $10.
If you're thinking you might come
along, send us a message and we
will put you on the guest list for
express entry and a free badge
upon entry. Guest list has to be
submitted Monday so get in quick.
see, in school we were the loners; the rebels. but now we're just analog kids in a digital world, lost and confused. myspace 'acceptance' gives us the appropriate digital 'pep' to keep going on.
