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The Drones Bio

“The new devil’s music starts here. Twelve bars never sounded so threatening.” Murray Engelheart – Drum Media

As the summer of 2000 / 2001 was grinding to a close in Perth, a backwater city on the west coast of Australia, two of the five members of the Gutterville Splendor Six were getting itchy feet. Not that the band hadn’t had some success. John Peel had been playing their record on Radio One and Tex Perkins had been quoted in the press as saying they were the best Aussie band since the Scientists. The music scene in Perth at this time was dying, venues closing and any resemblance of inspiration was drying up with the summer. One option, hit the road and maybe never go back, so with a van full of gear and two dogs it was off to Sydney. What a mistake!  After 10 days living in a car park at Coogee beach on a stinking mattress found in a dumpster and not a hope of finding real accommodation Gareth Liddiard (Guitar/Lead Vocals) and Rui Pereira (Guitar) decided Melbourne could be the greener side of the fence and made the trip down the Hume. After finding a rundown house in Richmond they still have one more hurdle to overcome, they need a band, so the board of directors decide it’s about time Gareth should place a call to Fiona Kitchin (Bass) in Perth and see if she’s willing to join the experiment. Now it’s down to finding a drummer and after a quick advertising campaign Chris Strybosch from the Stunt Car Drivers is recruited.

And so The Drones are born.

 

Since their inception after that shitty summer The Drones have been making the steady climb up the rock and rawk ladder and have decided to get their leg over the overseas rung. With statements from the press in Australia like……….

 

“they quickly gobsmacked Melbourne audiences with an approach reminiscent of the Cramps, the Birthday Party and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at the business end of a petrol-drinking contest”.

 Michael Dwyer – Citysearch

 

There’s going to be a lot of people who will hate the songs, the delivery, the singing and the playing. The Drones don’t give a fuck.

Tim Scott – Beat Magazine Album of the Week

 

and…… they symbolize the most menacing thread of contemporary music, their unpredictable sonic explosion a mess of disturbed and dangerously unmelodic power chords.

Zoltin Zavos -  Revolver Mag

 

With a sound all their own, The Drones deliver an aural assault like few bands can. Inspired by a multitude of artists and musical genre’s like Suicide, Hank Williams, Towes Van Zant, Black Flag, Dirty Three, and Stravinsky, The Drones have evolved into something that at times sounds like – country, dirge riddled blues, garage rock, and straight ahead rock ‘n’ roll.