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Bellbird

About Me


Rooted in Melbourne's Inner North and West, Bellbird is an unconventional pop group that has been actively performing and recording since 2006.
Formerly known as The Vile Reign, the band’s six members hail from town and country; Central Victoria's Goldfields, Gippsland's First City, Metropolitan Melbourne and the Western Fringe of Paris, France. Consisting of electric, acoustic and bass guitars, cello, electronic keyboards and drums, the sometimes slow-pop sextet invoke pastoral landscapes and matters of the heart with their jaunty ditties and weary laments. Lovers of J. Richman, early R.E.M, The Smiths, Velvets, Satie, Hemingway and Zimmerman should find comfort here.
Bellbird completed it's self-titled, debut album in mid 2009 under the guidance of respected singer-songwriter/producer Andrew McSweeney, at his Living Music Studios in North Melbourne. More recently, a video was made for the album's opening track "Loose Your Mind".

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Member Since: 28/12/2006
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Influences: Richman, Hemingway, Bowie, Eno, Warne, Ponting
Sounds Like: The Vile Reign of Count McCocula, Neu!, Serge Gainsbourg, The Bats Of Batmania, The Boxtops, New Order, Roxy Music
Record Label: Vile Reign
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Montage my fine care

You can see us on the internet on the radio. Or the other way around.
Posted by on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:06:00 GMT

admire its purity

No, that's not him - that's not Jim, is it. That's Ridley Scott, isn't it. Or Ash... James has quote of the year for us, thus far, though:I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dol...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:55:00 GMT

Such heat in Ize, such fier in frost remaynde

"Adler, Lou(PRUS)" [email protected]/06/1967 03:18 PMToJimi Hendrix [email protected] Chandler [email protected]: hi, manHi Jimi, man...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:37:00 GMT

Bellbird at MMusic

So, we now appear on MMusic. You can purchase  Bellbird, or stare at the cover for, you know, ages thinking, Are those snow boots? 
Posted by on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:44:00 GMT

Namesakes from the 60s v each other 1

It's Jones versus Jones... David Bowie changed his name to David Bowie so his name wouldn't be David Jones, which was a bit like Davy Jones from the Monkees, isn't it. And 'Bowie' sounded a bit like a...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:36:00 GMT

it's all for expensive lawn

 So what's the use of staying there if you've got no use for time?Real news, real people......not depicting women assembling furniture in its instruction booklets, despite the fact that many sets of i...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:04:00 GMT

ant, gray, joh, ant, gray

 A.B. Both Bellow and White got the Nobel Prize. When are you going to get it?G.G. Yes, I was asked that question in Stockholm. How would you like the Nobel Prize? I said I look forward to getting a b...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:45:00 GMT

category: morrissey: album titles

 toxic bore / mincing doberman.
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:08:00 GMT

Are, Oh, Zed

she salves and solves our sick sad souls.also, new yorker cartoon bank descriptions - do they adhere to an, is there an in-house style? they range from not-have-way:Zebra thinks the lion is telling a ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:28:00 GMT

not not scary

we're not alone. 
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:47:00 GMT