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Formed in the sweaty crevice of the Hobart music scene, 17Hertz is a band that started as three mates and a couple of songs which soon ballooned into an ambition to rock out hard and play till our fingers drop off. As the winners of the Club Surreal Battle of the Bands Competition we received a prize of 200 mastered and pressed CD's which we used to produce a 3-track EP (two of the songs being Mr.Confused and Redline which you can hear in our player on this site) and we have just completed our first full length album, recorded by ourselves and featuring twelve big fat rockin' tracks to make your eardrums melt with joy. The album launch is scheduled for Wednesday May 28th at the Republic Bar and Cafe with local bands Lakoda and Melodic Candy.
We recently found ourselves as one of the top five finalists in the Sea FM's OPENING ACT competition which involved Powderfinger and Silverchair as well as being runners up in the Cougar battle of the band competition held at the Foreshore Tavern last March.
We have been playing regularly around Hobart for a good two years now at such illustrious venues as The Derwent Entertainment Centre, The Trout (R.I.P), Irish Murphy's, The Mayf, The Loft and The Brisbane Hotel. We have also recently made the trip across the strait to play at a venue called Barbukka in Melbourne with a very decent bunch of people and are planning a larger and broader trip to and across the mainland later this year.

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Member Since: 26/01/2007
Band Members: Dave Hughes - Lead vocals and guitar Brett Collidge - Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals Charles Longey - Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals Sam Merlo - Drums
Influences: Kiss, AC/DC, Metallica, Fishbone, Extreme, Iron Maiden, Frank Zappa, Genesis, King Crimson, Guns n' Roses, Voivod, Pink Floyd basically anyone who can write a damn good song and play the hell out of it
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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Check out this event: 17 Hertz and the The Highlows

Hosted By: 17 HERTZ new album available now!!! When: 09 Jul 2008, 09:30 PMWhere: Irish Murphy'sSalamance PlaceHobart, AustraliaDescription:17 HERTZ new album available now!!! Click Here To View Even...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:19:00 GMT

Check out this event: 17 HERTZ ALBUM LAUNCH AT THE REPUBLIC

Hosted By: 17 HERTZ When: 28 May 2008, 09:00 PMWhere: The Republic Bar and Cafe244 Elizabeth StHobart, TasmaniaAustraliaDescription:17 HERTZ Supports to be announcedThat’s right it is finally h...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:05:00 GMT

Melbourne trip no I

Just returned from our very first band trip away, to Melbourne in fact.It was an absolute blast! We played at a place called Barbukka in Fitzroy which had a very cool layout in my opinion. It was one ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:51:00 GMT

The Puppet of Masters

It’s TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!Our album is at the mastering plant right now (to be completed on Monday they tell me) with the one and only Dave Neil, champion mastering genius. I for one am super excite...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:53:00 GMT

Mastering

It’s been a long time since we started this project and I can finally say Mastering is just around the corner!!!! I have a minimal amount of mixing to do and then we send it off for the final po...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:25:00 GMT

The Chosen Ones

A producer's own band recording is like a mechanic's own car innit?!You know how mechanic's cars are never really finished, constantly being pulled apart and fiddled with, upgraded and updated, bogged...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:25:00 GMT

Proudly productively progressing

We have done vocals for two songs which leaves nine or ten. Woohoo, I very excite! It's quite bizarre recording three albums of three different bands at the same time, especially when you're in one of...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:55:00 GMT

Nearly Done!

Yes, we are up to vocals! All the music tracking bar a couple of little guitar bits and some after thoughts is done and Big Dave is back on the plate to take his final swings!!! I can't wait, we are a...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:06:00 GMT

Rah Rah Rah Boom dieh (howeva ya spellit!)

Have to admit I'm fairly excited so I thought I'd post a blog about it!! I'm about to head into the studio with the Swifty and do his final guitar parts to the current tunes which means, next stop VOC...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:05:00 GMT

4th blog, hair of the dog

Knocked up a demo of "DUMB", one of the tunes from the new album.Certainly not the final version in any way but definately a good representation of what will be on there. We're also considering rereco...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 03:06:00 GMT