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The Laurels

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About Me


the laurels are a 5 piece psychedelic/shoegaze band from sydney. first taking the stage in june 2006, the laurels juggernaut has accumulated accolades, guitar pedals and fans in approximately equal proportion.
their resume reads like a poorly punctuated list with no contactable references.
*winners sydney university band competition 2007
*titular track on internationally released “turn on your mind” (psilocybin sounds) and 2 tracks featured on “burn your fingers on the sun” (off the hip) compilations.
*national airplay for their demos, including JJJ.
*interviewed by international press
*bloody awesome reviews
*lots of mates on myspace
*once got an email from parlophone (that’s THE BEATLES’ LABEL!)
such a sorry document has nonetheless afforded the laurels solid employment on the stages of both sydney and melbourne from their very inception.
the savviest of networking has of course played an important role, (along with nice trousers), and the laurels have been lucky enough to share the stage with the likes of the lovetones, gaslight radio, richard in your mind, cloud control, the black ryder, belles will ring and the holy soul.
the laurels have been following in the footsteps of idols my bloody valentine and have been “currently recording” their mid 2008-slated debut release for a very long time now.
“a classic in the making” – chris dunn, psych fanzine, london
“in a big room with a PA to match they might well be skull crushing” – mess and noise magazine
"definitely helping to keep music evil..." the committee to keep music evil

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/26/2005
Band Website: e-mail: [email protected]
Band Members: The Laurels are:

Luke O’Farrell - Vocals, Guitars, Loop Sampler

Piers Cornelius - Vocals, Guitars

Aimee-Lee Curran - Keys, Drones, Percussion

Conor Hannan - Bass

Kate Wilson - Drums

Influences: Some of the bands we like:

The Beatles, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Ride, The Telescopes, Lilys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, The Stone Roses, The Verve, Slowdive, Bailter Space, Love, The Warlocks, The La's, Swervedriver, Pink Floyd, Mogwai, Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan, The 13th Floor Elevators, Air, Dead Meadow, Stereolab, Underground Lovers, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jnr, Skip Spence, Black Tambourine, 3D's, Drop City, Death in Vegas, The Chemical Brothers, Jefferson Airplane, Silver Apples, Beck, Mazzy Star, The Church, Oasis, The Stooges, The Flaming Lips, The Dandy Warhols, Neil Young, The Astral Kaleidoscope, Richard in Your Mind, The Smiths, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Beach Boys, Love and Rockets, The Beta Band, Pavement, The Volta Sound, The Clean etc
Sounds Like: Kevin Shields, Sonic Boom, Stephen Lawrie, Mani and Loz Colbert playing Revolver.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Review of Hopetoun show

from fasterlouder:The Laurels @ The Hopetoun Hotel, Sydney(25/05/08)Reviews by catie, 27th May, 2008Unknown support acts either bore me senseless or rock my world. The Laurels are currently performing...
Posted by The Laurels on Fri, 30 May 2008 06:14:00 PST

What were gonna do...

hello everyone!how have you all been? good, yeah? we've been busy lately, sorry we haven't said or done much... but hey, guess what? we've just about finished recording our EP! it's taken us a fucking...
Posted by The Laurels on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

New Photos (Kind of)

Tam has made a page with all the photos she's taken of us over the last year. You can see them here.Thanks Tam!...
Posted by The Laurels on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:47:00 PST

Photos From Spectrum Show

Photos from our gig on Saturday at Spectrum with Ice Cream Hands are up at FasterLouder.com, available here:http://photos.fasterlouder.com.au/nsw/Ice_Cream_hands_E P_launch___Spectrum_22nd_Sep/?g2_page...
Posted by The Laurels on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:31:00 PST

The Laurels won the Sydney Uni band comp

The Laurels are pleased to announce that we won the Sydney University 2007 Band Competition, out of 43 bands! Thanks to everyone who came along and supported us throughout all the heats, and also to t...
Posted by The Laurels on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:03:00 PST

...Through The Forest Door Show with The Sun Blindness, Auchpass and Dandelion

On Sunday, 26th of August, Luke will be doing a solo set at Glitch Bar in Melbourne performing tracks from his acid folk side project, Broadcasting Transmitter Through The Forest Door. Also playing wi...
Posted by The Laurels on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

Astral Show

..> The Astral Kaleidoscope Saturday June 30th Sui Zhen EP LaunchSaturday 30th JuneThe Hopetoun Hotel416 Bourke Street Surry HillsTickets:$10 + bf ($12.60). The Astral Kaleidoscope 8.25pm - 8.50p...
Posted by The Laurels on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:27:00 PST

Lineup For Goodbye Sunshine Festival

FINAL LINE UP + PLAYING TIMESDay 1:- Regular John - (6:25 - 7:05)- Ghosts of Television - (5:30 - 6:10)- Dead China Doll - (4:35 - 5:15)- Warhorse - ...
Posted by The Laurels on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:47:00 PST

Psych Fanzine Interview

Interview by Chris Dunn with Luke and Piers First of all, what was the inspiration behind starting the band, how did the members come together ? Luke: I think it was basically a love for the same sor...
Posted by The Laurels on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:35:00 PST

Review of The Pitz show

Review taken from Mess And Noise: http://www.messandnoise.com/reviews/786087 ReviewThe LaurelsThe Pitz, Sydney, Apr 6 07Tuesday, Apr 10 2007There's been some talk in recent months of a 'newpsychedelia...
Posted by The Laurels on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:18:00 PST