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About Me


What started in 2008, as an experimental sound swap between kindred musical spirits, quickly moved on to an earnest collective of like-minded musicians experimenting with richly-layered soundscapes built around strong, driving tunes that showcase a powerful sense of melody.
Mapping musical territories between lilting strands of alt-country balladeers, epic warm psychedelic rock, skewed indie pop and valve-soaked soulful guitar harmonies - Pretty On The Speedway are five young musical companions on a quest to make colourful, catchy indie rock music that pleases them, their friends, and anyone driving around near sunset semi-drunk on euphoria.
The band features former members of I Love Space, Faker and Wons Phreely and draws together a range of experience from art, fiction, design, film, audio engineering, songwriting and musical performance - which meld to form their creative process. In November 2008 the band entered their own studio/rehearsal space with longtime friend, Soviet Records co-founder and Ernest Ellis member Tim Carr handling production and audio engineering. Together they recorded their debut EP ‘Hand Held’ and plan on bringing those sounds to stages all over the east coast of Australia throughout the first half of 2009.
Halfway between an arthouse roll credit and the garage noise from the corner of your favourite local, Pretty On The Speedway mould a sound that will strike a chord with vintage rock fans and lovers of melodic indie pop.

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Member Since: 11/8/2007
Band Website: drup us a line at [email protected]
Band Members: Catherine Clare
Andrew Day
Benjamin Hay
Keith Herft
Francesca Leto
Influences: Ambulance Ltd // Radiohead // Death Cab For Cutie // Spoon // Doves // Sigur Ros // Sonic Youth // Supergrass // Pavement // My Morning Jacket // Calexico // The National // Film School // Built To Spill // Delta Spirit // Blind Pilot // 78 Saab // The Panics // Youth Group // Wilco // You Am I // TV On The Radio // Yeasayer // Singstar
Sounds Like: avenging narwhals
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

ROXY PRO

Check out some Pretty on the Speedway sounds as they drop in on the (air)waves of the Roxy Pro - Gold Coast Surf Event!Sorry for the cut and paste needed!Wave Of The Dayhttp://www.roxypro.com.au/eng/...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:17:00 GMT

And How The Hand Was Held (A Betamax Adventure)

Those with keen and eagle-like peepers may recall in my last blog post the statement "with the band annoying him as much as possible while he did so" in regards to how the speedwayers conducted themse...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:30:00 GMT

HAND HELD - Brand new Pretty on the Speedway songs online!!!

Hello POTSheads*!Well grand news - we have FINALLY got some sounds we are elated with up onto our MySpace for the world at large to aurally goggle! These songs are taken from our as-yet-unreleased EP ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:52:00 GMT

Merry Festive Season 08!

Hi friends,Sorry for the lack of anything this year - we've been getting settled into a perm line up, swanning about in other countries, finding a home to make songs in and generally starting over but...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:42:00 GMT

Just picture a bouncing ball bobbing over these characters...

For all y'all bookwormser karaoke types & more to come from Frankie &((WEIGHT OF WAITING(In the time it takes to weight a sentiment,(I could have drowned the whole ideal.(I've been treading waters tha...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:04:00 GMT

The Eagle Triplets Landed In Roswell City Limits

Well&well&well&GOOD EVENING KINDREDS! We here at camp 'Speedway are most elated to finally be over the line with our home recordings of a few of our songs which we've been working on the last few mont...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:39:00 GMT