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About Me

There's no place like a new home. Fourth Floor Collapse upped stumps in 2005 and shifted their base from Perth to Melbourne. Crossed the Plain to play to more people, more often and with a new record under tucked under their collective wings too. 'Books with Broken Spines' is the band's third album and was released in February 2006 to the usual hoo-ha. First single, Drink Till You Drown, got a flogging on the wireless and the second, Occupation, started its occupation of the airwaves in the final week of May.
So here we are. About 250 shows since Dan, Rhys and Michael first played together in Dan's garage as 14-year olds. Yes, it goes back to the schoolyard. Over the next few years they set about becoming the most awarded unsigned band in Australia (10 WAMIs, Australian Live Music Awards, assorted songwriting prizes...), released an EP and a trio of albums, a bunch of singles, gained a following around the country, had national tours, got good airplay from community to commercial radio, got a MySpace site...all that jazz.
Fourth Floor Collapse @ The Australian Music Prize
Hey, we're up for the Australian Music prize. Just click on the framed picture here to go to our AMP mini page, add us as a friend and it counts as a vote in the public voting competition. Thanks.
For an easy way to buy our music click on this thing that will take you to iTunes
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Member Since: 9/28/2005
Band Website: fourthfloorcollapse.com
Band Members: Jesse Delaney, Daniel Forrestal, Rhys Kealley, Michael Miller, Mick Parker.

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Sounds Like: In the reviews for the latest album, those writing people have said we sound like the following bewildering bunch of totally unrelated bands: Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Augie March, Coldplay, U2, Radiohead, The Polyphonic Spree, Split Enz, Pink Floyd, Powderfinger, Starsailor, Turin Brakes, Badly Drawn Boy, Eskimo Joe, Delta Goodrem (just seeing if you were paying attention)...so take from that list what you will and listen to the tracks. They're just up there...

We think it's kinda layered, to remain interesting after lots of listens. You'll hear vocals and sometimes whole choirs, an army of guitars, bass, drums, flutterings of electronics, pianos, keyboards, sleigh bells, banjos and mandolins doing cameos, small children, talkback radio, bells that chime, bottlecaps and coins, foot stomps and handclaps.
Record Label: Creative Vibes/Congregation
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album update 2: Crunching deadlines

Hi guys, pre-production is wrapping up and we’re about to go into Hothouse Studios to start work on album number four. In fact, time has been booked, so there’s no backing out now (well, n...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:41:00 PST

Album progress

Hey guys, thought I'd drop by with the long promised album update blog and give you some info on a few of the tracks we've been kicking around.Pre-production is going along at a rate of knots, we've b...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:28:00 PST

New shows and their invisibleness

So myspace has done a Coke and now comes in new style and 'classic'. Along with this change has come a few bugs and it seems that the shows I've posted are invisible. These show are:Fri Nov 9 at IDGAF...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:57:00 PST

Up for an ARIA

Well, sort of.Gotye's remix/covers album is up for Album of the Year at the ARIAs and as you probably know, Fourth Floor has the track Worn Out on there. So in our way we're up for an award. I'd like ...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:25:00 PST

Gotye redux posted: Worn Out

Hi guys, lately you might have heard about the new Gotye remix/covers album, Mixed Blood. Well, we get the delightful honour of having the closing track on that album.This is a 30 second track on the ...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:54:00 PST

Macy's spam - MA rated.

Pardon me sir. I am Nigerian royalty and I'm using my royal powers to issue a royal statement telling the Macy's spam gang to please fuck off.You are certain to go straight to hell for your vile spamm...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Tue, 29 May 2007 04:23:00 PST

Use us: New show and looking for more

Hi guys,just a quick one to let you know that in our latest run of shows we're heading down to sunny Geelong. We're there this Thrusday night (May 3) with Young Husband and the High Heals (no typo)......
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Tue, 01 May 2007 07:31:00 PST

New photos from Sydney show posted

Hey all,last week we popped up to Sydney for a one off show at The Gaelic Club to launch this year's Sunscreen film festival. It was a cool night and we've just posted some shots up on the view more p...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:35:00 PST

2007 Touring - It starts

Hi guys, we're hitting the road for a few shows...It's taken a while but we're finally getting back to Tassie. We sorely neglected folks down south when we toured for the album last year (we wanted to...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:34:00 PST

Hey! Look! A press release! - Australian Music Prize VOTE FOR US

The moral of the story is to visit the AMP myspace and please pop in a vote for lil' old us and see if can make something come of this opportunity.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMyspace partners with The Austra...
Posted by Fourth Floor Collapse on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:38:00 PST