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Sons of Messengers

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About Me

Sons of Messengers are a young indie/rock group from Melbourne, Australia.Sons of Messengers have performed on the live music scene since the group's formation in mid-2005. The band most notibly won their way into the Push Start Grand Final (Push Over) , playing alongside such established acts as Grinspoon, Butterfingers and Frenzal Rhomb, as well as other top Australian bands.

Sons of Messengers recently won the People's Choice Award for the National Campus Band Competition, and performed alongside Bob Evans on Live at the Chapel.

Watch the Sons of Messengers Acoustic Street Performance outside EMI / Virgin Records in Melbourne on Saturday. Check out the video below:

My Interests

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Member Since: 11/19/2005
Band Website: sonsofmessengers.com
Band Members: Rich Bain (Bass)

Stu Bruce (Lead Vox / Lead Guitar)

Gabe Gill (Lead Vox / Guitar)
Influences: Nirvana, the Beatles, the Killers, Muse, the Clash, the Pixies, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan.
Sounds Like: An idealistic underground indie/rock band
Type of Label: None

My Blog

SoMs are the People's Choice!

19/10: Vodafone People's Choice Award and the NCBC Just in case you haven't heard, the SoMs have taken home the Vodafone People's Choice Award for the best band in the NCBC as voted by the people (h...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:20:00 PST

St Margaret's

So, we turn up at a quiet girls school in Berwick to play a small gig at lunchtime. Little do we know that the girls there are crazy (in a good way)! By far the best school gig we've done (of the 1 we...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:09:00 PST

Apparently NOVA got the message

So a while ago i left a little note at the NOVA offices in melbourne (see this blog)... Well...well...well...We're on NOVA!Listen weekdays between 6-10pm and you'll hear the opening riff from 'See You...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:07:00 PST

Last Night... at the greyhound

Thanks to everyone that came down to our 'Indie Initiative Presents' gig last night at the greyhound, it was a great night! Probably had about 60 people. Seemed we had about twice as many people there...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Mon, 08 May 2006 07:08:00 PST

Hey Nova, I'm talking to you!

Just thought i'd say that i left a bio and an EP on Dave Hughes' announcing desk at nova 100 on monday, with a note saying "Hey, Check these guys out! From Management". Also that night, i left a few m...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:56:00 PST

APRA Award for Songwriting

Well, Push Over was apparently a huge success for us. Not only did we play a kick-arse set, we managed to secure the APRA Award for Songwriting (for the best song/s..I guess)! Thanks to everyone who c...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:22:00 PST

The Media, Jager and Push

Well we played our first show for the Jager Uprising (apparently now reverting back to being called the Indie Initiative) and we certainly made an impression. Moments after walking off stage after a ...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:26:00 PST

Get your tickets!

Just a quick one to say buy your tickets for Push Over, its on Monday (the 13th) so they'll be selling out very soon.Oh and we've now sold over 100 cds. Woo.and as a final thought before i disappear b...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:41:00 PST

Give us all your money! (Buy an EP)

Just thought i'd write something quick to say our EPs are selling fast! We started witha  box of 50, thats gone. Ordered 100 more, thats nearly gone. So we've just got another 100. So yeah, we're...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:02:00 PST

Jager Uprising

We're now into the Jager Uprising!So come down and see us on the 8th of march at the greyhound hotel.err.. other than that i don't really have too much to say...we've got some new songs to be unveiled...
Posted by Sons of Messengers on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:14:00 PST