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THE GOVERNMENT

About Me

With a collection of trashy rock songs, love ballads and sing-a-long pop tunes, The Government has quickly found a place on stages all over Perth and Fremantle since their debut in mid 2006.
The pop-grunge outfit has garnered a place on stages alongside for high profile local acts (including End of Fashion, Day of the Dead and The Panda Band), and has been asked to support touring acts as diverse as Six Foot Hick and Van She. The Government has also run a series of successful residencies at Mojos Bar, where record crowds attended their midweek shows.
Not long after their first run of gigs, The Government headed to Studio Couch to record a demo with Shaun O’Callaghan. Although it was only very early days for the band, the spirit of The Government was captured well enough to see lead track “Boy’s Job” get plenty of airplay on RTR FM, and even the occasional late night spin at Amplifier Bar!
Playing killer live shows is what it’s all about and The Government made the most of two big opportunities in February. They scored a spot on the Bakery stage as part of the WAMi Saturday Spectacular and took out the WA State Heat of the national Garage to V Competition, which saw the band flown to the national final at the Gaelic Club, Sydney.
The Government has been gaining a solid reputation for captivating rock and roll performances, and come up with the goods each time.
You gotta LOVE THE GOV!!!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/11/2005
Band Website: www.triplejunearthed.com/TheGovernment
Band Members: Jenna Hardie: vocals, guitar
Sarah Norton: vocals, bass
Chris Howe: drums
Tim Pass: guitar
Influences: THE GOVERNMENT LOVE:

bourbon sprawl
the fuzz
little birdy
SILVERCHAIR
the screaming trees
the vines
mink mussel creek
the FLAIRZ
jet
dallas crane
day of the dead
the monday code
the dee dee dums
The beasts of bourbon
the killers
the sleepy jackson
eskimo joe
the drones
the avenues
snowman
the dissociatives
eskimo joe
jebediah
sugar army
the belle ends
abbe fuzz and the rocking pneumonia
Six foot hick
the dirty secrets
the flamin' groovies
the howlin' novocaines
wednesday society
kasabian
john butler trio

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Everybody's doing it.
Sounds Like: a rock band
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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

WIN TICKETS TO V FESTIVAL with THE GOVERNMENT at ROCKET ROOM!

hey there rockers! here's a message from the Rocket Room. you can win Tix to the v Festival...WIN TICKETS TO V FESTIVAL with THE GOVERNMENT at ROCKET ROOM!ROCKET ROOM is giving away DOUBLE PASSES to t...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:52:00 GMT

New lineup elected!

Howdy y'all in Facespace!Just a quick note to introduce you to TIM (it would be good to have a photo here!), our new but already popular SHREDDDDDDERRR. Tim's played a few shows with us now.The Govern...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:55:00 GMT

tour of sydney

we had an AWESOME time in sydney. flew out of perth on Wednesday morning. the flight was 7am, so we were up at 4.30am after a rehearsal the night before. chris was sporting a bit of a cold, so upon bo...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:38:00 GMT

interview on fasterlouder.com.au

The Government: time to rock enrolwww.fasterlouder.com.auReported by: disasterplan - Saturday, Mar 10, 2007. 23:35 The Government are pretty good at getting people to vote for them. No, not the Federa...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:59:00 GMT

The Gov are going to Sydney

THE GOVERNMENT are going to Sydneyso, after playing at the Garage to V competition on Wednesday night, we were rather excited to find out that we were going to be flown to Sydney for the Garage to V G...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:50:00 GMT

Garage to V - review

www.fasterlouder.com.auGarage to V WA final @ Artrage Bakery, Perth (28/2/2007)Home > Event ReviewsReported by: disasterplan - Friday, Mar 02, 2007. 12:18 There are band comps and then there are band ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:46:00 GMT

faster and louder

oh yeahand we now have a page on Faster and louder and louder and faster.so if you do love the gov, well help us by going to the following site:fasterlouder.com.au/bands/the_governmentlove thegovxx
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:43:00 GMT

new stuff

new pedals went to the shopbought some stuffcame homerocked on my teeny tiny ampli-my-fire....and a few new songs.to work on...??ohhhhhmoody quirkyin your face dirtyoh yeah, and Big day out ROcked my ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:39:00 GMT

www.triplejunearthed.com/thegovernment

Hi Guysfor all you fans out there that love the gov... help us get a profile on triple j unearthed and listen to our songs 100 or so times and TOTALLY rate it!!!love the gov x x the link iswww.triplej...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:20:00 GMT

check out review http://www.sapphiresanctuary.com/rockmusic/govsix.htm

Our first review for our new line-up http://www.sapphiresanctuary.com/rockmusic/govsix.htm   also check out www.perthsounds.com new band of the month!!!!  
Posted by on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:02:00 GMT