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Sounds Like Sunset

About Me

sydney 1997: started as Dave, Grobbo and Rohan (drums) - dave played guitar through numerous guitar & bass amps to make us the loudest 3-piece garage band the world has known. well, it was kinda loud. Beef joined soon after and by our 2nd show were were 4.Eventually we kinda changed tack - Rohan (reluctantly) left and Matt Bonson joined on drums and we released 'saturdays' on Modular. Matt left and Vig joined on drums for a few months. Modular dropped us. Vig was awesome but went awol when - unbeknownst to him - we had a show coming up and so we had a midweek jam with Tobey on drums and it turned out so good we had the horrible task of confessing to Vig that 'while you were away there was uhh, someone else'...and this has been the way family has looked for about the last 3 yrs now.Stefan Zagorski's label Architecture picked us up and released 'invisible' in sep 2005 - and here we are...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/29/2005
Band Website: soundslikesunset.com.au
Band Members: dave, grobbo, beef, tobey
Influences: withnail & i, the big lebowski, columbo, the rockford files, dirty harry, easy rider, the velvet underground, the birthday party, stooges, public enemy, tricky, massive attack, primal scream, my bloody valentine, sebadoh, lenola, dinosaur jr, sloan, polvo, teenage fanclub, bailterspace, the flaminlg lips, early mercury rev, sandpit, love, the kinks, the birds, the byrds, early pink floyd, the beach boys, the beatles, dead kennedys, the cure, the church, pavement, underground lovers
Sounds Like: humming to AM radio. old cassettes. headaches. red eyes. mis-heard words, mis-heard tunes. broken speakers. low batteries. broken headphones that only work in one ear. something sweet made from the things everyone else throws away.
Record Label: www.architecturelabel.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the word 'blog' is pretty lame

messing around with recording. protools, live5, reason. feeding drum machines into amps, taking tobey's drum hits, taking feedback samples from the tracks of the last record. putting it all together a...
Posted by Sounds Like Sunset on Wed, 24 May 2006 08:34:00 PST

writing about having nothing to write about

thinking more about recording. also thinking about the show this weekend with Lou, and how we haven't actually stood around the same room and jammed (unless we count playing shows) since around Octobe...
Posted by Sounds Like Sunset on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:23:00 PST

legends of job-hop

it's been a few weeks since my last visit here. i've had 3 jobs in 3 months, but i think i'm finally onto something - even if i did work a 20hr day yesterday. this one is alright - y'know when it does...
Posted by Sounds Like Sunset on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:23:00 PST

is it really only tuesday?

heya folks. careful how you pronounce that. hey, it's been a long week already. on the train home from work yesterday i wrote a letter to my friend Richard who i've hardly seen in the last 10 year...
Posted by Sounds Like Sunset on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:34:00 PST

wow - this is a blog or something

far out - first blog post. thanks to you guys for joining our site, and for the others who have joined as friends...that's pretty cool. you're from all over the world! dave
Posted by Sounds Like Sunset on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:26:00 PST