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The Smokestack Orchestra

Blow your top! It's the Smokestack Orchestra!

About Me

First, last and only Steam Powered rock and roll band of the 21st Century. Prepare to burn, efficient and clean!Debut Album "Salute Heavy Industry" out September on PlusOne Records/ShockI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4



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Member Since: 3/28/2006
Band Website: plusonerecords.com.au/smokestack.html
Band Members: Scarecrow Wallace - Right Guitar, Upright Bass, Vocals. Dean Hunt - Left Guitar, Slide. Skritch - Drums.
Influences: Clutch, Morphine, JSBX, Tom Waits, RL Burnside, White Zombie, Dr John, James Brown, Parliament, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, Down, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Dirty Three, James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Shakespeare, Philip K Dick, Hugo Gernsback, Hunter S Thompson, Spike Milligan, Neal Stephenson, Alan Moore, Roget's Thesaurus, Hieronymus Bosch, Terry Gilliam, Coffee, Alfred Hitchcock, Concrete, Hive insects, Alice in Wonderland, GTA, William Blake, Wired Magazine, Lemmy's moles...
Sounds Like: "Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt." - Fred Dibnah
Record Label: Plus One Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

T-Minus

Greetings Programs!We're in the run up to the launch of "Salute Heavy Industry" now, dropped off the master disc for pressing, date for takeoff is the 15th of September. That gives you something like ...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:58:00 PST

Braking News! Band gains Distro, Show

Big News! 1 and 2!Joe Cocker said it better than the Beatles (sorry but it's true), we'll get by with a little help from our friends. Even if it did get used as the theme from the Wonder Years. A DATE...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:56:00 PST

Good news everyone!

Turns out Home and Hosed on JJJ got wind of these tracks and played Tractor tonight.Hooray for us! Quote unquote: "A great tune..."
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PST

Album News

Hello fiends!Our new album, "Salute Heavy Industry" has been mastered, and now begins the hellish task of organising distribution! In order to whet your appetites, I’ve posted the masted version...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:14:00 PST

Sneak peek

Album update: We've got all tracks mixed and, er, practically ready to be mastered. I've posted 3 hot picks as new music on the page. Up there is Tractor, our duet with HRH Princess Stacey Coleman of ...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:01:00 PST

Notes from the member's (Black) Box

Hola, Smokestackians!The Orchestra is hard at work right now in the very comfortable havens of Black Box, putting the final tracks down for our forthcoming debut album "The Smokestack Orchestra Salute...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:57:00 PST

End You!

Hola, Bitches! The Smokestack Orchestra will sequester themselves at Black Box studio this weekend in order to chisel several songs onto the electric gramophone. Expect it to be LOUD, people. Producti...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:35:00 PST

Kiss "The Devil" (Who Will?)

Big News Pt 1: We made what I assume is the Short List for the unearthed Eagles of Death Metal comp, being in Jesse "The Devil" Hughes' top 20 playlist. Celebrate by coming to our show next week with...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:42:00 PST

Behold!

SO. News in Smokestack land. We are playing Devil's Kitchen next weekend with our old mates Rollerball, Fort and Doubl.... I mean New Jack Rubys. Wow, feels just like 2002 all over again. Where does t...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:42:00 PST

Triple the J, Triple the flavour

Well, apparently someone played our song Heavy Rail on the radio for Unearthed. I don't know when it was on but if you happened to hear it let us know what they said. Just goes to show it's not who yo...
Posted by The Smokestack Orchestra on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:58:00 PST