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Royal Chant

About Me

Royal Chant is a garage band from the wilds of NSW, Australia, who play their own brand of overdriven & hyperverbal rock with passion and poetry, sounding like pop put through a fuzzbox blender.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/01/2005
Band Website: triplejunearthed.com/RoyalChant
Band Members: ANDREW GREEN
MATTY HOARE
MARK SPENCE

Management
Justin van Stom for Artist Mgmt
[email protected]

Bookings
Tony Grace
[email protected]
+61 2 9331 5888

Luke Morton
[email protected]
+61 2 9331 5888

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COUGHING FITS
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WE'RE ALSO ON:

Influences: Bob Dylan, The Pogues, The Velvet Underground, old R.E.M., new R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Idlewild, Nirvana, Elliot Smith, Neil Young, The Kinks, David Bowie, The Jam, The La's, Dramarama, The Pixies, The Drones, Crazy Horse, Radiohead, Iggy Pop, Beck, Ryan Adams, Folk Implosion, The Shins, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, Monk, Ronnie Dobbs, Falstaff, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith, Andy Kaufman, Oscar Wilde, Jack Fairy, Opinions, Fists, Bedwetting Music, Bad Poetry, Bad Dancing, People Who Talk Too Much, Harvest Gypsies, Being Someone's Second Best Friend, A Broken Harmonica You Found In A Public Toilet, A Good Beating, Throwing Up, Running Away, Hanging Around, Getting By.....
Sounds Like: An off-off-Broadway musical without a budget....
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

to the Hopetoun and back/Coughing Fits/The proud English Novel...

Hey hey hey,just a note to say thank you to all the folks who came out and spent their government money on getting into the Hopetoun and getting on the sauce this Wednesday.  We had a new member to in...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:21:00 GMT

Swinging our arms around....

The sun is out and I'm not long for this indoors, but while I have some spare time I thought I'd get down to business and spit a few words that I feel need to be spat.  Firstly, some thanks are in ord...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:16:00 GMT

What we get up to....

So.....I'll try and make this brief, but I can't guarantee anything....As you may have noticed, we have posted "Coughing Fits" (and only "Coughing Fits"), up for your listening pleasure, and are billi...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 16:13:00 GMT

Southern Teardrop: The Musical

Hey y'all,so anyway we're home.  Some of you may not have noticed that we went anywhere, but I can assure you, we did.  And now we're home again, rather tired, our pockets a little lighter, but our sp...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:08:00 GMT

Hello ROYAL CHANT, Goodbye sickboy

I'll have to be brief with this announcement, but the gist of it is that Sickboy, the garage folk/punk trio from NSW that most people have never heard of, has now changed its name to ROYAL CHANT.  The...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:26:00 GMT

TOUR--PHASE ONE: Shock & Awe

And so we have returned to our humble origins in Port Macquarie.  It's probably best that the tour bus never actually materialized, as it allowed all three acts on the tour (Sickboy, Killed Two Bird...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:14:00 GMT

That just happened....

Apparently there IS rest for the wicked, coz we've got a day off before our tour kicks off with the Music Feeds gang of boho music tramps.  As for last night with Kisschasy and their entire crew.....w...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:45:00 GMT

We won something?

Howdy!  How're those NYE hangover's coming along?  Can you spell your name again yet?  Well, I can't promise that your head will feel any better after hearing the news I'm about to deliver, but it rai...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:50:00 GMT

So...you like...Stuff?

So yeah anyway we're back from our weekend jaunt down to Sydney & Newcastle.  All the elements were there...an ill-attended show....a day on an island....another ill-attended show....an invite to a we...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:26:00 GMT

Water Never Waits: REVERB Magazine Review

Hey kids,this is a quick one, as we are busy packing our toothbrushes and not much else for our Sydney/Newcastle jaunt this weekend, but we thought we might share a little Sickboy news in the Australi...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:01:00 GMT