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About Me

Background Artist:
Melody Hay Frankly, Brilltown is an excellent band. It is my band. My name is Tristan "Covert Op" Grotvedt, and I sing and write our songs, when I am not working for The Man or studying philosophy. Brilltown is not only my band, but at least two other people's band also. We have the formidable engineering student, Nathan "Cross the Threshold of Shred" Clinen on lead guitar, and the controversial bass sensation from Hong Kong, Luke "Swiss Watch" Dirckze. We are based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, where the sun is shiny and the milk of life is chilled to drink-fridge perfection.
Brilltown formed under the name of "The Brill" in 2003 in our senior years of high school, out of the ashes of the ridiculous Spend The Woodblock Quartet, who broke up due to creative exhaustion after their instrumental magnum opus, "Militant Were The Skylarks (Box Communication Box)". Chiefly responsible for the inception of the new group were Nathan "Smack That" Clinen and myself, Tristan "the Enigmatron" Grotvedt. The rest, as they say, is history, friends.
Since then, the lucky ones who have heard us have been enthralled by the direct yet ambiguous impressionistic lyrics and charmed by the overflow of melodies - or, at least, this was the reaction of those who did not think we were pissweak. But that's a lot of good reactions. I know of at least nine.
We like to make lots of copies of our recordings on CD-Rs and give them to people. You can do this as well, should you so wish. We are currently planning a properly manufactured EP. Also coming soon is Tristan's myspace, where you will be delighted with four extra songs.
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If you have comments or questions, a gig for us, or if you are a musician interested in collaborating (we are STILL on the lookout for drummers especially), email Tristan at trissos [at] hotmail.com, or Direz at luketheforce76 [at] yahoo.com.
Direz's brother, Jason Dirckze, is the man behind all our best recordings. He played the drums on the tracks WKE, IWIK and Diamonds, and is a consummate gentlemen as well as an audio whiz. If you'd like to ask Jason questions about our recordings / his equipment, you can drop him a line at jasondirckze [at] hotmail.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/grotvedt
Band Members: Official Members:
Tristan Grotvedt - Guitars, Lead vocals
Nathan Clinen - Guitars, Occasional vocals
Luke Dirckze - Bass, Drums, Occasional vocalsQuasi-Members:
Jason Dirckze - oldskool drums, producer, technology
Big Croons - Fliegenheim drums
Slick Rick - future drum maniacGroupies:
Rhiannon
Libby
Influences: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Brian Eno, Wittgenstein, TGIF, Captain Beefheart, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era), Neutral Milk Hotel, Nietzsche, Led Zeppelin, Charles Darwin, Michael Jackson, pork, The Velvet Underground, Yes, YTMND, The Beach Boys, Elton John, Steely Dan, Return To Forever
Sounds Like: Pancake Surprise
Type of Label: None

My Blog

JJJ - China Duck

Greetings Interweb,We've great news. Our Unearthed page is up and running and very shortly you will be able to have a listen to another Brilltown classic - China Duck. It is in the process...
Posted by Brilltown on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:44:00 PST

Tristans new musical myspace

The 'cocky solo project' has happened already. Four extra songs of Tristan's are now available for listen and download at his very own myspace.go tohttp://www.myspace.com/grotvedt
Posted by Brilltown on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:50:00 PST

Songs FINALLY downloadable after further technical difficulties

Well, we've finally fixed the problem. It seems that by having a fifth song on our player no one could download anything. v.pathetic as the way to get this was to add a certain friend, the...
Posted by Brilltown on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:45:00 PST

Detective Fliegenheim!!

Yo yo yo!D-Rizz on the blog, letting you people know there is a special man in our life. A desirable prawn, his name be Crans. Please join us in giving him special thanks for his drumming ...
Posted by Brilltown on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:36:00 PST

The Brill @ Mandarin Club!

'Allo,A big THANKYOU to all who attended the Mandarin Club on Saturday. We really appreciate the support you had for us and we're glad everyone enjoyed themselves! We had a great time rocking ou...
Posted by Brilltown on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:14:00 PST

April's Form

Greetings,April's Form is in the process of being uploaded, it's a very new song and we only have a rough demo of it at the moment... It is missing drums and so on, but we feel that it's quite a good ...
Posted by Brilltown on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:35:00 PST

New Song: I Wish I Knew

Hello interweb,I just uploaded the new song which we JUST finished off last night. It's a bit heavier than our other songs which are on here at the moment. Also, Rafael Godoy is launching his new CD...
Posted by Brilltown on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:23:00 PST

Song added, "Long Way 'Round"

We've just added a song called "Long Way 'Round", replacing Interference (which may return in another form). "Long Way 'Round" has loose, improvised acoustic playing and gritty, off-the-cuff...
Posted by Brilltown on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:03:00 PST

New Bass

Direz on the keys. Yay! Got my Rickenbacker, so very exciting. A picture of it is in the Pictures section, as well as a lovely photo of the duelling guitar guns Nathan and Tristan.
Posted by Brilltown on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:18:00 PST

Inaugural Address

Tristan here. Thanks to all who've listened so far, and thanks Rod for pointing out the crackling in 2 of the songs. It's a problem with my mixdown process, and I'll have fixed versions up by the end ...
Posted by Brilltown on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:09:00 PST