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The Barmaids

About Me

With a shared love for melodic vocal harmonies, alternate tunings and infectious guitar riffs, The Barmaids are a melodic pop-rock band from Melbourne who play upbeat, toe-tapping rock 'n' roll.
Forming in early 2006 with a series of acoustic sets, founding members, James and Chris, have continued to wow audiences, and fellow musicians alike, with their well-crafted pop songs and energic live performances.
Drawing from such influences as Supergrass, The Beatles, T-Rex, and Richard Ashcroft, The Barmaids have performed around the local scene throughout 2006/07, polishing up their live performances, whilst building up a strong following and reputation.
With a passion for songwriting that began at an early age, James' exposure to live music helped shape his future and ambitions towards, one-day, performing with his very own band.
Seeing a rock and roll act perform was just a regular night out for the 9-year-old James, who at the time, was an avid drummer. His parents had developed a bar/club in the heart of Prahran named 'High on Chapel', (now onesixone), where he spent the majority of his after-school time, Helping himself to the 'softdrink gun' behind the bar, and often getting up to jam with the local and interstate bands that were performing.
-To be continued -

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Member Since: 29/07/2006
Band Members: James - Vocals. Guitar. Harmonica. Kicking things over.
Chris - Guitar, Vocals, Running away on whims and bringing back books full of madness.
You - the glue of our fraternal bonds.
You kiss our wounded knees and mend our
hurt feelings with kind, warm Sun.
Influences: [*]The Beatles
[*]Bob Dylan
[*]The Buzzcocks
[*]The Byrds
[*]CCR
[*]Cream
[*]Dan Kelly &
The Alpha Males
[*]David Bowie
[*]The Doors
[*]The Easybeats
[*]Humble Pie
[*]Jefferson Airplane
[*]The Kinks
[*]Macy Gray
[*]My Bloody Valentine
[*]Oasis
[*]Pavement
[*]The Rolling Stones
[*]Ryan Adams
[*]Screamfeeder
[*]Sloan
[*]The Small Faces
[*]Status Quo
[*]The Stone Roses
[*]The Strokes
[*]Suede
[*]Supergrass
[*]T-Rex
[*]Tom Petty
[*]Traveling Wilburys
[*]The Verve
[*]The Who
[*]Wilco
[*]You Am I

Sounds Like: Music you listen to while...

"...Watching the wizard of oz with the sound on mute if you start the album on the second lion's roar"

"...shaving the top of your friends head to give him a middle aged man style horseshoe"

"...getting knocked up to gain permanent residency"

"...music to dance on top of moving trains to".
Type of Label: Major

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Gigography (previous gigs)

Wednesday September 26th 2007Venue: The Old Bar, Fitzroy.Head down to The Old Bar to see The Barmaids lay down some great tunes. Then Hang around for a drink and see some other top band...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:52:00 GMT