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Iron On

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PURCHASE THE NEW EP:
To purchase 'The Verse' by Iron On on I-Tunes click here .
WATCH OUR NEW VIDEO !!!
ONE MAN BAND
Directed by Jackie Ryan
WATCH OUR OLD VIDEOS !!!
LEARN TODAY EARN TOMORROW
Directed by Kellie Lloyd
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
PLAYING HARD TO WANT
Directed by Andrew Ponton
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BUY OH THE ROMANCE MP3s ON-LINE:
To purchase 'Oh The Romance' by Iron On on I-Tunes click here .
To purchase 'Oh The Romance' by Iron On on E-Music click here .
MANAGEMENT DETAILS:
Iron On are currently self-managed. Please email the band direct at [email protected].
BIO:
Kate Cooper and Ross Hope met at university. There are no awesome stories about them getting mad wasted and swimming out in the ocean naked, on acid, the night before their final year assignment was due and having a realisation that they should form a rock band.
Nope. Nothing like that. In fact Kate Cooper and Ross Hope did really well at university. They are the genuine type of nerd that those fashionable kids in fluro spend a whole lot of money trying to recreate. In fact when Kate met Ross he was wearing a Something for Kate shirt and some kind of weird jumper that Jason Donavon may have worn in his career-defining role as Joseph in ‘Joseph and the Technicolour Dream Coat’. Hot. The story goes like this: they liked the same bands, they decided to learn guitar together, they formed a band. While Kate and Ross were completing their honours year, Ian Rogers (Bass) was learning to play Shellac covers in his garage by night, and valuing property for the government by day. Brisbane being Brisbane, it wasn't long before Kate and Ross met Ian. They talked about Sandpit and Superchunk and decided to form a band. They called it Iron .. a Superchunk song.
While all this was going on Marieca Page (drums) was working a day job, playing in other bands but hadn't really even considered playing drums. After a couple of line up changes, Brisbane being Brisbane, Marieca met Ian, Ross and Kate. By this stage Iron On had been playing live around the country for three years and Marieca had been developing "mad drum skills".
Initially Marieca only really liked Ian. She thought Ross and Kate were stand off-ish. They don't think they were. They were probably just worried that Marieca thought they were stand off-ish. It wasn't long before Marieca began to like Kate and Ross and Iron On became the highly-oiled and well-functioning machine it is today. Actually, they are just very good friends who spend too much time together making music, talking about records and eating (Marieca, Ian and Ross prefer savoury. Kate can survive on only chocolate).
Three quarters of Iron On sustained their rock and roll career teaching the youth of Australia at several universities in Brisbane. They didn't teach music because none of them can read it. The band are more often recognised by former student than fans. However, between semesters they have hit the road with bands such as Eskimo Joe, The Shins (US), Ben Kweller (US), The Shout Out Louds (SWE), Sleater Kinney(US) and good friends Tegan and Sara (CAN) to name a few. Tegan and Sara aren't the only Canadians that love Iron On. In 2006 they were nominated in the Favourite New Artist/International Group category at the Canadian Indies without ever having released or toured the country. Being the polite lads and ladies they are, they traveled to the vast and rather cold country to play a string of shows and attend the awards ceremony. They didn't win, but they did have a good time although Ross managed to be in the toilet when the nominations for their category were announced and missed the whole thing. They didn't however miss their opportunity at creating a stir with Canadian fans and critics alike.
For their latest recording adventure they packed their bags and headed out to Applewood, a renovated church turned studio past Ipswich owned by ARIA award-winning producer Magoo (Regurgitator, Midnight Oil, Jebediah, Kate Miller-Heidke). Iron On recorded their critically-lauded debut album, Oh The Romance with Magoo and have subsequently developed a tight knit working relationship. So tight in fact that Magoo managed to pass on a bout of conjunctivitis to Ross in the studio. Kate, Ian and Marieca remained untouched physically, but mentally they were pretty spooked by a) the old church, b) the fact they were sleeping in a renovated church that looked alarmingly similar to the Great Northern Hotel in Twin Peaks c) the framed Laura Palmer photograph, complete with cracked glass on the dresser in the lounge room and d) if you squinted your eyes at Magoo late at night in the church he kind of did look like Benjamin Horn. There was however, no one armed man and Magoo's wife Tylea did not carry a log.
Despite their Twin Peaks-related anxieties and both Magoo and Ross' inability to see anything, they managed to capture four new tracks that display their songwriting growth and unavoidable excitement. This new ep is disarming and unrepentant. If you have found or lost love recently, this EP will strike a nerve like foil on silver filling. Iron On manage to disarm and dismantle listeners in four songs. Not a bad effort really for four well-educated friends filled with a whole bunch of social anxieties.
Iron On’s five-track EP, ‘The Verse’ is out on November 17th through Ruth Street/Inertia. The first single ‘One Man Band’ is out to radio on October 8.
For more information, please contact Megan Reeder at Secret Service Public Relations on [email protected] or 0422066651 or (07) 3854 1488 ext 111.
RELEASES:
'The Verse' EP (2007) Out: 17.11.07
'Oh the Romance' LP (2005)
'Everybody Calm Down' EP (2004)
'The Understudy' EP (2003)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2005
Band Website: abandcalledironon.com
Band Members: Kate Cooper, Ross Hope, Marieca Page & Ian Rogers
Influences: Sandpit, Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab For Cutie, Magic Dirt, Rilo Kiley, Archers Of Loaf, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, ...And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Art of Fighting, You Am I, Shellac, Failure, Elastica, (early) Something For Kate, The Bites, Turnpike, Low, Autolux, Giant Drag, Guided by Voices, Portastatic, The Shins, Tegan and Sara, Unwound, Blonde Redhead, Interpol, Pedro The Lion, The Stooges and Jebediah.

...and Lars von Trier and Hip-Hopera.

Sounds Like: Sandpit, Magic Dirt, Further, Last Days Of April, Cursive, Pedro The Lion, Sleater-Kinney, Superchunk, Seafood, Death Cab For Cutie, Art Of Fighting and Rilo Kiley.
Record Label: Ruth Street Records/INERTIA
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Vote for IRON ON in Triple J’s Hottest 100!

Happy new year to you all! I hope you all had awesome holidays and didn't get too pissed, or bring in 2008 hugging a toilet bowl like I did. Hmm...let's hope that's not an omen. "Clean slate 2008" ...
Posted by Iron On on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:34:00 PST

IRON ON - THE VERSE Brisbane launch this Saturday @ the Zoo.

Hey all   We are launching our new EP the Verse in Brisbane at the Zoo this Saturday 8th December. Tickets are $10 and we will be joined by the fabulous Butcher Birds and the ever so lovely Vio...
Posted by Iron On on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:22:00 PST

We sailed safely last weekend. We loved lovers.

So after over 12 months of head scratching, song writing and wondering exactly when Iron On was going to tour again, last weekend we did. 2 shows in 2 different towns in 2 nights. Easy. Made even easi...
Posted by Iron On on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:14:00 PST

OH MY GOD! THE VERSE THIS SATURDAY! WHAT??

So, all has gone to plan and our new e.p. THE VERSE will hit shelves, the un dead, lovers and good record stores on Saturday!AND the new film clip for "One Man Band" is going to be on Rage on Friday n...
Posted by Iron On on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:39:00 PST

"The Verse" out THIS SATURDAY 17th November.

Hey sailorsWe thought we should check in. Make sure you are okay. Make sure you are wearing sun block and thinking carefully about politics. We also thought we should let you know a few things...First...
Posted by Iron On on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:54:00 PST

Free download of One Man Band on JJJ!

Hey Pen Friends   Just checking in. It's Friday and all. I know a lot of you office workers will be looking for a little procrastination with your morning coffee. And I know you school/uni studen...
Posted by Iron On on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:29:00 PST

WOW, thanks Rosie’s!!!

Greetings all,So our show this Friday OCT 19th at Rosie's has been canceled. Why? I wish I could tell you. It seems the venue got a 'better offer' and decided to can us, and put on an entirely diff...
Posted by Iron On on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:38:00 PST

Request ’One Man Band’ on TRIPLE J

Howdy Everyone,We're very excited to announce that 'One Man Band' the first single from our forthcoming EP 'The Verse' has been added to rotation on Triple J.  At this stage it's only spot rotoat...
Posted by Iron On on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:09:00 PST

IRON ON NEW EP, MP3 & TOUR

A big thank you to all who came to our ALL AGES wedding party yesterday. We had a lot of fun. We must mention Nick - winner of the best wedding dance! We do hope you get married soon so we can come to...
Posted by Iron On on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:38:00 PST

IRON ON STREET TEAM and Giveaways!

So I know, I know, I know we have been alluding to some news from camp iron on. It's coming I promise. In the industry they call this building suspense. Which industry? Well you decide. I have always ...
Posted by Iron On on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:42:00 PST