Videos
Backstage at Frightened Rabbit
A short video of us hanging backstage at The Hi-Fi in Melbourne before we opened for Frightened Rabbit.
Particular mention should be made of Greg’s spectacular entrance.
Montpelier Announced as Frightened Rabbit Support
One of our favourite bands, Frightened Rabbit from Scotland, is touring Australia very soon with shows in Melbourne, Sydney and an appearance at Splendour in the Grass.
We’ve just been announced as the support for the Melbourne show on Monday August 2 at The Hi-Fi. Words don’t really describe how good this is.
Tickets available here: http://www.thehifi.com.au/events/frightened-rabbit-7762/
Making of the Montpelier EP
In June last year we were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to fly over to the USA to make a record with a producer named Kevin Augunas who has made records with Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and Yves Klein Blue to name a few. Don’t ask us why he wanted to work with a small, independent band from Brisbane, but we are incredibly grateful that he did.
Kevin worked out of an amazing studio called Fairfax Recordings in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, which was more like a museum of awesome vintage gear than any traditional studio we’d ever seen before. We were over there for about 2 weeks and it was one of the best experiences a new band could possibly hope to have had when starting out I think.
Here’s a bit of a video of our time in the studio with Kevin making our debut self-titled EP.
Climbing the Hollywood Sign
While we were in Los Angeles last year recording our EP with Kevin Augunas, one day before going into the studio, Kevin decided to take us on a climb up to the Hollywood sign. At the time we didn’t realise that it was ludicrously illegal to climb up to the sign and that it was freaking difficult to get to.
After hiking for a couple of hours we finally reached the sign, bruised and bleeding, only to set off motion detectors and an alarm. We stayed up there long enough to get some footage of us sitting on the first “L” before a park ranger came out and chased us away.
If Kevin wasn’t seven feet tall and didn’t pioneer the way through the scrub we probably wouldnt’ have made it. It was ridiculously good fun though and no one in LA would actually believe we went up there.
Start a War in a Bookstore
While we were on tour in Sydney we played an acoustic gig at this little bookstore cafe. Greg and Dave went to find a place to do vocal warmups and stumbled upon an awesome room in the downstairs part of the shop. We felt inspired to record a song down there. So here’s Start a War in a Bookstore.
