Peabody
Website: www.peabody.net.au
profile.myspace.com/peabodyband
Bio:
Starting in the mid-90s fresh out of high school, Sydney three-piece Peabody chose the road less travelled by mixing smart suits, Rickenbacker guitars, classic pop melodies and good old Australian pub sweat. The band recorded and self-released two EPs and also delivered literally hundreds of live shows before recording their debut album for Nonzero Records. Following the success of that album Professional Againster, Peabody is set to further impress audiences with the release of their stunning second album, The New Violence. After touring for most of the last 18 months with bands such as the Hoodoo Gurus, Spiderbait and Dallas Crane and having played at the Big Day Out, Homebake and Livid festivals, Peabody headed into Sydney’s Razor’s Edge studios and recorded The New Violence. Once again teaming up with producer Jamie Hutchings (Bluebottle Kiss) and engineer Dave Trump (The Church, Big Heavy Stuff) Peabody has created an album that well and truly walks over the boundaries of their previous work. Even before its release, The New Violence has already spawned one high rotation single – radio favourite, Got You On MyRadar, a song which took a hammering on Triple J throughout the summer months, peaking at #12 on Triple J’s weekly online poll, the NET 50. The commercial single also reached #13 on the AIR charts. Adding to the endorsement of the upcoming album, the band has also managed to secure a publishing deal with Australian music heavyweights, Ivy League Music on the strength of a 5-track sampler of The New Violence. Now, eighteen months after longtime drummer and friend Graeme Trewin decided to trade the high life of pub rock for domestic bliss, Peabody have re-grouped and broadened their focus. Jared Harrison, drummer with Sydney’s avant-rockers Bluebottle Kiss, joined the band in August 2006 and then in November 2006, guitarist Tristan Courtney-Prior joined to add his melodic riffs and colourful walls of noise to the mix. Transformed, Peabody have taken a handful of paintbrushes and a palette of colours to the bleak distopia of their previous album. Again working with producer Jamie Hutchings, The Devil For Sympathy is the first single from Prospero, the forthcoming third album from these Sydney indie stalwarts, celebrating the band’s triumph over adversity.
Peabody will be touring to support the new single, The Devil For Sympathy, throughout October and November.
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