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The Drones are an Australian rock group who rose to prominence during the early noughties. Unlike most modern rock groups, they were influenced by an eclectic bunch of bands including Bad Brains, Suicide, Red On Green, The Birthday Party, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone. Perth is the name of several towns and cities: In Australia: Perth, Western Australia is the state capital city of Western Australia and fourth-largest city in Australia. ...
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In 2006, up against other notable bands such as The Devastations, Tex, Don And Charlie and Ben Lee, they won the inaugural Australian Music Prize for independent artists. As a band kicking away from the conventional modern rock played by such bands as The Strokes and The Hives, they rose to popularity via their incendiary live shows. They have released two full length albums: 'Here Come The Lies' and 'Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Come Floating By'. They are prone to playing high energy melodic rock one second and then breaking away into a bluesy dirge the next second. The TeX logo The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby ΤΕΧ, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ...
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The Drones formed in Perth in 1999. In early 2001, Rui and Gareth headed east and for some reason settled in Sydney. There they lived in a Mitsubishi van on a dumped mattress with two mutts for three weeks before heading south, to stay in the shittiest caravan park in all of grey Victoria. They survived low-rent Saturday night fevers of violence before finding a bass player and a drummer. The new Drones were formed.
They recorded their manic, poetic debut album, Here Comes The Lies, soon afterwards. It was an exuberant, soulful, harshly beautiful and darkly comical affair. It also received huge praise all over the world and is now heralded as an Australian classic.
In 2005, after innumerable headline shows, a slew of singles, compilation tracks and a successful tour of Europe and the US, the Drones are at the height of their powers.
Discography
Albums Self titled - 2001
Here come the lies - 2002
Wait Long By The River & The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By - 2005
The Miller's Daughter - 2005 - Spanish Press
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