Seaplane are a band from Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

 Featuring:

• Dale Peachey
• Stirling Bartlam
• Scott Brique

Two guitars and drums -  and a whole lotta fun....

Myspace: www.myspace.com/seaplane

SEAPLANE - SOIREE'

Single of the Week

Local noisy indie three piece Seaplane are one of those rare Brisbane bands who have managed to stay together for longer than ten minutes, humbly plugging away in the background while ‘next big things’ come and go. You’ll regularly see them as the opening act for bands who are often more popular but a lot less interesting, and like that other veritable institution of Brisbane indie Turnpike, seem to get better every year without anyone really paying any more attention. It’s been a few years since their last record Technical Difficulties and the emergence of this new promotional single ‘The Soiree’ indicates that more new material is just around the corner. And it’s a great track, bristling with energy – jangly distorted guitars that take their cues from The Pixies and Built To Spill and all that stuff. In true Seaplane style they manage to reference their own local rock scene in the lyrics; surely the Emerson that the vocalist says “has seen him do everything” is the legendary mixer/ engineer who has recorded most of the bands in town at some point? Backed with another great track ‘Dr Casino’, this is a pointer of more great music just around the corner from Seaplane, and just in time really

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