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The Smokestack Orchestra
Genre: Rock
Region: Brisbane, QLD
Members: Scarecrow Wallace - guitar left/mouth, Dean Hunt - guitar right/slide, Skritch - drums
Sounds Like: morphine, Clutch, Tom Waits
Influences: Girls, Cars, Particle Accelerators

Existing in one form or another since the industrial revolution (18th century), with alumni including James Watt and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, The Smokestack Orchestra has spent two centuries underground, embedded in a coal seam, reaching maturity. The current incarnation was born in an oil refinery on the outskirts of Brisbane in 2001, and has since performed with the likes of Machine Gun Fellatio, Giants of Science, Intercooler and Rollerball. NEW & IMPROVED Smokestack Orchestra now includes at no extra charge master tub-thumper Skritch (Beasts of Bourbon, Tex Perkins' Dark Horses, Mary Trembles), along with all your regular favourite flavours. The Smokestack Orchestra also recently made Jesse "The Devil" Hughes' Unearthed playlist! Debut Album "Salute Heavy Industry" out this Winter!

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Girl
rating:  5/5
Yet another great Brisbane band. You can really hear the Morphine influence on this track, with a taste of Nick Cave to boot.




Heavy Rail
rating:  5/5
This song reminds me of driving to the coast for a surf!! if this song does'nt end up on a surfing sound track I'll be surprised!!!




Girl
rating:  5/5
its great to hear such rock. I wanna see theses guys getting sweaty at my local!!!!!




Tractor
rating:  5/5
woooooooooooooooooooooow!!! thats some dirty fucking rock there!! hip swaying rock!!!! ohhhh yeahhhhh!!!
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This project is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through its Music Board Section.