Jakarta Criers

Artist info

Genre

Indie, Rock

Sounds like

Birds of Tokyo, Smashing Pumpkins, Silversun Pickups

band members

James Walker - Vocals/Guitars, Seaton Fell-Smith - Lead Guitar, Wil Logan - Drums & Percussion, Will Rowles - Bass

Influences

Silverchair, Paul Dempsey, Queens Of The Stone Age

Website

jakartacriers.com.au/

Bio

Jakarta Criers’ upcoming second EP is a massive progressive step into a new sound. It is a concentration of all the best parts of the band to date, from their debut EP ‘Moonlife’, 2014 singles ‘Alright For Me’ and ‘Long Way Round’, and the members’ experiences together and individually. Teaming up with Australian producer Jean-Paul Fung (Birds of Tokyo, Last Dinosaurs, Lime Cordiale) has been a telling step in the right direction, whose influence has focussed the band’s greatest musical elements and characteristics to open up a bright future for the band.

The EP’s first single ‘Medicine’ heads a group of songs the strongest the band has written. The track is vintage Jakarta Criers, powerful melodies and intricate lyrics, but with a new defined sound, representing the best of Jakarta Criers’ new direction.

Management contact: Lachlan Hodgson @ Trusty Chords Music lachlan@trustychordsmusic.com

Featured Artist

2013

Jan

Jakarta Criers

Indie
Rock

(

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Brisbane, QLD

Brisbane 4-piece Jakarta Criers make some excellent melody-driven rock music and are one of the winners of our Big Day Out competition. Catch them opening the Essential Stage of the Gold Coast Big Day Out on Sunday 20th Jan.

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Tell us about your music - how did you develop your sound?

Three of the four of us have been playing music together since the time before deep voices and impressive beards. We went through many genres to get where we are today including progressive metal, pop rock and hoome (mongolian throat singing). Today we play a brand of good old fashioned melodic, indie rock that reflects the bands, melodies, grooves and sounds that the four of us all share a common love for...

You’re one of the winners of our Big Day Out competition and will be opening the Essential Stage of the Gold Coast Big Day Out - what can BDO punters expect from the Jakarta Criers live show?

Performing live for us is the best part of being in a band together. It's a feeling that's very hard to replicate. You can liken it to meditation in that all thoughts, worries and everyday shit all disappear for a while. When a crowd feeds off that energy everyone is left feeling pretty good... We also tear shit up on occasion as well ;)

Tell us about the bands, producers and people in the Queensland music community that inspire you?

This may sound kinda lame but EVERYONE! The common goal of all involved in the local music community is to enjoy good music in one way or another. Whether you're a manager, performer, fan or a venue owner the core is music. The atmosphere at somewhere like THE ZOO or RIC'S on a loose Friday night is so far above that of the beer barns and seedy night clubs it's not funny. It's everyone involved that creates this...

What’s your earliest memory of seeing live Australian music?

Grade 6, Suncorp Piazza Southbank, underage concert, not long after they were unearthed...GRINSPOON!

What’s coming up for you in 2013?

We really want to get touring and playing live as much as possible; until we learn to meditate on our own it's the only way. Aside from that we'll look to get back in the studio in the winter time and hopefully have a full length ready by year's end. We''re putting together songs at the moment that are really exciting us............. in and around...

Australian music is…?

...based in Australia

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