Grand Atlantic Interview: SXSW 2010
- Posted on Mar 11th 2010 8:32PM by Matthew Wilkening
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Brisbane, Australia's Grand Atlantic and their latest album 'How We Survive' made many 2009 year-end best of lists in their home country. The Courier Mail declared "the power-pop treat that is 'How We Survive' is bristling with muscular but always melodic tunes." Surprisingly positive response at US radio to the first single from the album has the band performing on our shores for the first time, culminating in a series of shows at this year's SXSW. We spoke to founding bassist Sean Bower as he and his bandmates were exploring Chicago by foot recently.Describe your sound in your own words:
Well, with the fear of narrowing things down too much, we play Australian power pop, indie rock -- you know, guitar rock with plenty of melody in there.
How did your band form?
The band started in 2006 with Phil and myself, I play bass, he's the principle songwriter, guitarist and singer. We had another guitarist and drummer at that time. Morgan (guitar) and Matt (drums) joined about a year or two after that. This is Grand Atlantic, now, it feels like we're set with this as the band. If anything changed, we'd have to review the whole situation, it's working really well.
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