The Open Season
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The Open Season were a four piece alternative rock band from South Australia
.
The Open Season formed in December 2004, they have supported bands such as Motion City Soundtrack
, Behind Crimson Eyes
, Matchbook Romance
, Mere Theory
, After The Fall
, Lagwagon
, Kisschasy
, Gyroscope
, In The Grey, Forgetting Yesterday, Angela's Dish, Straylight Run
, Sunset Avenue, Something With Numbers
, Trial Kennedy
, Horsell Common
, The Hot Lies
, and The Getaway Plan
. The Open Season have toured nationally numerous times.
The group is known for combining gutsy Aussie rock vocals and heavy guitar riffs. In 2005 the band signed with label Pee Records and released an EP
, Chase. The EP debuted at no 1 on the SA Real Music Charts (AWESAM) and sold out of its first pressing within a few weeks. Tracks from Chase have received airplay on Nova FM and Australian national youth radio station Triple J
, including being voted by the Australian public as one of the Top 40 charted releases of 2005 on Stuart Harvey's Short Fast Loud on Triple J
.
Local dB magazine said in regards to a live show they played "Pleasant surprise number one: Adelaide's own The Open Season. Despite the fact that I love their debut CD-EP 'The Chase', I'd only managed to check the guys out live once before, and a horrible mix at Fowler's left me disappointed with their live show. Tonight, however, with a crisp mix blasting out of the Uni Bar front of house, The Open Season proved themselves impressively tight and entertainingly energetic. This band is ace; if you like a bit of emo and you aren't into local music yet, buy 'The Chase' and get down to an Open Season show. Now. "
BLUNT magazine noted "The Open Season really seem to know what they're doing, and what they're doing is leading a substantial change."
In an interview with dB magazine, The Open Season talked of how the band formed "I was surprised at their youth, given their accomplished and solid sound. I'd assumed they'd have been older, or at least had some sort of serious Adelaide band credentials. "Well, nothing really that established,' McGrath shrugs when I ask whether they'd been in previous groups. "We're only, like, 21, but me and Damo [Slattery], the bass player, we had been in a pop-punk band called Too Many Malcolms. Then we started a band called Open Season, but that fell through and we just recycled the name. And Travis [Wright, drums] and Jeremy [Gryst, guitar] had been in a few things, but I don't know if they'd actually played shows. We just started out a three-piece - I'd met Trav probably a year before we started jamming properly - and we tried to get a few songs together and then decided we should get a second guitar player, so Jez came in."
The band released a second EP, Before We Start on 13 June 2007 on Pee Records.
The Open Season played their last show on Friday 29 February 2008 at Fowlers Live in Adelaide.
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
.
The Open Season formed in December 2004, they have supported bands such as Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997. The band consists of founding members Justin Pierre and Joshua Cain , along with keyboardist and moog synthesist Jesse Johnson, bassist and backing vocalist Matthew Taylor, and drummer, percussionist and...
, Behind Crimson Eyes
Behind Crimson Eyes
Behind Crimson Eyes is a band based in Australia. The band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004. Their line up currently consists of vocalist Josh Stuart, bassist Garth Buchanan, guitarist/back up vocalist Aaron Schultz and Dan Kerby as drummer....
, Matchbook Romance
Matchbook Romance
Matchbook Romance was an American rock band from Poughkeepsie, New York and was formed in 1997.were signed to Epitaph Records. They released two full length albums and one EP...
, Mere Theory
Mere Theory
Mere Theory are an Australian indie rock band that formed in Adelaide's southern suburbs in the year 2000.-History:The band has released two EPs: Towering Sun in 2002, and Disengage in 2004, both through Building Records...
, After The Fall
After the Fall
After the Fall may refer to:* After the Fall , an Australian musical group* After the Fall * After the Fall * After the Fall , a novel in the Dragonriders of Pern series...
, Lagwagon
Lagwagon
Lagwagon is an American punk rock band originally from Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California. They formed in 1990 and went on hiatus and reunited several times over the years...
, Kisschasy
Kisschasy
Kisschasy are an Australian rock band formed in Victoria, Australia, in 2002. Since forming, their line-up has consisted of lead vocalist Darren Cordeux, bassist Joel Vanderuit, guitarist Sean Thomas and drummer Karl Ammitzboll....
, Gyroscope
Gyroscope (band)
Gyroscope is an Australian rock band from Perth, Western Australia, formed in 1997. The band comprises vocalist and guitarist Daniel Sanders, guitarist and back up vocalist Zoran Trivic, bassist and back up vocalist Brad Campbell and drummer Rob Nassif....
, In The Grey, Forgetting Yesterday, Angela's Dish, Straylight Run
Straylight Run
Straylight Run was an indie rock band based in Baldwin, New York. Two of the members, Nolan and Cooper, had been members of Taking Back Sunday and have now rejoined that band. Their final releases are the EPs About Time and Un Mas Dos, preceded by the full-length album entitled The Needles The...
, Sunset Avenue, Something With Numbers
Something with Numbers
Something with Numbers is a rock band based in Australia. The band was formed on the New South Wales Central Coast, in Australia, in 2001. They have released an EP and three studio albums in their 7 year career...
, Trial Kennedy
Trial Kennedy
Trial Kennedy are an Australian rock band formed in 2002, in Melbourne, Victoria.-Early work:Forming in 2002, Trial Kennedy's first release was an independent extended play , Present for a Day, in 2004. However, it was not until 2006's Picture Frame EP that the band began amounting some form of...
, Horsell Common
Horsell Common
Horsell Common are an Australian band from Melbourne, Victoria. They made their live debut in early 2002, following this up with a string of EPs, and released their first full-length album The Rescue on 29 September 2007...
, The Hot Lies
The Hot Lies
The Hot Lies were an alternative rock band based in Australia. The band formed in Adelaide, Australia, in 2004. Their line-up consisted of lead vocalist Pete Wood, rhythm guitarist Benjamin Pix, drummer Jared Brown, lead guitarist Luke Szabo and former I Killed the Prom Queen bassist Leaton Rose...
, and The Getaway Plan
The Getaway Plan
The Getaway Plan are an Australian alternative rock band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed in 2004. The band comprises vocalist and guitarist Matthew Wright, guitarist Clint Splattering, bassist Dave Anderson and drummer Aaron Barnett....
. The Open Season have toured nationally numerous times.
The group is known for combining gutsy Aussie rock vocals and heavy guitar riffs. In 2005 the band signed with label Pee Records and released an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Chase. The EP debuted at no 1 on the SA Real Music Charts (AWESAM) and sold out of its first pressing within a few weeks. Tracks from Chase have received airplay on Nova FM and Australian national youth radio station Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
, including being voted by the Australian public as one of the Top 40 charted releases of 2005 on Stuart Harvey's Short Fast Loud on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
.
Local dB magazine said in regards to a live show they played "Pleasant surprise number one: Adelaide's own The Open Season. Despite the fact that I love their debut CD-EP 'The Chase', I'd only managed to check the guys out live once before, and a horrible mix at Fowler's left me disappointed with their live show. Tonight, however, with a crisp mix blasting out of the Uni Bar front of house, The Open Season proved themselves impressively tight and entertainingly energetic. This band is ace; if you like a bit of emo and you aren't into local music yet, buy 'The Chase' and get down to an Open Season show. Now. "
BLUNT magazine noted "The Open Season really seem to know what they're doing, and what they're doing is leading a substantial change."
In an interview with dB magazine, The Open Season talked of how the band formed "I was surprised at their youth, given their accomplished and solid sound. I'd assumed they'd have been older, or at least had some sort of serious Adelaide band credentials. "Well, nothing really that established,' McGrath shrugs when I ask whether they'd been in previous groups. "We're only, like, 21, but me and Damo [Slattery], the bass player, we had been in a pop-punk band called Too Many Malcolms. Then we started a band called Open Season, but that fell through and we just recycled the name. And Travis [Wright, drums] and Jeremy [Gryst, guitar] had been in a few things, but I don't know if they'd actually played shows. We just started out a three-piece - I'd met Trav probably a year before we started jamming properly - and we tried to get a few songs together and then decided we should get a second guitar player, so Jez came in."
The band released a second EP, Before We Start on 13 June 2007 on Pee Records.
The Open Season played their last show on Friday 29 February 2008 at Fowlers Live in Adelaide.
Albums/EPs
- Chase — Pee Records (PCD007) (2005)
- Before We Start — Pee Records (PCD018) (13 June 2007)
External links
- Myspace Site
- Pee Records
- The Open Season on Mp3.com.au
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