Nov 07
22
The Galvatrons - ‘Cassandra’
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Saw this band at Third Class, a trashy night club off Flinders Lane in Melbourne, just before I left for my overseas trip. I was tipped off by a few industry types to see this band so I had my bullshit detector on when I saw them. A friend of mine summed it up perfectly: “they were a great band with no great songs. Yet.” The lead singer Johnny is definitely a natural performer and quite entertaining to watch. Their whole “we’re a band from outta space” routine works well too with the 80s Van Halen riffs. There’s a lot of Wolfmother or Airbourne-ish retro novelty to it, which can always work as long as they’re the first ones to capitalise on it.
We’ll probably a lot more from them in the near future as they are rumoured to wrap up an Australian deal anytime now and the international labels offers are coming in. Once a year there are buzz bands like this who pick up worldwide deals before their 20th gig. Always interesting to watch how they handle all the sudden attention.
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saw them at Meredith over the weekend and they were a whole lot of fun
I saw these guys completely by accident yesterday at the Big Day Out (on my way to another gig), and they were easily the best gig of the day
yeah i saw them at big day out as well. easily best act for the day. everyone get on board
saw these guys with shihad very good although jon is a little sensitive.
Oh nooo I disagree! The Galvatrons are an abomination to music. They’re the ultimate in insincere, jokey Darkness style rock - the label are going to screw them of one album and then dump them once we’re all sick of the gimmick.
I love these guys, haven’t seen them in concert but would love too. I heard them on video hits and can’t get enough of them.
yay!!!!!!!!!
im loving this hot band their lead singer is so hot does any1 know where i can grab the lyrics from so me and my bffl can go psycho???
xoxox
Saw them by accident on you tube. Their song “When We Were Kids” is a corker!! The deserve a lot of acclaim for that song alone. You can’t not like it.
Well done to them and all the best I say.
Fucking good band. I like them.. secretly
OOOOOOOOOOOh my gawwwwwwwwd man I think the lyrics are just soooooooo outta this world,cant help wishing i had made up this soooooooo hard song,,nooooooooo wonder all your friends went over seas.LOL
They are the best ever!!!!!!! I love them!!! there awesome!!!
this band is a copy of the darkness with the out of space theme, and guitaring and they look like bloc party LOL
this is a gimmick thing! stinks!
yawn. wank. boring. move along. hack. spew. whatever. I don’t know which is more disturbing - the pathetic attempt at grammatical prowess of the article author or the smiley glad hand posts felching their aura. Am sure they’ll sign to Modular…am also sure in 3 years time no one will remember and they will then re-invent as a spoken word neo-goth porn electro band from Uranus…or whatever Vice Mag would give 9 stars to.
Move over to the pits lane people…real artists are racing here!
i think these guys are fkn awesome…. first heard em on video hits or sumthin like that ….one of those video shows…. im in to the retro stuff so i think they r pretty cool… but still not sure if theyre gonna go big time…
i love this band they are one my favs
You people scare me. To think I share public transport with you. Don’t you have an ounce of taste. Fuck.