Galleon - 'Kamikaze' by HeapsaWill
Named after their favourite St Kilda café, four piece Adelaide based Indie-rock band Galleon was born in mid 2008.
Says frontman Nick Deegan “we were recording a bunch of songs in Melbourne with the four of us, and we still didn’t have a name. During these recording sessions I would leave the studio to write lyrics at this local café called galleon. We had a bunch of potential names, but Galleon ended up feeling like the most appropriate.”
With drummer Ryan Robinson, bassist Tim Anderson and guitarist Brad Iversen completing the line up, Galleon spent the best part of 2009 writing and recording what would be their debut release, a small collection of songs hand-picked out of roughly 30 other songs which were written alongside them. The songs, which later this year will form the band’s debut album, were engineered and mixed by ARIA nominated Jimi Maroudas (Eskimo Joe, The Living End, The Little Stevies), and produced by Patrick ‘Patch’ Robertson, singer/songwriter of now defunct Australian rock band Motorace.
Explains Deegan “we purposely gave ourselves time to record the album at our own pace, and hence the recording process was very chilled at times. I wrote the skeleton of one of our songs during a lunch break. Patch and I then recorded the bed track to this, and wrote the rest of the parts together over the remainder of the day.”
The first of these songs to fall on public ears is ‘Kamikaze’, a song schizophrenic in nature and a good first impression of galleon’s knack for light and shade. Says Deegan: “Kamikaze to me is about transition of youth to adulthood and everything in between. Kamikaze was the word that best described the amount of new, cool and fucked up shit you go through in such a small period of your life, in that sometimes life is seamless and sometimes you crash and burn. Overall we live and learn…”
Alongside the writing and recording, Galleon has taken time out to play a handful of shows between 2008 and now. Such shows have included Schutzenfest w/ the Galvatrons, Ed Castle w/ The young Heretics, The National Jack Daniels tour and the 2010 Clipsal 500 after race concert w/ British India and Eskimo Joe to name but a few.
With national tour dates TBA in support of the forthcoming album, Kamikaze single launch dates took place in Adelaide a fortnight back and Melbourne this week;
Saturday May 15th @ 'Spensers Live, Melbourne
W/ Matheson
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