The Red Paintings
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| The Red Paintings | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Brisbane, Australia | |
| Genre(s) | Art rock | |
| Website | Official website | |
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| Trash McSweeney Ellen Stancombe Amanda Holmes Andy Davis |
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The Red Paintings are an experimental art rock band from Brisbane, Australia. The band consists of Trash McSweeney on lead vocals, guitar, sequencing and samples; Ellen Stancombe (violin, tin whistle, vocals); Amanda Holmes (bass) and Andy Davis (drums).
The band is well known for their unique and confronting live performances, in which the band members dress in elaborate costumes ranging from geisha outfits to alien suits. They often invite members of the audience to paint on blank canvases during their shows, and consider each gig an experiment as well as a performance.
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[edit] History
The release of the Walls EP, came at a busy time for the band. They officially relocated from Geelong to Brisbane. They played a set at Livid 2003 (Brisbane) and Fuse Festival (Adelaide).
Following this was a National Tour that visited each capital city and all regional areas. With 2004 came the release of their single, "Rain". They, then moved to their second headlining tour. It began with Brisbane's Valley Fiesta which promoted their new release.
In 2005, the band released the 'Virgin Mary Tour Album, 'Your tears are warning signs' which, without any distribution or label support was the most sold album for over two weeks in Brisbane CD stores. Then came "Walls" with high rotation on Triple J and other commercial radio stations.
Then, The Red Paintings played Australian's Big Day Out Festival in front of thousands of people. They proceeded to tour China for the 'Your Tears are warning signs' tour, then returned in March to tour with New Zealand band, Evermore.
The band has created regular 'theme' shows, such as the 2005 The Nightmare Before Christmas show in Brisbane at the Judith Wright Centre, of which the stage was covered in sets harking from Tim Burton films. Other theme shows the band have created include Andy Warhol, Mark Ryden, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and more recently their "Destroy The Robots" trilogy tour.
In 2006 they released their latest EP Destroy the Robots that picked up high rotation on Triple J and other commercial and independent radio stations including UK stations. The band also headlined two Australian national tours and played to a packed house at The Great Escape Festival in Sydney, before supporting Scottish band Mogwai and then the The Dresden Dolls on their recent tour of Australia, New Zealand, England and the US.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Cinema Love (2002)
- The Virgin Mary Australian Tour Acoustic/Strings Album (2004)
[edit] EPs
- Angel Flummox EP (1999)
- Reality (Ahead of Schedule) EP (2000)
- Walls EP (2005)
- Destroy The Robots EP (2006)
[edit] Singles
- "Rain" (2004)
