Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra
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Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra are a 6 piece Melbourne band. Members are Martin Martini (Vocals, Keyboard), Sam Ekkehardt Dunscombe (Clarinet), Natasha Rose (Guitar), James Macaulay (Trombone), Jules Pascoe (Base) and Arron Light (Drums/Percussion).
‘Think Baz Luhrmann meets Tim Burton, think The Cat Empire with manic depression.’ Beat Magazine
Martin Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra are a raucous downtrodden gypsy rock band from the north side of Melbourne Australia that formed in 2005. They are renowned for their unique high energetic infectious stage shows and their bastard bent distinctive song writing. An untamed let out of the cage line up, they collectively drag their lost and beaten songs out of the gutter and onto the stage.
‘Fat Vaudevillian Rock n Roll….. Expect to be seduced and appalled in equal measure’ Lily Bragge, The Age
With an ever increasing cult following hooked on their unique and addictive music it is not hard to see why Martin Martini and The Bone Palace Orchestra have booked out shows at the prestigious Famous Spiegeltent Melbourne and as the band of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2006, the HiFi Ballroom as the resident house band during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2006/2007, Woodford Folk Festival 2005/2006, St Kilda Festival 2006, played the Cabaret Festivals for Sydney 2006 and Brisbane 2007 at The Studio at The Sydney Opera House and the Brisbane Powerhouse, Hobart Fringe Festival 2008, and The Deep Roots Festival 2008.
‘The most original band of this or any era, while they could be from anytime in history one thing is certain. They are not from this dimension. 5 stars’ Dave Callan, Triple J Radio
The 2008 release of "We're All Just Monkeys" lurches like a drunk driver between decades, musical styles and desolate rages. 'I Love You Like A Knife' is a booze-soaked retro soul number; the kind of song you'd slow dance to at the wedding of a couple you just know aren't going to make it. The first single, the jungle ska number 'Monkey & Sardine', is the classic tale of the monkey who falls in love with a sardine. 'Dusty Love and Bedlam' -"coffee and tobacco is how the baby's made" - is a hard-edged rock and roll piece with horns and fierce 70's guitar solos. 'I Caught Jesus Sleeping In' is a lazy Sunday morning, angry, swamp reggae epic, chiding christ for his weaknesses and humanity. 'Girls On Bicycles', which could have been written by Gershwin, has a yearning 1920's feel, and 'We're All Going To Die' is Rage Against The Machine death rattle with a sense of humour; we're all going to die, "so everybody smile". We're All Just Monkeys sounds as though Elvis and Roy Orbison were thrown into the jungle and spent 40 years sweating, kicking, and devolving.
Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra are managed by Vaughan Joseph Allison of Red Balloon Artist Management.
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[edit] Discography
The band has released three CDs to date: Live at the Rainbow (2005) Dream Until You Die (2006) We're All Just Monkeys (2008)
[edit] Awards
- Martin Martini was nominated for a Green Room award in 2005, for best original music score, for his opera “Lucky Town” which he performed with the Bone Palace Orchestra and guests at the Melbourne 2005 Fringe Festival
[edit] Trivia
- Martin Martini found his band while traveling on public transport. The initial concept for the band was to employ a troop of musical dwarfs, though this was harder to implement than originally planned an alternate strategy was formulated.
- All but one track is written in a minor key.
- Martin Martini’s “tap” spectacular was first performed at the Famous Spiegeltent, March 2006 (Adelaide Fringe Festival).
