Skipping Girl Vinegar

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Skipping Girl Vinegar
Origin Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres Indie rock, acoustic, folk, indie pop
Years active 2005–present
Labels Popboomerang, MGM
Website www.skippinggirlvinegar.com
Members Chris Helm – drums, vocals
Mark Lang – guitars, banjo, vocals
Sare Lang – bass, vocals
Amanthi Lynch – keyboards, vocals
Kelly Lane – violin, sampler

Rambling Hobos: Matt Millar (percussion), Paris Gadsden (trombone), Andy Hazel (guitar, percussion), Rowan Austin (trumpet)

Skipping Girl Vinegar are a Melbourne-based indie rock band. The band comprises siblings Mark and Sare Lang and their respective childhood friends Chris Helm and Amanthi Lynch, and are named after the Audrey the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign, located in Abbotsford, Victoria.

2004–2007: Formation and "One Chance"

Forming in 2004 they wrote and rehearsed solidly before playing live locally in 2006.[1] Once playing they immediately secured support slots opening for larger acts such as Bob Evans, Shout Out Louds, The Lemonheads and Something For Kate before releasing the single "One Chance" and its filmclip.[2] This single received high rotation on Triple J radio,[3] and drew the attention of several major record labels which the band negotiated with before choosing to take their own label Secret Fox to the smaller, independent label Popboomerang with distribution through MGM Records.[4]

2008–2009: Sift The Noise

Skipping Girl Vinegar recorded their debut album Sift the Noise over a 14-month period "in living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and studios across Melbourne, as well as a beach shack in Aireys Inlet".[2] Sift the Noise was produced and recorded by Greg Arnold, Brisbane-based producer Caleb James and Mark Lang. The album has an intricate library-book-style packaging.

Critical reception

Upon release the album garnered positive reviews, cementing their position in the Australian music scene and opening them up to new audiences through the addition to commercial radio station playlists following its release. Rip It Up magazine in Adelaide and 'Rave Magazine in Brisbane both made the second single and title track their respective ‘Single of the Week’.[5]

JMAG and the Music Australia Guide (MAG) both gave the album 4.5 stars.[6] The title track was added to high rotation on JJJ and ABC local radio nationwide in February 2009. The accompanying animated clip for ‘Sift The Noise’ also received critical acclaim with Rage featuring it as the band's second ‘indie clip of the week’.[7]

Mark Lang’s intimate storytelling and smooth vocal delivery is the centerpiece of Skipping Girl Vinegar’s music. Dedicated to his parents [sic]'who died during the recording of Sift the Noise, the whole album has an uplifting, redemptive quality to it, despite being made “during the darkest of seasons”.
—Dom Alessio, Mess and Noise[8]

Dom Alessio's review mistakenly stated that the album is dedicated to Mark Lang's parents, who "died during the recording". In fact it was Mark Lang's grandparents, not his parents, who died during that time. This error was also echoed on several websites which also quote Alessio's review.[9]

Skipping Girl Vinegar's debut album is so goddamned beautiful I really could punch myself...veering smoothly between rousing and ruminative, bittersweet and simply sweet its hard to find fault with any track here... The term 'crafted' is often bandied around in album review wankery, but in this case that's exactly what SGV have done with Sift the Noise. This album hasn't been 'laid down' but carefully lovingly embroidered.
—Dom Alessio, Triple J[10]

Following the promotional tour, Skipping Girl Vinegar embarked on another nationwide tour entitled 'Songs From Cold Places' that previewed songs from their forthcoming album.

2010–present

March 2010 saw the release of the band's first single, "One Long Week", which heralded a harder and more dynamic sound.[11] The song was immediately playlisted by Triple J and other Australian radio stations.[12]

Skipping Girl Vinegar opened the Splendour in the Grass festival.[13] Days after the festival the band released another single, "Wasted". This also achieved widespread radio airplay [12] and heralded the beginning of their Drown It Out tour.,[14] as did following singles "Chase the Sun", "Making Our Way" and "You Can", taken from their third album "Keep Calm and Carry the Monkey".

In March 2012, the band performed on the Australian television programme Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight with their single "Chase the Sun" along with that week's "Classic".

Discography

Singles

  • 2008 - "One Chance"
  • 2009 - "Sift The Noise"
  • 2009 - "Sinking"
  • 2010 - "One Long Week"
  • 2010 - "Wasted"
  • 2011 - "Here She Comes"
  • 2011 - "You Can"
  • 2011 - "Chase the Sun"
  • 2013 - "Making our Way"
  • 2014 - "West Coast"

Albums

Compilation albums

  • 2010 - Key of Sea

References

  1. ↑ "Unearthed:Skipping Girl Vinegar". Triple J. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lang, Sare (12 March 2008). "Biography". Skipping Girl Vinegar. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  3. ↑ Weekly Times Messenger, 1 October 2008, "Skipping to a pure pop beat" by Melissa Phillips
  4. ↑ Thurling, Scott (18 June 2008). "Sift The Noise". Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  5. ↑ "Skipping Girl Vinegar". All Things Music. HotSource. 8 September 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  6. ↑ Green, Martin (3 October 2008). "Debut album 'Sift The Noise'". band profile. LifeMusicMedia. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  7. ↑ Collinson, Sarah (9 September 2009). "Skipping Girl Vinegar". Sydney Fringe Festival. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  8. ↑ Alessio, Dom (11 April 2009). "'Sift The Noise' - Skipping Girl Vinegar". album review. Mess+Noise. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  9. ↑ Helm, Christopher. Personal communication, 2011-10-15.
  10. ↑ Valentish, Jenny (8 September 2010). "Sift The Noise - Skipping Girl Vinegar". album review. J Mag. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  11. ↑ Robertson, Sabrina (11 March 2010). "Skipping Girl Vinegar - One Long Week". Sabi's Aus Music Blog. wordpress. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Skipping Girl Vinegar". JPlay. jplay. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  13. ↑ Shedden, Ian (30 July 2010). "Skipping Girl Vinegar rises from the mud to kick off Splendour in the Grass". The Australian. The Australian. Retrieved 19 October 2010. 
  14. ↑ Turner, Lauren (8 August 2010). "Skipping Girl Vinegar Get Wasted and Drown it Out". Retrieved 19 October 2010. 

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