Basic shape
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Basic Shape are an Australian indie/pop/folk band based in Melbourne.
Their debut album Boat Without A Sail was released in April 2008 and was Album of The Week on ABC Tasmania. The album was recorded over three years at Audrey Studios and engineered and co-produced by Craig Pilkington from The Killjoys. The first single of the album White Skin also achieved play on several ABC radio stations around Australia. It was also Single Of The Week in Melbourne's Beat Magazine. The band are distributed through Green/MGM throughout Australia.
Basic Shape is based primarily on the songwriting partnership of guitarist Mick Carney and singer Gerry Eeman. The band was formed by accident in September 2002 when lead singer Gerry Eeman was offered a gig for his 'band' at Melbourne live music venue Bar Open in five days time. The band didn't actually exist so he then scrambled a few of his friends from Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
music program to play the show with him and these friends became the first line-up of the band.
Their debut album Boat Without A Sail was released in April 2008 and was Album of The Week on ABC Tasmania. The album was recorded over three years at Audrey Studios and engineered and co-produced by Craig Pilkington from The Killjoys. The first single of the album White Skin also achieved play on several ABC radio stations around Australia. It was also Single Of The Week in Melbourne's Beat Magazine. The band are distributed through Green/MGM throughout Australia.
Basic Shape is based primarily on the songwriting partnership of guitarist Mick Carney and singer Gerry Eeman. The band was formed by accident in September 2002 when lead singer Gerry Eeman was offered a gig for his 'band' at Melbourne live music venue Bar Open in five days time. The band didn't actually exist so he then scrambled a few of his friends from Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE is a TAFE institute located in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It has six city campuses located at Preston, Collingwood, Epping, Fairfield, Greensborough, Heidelberg, a country campus at Ararat, and country training facilities at Eden...
music program to play the show with him and these friends became the first line-up of the band.
Current line-up
- Gerry Eeman (also in The Guild LeagueThe Guild LeagueThe Guild League are an independent pop band from Melbourne, Australia. The Guild League's music can be broadly categorized as independent style pop, although their recorded output stretches from a rap style , to a cappella. Led by Tali White, the vocalist from The Lucksmiths, the band was...
) - Mick Carney
- Rob Callea
- John Beddoe