The Snowdroppers
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The Snowdroppers are an Australian punk and rock band with Johnny Wishbone on lead vocals and banjo, Pauly K on guitar, Nick London on bass guitar and Cougar Jones on drums. Their debut album, Too Late to Pray, was released in 2009. The band toured the United States in March 2011.

History

The Snowdroppers are made up of Johnny Wishbone on lead vocals and banjo, Pauly K on guitar, Nick London on bass guitar and Cougar Jones on drums.
The band's sound draws influences from blues, rock, rockabilly and punk. Their debut album, Too Late to Pray, was released in 2009. According to Sputnikmusic
Sputnikmusic
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 the band "actually do a half-decent job of modernizing their bluesy rockabilly style, but it still falls a little short of resulting in a complete and accomplished debut".

The band have played at Australian festivals including Big Day Out
Big Day Out
The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...

, East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival
East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival
The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, also known as Byron Bay Bluesfest, is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia...

, Come Together Music Festival
Come Together Music Festival
Come Together is an all-ages Australian music festival performed at Luna Park Sydney. Beginning in 2005, it was originally two separate events, one in April and one in September. In 2006, a two-day festival was held in June , and the festival was again on the same long weekend in 2007...

, Village Fair
Village Fair
Village Fair is an annual music festival located in Bathurst, Australia which first started as a community Festival for students from rival dormitories of Charles Sturt University, Bathurst campus, in 1974...

, Peats Ridge, and Gympie Muster. In October 2010, they toured New Zealand supporting Gin Wigmore
Gin Wigmore
Virginia "Gin" Wigmore is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. In 2009, she featured on the single "Brother" by Smashproof, which reached #1 on the RIANZ singles charts for 11 weeks. In 2009 she released her debut album Holy Smoke...

. During early 2011, the group played six gigs across the United States including The Viper Room in Los Angeles and SXSW festival in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 in March.

EPs

  • Bottom of the Trough - Tenderloins (24 April 2008)
  • Bootleg - Tenderloins (22 November 2008)
  • Do the Stomp - Difrnt Music (10 April 2010)

Singles

  • "Rosemary" - Difrnt Music (21 September 2009)
  • "I've Been So Lonely Now Since You've Been Gone" - limited edition 7" vinyl
    Gramophone record
    A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

    (sold in 2011 at shows)
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