That Adelaide Band

 Adelaide band TESTEAGLES performed on the local and national music scene for many years and certainly pushed the boundaries of genre as they toggled between metal, hip-hop, trip-hop and heavy alternative sounds. Many current Australian acts cite TESTEAGLES as an influence on their band and back when TESTEAGLES worked in Adelaide there was an exciting cult-feel at the time as Matty, Ady and D dominated the music scene with high-profile headline slots, festival appearances and heavy rotation on national radio. I caught up with Ady(drums) and he threw me some stories and a bit of an insight of where the band is up to now.  Thanks for speaking to me, today! It’s an honor to catch up with such a band that influenced many acts such as The Butterfly Effect and Cog + more. How did the Testeagles form and what brought the band together in the early days of the Adelaide music scene. We were almost forced together initially.  Matty and I being brothers were both very passionate and...

  Thanks for chatting to That Adelaide Band! Have managed to see Street Legal live and I find the consistent on-stage look really appealing! What was the reason for this? I mean, usually a lot of bands just adopt an individual image but you have stood out by adopting your own, unique look.. Heyo, no problem - thanks for having us! When we came together we wanted to have a bit of a uniformity to our look rather than just doing the same old thing. I guess we were inspired by Noel Crombie from Split Enz (who played in the band and also made their suits) as well as the Jonathan Demme concert film 'Stop Making Sense' and really loved the theatricality of a collective uniform. I want to further incorporate that into our stagecraft, since I kinda love how that can add to the songwriting. Unfortunately we hadn't anticipated a couple of other bands with a similar vibe (they are only red coveralls afterall) and tire a bit of the Slipknot references so expect us to change it up a bit ...

  Met Shyla at the SA Music Awards and she murmured something to me about being a singer but wasn’t until I saw her perform at Memphis Slims that I truly understood the Shyla Eve experience! Shyla is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter performing around Adelaide and she’s determined to push all the boundaries and get her music to as many people as possible! So, a few days ago we had a latte and she filled me on what joins her dots with music!   1.        What lead you into music? You have this incredible, raspy singing voice that lends itself to 50’s and 60’s blues greats like Sharon Jones and Koko Taylor. When did you first discover you could sing like that? Music has always been part of my life and grew up around it. I started writing songs on my acoustic guitar when I was 14 but can also play piano. About a year ago I began singing at open mic nights   at the Grace Emily and Memphis Slims. It was then I started listening to Blues music...

I recently caught up with sister-duo Ella & Sienna and threw a few questions at 'em about what makes the cogs turn in their on-going pursuit to win audiences over with their catchy-melodic country-pop. The girls have already ventured to the USA and looking like another trip hopefully in the not too distant future so they can build their fan-base and tell everyone they're from Adelaide!    Ella & Sienna, appreciate you chatting to That Adelaide Band! I’d like to know what led you to appearing on the Voice and what did you take away from that experience? We started watching The Voice from a very young age as we loved singing around the house as kids. We’d always joke about auditioning for the show and how crazy it would be if we did but we never actually considered it until the year we applied. At that time we were doing local gigs around Adelaide and had been busking for a few years prior. By this stage we felt that we had a bit of performance experience but we really w...