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Afternoon Shift are an indie rock band form Canberra Australia. We enjoy writing and playing anything from hard rock and pub rock to acoustic and pop. Afternoon Shift formed in 2001 when 3 friends, Adam Wind (guitar), Christope Wind (bass) and Ben Martin (drums), got together to play at their swimming club’s Christmas party. In the first few years the band spent a lot of time in their parent’s garage writing and practicing their songs. In 2002 the band had a change of line up when Ben moved on to bigger and better things. Adam Woods joined on drums and Rory McKormick on bass, with Christope moving to lead guitar. From 2002 to 2005 Afternoon Shift were playing frequent gigs around Canberra and in 2005 Marcus Schmidt joined the band, replacing Adam Woods on drums. In 2006 moved to Melbourne where they recorded their first EP titled “Debut (the ‘t’ is silent)”. And in 2007 moved back to their hometown of Canberra. After returning to Canberra, AS played a few more gigs until Marcus