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Named after their favourite St Kilda café, four piece Adelaide based Indie-rock band Galleon was born in mid 2008. Says frontman Nick Deegan: “We were recording a bunch of songs in Melbourne with the four of us, and we still didn’t have a name. During these recording sessions I would leave the studio to write lyrics at this local café called galleon. We had a bunch of potential names, but Galleon ended up feeling like the most appropriate.” With drummer Ryan Robinson, bassist Tim Anderson and guitarist Brad Iversen completing the line up, Galleon spent the best part of 2009 writing and recording what would be their debut release, a small collection of songs hand-picked out of roughly 30 other songs which were written alongside them. The songs, which later this year will form the band’s debut album, were engineered and mixed by ARIA nominated Jimi Maroudas (Eskimo Joe, The Living End, The Little Stevies), and produced by Patrick ‘Patch’ Robertson, singer/songwriter of now defunct