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The adventure spirit is a harmony driven, country/soul/pop group from melbourne, australia. Based around the songwriting of its two vocalists, tim fry and leigh young, the band traces its influence to songwriters such as bob dylan, whilst taking musical cues from artists like oscar peterson and steve cropper. Formed as a home recording project in 2005, tim, leigh and drummer mirra seigerman made an album of their songs known as gem- an electronic/folk, simon and garfunkle/flaming lips styled affair which became an underground, freely-distributed hit in the hills district of melbourne. The following year they recorded a folk inspired album hope shall carry on which would later be released in 2008. The project became a fully fledged band when bass player ben tansey was recruited at the end of 2006, changing the adventure spirit sound considerably. While the folk influence remained, ben’s pulsating double bass playing lent the group a country/pop sound which became more pronounced as