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Each Chats song is an accident we've been preparing our whole lives to make. All our published works are first takes with no trick photography; our creedo is that our songs are like checking the pulse of the band. We sometimes keep a song around if we like it or people request it, but most of our time is spent checking our pulse. If we didn't come up with some great stuff on the spot, then we probably would have gone back to writing songs beforehand and rehearsing them for months before playing them live. Turns out we're much better when we just start playing and singing without crib notes. As a result, you will always be able to hear musicians in a room playing music, and sometimes you'll be able to hear that they're making it up as they go along. So if you're tired of music that sounds like a machine made it, and if you feel like you're being lied to by those machines, then the Chats may just sound like music with a pulse, and it may just be the beat you need.

Formed in their mate’s bong shed in Coolum, Queensland 2016 when all three members were seventeen, The Chats represent everything that’s good about Australia and nothing that’s bad: a rebel spirit, gallows humour and the endless hedonistic pursuit of A Bloody Good Time. Cold stubbies within close reach, 24-7. The trio met in music class while at St Theresa’s Catholic College in Noosaville, a suburb of Noosa, Queensland, two hours north of Brisbane, and began practicing in the shed in nearby Verrierdale (pop: 775) during their final year of education (the school’s website notes “Whilst their music may not be everyone's cup of tea, they have certainly made an impact, and they continue to Dare the Dream.”). Their name meanwhile comes from the nearby suburb of Chatswood. Drawing influence from the same fertile Australian pub rock scene that spawned everyone from AC/DC and The Saints to Cosmic Psychos and The Hard Ons, and sharing a similar singular self-contained approach to their art