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Following on from the release of their single ‘Burn It Up’, Melbourne’s party rock n’ rollers The Cheats have just unleashed their debut album 'Hats Off To The Cheats' through Australia's premier garage rock label, Off The Hip records . Armed with two vintage guitar amps and a beat-up drum-kit, The Cheats have recorded 13 tracks of live-wire party rock n roll that is making waves and bringing good times wherever it is heard. The two misfits, Julian Tovey (vocals, guitar) and Tom “Coops” Cooper (drums, vocals) met in 2004 when they joined The Flaming Lips onstage at The Big Day Out dressed in furry animal costumes. Not long after they went on tour through the US and UK with Riff Random - Coops as guitar tech and Jules on Bass. It was over a beer at The Espy once they had returned, that they first talked about starting a band. It was later in 2005 that they started jamming and the songs began to flow, creating a high energy sound based on equal parts rock n roll, blues and punk.