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The Mill is a Melbourne-based, Indie-Roots band formed in late 2009 by Liam Cochrane, Jamie McDonald, Charlotte Price-Robertson, immigration tangles, late nights and too many whisky-dries. We soon found Simon Stuart; Dave Finch soon found us. We’ve since filled the room with boy-girl harmonies, acoustic and electric and homemade guitars, a thumping double bass, percussion, a splash of banjo, harmonica and a wall of post-it notes, each one a song. The Mill is a band that will keep you up late, kick you into life, bring you in off the street, settle you sweet and low – a should-have-known-better tequila rush; a red wine sigh, a Sunday cider band. We hope you like our songs.

Irish rock band The Mill recently immigrated to Sydney to launch their debut album Relative Absolute. The five-piece are due to self-release ‘Relative Absolute’ in November 2008, before embarking on a nationwide tour in the new year. Building on the critical acclaim for their June 2007 self-produced first E.P. 'Meno Forms', the twelve songs evidence an eclectic range of influence on the band's sound, which draws on The Stone Roses, Nirvana, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Joy Division, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground, to name a few. The band have been together in various guises for over four years, during which time they have slowly cultivated their collective songwriting abilities. Ciaran Cullen (vocals) and Shane Diamond (lead guitar), friends since childhood, began writing in early 2003. Over a year later, in March 2004, Phil McCabe came on board as bassist, introduced to the duo by a mutual friend. Jonny McBride joined in early 2006 on guitar also, as the band now looked to take