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SEALS: a Brisbane four piece. Genre: Garage pop Past: 2 EPs, UK tour Future: album, yachts contact@sealsband.com

Music that carries the bittersweet memories of a time where the whiskey was tainted with dust and well-earned sweat. Where the old timber floorboards groaned under the boots of good honest folk and where stomping along to a lively fiddle tune was the best tonic to a hard day’s work under the hot sun. United by a fondness for whiskey, old time music and front porch fry-ups, this diverse collection of pickers features the talents of jazz pianist/mathematician/guitarist Phillip Cilli; accountant/Adonis/bassist Robert Tomlin and the fire-bearded Tom Gourlay on banjo. The Seal pod is rounded out by Charlie McCarthy, the lightning-fingered Irish fiddler and WAAPA graduate, Derry Doyle on mandolin, who had the recent honour of being awarded runner up for best songwriter in the West Australian Country Music Awards. Their debut self-titled EP was launched in the uproarious setting of an over-capacity crowd at Manhattan’s Bar that literally had people crawling through the windows in order to