The Snowdroppers at The Espy

They’ve released new single ‘White Dress’ off their forthcoming Moving Out Of Eden album and are now touring the country to play it to all the awaiting fans and intrigued blues-lovers. It just so happens The Snowdroppers are stopping by The Espy on Friday 23 November as part of the tour!

The swampy blues-rock showmen we heard on 2007s Too Late To Pray album have been transformed. The Snowdroppers’ new turf is a raw mix of earthy rumble and wiry guitar riffs tied together with the wry kitchen sink perspective of the common man. ‘White Dress’ is an incredibly catchy and totally unvarnished view of romance from a distinctly no-frills kinda guy, marking their arrival in a less stylised, more grounded set of boots.

Echoes of classic Midnight Oil, INXS, Johnnys and the Living End are entirely unintentional, but neither singer Johnny Wishbone nor co-writer/ guitarist Pauly K seems surprised at the references. You are what you eat, after all, and these guys have been chewing up sticky carpet for the best part of ten years.

Early single ‘Do The Stomp’ made impact on alternative radio as well as the soundtrack to the hit movie, Red Dog. The billowing blues harp and rockabilly slap of the Too Late To Pray album upped the band’s profile as hard players from the Annandale Hotel and the Big Day Out to a whistle-stop US tour from Austin to LA to New York.
By the Sydney winter of 2011, the more ingrained Australian sound and feeling of Moving Out Of Eden had begun to form in the band’s collective headspace. A long search for prospective producers who could hear the same thing finally ended with a Welshman, ironically enough, Richard Jackson (The Future of Left/The Automatic).

Come and check out the black humour and fiery passions of The Snowdroppers, with support from Lurch & Chief, The Demon Parade and Bored Nothing.

What: The Snowdroppers
Where: The Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne
When: Friday 23 November
Price: Free entry!

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