Sleepy Age, Pikachunes, Bandicoot and Rackets

Sleepy Age is a four-piece indie pop band who create a melody heavy pop music in an rock band setting. Tinkling bell/organ melodies teamed with driving bass drums and guitars organise nostalgia and excitement similar to that of 1950's suburban American housewife in 2009 watching Fedel Castro's infamous Ed Sullivan appearance while listening to modern rock music.

Will Edmonds (Guitar/Vocals) ex Insurgents and Boyfriend approached Josh Burgess (Vocals/Keys/Guitar) who was on tour with Bang! Bang! Eche! at the time in London to gauge interest of staring a pop band with himself and friends in Christchurch. Citing influences such as modern day indie bands such as The Pixies, Mystery Jets and Band of Horses but also from pop rock greats such as The Beatles and Randy Newman.

A lot of Sleepy Age's songs started as short pop songs written on computers to kill the time on long flights home from tours for Burgess. When returning home and pairing up with Edmonds to help complete these pop demo's it became apparent Edmonds also had a back catalogue of demos ready to be evolved into a band setting. Teaming with Josh Black (Bass) and Hayden Williams (Drums) Sleepy Age was awoken.

Black and Williams both children stars of McDonalds young entertainers reaching the height of there success coming when performing a free jazz performance of Czech composer Josef Suk's composition 'Sousedska' to an unprecedented Eastern European television audience of two and a half thousand people.

Sleepy Age where the overall winners of RDU 's 2009 'Roundup Competition' at the tender age five weeks old, winning the title on the narrowest of margins from the tied second place getters - the youthful country stylistas The Unfaithful Ways and the slamming T54. The release of there first single 'Cat Face' is scheduled for a limited 7" vinyl split release with fellow Christchurch band O'Lovely in tandem with Sleepy Ages Video for 'Cat Face'. The band are scheduled to play Southern Amp in November as well as a Red Bull Studio live to air in December in tandem with a pre Christmas Hanukkah theme New Zealand tour.

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