The Bank Holidays

The Bank Holidays were conceived over a game of badminton by the Norwegian sea. After a quick and excited telephone call from Norway to the west coast of Australia, the band was born. The concept for the group: one whose primary occupation is vocal harmonies and melodies of the highest order.

After the initial due-paying live gigs, the group released debut EP "Good Looks To Camera" with tracks 'Tread Easy' and 'The Greatest Game' both hitting high rotation on Australian national radio network Triple J. This was followed by Australian touring and the "Day For Night" EP, which showed off a greatly expanded range of imagination and colour from the group, with tracks adorned by strings, flutes, brass, and the usual array of voices to create an ecstatic rush of sound.

The Bank Holidays took out the Western Australian Music Industry Award for Best Indie Pop Group at the beginning of 2007, but as the year drew to a close, The Bank Holidays were just getting started.

Debut album ’As A Film‘ was full to the brim with adventurous pop and vocal harmonies that only three lead singers and songwriters could create, all blessed by the touch of Australian-resident production genius J Walker. Reviewers called it "a quiet classic" (Mess & Noise) or said it would "be called a classic WA album, if there is any justice in the world" (The West Australian).

After teaming up for east coast tours with Machine Translations and The Lucksmiths, the group found themselves all over Europe, playing festivals and shows across Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the UK.

Since their return from fjord-laden and rain-sodden lands in the northern hemisphere, the group has been working on songs for their next album, with recording to begin in early 2009.

- November 2008

Things people have said about us:

"[The Bank Holidays] share the kind of penchant for great Pop songs succinctly executed that the likes of The Shins or compatriots The Go-Betweens so perfectly encapsulate... if the universe was less perverse this should be spinning in CD players the world over" - Tangents (UK)