More like a teenage wet-dream than a group formed in a last minute flurry, THE TREMORS begun to garner well-deserved attention after forming less than a year ago. The band formed when Geoff Corbett realised his band Sixfthick could no longer fulfill their yearly tradition of playing a gig at the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda on New Year’s Eve. So Corbett banded together pals Dan Baebler, Eleanor Logan and Cec Condon to form THE TREMORS for the NYE Espy set in December 2002. They’ve already spent many a year pounding their rock asses across the stage in Brisbane bands Gazoonga Attack and Sixfthick. But it wasn’t long before Dew Process A&R encountered THE TREMORS live and brandished a pen and dotted line before the set was through.

THE TREMORS, who started off with only a twenty-two minute set have recently recorded their first E.P. titled CAN I GET A WHISKEY? to be released through Dew Process/Universal Music Australia on September 29th. THE TREMORS entered 301 Studios in Byron Bay in June of this year to record CAN I GET A WHISKEY? with producer Paul “Woody” Annison who had caught the attention of the band with his production work on Rocket Science’s “Contact High” album. Two months later Dew Process sent out a taste of what THE TREMORS had install with their debut EP via the track BIBLE in early August. Instantly added to Triple J and flogged on community radio across the country, the success of BIBLE proves that there’s a definite audience out their for seductive soul-rock with attitude. BIBLE morphs Corbett’s dark and sweltering vocals with the more uncharacteristically innocent vocals of Logan as she calls out for “a witness”.

Elsewhere on CAN I GET A WHISKEY? Logan’s vocals revert to their more throaty sexy goodness as on the EP’s first track KEEP IT ON. Here, Corbett makes his impassioned plea to the dismissive Logan summoning the unfamiliar feeling of eavesdropping on a pre-coital conversation between a pair of leather clad beasts on heat in some sleazy roadside motel. Corbett drives this image with his demand to “Draw the curtains, ‘n’ punch out the fluoro, Under the cover of darkness, I’m your superhero”. Accompanied by a saucy music video where the band perform amongst the set dressings of a sleazy retro porn film set, KEEP IT ON looks set to pack the punch the band promise with their organ grindin’ drum pulverisin’ geetar molestin’ live sets. Baebler steps up to the mic for MIRRORS where his dead cool back-up vocals contrast sharply with Corbett’s chaotic outbursts supported by the urgency and inventiveness of Condon’s pounding drums. Corbett drawls tauntingly: “All alone left on the shelf, Or instead smoking in bed, with a creep like me”. MIRRORS is more a cacophony of animal instinct than just another tune. Condon’s drumming on TREMOR DOWN LOW, the E.P.’s final track, has your head rocking Ringo style as Logan and Corbett belt out possibly the most infectious song on the E.P. CAN I GET A WHISKEY? wasn’t written to be played quietly, it defiantly refuses to be background music and you get the feeling that if you try to turn it down it might just turn itself straight back up.

Believers and tall-poppies across the country will get a chance to witness THE TREMORS in the flesh as they pack up their meager belongings and head out on a national tour with fellow Brisbane rockers, Powderfinger at the close of 2003. But the atrocities of the tour van are no surprise to THE TREMORS who have already completed tours of Melbourne and Sydney after scoring supporting slots with gerling, Rocket Science, The Mess Hall and Dave McCormack & The Polaroids.

THE TREMORS promise: less funk, all soul, more spit and less polish. And… they deliver!

"... when I'm done with you
You'll know about the tremor
And the tremor down low..."

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