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Sydney band Super Massive bring their unique and award-winning blend of rock and dance music back to Newcastle & Coffs Harbour next weekend, and this time they're bringing their brand new, self-titled debut EP with them, which features their award-winning song "Fists In My Pocket".
Super Massive will play at the Cambridge Hotel, 489 Hunter St, Newcastle West, on Friday 22nd August, as main support for Kettle Of Fish, alongside Newcastle locals Veto and The General Managers. Doors open 8:30pm and entry is $5.
The following night, Saturday 23rd August, they will hit the stage at the Hoey Moey, Ocean Parade Coffs Harbour, with a DJ in support. Doors open 8:30pm and entry is free. Super Massive is female-fronted four-piece with a huge, unique sound and an ultra-funky, ultra dynamic show, reviewed by 3D World Magazine as a crowd-arousing "sexy brand of grimy, punchy, pop rock.." Said 3D: "To hell with Justin, it's these guys who are REALLY bringing sexy back!"
Awarded the “Best Alternative Artist” Award at the 2007 MusicOz Awards, for their evocative synth/rock song "Fists In My Pocket”, the band’s self-titled debut EP was launched in Sydney on July 11th and is available now through MGM and iTunes. The EP has received amazing reviews, including a Hit Pick from Industry tip mag The Music Network who described it as "more infectious than the plague", and a rave review from Mediasearch, who likened the band to The Presets and the Potbelleez, declaring the Super Massive EP "one of the best local short plays to be released in Australia in 2008", wagering that the band was one to watch for future international success.
Two weeks ago "Fists In My Pocket" hit #1 on the Triple J Unearthed Chart, championed by Triple J's Radio Funktrust DJs. The video for "Fists" has even found its way to the UK, having been featured on UK music bible NME's website and picked up for play on Tiscali TV, the UK's biggest cable TV syndicate. Super Massive is the songwriting partnership of singer/writer Malina Hamilton-Smith and drummer/composer Glenn Abbott, best known for his work with popular Australian band Machine Gun Fellatio. Teaming up in 2005, the two found they shared an interest in finding a true bridge between dance and rock – meshing multi-layered synthscapes with the visceral impact of a full rock band.
The duo spent a year musically exploring and writing before taking their show to the stage, joined by talented young guitarist Marc Malouf and funky bassist Tak Tanimoto. Inspired in equal measures by funk, pop song structures, rock, french electro, tribal rhythms and the theatrics of glam rock, Super Massive's sound is like a spectacular mirrorball that reflects many tiny pieces of influence, from Burt Bacharach to Alice Cooper to Bessie Smith and Goldfrapp via Tower Of Power, AC/DC and Basement Jaxx, yet with a sound entirely its own. It’s as fresh as a snowflake and black as your soul. Says singer Hamilton-Smith, "We were determined to carve out our own path, sonically, and we're pretty happy that we've achieved that with the band and the recording.
The reviews we've had so far have tried to compare us to a pretty wide spectrum of artists - everyone from Peaches to Kylie to Garbage to New Young Pony Club to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Massive Attack to The Presets to Blondie, so I don't think we sound quite like anyone else out there at the moment." Super Massive has played shows over the past two and a half years at Sydney’s premier venues and festivals including Surry Hills Festival.
In January the band made their first tour to Queensland and Northern NSW, playing a run of east coast shows and returning with plenty of tales & battlescars from the road, including a discoball injury and new friends in Rufus Wainwright and his band, who checked out Super Massive’s show at their Byron Bay gig and loved it, inviting them to watch their own show at the State Theatre.