Summer Cats - Lonely Planet

I guess we formed in around July of 2006. Scott and I had been pretending we were a band for quite a
while and sometime earlier in the year we had been asked if we would play a show with the Cannanes.
Given that it was a lifelong ambition of mine to play a show with them we immediately said yes. We
played as a duo and decided we were sufficiently decent that we should try and find other band members.
Sometime shortly afterwards Hugh found me via myspace, as I had a picture of And Don't the Kids Just
Love It as my avatar, so we took a chance and asked him to play some music with us. He agreed to play
bass and turned up to the first rehearsal with a five string electic guitar and no amp! Luckily we did
what we do at most rehearsal and sat around playing music we want to sound like on Scott's stereo. We
all seemed impressed enough by each other's impeccable taste that we figured we would give it a shot.
Hugh was told we would keep him in the band if he could find girls to play the rest of the instruments.
Lucky for Hugh he is quite talented at meeting girls, I think he invited Julia to play drums first and
then Irene to play keyboards very shortly after that. A few short months of rehearsals and we played
our first gig and then quickly recorded our first songs.
In terms of being pop enthusiasts, the three boys in the band are all indiepop nerds. The girls are far
to pretty to have ever needed to seek solace in records the way the boys do.
Australian band Summer Cats will be releasing the third 7" on Cloudberry Records and they have posted
the single itself for streaming on their My Space page.
It’s called Lonely Planet and it’s great! Don’t take my word for it go and have a listen for yourself.
Single of the year so far for me. If you have heard a better one let me know in the comments!

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