HARVEST SMOKE are a gang of four, part Perth born / part Melbourne born, who fell into the same room late 2010 to play some music for main man BENNY J WARD's freshly written songs that had been penned on six month road trip that he and his wife Nici undertook around Australia.
The trip was a sabatical of sorts having spent the majority of his post high school years rockin' and rollin' with his best mates in the Screwtop Detonators on numerous tours, shows, recordings, a re-location to Melbourne, and all the other general punk rock shenanigans the youth of yesterday undertook.
So, having driven a million kilometers through red dirt and redneck country towns, the red man himself - and one time 'Lone Ranga', (look it up) - stopped in Melbourne, called his Screwtop buddy LEROY FRENCH and said "I'm keen to play again, but this time I've written a stack of hits whilst killing time on the road - gold I tells ya, GOLD!".
So looking to enlist a bass player and a drummer he called upon good buddies STU (Manchu) BANKO and PUGS LYNGCOLN (aka Knuckles) from Sons of Lee Marvin and before you know it HARVEST SMOKE was born. A few rehearsals and a couple of shows later, all of a sudden they're in A SECRET LOCATION studio in Melbourne's inner north east with Paul Mayberry smashing out their debut album ''MINOR INDUSTRY'. Covering power-pop to punk rock to country balladry, the album is a finely polished piece of work.
Singing songs about a 'CAT AND A DOG' being in love to a violent thug protesting he 'AIN'T SUCH A BAD GUY' after all, and even penning lyrical magic about the combined nasal flavoured stench of 'BUSHFIRE AND EGGS' of the drummers' beard.
The album is now done and is ready to drop. It's set to be released on JULY 23rd, 2011 through Off The Hip (physical) and Bridge Sounds (digital).
'Minor Industry' Album Launch - July 23rd @ Yah Yah's (Vic) w/ Swedish Magazines, Wrong Turn and Nici Blue Eyes.
View "Dog and a Cat" flim clip - from the album "Minor Industry"
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