Past Event

Amarillo - Eyes Still Fixed - Album Launch

8th Oct 2016

Presenter: Amarillo
Website: https://www.facebook.com/amarillobandmelbourne/
Event Duration: 180 minutes

Amarillo is a Melbourne-based 4 piece formed in 2014 as a vehicle for the songs of Jac Tonks and Nick O’Mara.  Fresh from the recent release of their exceptionally well received first single All I Can See, Amarillo are launching their their new full length album Eyes Still Fixed.

Recorded with Nick’s cousin, Shane O’Mara at his Yikesville studio, and produced by Shane and Amarillo, Eyes Still Fixed was written mostly on the road; in motel rooms across the top end, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and scrawled on notebooks in trains across Spain and France. The songs touch on lyrical themes of friendship and love, isolation and distance, family and the irreversible loss of home.

Nick O'Mara is a founding member and songwriter in alt country favourites Raised By Eagles. A renowned local guitarist he has lent his skills on stage with Chris Altmann, Mick Thomas, Dan Parsons, and Hayward Williams to name a few. Jac Tonks is a songwriter, vocalist, and guitar player. Trent McKenzie joins them on bass, with Ralf Rehak (of Machine Translations) on drums.

With layered acoustic and electric guitars on some tracks, and sparser instrumentation on others the album is song focused with the band steering their sound towards Jac and Nick’s shared love of jangly English pop - xtc, the Sundays, Johnny Marr - with a dose of Americana, showcasing Jac’s lyrical voice and Nick’s 1940’s Australian Maxim lap steel guitar.

With very special guests Anthony Atkinson and The Running Mates and Ayleen O'Hanlon & Rich Davies

DOORS OPEN @ 8.00PM

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