Carriage House Plans: Car Stereo

Thursday 10 January 2013

Car Stereo

car stereo wars formed in 2000 when Jason ‘Blackie’ White (bass) and Matt Gillman (guitar) met at an extremely nerdy new media course in Melbourne. In an attempt to appear cooler than they were, they decided to start a band and soon recruited singer Alyssa Doe. The trio then imposed on the generosity of a handful of friends to join them on their first EP ‘Project A.’ The single ‘Broken’ subsequently gained the attention of national Australian radio station Triple J and Melbourne’s 3RRR and eventually found its way onto the Ministry Of Sound’s Chillout Sessions Summer Compilation.

In 2002 the band travelled to Texas to play at South by Southwest Festival, and two years later packed their bags again to play a show at the now extinct CBGB’s as guests of New York’s CMJ Music Marathon. After all this excitement, the foursome returned to Melbourne, had a good lie down and headed back into the studio with long time producer Robbie Rowlands to record their second EP ‘They asked me to be in a movie’. The feature track ‘Come To Nothing’ was included on the MOS Chillout Sessions # 5 later that year. In the few years that followed the band went back on the road and established a loyal fan base. Along the way the band began to piece together the songs for a debut album after amicably parting ways with their label, having decided that stylistically they were moving away from chill/electronica.