Watch
Three for the screen. The feature up top, two more underneath. Hit play once the films are live.
Listen
The catalogue — dark-edged pop tunes with plenty of synth and plenty of four-on-the-floor. Tracks drop in here as they go up.
Gig Posters
Bills shared with some very good company across 2011. Tap any poster to blow it up.
Gallery
Stages, studios, festival fields and the back of a few street poles. Tap to enlarge.
About
The Sun And The Sky is a four-piece indie synth rock band formed in Adelaide in January 2010. Attitude Magazine called them "the rock'n'roll version of The Presets." Comprised of brothers Tim, Sam and Simon Pearce and housemate Justin Pounsett, they write catchy but dark-edged pop tunes, with influences running from New Order and Placebo to U2, Nine Inch Nails, Interpol and The Killers.
Honest version: three mates and an actual musician trying to write happy, trendy songs, only for something darker and catchier to fall out. Probably too much coffee and not enough fresh greens has had a hand in it.
A cocaine dance party in a trench coat. — Spoz, on the live show
Live, the vibe is high energy, danceable and pretty intense — a kind of brooding wall of synth and guitar, with plenty of four-on-the-floor. Sometimes Sam stands on the drum kit while playing guitar. It's quite daring, but never distracting. The good news is the songs are lined with lyrics to leave you feeling like things might just turn out okay after all.
Still relatively new on the live scene, the band shared stages with New Navy, Strange Talk, World's End Press, The Paper Scissors, We Are Fans, Kingswood, Boy In A Box, The Killgirls, Messrs and Mammoth Logic. There was even a guy who rolled on the floor for almost a whole set — and not many bands could say that.
I really like the moodiness of this track. I can definitely hear the Joy Division / New Order influence, but this rocks out a bit more.