KDRT's POP UP show "Live in the Loam" is thrilled to have this very talented Australian band visit us in the studio. Melbourne deep-pop thinkers Dick Diver triumphed in 2013 with second album Calendar Days, the follow-up to 2011 debut New Start Again. Warm, wide, and inviting, Calendar Days is a magnificent Australian pop album, hailed as one of the year’s finest.
The album’s success saw the band shine at Golden Plains, Brisbane Festival, Meredith and Laneway, play sold out shows around the nation and bask in the glow of reviews such as “the unexpected Australian break-out record of the year” (Herald Sun), “everyday Australian life made bittersweet and poetic” (Rolling Stone) and “feels like an old friend, the kind that can comfort you through dark times” (Courier Mail).
Formed in 2008, Dick Diver have been special from the outset. Guitarists Rupert Edwards and Alistair McKay, drummer Steph Hughes (Boom-gates) and bassist Al Montfort (Total Control, UV Race, Lower Plenty et al), found an immediate chemistry, pitting Rupert and Alistair‘s bookish proclivities against Steph and Al’s casual, scrappy charm.
Their combination of widescreen Australian warmth and irreverent punk edge appeared almost fully formed on 2009 debut EP Arks Up, before 2011 debut album New Start Again made its way onto a swathe of year’s end best-of polls.
Ever prolific, they're also planning a new album by the end of 2014.
DICK DIVER will appear at THIRD SPACE in Davis, CA on Monday Sept. 22, 2014. Details here https://www.facebook.com/events/1516920961858527/
Visit DICK DIVER at http://chaptermusic.com/artist/dick-diver/
Your host for this show is Pieter Pastoor
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