August 2009
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FASTER LOUDER LIVE REVIEW, 2009
The Sand Pebbles @ The Toff, Melbourne
(15/08/09)
by NickArgyriou, 17th August, 2009
Launching their latest record, A Thousand Wild Flowers, (a compilation of sorts to break through to the international market), The Sand Pebbles appear as the Toff curtains part. The band smacking right into Wild Season and Speed & Intensity before running through mostly trademark epic material from...
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KEVCHINO: A THOUSAND WILD FLOWERS REVIEW, 2009
The Sand Pebbles - A Thousand Wild Flowers
Double Feature | 2009 | Album
On the Sand Pebbles MySpace page, they describe themselves as “Shoegaze, Jam Band and Healing and Easy Listening.” Altogether, I’m not quite sure what that means (although I’ve listened to things that fit the descriptions individually), but by the end of A Thousand Wild Flowers, the Melbourne, Australia band touches on...
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THE TOFF IN TOWN: AUGUST 15, 2009
Pic: Gina M
[l to r: Tor Larsen [gtr], Andrew Tanner [gtr], Wes Holland [drms] & Sean Simmons [tambura]
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THE AGE: EMERGING FROM THEIR GRAINY PAST, 2009
Emerging from their grainy past
From left, Chris Hollow, Tor Larsen, Ben Michael X, Andrew Tanner and Westley Holland. Photo: Bob Watts
August 14, 2009
With album four, the secret’s finally out on the Sand Pebbles, writes Jo Roberts.
ACCORDING to their press release, the Sand Pebbles are ”long described as one of Australia’s best-kept musical secrets”. By whom?...
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HOWZAT! DEAN WAREHAM ON THE SAND PEBBLES
HOWZAT!
By Jeff Jenkins
SAND PEBBLES ON INTERNATIONAL SHORES
Melbourne flower punks The Sand Pebbles have signed an international deal with Double Feature Records, the label run by former Luna members Dean Wareham and his wife, Britta Phillips. Dean discovered the Pebbles when bass player Chris Hollow did an email interview with him for the Pebbles webzine, Tarantula.
“I didn’t really give him...
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MESS & NOISE: IN FULL BLOOM, 2009
The Sand Pebbles: In Full Bloom
With a new compilation album, ‘A Thousand Wild Flowers’, gaining favourable reviews overseas, Melbourne’s The Sand Pebbles may well realise their world domination dreams. PATRICK EMERY throws a bunch of hypotheticals at bass player, former AFL player and sometimes ‘Neighbours’ scriptwriter Chris Hollow.
Here’s a stupid trivia question:...