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Brisbane indie rockers The Valery Trails bring their Winter Palace album launch tour to The Fitzroy Pinnacle, joined by Signal Chain and Field Monuments.Andrew Bower (vocals/guitars), an expatriate Australian then living in Houston, enlisted his brother Sean Bower (bass) and Dan McNaulty (drums) in his hometown of Brisbane, Australia to form The Valery Trails in 2011. With the assistance of the internet and some intercontinental travel, the trio developed a set of songs started in Andrew's home studio into the band's debut album Ghosts and Gravity, released in 2012.
Albums released in 2014 (Buffalo Speedway) and 2016 (Chameleon Bones), to differing degrees also involved long distance recording and exchanges of ideas but when Andrew moved back to Brisbane in 2020 the band began to operate more conventionally, picking up new members Tim Steward (guitars) and Skye Staniford along the way. The first album for this new expanded lineup was 2022's The Sky is Blue, followed by Winter Palace in 2025.
Signal Chain - A sonic whirlwind of shoe gaze, straight garage rock and occasional folk/country leanings. Lipstick pick ups, sonic rumblings ...
Field Monuments are four long-time friends that make indie rock music about their lives. Specifically, about how chapters of it are written, unravel and might be rebuilt anew. Forming initially as a three piece in early 2020, the Naarm/Melbourne group features ex members of 90s/00s stalwarts Skip Tracer and Deloris. Field Monuments set themselves the daunting task of releasing a song a month, every month during 2023 and 2024.These releases were mined and refreshed for their 2025 self-titled debut record: 12 wide-screen, 90s indie-folk-post-rock songs about teenage memories, relationships crumbling, parenthood and new love. The album is available now on limited creamy vinyl.
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The Fitzroy Pinnacle, 252 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North VIC 3068, Australia, Northcote
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