Biography
Marcus Hobbs launched East Brunswick All Girls Choir as a solo project in his hometown of Bendigo in the late 2000s. After performing alone there, he shifted to Melbourne and resolved to build a band, first adding guitarist Robert Wigley, a Bendigo acquaintance, then bassist Ria Nakayama. Drummers proved elusive, as Hobbs observed that skilled players were already committed elsewhere or unavailable, resulting in several rotations until Jen Sholakis, previously associated with Jen Cloher and Orbweavers, completed the quartet.
The band self-issued the EP Dead Air in 2009, followed by the live album Essendon 1986, taped at Auckland’s Wine Cellar in 2010. Their debut full-length, Seven Drummers, arrived in 2015, at which point Milk! Records—the label run by Courtney Barnett and Jen Cloher—signed them and later issued the album on vinyl. Three years on they delivered Teddywaddy, co-produced with Anna Laverty (Courtney Barnett, the Peep Tempel) and matching the visceral force of their earlier work. Hobbs’ anguished vocals and the group’s alignment with the noise rock of fellow Australians the Drones helped them stand apart from Melbourne contemporaries right from the 2009 EP.
The band self-issued the EP Dead Air in 2009, followed by the live album Essendon 1986, taped at Auckland’s Wine Cellar in 2010. Their debut full-length, Seven Drummers, arrived in 2015, at which point Milk! Records—the label run by Courtney Barnett and Jen Cloher—signed them and later issued the album on vinyl. Three years on they delivered Teddywaddy, co-produced with Anna Laverty (Courtney Barnett, the Peep Tempel) and matching the visceral force of their earlier work. Hobbs’ anguished vocals and the group’s alignment with the noise rock of fellow Australians the Drones helped them stand apart from Melbourne contemporaries right from the 2009 EP.
Albums