The Vanns

Two sick bands busting out a mish-mash of tunes that will set feet’a tapping and fists pumping.

 We’re all good mates and we just started jamming at our houses and decided to try our luck playing tunes live.

 While we were at school doing our HSC’s we tried to limit the amount of travelling we needed to do to play shows so we only really doing local shows. We also limited the amount of gigs so we could fit in as much practice possible into our schedules.

 Winning a slot time at Homebake was awesome, especially hanging out back stage and seeing what all the bigger, more experienced bands got up to backstage. We also met heaps of other sick upcoming bands and we also received help and advice which led to a show with Jinja Safari at the Oxford Art Factory.

It was a pretty great experience, getting to hang out with the likes of Dave Ruby Howe from Triple J unearthed (who have helped us to get our music to people across the country), and just getting to talk about what all these managers and booking agents thought we should be doing with the band at the current time. We learnt a lot.

We kind of just sat down and talked about what genres of music we listened to and and enjoyed, and ‘indie’, rock and blues came out on top. We then just jammed out some some ideas and had our first demo out in couple of months.

The inspiration and rough story behind ‘Belmore Street’ is seeing yourself hit a wall of repetitiveness in a bad way and finding no way out e.g. drinking, women and not knowing who you really are at points in time. The name ‘Belmore Street’ was inspired by the the street in Newtown, Sydney while I was there, and putting all of the above into context, it is how I felt at the time and the name just clicked.

Playing with Jinja Safari was definitely the highlight of the year for us. Right from the beginning of The Vanns, we have been very inspired by the sounds that Jinja create, so to be playing alongside them was an awesome experience.

Fame, fortune and chicks? Just the norm…

What’s next for The Vanns?
At the moment, there is nothing planned for after this tour. Adam, Bob and Lachie are heading to uni so we’re going to have to work out how to juggle gigs and study again, but it wasn’t too hard last time. We will continue to write and put out singles, but that’s all we can give away for now.