The media release from 78 From Home read, in part: "When a band has three guitarists … you know they don't do things by halves. This is a band who embrace the whole rock n roll lifestyle: the attitude, the chicks, the rider, and the pants that would be inappropriate in any other occupation…"
  
Eyebrows raised, The Dwarf put its grubby, stubby little fingers to the keyboard and fired off some words and left 78 From Home to fill in the blanks…
  
78 From Home means…
  
That's a funny story. We get asked this a lot. The name came about when we were recording the album and didn't have a band name. We had a blackboard at the studio and every morning we would put down an idea and see how it sat. We had agreed on the name Plasticine for the band and the album was going to be called "78 From Home" - this was the distance from home to the studio where we recorded the album. We then realised that Plasticine had been used by a past Aussie Band so we scrapped it and decided to go with "78 From Home" for the band and the album. We all liked it, thought that it was cool, it sat well and it had a good history behind it.
  
78 From Home consists of…
  
Tone (Lead Vox, Guitars) Rick Pisano (Keys and Backing Vocals) Andrew Riggo (Guitar and Backing Vocals) Brett Spicer (Drums) and Adam English (Bass Guitar)
  
78 From Home came to fruition by way of…
  
My having a number of tracks lying around the house and getting together with Rick one night after a few drinks. We discussed what it would take to make an album and get a full band together. Having worked with Mike Stangel over the last few years I told him what we wanted to do and he was 100% supportive. The rest is history.
  
78 From Home has been together for…
  
Rick and I have been together for about 4 years but the band as you know it now has only been together for about 5 months.
  
78 From Home would describe their sound as…
  
A bit of old school meets new school rock. We all grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, Cheap Trick and White Snake but we also love today's bands such as Matchbox Twenty and Cold Play, etc.
  
78 From Home have released…
  
78 From Home Self-titled album in August through JellyFish Music and MGM.
  
78 From Home have achieved…
  
In the short time the album has been released we have achieved a Number 1 Record on ITUNES Rock Charts and a Number 2 Record on the ITUNES Overall Charts. We have been added to Nova 100's Play list with our first single Yesterday and have some very big interest from the United States.
  
78 From Home hope to achieve…
  
We hope to release our album in the States next year and tour there. We just want the whole world to get behind 78FM and enjoy what we do. Oh and did I forget, "we never want to work again, ha ha".
  
78 From Home's most memorable gig was…
  
The release of our self-titled album at the Depot Hotel in Richmond on the 5th August 2006. Not knowing the amount of tickets we sold it was very exciting to see that there was no standing room at the venue, it was absolutely full. The support we got from our fans leads us to feel that what we are doing is right.
  
78 From Home's most embarrassing moment…
  
This was at the Emerald Lounge in Clifton Hill. It started with my breaking a guitar string in our first song - The Real World and pulling the guitar lead out at least twice during the show. I learnt from that mistake and I haven't pulled a lead out since (knock on wood).

09 Gravity

08 Turn Your Head

07 Dancing Girl

06 On My Mind

05 Brand New Day

04 I Wanna Know

03 Yesterday

02 Brothers

01 Real World

10 Pretty People

Melbourne Band '78 From Home' consists of Antoni Polimeni (AKA Tone) Lead Vocals and Guitar, Rick Pisano-Keyboards & backing vocals, Mick Malusa - Guitar & backing vocals, Rob Marchi-Bass Guitar, Brett Spicer-Drums & backing vocals.  The Band was formed in 2006 and iIt didn’t take long for the name to become known around  Australia.  Soon after forming and under the guidance of Producers Michael Stangel and Aria Award Winner David Nicholas (INXS, Soul Asylum, Midnight Oil, etc.) 78 From Home started work on its debut album having many songs penned by Tone to choose from.  On completion of the Album, 78 From Home released it through Jellyfish Music and MGM.  The album was launched to a full house at the Depot in Richmond and received rave reviews.  It stayed at No. 1 on the ITUNES Rock Charts for two weeks and climbed as far as the No. 2 spot in the ITUNES Pop Charts.  This accompanied the release of the first single, a song called "Yesterday".  The song caught the ear of most commercial and non-commercial Radio Stations around Australia and featured in the Nova FM unsigned initiative and in Triple M's "The Local". 

Tone scored a publishing deal with Jellyfish Music after proving his songwriting ability and has written songs for some of Australia's well-known and up-coming artists with one of them being Tyrone Noonan (George). 

2007 so far has proved to be a hard working year for 78 From Home with consistent touring around Australia.  The Band believes that now is the right time to put out a live EP to let people see the explosion the guys produce when they get on stage.  The only way to capture the emotion of a live performance was to record it.  The  EP is due for release in eary November and this includes the second single "Brand New Day".  This song caught the attention of the NBC nad Fox Networks in America who wanted to use it for the Promo of their new programmes due out in the U.S. "Fall" (autumn) only to be knocked off by Sting's Brand New Day.  Not a bad thing 'though that the Band was No. 2 contender to such a legend as Sting. 

78 From Home is hoping to release it's self-titled album in the U.S.A. through Zip Records around April 2008.  It's great to have the American friends on board.

With the new direction the Band has taken, 78 From Home has signed Live Bat Promotions as its New Management.  Live Bat Promotions is organising a tour to coincide with the release of the EP and the new single.  One of  the tour dates is on December 22 at Federation Square for the free event "Rocking in the Sun".  The tour however will kick off on December 8 at the Espy in St. Kilda where the guys have already played a few times.  The Video for "Brand New Day" was filmed live at the Espy so the Band believed it was appropriate to start things off at this venue.

2008 should be a big year for the band with sights set on their second album and an upcoming tour of the U.S.A. 

78 From Home

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