TOUR DATES: https://linktr.ee/willsparks

MGMT: lu@luckygroup.au

BOOKINGS
EU: yap@yap-agency.com
NA/SA: david.gordoni@unitedtalent.com
AUS/NZ/Asia: spags@luckygroup.au

DEMOS: promo@willsparks.com.au

CLUBWRK: https://soundcloud.com/clubwrk

From practicing in their family shed as teenagers in rural Australia, to touring the world with Fleetwood Mac, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, King Tuff, and King Gizzard, it’s been a strange trip for the four Findlay sisters. As Stonefield, they’ve got three albums and thousands of miles under their belts, plus plenty of perspective on what it’s like to fight to make a place for themselves, and tell their own story.

Written largely on the road in America earlier this year, the songs on BENT are filled with reference and reflection--the kind that comes from months spent far from home, living on four wheels. The surreal isolation of trudging through white-out snow and snaking down deserted highways served as the perfect backdrop for the band to look inward, taking stock of the journey they’ve taken thus far as musicians, and as people. “It’s a culmination of experiences, emotions, and stories collected over time,” explains lead singer and drummer Amy Findlay, “A growth of honest, raw, energy that has been burning within us and waiting for its moment.”

Recorded in just five days with Joe Walker and Stu Mackenzie from King Gizzard at their studio in Melbourne, the album is almost 100% live. Besides being an impressive feat and the flexing of a confident band operating at the height of their powers, that immediacy lends the album a distinct, crackling energy--thunder, lightning, and muscle-bound horsepower. “Sleep” opens the album with guitars covered in five inches of sludge and distortion and something that sounds like a far-off siren, or the high-pitched howling of the wind. It serves as a warning, a call to arms, kicking things off with a next-level version of the massive, unholy racket the band has become known for over the course of their last three albums. 

The sonic inspiration taken from listening to Black Sabbath, Beak, Deep Purple, The Alan Parsons Project, and Mike Oldfield inject BENT with its sternum-shaking heaviness and ever-present swagger, but also its exploratory fearlessness--letting the songs loose to twist and turn, sticking to no one’s rules but their own. Take the proggy, keyboard-soaked intro at the top of “People,” or the cheeky combination of tinnitus-inducing hard rock and hip-shaking boogie at the core of “Dead Alive.” “Don’t make me think I’ve lost control / I know exactly what you said / Don’t make me think it’s in my head,” Amy sings during the latter, keeping the lyrics as defiant as the music.

“The album is about our own experiences and stories,” explains Amy, “Songs about the fear of walking home alone at night, stories of what it’s like being an all-female band and the power of supporting one another." With that being the lyrical subject, the music that came out is definitely our heaviest.” It’s clear that darker thoughts were on the Findlay sisters’ mind-- “Route 29,” with its suspenseful synth intro was inspired by the creepy The Route 29 Stalker podcast the band was listening to as they drove the namesake road on their way to a gig with King Tuff, and the cascading synth line and slinky restraint of the hi-hat on “If I Die” can only distract so much from the song’s terror-stricken lyrics.

BENT has all the chills and spills you would expect from an album that mines inspiration from some of the darker experiences of being misrepresented, belittled, and underestimated. By taking control of the narrative, and pumping it up with stack-blowing, guitar hero riffs and razor-edged vocals, it becomes an album of power, control, and confidence--projected in the face of a world that too often forces the opposite.

[BOOKINGS] North America: Hunter Williams | Hunter.Williams@caa.com // SA/Australia/Mexico: Mac Clark | MClark@caa.com // ROW: Roman Trystram | roman.trystram@caa.com

Director @ Tallboy Entertainment

Jye Walsh (formally known as DJ JYZA) Started his career as a young up and coming DJ in 2008 when word spread of his knowledge and passion for music after filling in for a "no-show" at a local function at the age of 13 and surprisingly impressing a full house with his ability to cater for the crowd. in the following years he went on to build up a large fan base which subsequently got him gigs for such names as "Polly & Waz" (2011's "THE BLOCK" winners), Mike Sheehan (AFL presenter), Channel Nines "THE BLOCK" Rap-up party for 2011 & 2012 and many more. amongst proving himself as a mobile DJ he picked up some work for Channel nine in the filming of "THE BLOCK" as a sound recordist/camera assistant giving him an even broader and better understanding of sound with these achievements under his belt his local nightclub gave him the opportunity to DJ underage events in their club under the name "RETRO-ROOM" once a month. as a result of this a few weeks after he turned 18 (on the 16th of october) he was awarded a residency at the Railway-hotel Warragul (The Sporty/Platform 81) and within 2 weeks was given the opportunity to run and manage his own side room and events due to his ability to draw in a crowd and versatility with music. After opening and closing before and after DJ's such as "will sparks" "Azmac" "Someblonde DJ" "Orkestrated" and "Slice n Dice" he is ready to take on the melbourne club scene as a new up and coming DJ and producer

Tom Grant A.K.A SCNDL - "Scandal" [ˈskændəl]

I have a fancy third person bio somewhere else, this is all about the music... 

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Based in Warragul, Victoria

Deep House
Nu Disco
Minimal 
Progressive House

Influenced by; Hey Sam, Torren Foot, Pleasurekraft, Aelto, Amine Edge & DANCE, Mike Metro, Beatangers 

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