Goodbye Horses

Plasitc Soul (Knitting Guild Version)

Spar

Do what the song says and no one gets hurt. 

Thus goes “Shake, Shake”, the latest shambolic single from Royal Chant. Featuring countless guitars, two drummers flailing away at the same busted Motown beat, and a meandering lyric that washes over like a poor man’s Wall Of Sound. 

Shake, Shake

Oh, The Shame

Flat Feet

Low Spirits

I Am A Model

A fuzzy, bruised piece of garage pop melancholy set against the jaded backdrop of Sydney's Oxford St. 

Dick Move

A short blast of ennui disguised with a melody. 

I Pretend You Believe

Just Trying To Meet You

Sisters On Fire

I Can't Make It On My Own

The Familiar Taste Of Familiar Mistakes

Nothing Doing

Well Hey, I Guess Things Break

Sight For Sore Eyes

I Get A Kick Out Of Being Kicked Around By You

Shooting Sparrows

Pride & Poverty

Power Pose

Back To Front

Cargo Cults

Slowly, To The End

Accidental

Accidental (Single)

13 years. 9 albums. Royal Chant get around. Royal Chant (often abbreviated as RC) is an Australian indie rock band formed in 2009 in the small coastal town of Port Macquarie. The band has made frequent personnel changes but has always maintained the presence of principal songwriter & singer/guitarist Mark Spence. Taking his initial songwriting cues from Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Robert Pollard, Shane MacGowan, & Michael Stipe (to name just a few), Royal Chant's extensive songbook contains trace elements of Sonic Youth, GBV, the early proto-punk of Idlewild, and basically anything with heart, a good melody, and a fuzz pedal or two. Of course the Beatles are lurking in there somewhere as well, all thrown together over the years into a fuzz-box blender and fused with a blue-collar work ethic, good manners, and an odd penchant for being on time and reading the worksheet before live shows.

The current line-up consists of Mark on guitar (or baritone guitar) and vocals and Wade Mobbs behind the drums, with guitarist and multi-instrumentalist James Carthew remaining a contributing member of the band both on record and on stage despite living and designing killer space robots in Ann Arbour, Michigan in the U-S-of-A. The band has recently added bassist Arkhea Mobbs to the line-up as well now that live shows are slowly starting to resume in the post-COVID wasteland of live entertainment. The band is hard at work finding the perfect fuzz tone for their 9th studio LP, "Anyways and also sorry", set for launch on May 20th, 2022.

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Influences:
Bob Dylan, The Pogues, The Velvet Underground, old R.E.M., new R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Idlewild, Nirvana, Elliot Smith, Neil Young, The Kinks, David Bowie, The Jam, The La's, Dramarama, The Pixies, The Drones, Crazy Horse, Radiohead, Iggy Pop, Beck, Ryan Adams, Folk Implosion, The Shins, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, Monk, Ronnie Dobbs, Falstaff, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith, Andy Kaufman, Oscar Wilde, Jack Fairy, Opinions, Fists, Bedwetting Music, Bad Poetry, Bad Dancing, People Who Talk Too Much, Harvest Gypsies, Being Someone's Second Best Friend, A Broken Harmonica You Found In A Public Toilet, A Good Beating, Throwing Up, Running Away, Hanging Around, Getting By

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