All My Friends Are in Bar Bands

All My Friends Are in Bar Bands


Latest Episodes

Episode 178: My Friends Palms
April 09, 2021

There are few intergenerational figures in a music scene that sees bands come and go on a weekly basis. Chief among those that are, however, are Al Grigg and Tom Wallace. Best friends since college, the pair first played together as part of 2000s indie wu

Episode 177: My Friend Dylan Baldi (Cloud Nothings)
March 18, 2021

It's an increasingly-common modern story. A project born out of a bedroom, a dorm room, a laptop, a loose collection of ideas, shifts from the micro to the macro. Few of these stories, however, have carved out such an intense niche as Dylan Baldi's noise-

Episode 176: My Friend Huck Hastings
March 11, 2021

Huck Hastings is a relatively new name on the Australian music scene, although the Sydney-based singer-songwriter has had his eyes on the stage well before his current solo iteration. Born into a pub-rock heritage, Hastings eventually found a niche within

Episode 175: My Friend Kevin Mitchell (Jebediah, Bob Evans)
March 04, 2021

Good Evans, it's a crossover! A week on from David featuring on Kevin Mitchell's Good Evans, It's A Bobcast!, the Jebediah frontman and solo singer-songwriter under the Bob Evans moniker had the tables turned on him. We traverse decades in just under an h

Episode 174: My Friend Tony Di Blasi (The Avalanches)
December 17, 2020

You all know the story by now. Formed in 1997, megastars by 2000, whatever-happened-tos by 2004, has-beens by 2006, comeback kids by 2016 - and, finally, comeback kids again in 2020. Of course, those are just the touchstones - in truth, there's way more t

Episode 173: My Friend Imogen Clark
November 26, 2020

It's rare to be simultaneously a decade-plus performance veteran and also still under the age of 30, and yet Imogen Clark happily exists within that Venn diagram. This ain't no child-star operation, either - really, this Blue Mountains native is just gett

Episode 172: My Friends Something for Kate
November 19, 2020

They're one of the most distinctive figures in the history of Australian rock music - not least of all because their frontman is nearly seven foot tall. They're a platinum-selling Hottest 100 runner-up with decades of sold-out theatres to their name, but

Episode 171: My Friends Sarah Blasko, Johnny Mackay (Children Collide, Fascinator) and Patrick Matthews (Youth Group, The Vines) - LIVE!
November 12, 2020

After a super-fun first round, the late crowd shuffled in for a second round of Bar Bands banter. This time around, it was a celebration of some of David's formative years in front of the stage and listening in his bedroom. This included Hurstville's own

Episode 170: My Friends Alex the Astronaut, L-FRESH the LION and Brae Fisher (Dear Seattle) - LIVE!
November 05, 2020

On the eve of Bar Bands' fifth birthday* (*not really) and David's 30th* (*also not really), a diverse but elite crew of Australian musicians descended upon The Vanguard in Sydney for a night of storytelling, song-sharing and top-tier banter. This is the

Episode 169: My Friend Kate Miller-Heidke
October 29, 2020

Are you all ready? Are you ready? Get set, let's go. We're heading on a journey through the career of one of Australia's most unique and powerful voices - the kind that can elicit tears as quickly as it can shatter glass. Although physically locked down (