Deloris
Deloris are a 4 (sometimes 5) piece band from Melbourne, Australia, who formed in 1999, and tour Australia regularly.
History
The band have released three albums and three EPs to date, and has played shows alongside Okkervil River, Lou Barlow, The Delgados and Augie March. Deloris spent most of 2006 writing and recording their fourth album Ten Lives in Abercorn Studios, Harkaway, Victoria. The album was released in late October 2006. Singer/songwriter Marcus Teague is currently working separately on a solo record, due in the first half of 2006.
The band has been featured recently in Rolling Stone, IDN, Mess + Noise and Triple J's Jmag. They were one of the first artists to be signed to Australian record label Dot Dash.
Discography
- Reticent Memoranda (Dot Dash/Remote Control Records - 2009)
- Ten Lives (Dot Dash/Remote Control Records - 2006)
- Feather Figure/Elastic Bones (acoustic EP) + Video (Dot Dash/Independent - 2005)
- Fake Our Deaths (Dot Dash - 2004)
- Dead Drunks ltd edition EP (Remote Control Records/independent - 2004)
- Playing The Spaces EP (independent - 2003)
- Deloris/Braving the Seabed (Split 7 inch - Steady Cam Records - 2002)
- The Pointless Gift (Quietly Suburban Records / MGM - 2001)
- Fraulein (Halflight Records / MGM - 1998)
Interesting facts
- The band members wrote a script for a vampire movie with TV-tie in while on tour, but it was lost at a rest stop somewhere near [[Goulbourn[[.
- When offered the oft-quoted Irish greeting "Top of the Mornin' to You" at a show, the members of the band will appear shocked, pack up their gear and refuse to play until three rounds of beer have been served to them.
- Marcus Teague, the frontman of Deloris, draws anatomically correct pictures of Lemmings.