Short Stack

Quick, Tweet your mates - Short Stack are on Rove this Sunday! Australia’s biggest band on YouTube, they’ve had over 4 million plays on MySpace with over 1 million plays for their second single Princess alone.

Shaun Diviney, guitar and lead vocals
Andy Clemmensen, bass and vocals
Bradie Webb, drums

Channel [V] OZ Artist Of The Year Award in 2008
Over four million plays on MySpace with over one million plays for there second single Princess alone.
More than twenty five gigs around Australia, playing to a total audience in excess of fifty thousand fans.
Australia’s biggest band on YouTube with over 1.4 million views of the Short Stack TV series and video clips.

Question: How does a teenaged three-piece from New South Wales’ Central Coast rack up stats like these and become Australia’s hottest new band before they’ve even released their debut album?

Answer: By doing what no other music act has successfully achieved. Using the combined powers of SMS, YouTube and MySpace, Short Stack has amassed a massive following that’s growing by the second. This isn’t some cynical marketing ploy, either. The band themselves have driven their online explosion with constant updates, ongoing interaction with their fans and a raw look at life in Short Stack in their own reality series, Short Stack TV.

“The main idea with Short Stack TV is that we saw all these terrible reality TV shows and thought, ‘Hey, we can do that’” Andy explains. “So we got a camera and filmed ourselves dicking around and put it on YouTube and people started to enjoy it. It makes us more real to our fans.”

But what about the music? After all, you can’t have a band – and fans – without tunes. On their first two singles, Shimmy A Go Go and Princess, Short Stack established themselves as Australia’s most energetic new rock band with a sound that mashes elements from punk, glam and electro, delivered with a cheeky, don’t give a damn attitude. It’s that attitude that brought the band together when they were just three high school students with a passion for causing mayhem on the train trip from their home town of Budgewoi to their high school in Broadmeadow, Newcastle. It’s that same attitude that, in 2005, prompted them to enter the Youthrock band comp in Sydney. In 2006 their passion and energy were enough to impress Trevor Steel, and Chris Johns of indie label Sunday Morning Records who to sign the band, with Trevor co-producing their debut album. In between HSC exams and gigs supporting the likes of Simple Plan and Good Charlotte, work began on Stack Is The New Black with all the songs written by Shaun. “We never thought we had any good songs until we got signed and people were like, ‘These are actually quite good’,” Shaun says. “For us, more than anything the album is a timeline because we have songs on there that were written when we first started out then songs we wrote a week before the album was recorded. It’s really cool to see how we’ve progressed as a band, and how we’ve grown up.”

Short Stack are going to give us taste of the new black when they perform their hit single ‘Sway Sway Baby’ on Rove this week!

3rd Single – Sway Sway Baby released on July 17th
Album - Stack Is The New Black is released on Aug 14th

Short Stack Official Website