The Triangles
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The Triangles are an indie pop
band from Melbourne, Australia.
Eleanor Horsburgh, Julie Conway, Katherine Simpson (née James), Matt Gormann and Robert Simpson met as school friends in Boronia
, a suburb of Melbourne. They began playing together in 2003 and collaborated on writing songs that mixed elements of rock
, psych-pop
and folk
. They performed in local venues and self-released two song collections before signing with local label Half a Cow Records
. Through Half a Cow they released the CDs Magic Johnson (2005) and Seventy-Five Year Plan (2007). Magic Johnson spawned the regional hit singles "Applejack" and "Let’s Replace the Cityscapes."
The Triangles ostensibly split after the release of their second CD when several members left Australia. The band reformed early in 2010 when they were approached to perform "Applejack" in a Spanish
TV commercial for Estrella Damm
. Consequently the tune became a hit single in Spain during the summer of 2010, remaining for 14 weeks on the Spanish singles chart and peaking at #8. The commercial has been viewed on YouTube
over 3.8 million times as of November 2011, and led to the posting of numerous home-grown "Applejack" music videos by Spanish fans. An album of previously released Triangles songs was released in July 2010 by Universal Music Spain.
The Triangles reactivated in late 2010 with new music in the form of an EP entitled The Night Lunch, released independently in 2011.
Indie pop
Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...
band from Melbourne, Australia.
Eleanor Horsburgh, Julie Conway, Katherine Simpson (née James), Matt Gormann and Robert Simpson met as school friends in Boronia
Boronia, Victoria
Boronia is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Knox...
, a suburb of Melbourne. They began playing together in 2003 and collaborated on writing songs that mixed elements of rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, psych-pop
Psychedelic pop
Psychedelic pop is a psychedelic musical style inspired by the sounds of psychedelic folk and psychedelic rock, but applied to a pop music setting...
and folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
. They performed in local venues and self-released two song collections before signing with local label Half a Cow Records
Half A Cow
Half a Cow is an independent record label from Australia, established in 1990 by Sydney musician and music identity Nic Dalton.- History :In 1987 - 1989 Dalton ran a bookshop in the Sydney suburb of Glebe called Dalton's Books...
. Through Half a Cow they released the CDs Magic Johnson (2005) and Seventy-Five Year Plan (2007). Magic Johnson spawned the regional hit singles "Applejack" and "Let’s Replace the Cityscapes."
The Triangles ostensibly split after the release of their second CD when several members left Australia. The band reformed early in 2010 when they were approached to perform "Applejack" in a Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
TV commercial for Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm is a Catalan pilsener. It has been brewed in Barcelona since 1876 and is the flagship beer of S.A. Damm, a prominent Barcelona brewery. "Estrella" means "Star" in both Catalan and Spanish....
. Consequently the tune became a hit single in Spain during the summer of 2010, remaining for 14 weeks on the Spanish singles chart and peaking at #8. The commercial has been viewed on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
over 3.8 million times as of November 2011, and led to the posting of numerous home-grown "Applejack" music videos by Spanish fans. An album of previously released Triangles songs was released in July 2010 by Universal Music Spain.
The Triangles reactivated in late 2010 with new music in the form of an EP entitled The Night Lunch, released independently in 2011.
Members
- Julie Conway - keyboards, accordion
- Matt Gormann - guitars, vocals, ukulele, banjo, harmonica
- Eleanor Horsburgh - vocals, drums, percussion, melodica
- Katherine Simpson - guitars, vocals, recorder, kazoo
- Robert Simpson – drums, guitars
Albums
- Waterfive (2003) independent
- Red Panda (2004) independent
- Magic Johnson (2005) Half a Cow Records HAC117
- Seventy-Five Year Plan (2007) Half a Cow Records HAC125
- The Triangles (2010) Universal Music Spain
Singles/EPs
- "Let’s Replace the Cityscapes" (2003)
- The Feast of Stephen (2003)
- Christmas 2005 (2005)
- "Applejack" (2010)
- The Night Lunch EP (2011)