Eight Miles High Festival

We are delighted to present the inaugural Eight Miles High mini-festival, a celebration of psychedelic, 60’s influenced, surf, shoegaze, and dreamy pop music. We’ve carefully selected bands that operate out towards the fringes of the musical landscape, and hope you’ll join us on this magical mystery tour…it will take place at The Zoo, Saturday December 10.

with Richard In Your Mind, Sand Pebbles, Belles Will Ring, Black Cab, Grand Atlantic, Los Huevos, Dead Shades, Howling Rabbits

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US Release

 

"Constellations" is officially out in the US now and attracting great reviews!

The album is currently streaming for your listening pleasure at Spinner's Full CD Listening Party

Purchase the album on Vinyl, CD or Digital Download

Constellations

 

"Constellations" is out and attracting great reviews!

Purchase the album on Vinyl, CD or Digital Download

4 Star Review.  Noel Mengel, Courier Mail

Great rock'n'roll can be made anywhere. But who would have thought two of the better rock records this year would be made (a) somewhere up near the Arctic in a Norwegian fishing village (Virgins of Menace by The Disciplines) and (b) in an abandoned former asylum outside of Dunedin (this one).
This Brisbane quartet's live shows are things of raw and sometimes brutal beauty and recording in these spooky surrounds with NZ producer Dale Cotton focuses all their brooding power on to tape. They've done that on previous albums but not quite so breathtakingly as here.
For evidence, check the album's eight-minute title cut, where the band snarls and soothes around songwriter Phil Usher's vocals before taking off in a psych-guitar freakout of speaker-shredding intensity. It's surely a prime contender for rock crescendo of the year. Then they bring the listener back to planet Earth with the aching slow-mo of Mountains Too Steep, with Morgan Hann's 12-string electric guitar helping develop the epic quality of the track.
The album kicks off in celebratory mood with the towering Searchlights then gets frantic and sweaty with Central Station Blues, but the quality remains consistent all the way to Usher's acoustic guitar sign-off, Queenie.
Weirdly, Grand Atlantic seem to get more love in the US than they do at home (they are about to set off on another trip there) but fans of '60s garage rock and bands like Primal Scream and Oasis at their amp-rattling peak, shouldn't miss this heavy, heady delight.

Constellations Tour

With the imminent release of Grand Atlantic's third album, entitled simply 'Constellations', the band are ready to get out and play these new songs (and maybe a few old ones as well).
The 'Constellations' album tour gets under way on the 30th September and runs through to November - the full list of dates is below, with more to be added.

Friday 30th September - Northern Star, Newcastle*
Saturday 1st October - Lansdowne Hotel, Sydney*
Friday 7th October - Woodland Bar, Brisbane*
Friday 14th October - Yah Yah's, Melbourne
Saturday 15th October - National Hotel, Geelong
Tues 18th - 23rd Oct - CMJ Music Marathon, New York USA
Mon 24th Oct - Brick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco, USA
Tuesday 25th October - Molly Malone's, Los Angeles, USA
Thursday 3rd November - Sol Bar, Sunshine Coast (tbc)*
Friday 4th November - Sky Parlour@The Loft, Gold Coast*
Saturday 5th November - Spotted Cow, Toowoomba*

You can pre-order the new album directly from us (http://www.grandatlantic.org/shop) and you can listen to the whole thing right here - http://grandatlantic.bandcamp.com/ - let us know what you think, and come to the shows!

* These shows will be with the awesome We All Want To as our special guests