Music
Press
Sydney three-piece The Honey Palace have been carving themselves a track through the proverbial mist of the Aus Music Scene of late. A write up in Hot Press and some recent attention from Nova has seen this EP garnering some deserved accolades. Six tracks wide (including one edit) ‘She’s The One’ is an angular rock trodden excursion through distorted guitar ridden splurge.
Vocally there’s a sometimes chantish, melodically rhythmic slant that permeates throughout which serves to anchor the tracks. The aforementioned guitar dominates, riff heavy and slathered in fifths and yet chiming enough through tracks like ‘Love Junkie’ to lend itself ably to the punch of the chorus. A hefty and full weighted outing, watch this space…….
Evan Alexander
- The Blurb
Their aural assault stuns the senses, walls of distortion and relentless guitar carrying pop melodies in a psych-rock freakout of epic proportions! - Brag Music Magazine
Love Junkie begins like all great rock songs- a wail of feedback giving way to a wall of noise built on distortion and a pounding back beat! With soaring vocals this Ep is a display of how much live playing is influencing their sound, the songs feel unrestrained by musical form and the understated acoustic tones of "Get back on your feet again" is beautiful in its simplicity! - Faster Louder
We here at FBi 94.5fm are pretty excited about The Honey Palace material. We will help promote the band tour dates, play a track and big it up when ever we can! - Dan Haak (presenter)
"Get back on your feet again" gives you a feeling of hope, a window into another world which isnt too far off from the one you are in now! The difference is, The Honey Palace know where that place is.....It's right here! so make it happen!
This is a great track! - Make Yourself Records
Discography
RELEASED MUSIC CATALOGUE:
1.Silversun - Single 2001 Indy
2.Mellow Day - Ep (2002) MRA
3.Have you seen Love? - Album DVD (plus) (2003)
A poetry book themed album being the first of its kind in the music world, using the new technology of DVD (plus) also now termed 'Dual-Disc' by SONY.
4. Love Junkie - EP (2005) MGM
5. She's the one! - EP CD-Rom (2006) MGM
The band have been receiving constant airplay from Fbi 94.5, NOVA & Triple J in Sydney & Melbourne's RRR, along with many regional stations including Canberra's 2xxx, Byron Bay's Bay FM. Home Brew's HHH & many others.
The bands new music video clip has been added to RAGE, ABC 'Videos on Demand', DMX Music, SMA. She's the one! is also being played in Brothers Nielson surf stores and Billabong Australia.
New Cd-Rom release, 'She's The One!' is distributed nationally in Australia by MGM and is available in all good music stores!
Also available online through iTunes Australia, Telstra Bigpond, Martian Music.com.
Be sure to visit:
www.myspace.com/thehoneypalace
and official band website:
www.thehoneypalace.com
Photos
Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
The Honey Palace was originally formed in art college by wolfey in 2001, who was then studying 3D Studio-Max, animation and film. Prior to this the band was called 'One' and toured Australia's east coast with performance artists and a barrage of visuals, art and candles. (even girls dancing in cages! Byron Bay)
By 2002/3, the opportunity soon arose to record a debut album, and when wolfey was informed the band could work with a new technology called DVD plus, a concept formed to create a 'poetry-book' themed album. Being the first of its kind in the ROCK music world, DVD (plus) also now termed, 'Dual-Disc' by SONY, opened the creative flood gates. The album has 10 songs one side and nine movies on the other side, all in surround sound. The album merges music, sound-scapes, illustrations, 3D and film, and is based on the concept to 'dissolve the mind' and 'free the heart', by also using the polarites of darkness and the 'ominous beyond' and 'colour' and 'the simple beauties', to create one complete and full 'art piece'.
The Honey Palace has also gained a lot of respect from music lovers around the globe too. Not only from the bands music but also by their strong involvement with online, music web-development models (DRM etc) and the independant movement by artists onto the web from as early as 1998. (Type The Honey Palace into google)
2005 saw the band record a new Ep in the forests of Byron Bay with producer Steve James (Sex Pistols, The Jam). Soon after release, song 'My Addiction' was added to the Australian 'Grow your Own' music compilation, which resulted in airplay across major Australian radio network - NOVA 96.9fm. 2005 also saw the bands new Ep go up onto the brand new US music Hub 'Fresh Tracks Music',
(http://www.freshtracksmusic.com/artist313.aspx)
With more radio play, Jan 2006 saw the band with an opportunity to go back into the studio to record what now is their latest CD-Rom release, 'She's the One!'.
The CD-Rom, is self produced by The Honey Palace,
and contains illustrated artwork, a new music video clip with a VLC Media player, two very whacky screen savers (PC and Mac) and band fotoz.
(also featured on alternate rock radio station, www.wickedgrinradio.net, in the US)
Not so much influencing but more 'inspiring' the band, are artists who let rip their own genuine take on life and the world we live in.
The Honey Palace are now back on the road again to promote their new release, touring throughout Australia in 2006. With a great fanbase here in Australia, The Honey Palace are now working towards touring the USA and Europe.
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