The Sun And The Sky — four band members in a low-lit room

The Sun and The Sky

Indie synth rock. Like the Killers meets Placebo with less eyeliner.

Adelaide, AU/ Est. 2010
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Film / 01

Watch

Three for the screen. The feature up top, two more underneath. Hit play once the films are live.

Live, filmed by Spoz

Shot by Adelaide gig stalwart Spoz Spozington. Plenty more local bands on his YouTube channel.

Sound / 02

Listen

The catalogue — dark-edged pop tunes with plenty of synth and plenty of four-on-the-floor. Tracks drop in here as they go up.

Live / 03

Gig Posters

Bills shared with some very good company, from the Ed Castle to Sydney's Oxford Art Factory and Upstairs Beresford, 2010 to 2013. Tap any poster to blow it up.

Sat 13 July 2013 · Ed Castle, Adelaide Supporting City Calm Down A Plus One night with Melbourne's City Calm Down up top, Pink Noise Generator opening, and our backline on stage for everyone.
Thu 6 Sept 2012 · Ed Castle, Adelaide Supporting Kingswood & Boy In A Box The Split-Ends Tour hit Adelaide fresh off Kingswood's Splendour set, and we were the only local act on the bill.

Selected shows

  1. 26 Jul 2013Upstairs Beresford, SydneySurry Hills, with The Kin and Tales in Space
  2. 13 Jul 2013Supporting City Calm DownEd Castle, Adelaide, with Pink Noise Generator
  3. 29 Jun 2013Sonic launch partyWith The Instamatics and Menagerie
  4. 22 Jun 2013Spin Off band competitionEd Castle, Adelaide, with Archers, Console Warriors and Presidio
  5. 15 Mar 2013Oxford Art Factory, SydneyThe Music Makers Club
  6. 22 Feb 2013Already One single launchArcade Lane, Adelaide: 350+ people, partying till 3am
  7. 27 Oct 2012Rhino Room, AdelaideFourwords presents, with local artists and DJs
  8. 1 Oct 2012Echo FestivalMount Barker Oval
  9. 6 Sep 2012Supporting Kingswood & Boy In A BoxSplit-Ends Tour, Ed Castle, Adelaide
  10. 19–21 Jul 2012Little Two Eyes EP launch tourThe Brunswick Hotel, Melbourne, and The Barwon Club, Geelong
  11. 7 Jul 2012River single launchCrown & Sceptre, Adelaide, with Little Two Eyes
  12. 21 Apr 2012Plus One: Terracotta PalaceEd Castle, Adelaide, with The Viennas
  13. 16 Mar 2012Free Fringe showGrand Academy of Lagado, Adelaide, with The Leitmotif and Sasha & The Dawnhorse
  14. 22 Feb 2012Fuse FestivalJade Monkey, Adelaide
  15. 12 Jan 2012Bands on Track finalFowler's Live, Adelaide: one of the finalists for the Clipsal 500 opening
  16. 19 Nov 2011Plus One with New NavySupporting Sydney's New Navy
  17. 2 Oct 2011Ed Castle, AdelaideWith Flat One and Saturday's Army
  18. 8 Jul 2011Ed Castle, AdelaideWith The Rules and Hurricane Jane, filmed by Spoz
  19. 29 Apr 2011Houndstooth at Rocket BarHindley St, with World's End Press and The Leitmotif
  20. 9 Oct 2010Live debut, as Revival CrusadeEd Castle, Adelaide
Film / 04

Gallery

Stages, studios, festival fields and the back of a few street poles. Tap to enlarge.

Story / 05

About

The Sun And The Sky is a four-piece indie synth rock band formed in Adelaide in January 2010. Attitude Magazine called them "the rock'n'roll version of The Presets." Comprised of brothers Tim, Sam and Simon Pearce and housemate Justin Pounsett, they write catchy but dark-edged pop tunes, with influences running from New Order and Placebo to U2, Nine Inch Nails, Interpol and The Killers.

The first two gigs, at the Ed Castle and Rocket Bar, actually went out under the name Revival Crusade. It didn't stick, and the band became The Sun And The Sky soon after.

Honest version: three mates and an actual musician trying to write happy, trendy songs, only for something darker and catchier to fall out. Probably too much coffee and not enough fresh greens has had a hand in it.

A cocaine dance party in a trench coat. — Spoz, on the live show

Live, the vibe is high energy, danceable and pretty intense — a kind of brooding wall of synth and guitar, with plenty of four-on-the-floor. Sometimes Sam stands on the drum kit while playing guitar. It's quite daring, but never distracting. The good news is the songs are lined with lyrics to leave you feeling like things might just turn out okay after all.

Still relatively new on the live scene, the band shared stages with New Navy, Strange Talk, World's End Press, The Paper Scissors, We Are Fans, Kingswood, Boy In A Box, City Calm Down, The Killgirls, Messrs and Mammoth Logic. River and Already One both got spins on rage, and in 2013 the band took the show to Sydney twice: Oxford Art Factory in March and Upstairs Beresford in July. There was even a guy who rolled on the floor for almost a whole set — and not many bands could say that.

★★★☆☆
Dom Alessio · triple j · Apr 2013
I really like the moodiness of this track. I can definitely hear the Joy Division / New Order influence, but this rocks out a bit more.