Iron On

IRON ON are a four-piece rock band from Brisbane. They have been playing shows within city limits and well beyond since July 2002, and have played alongside bands such as Sleater-Kinney (US), Ben Kweller (US) The Shins (US), Lou Barlow (US), Iron and Wine (US), The Lou Barlow & The New Folk Implosion (US), Jackson United (US), M Ward (US), Magic Dirt, Jebediah, Art of Fighting, Bluebottle Kiss, The Superjesus, Screamfeeder, Dollar Bar, Sekiden, Sea Life Park, Origami, The Bites, The Zebras, Turnpike, Denvar, Ponyloaf, Audiophile, The Null Set and Remake Remodel. The band has toured extensively throughout QLD, NSW, SA and VIC; in 2003 they played the Brisbane leg of the Livid Festival. In January 2005, the band played the Big Day Out.

Iron On’s first EP THE UNDERSTUDY (“A stunning debut that should earn them a place on T-shirts everywhere” – Time Off Magazine) landed the band airplay on national and local radio, as well as 2nd place in the 4ZZZ Hot 100 in 2003. Follow up EVERYBODY CALM DOWN saw Iron On sounding even more like Iron On: dynamic playing bent into melodic shapes (rock shapes even!), alternating male-female vocals and more evidence of a continued, long-term love affair with distortion of almost any kind. It was intended that Everybody Calm Down would provoke dancing and not faux electro-clash strutting either, more so the ugly, the way dancing is supposed to look. Time Off said “Indeed, this is a diverse, exceptional piece of work.” (Review of Everybody Calm Down – Time Off Magazine, Wed May 5th)...but not many people believed them.

Both the EPs were recorded and mixed by Bryce Moorhead at Zero Interference studios (Sekiden, Denvar, Dollarbar) and were released nationally thru Ruth Street Records (via MGM Distro). Everybody Calm Down charted in the AIR Top 20 for four weeks consecutively, and has received spot airplay on JJJ and RRR, rotation on Fbi and is played on 4ZZZ every other day (god bless them).

Iron On’s latest offspring is the 'debut first album' and is called OH THE ROMANCE. The new record is Iron On’s most accessible and concise recording. Working with esteemed Brisbane producer Magoo (Midnight Oil, Jebediah, Regurgitator) the band have recorded the sort of album you can BBQ to: big on guitars, big on choruses and big on melody. Oh The Romance is hardly a more mature (ie. boring!) record but it is undoubtablely Iron On’s finest work to date.

Oh The Romance released onto the unsuspecting world September 5 on Plus One Records / Reverberation. Available everywhere.