Frankly, The Brill is an excellent band. It is my band. We can also be found at www.myspace.com/thebrill. My name is Tristan "Covert Op" Grotvedt, and I sing and write songs and for The Brill, when I am not working for The Man or studying philosophy. The Brill is not only my band, but at least two other people's bands also. We have the formidable engineering student, Nathan "Cross the Threshold of Shred" Clinen on lead guitar, and the controversial bass sensation from Hong Kong, Luke "Swiss Watch" Dirckze. We are based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, where the sun is shiny and the milk of life is chilled to drink-fridge perfection.

The Brill formed in 2003 in our senior years of high school, out of the ashes of the ridiculous Spend The Woodblock Quartet, who broke up due to creative exhaustion after their instrumental magnum opus, "Militant Were The Skylarks (Box Communication Box)". Chiefly responsible for the inception of the new group were Nathan "Smack That" Clinen and myself, Tristan "the Enigmatron" Grotvedt. The rest, as they say, is history, friends.

Since then, the lucky ones who have heard us have been enthralled by the direct yet ambiguous impressionistic lyrics and charmed by the overflow of melodies - or, at least, this was the reaction of those who did not think we were pissweak. But that's a lot of good reactions. I know of at least nine.

We like to make lots of copies of our recordings on CD-Rs and give them to people. You can do this as well, should you so wish. We are currently planning a properly manufactured EP. Also coming soon is Tristan's myspace, where you will be delighted with five extra songs.

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If you have comments or questions, a gig for us, or if you are a musician interested in collaborating (we are on the lookout for drummers especially), email Tristan at trissos [at] hotmail.com, or Direz at luketheforce76 [at] yahoo.com.

Direz's brother, Jason Dirckze, is the man behind all our best recordings. He played the drums on the tracks I Wish I Knew and Diamonds, and is a consummate gentlemen as well as an audio whiz. If you'd like to ask Jason questions about our recordings / his equipment, you can drop him a line at jasondirckze [at] hotmail.com

coming soon

posted June 12th at 10:33pm

Hello there, and welcome to our wonderful JukeBoxAlive page! We have signed up with these good folks as well as MP3.com to supplement the exposure generated by our myspace, as you can never have too much. One song up now. More coming over the next couple days. Till then, hear more at http://www.myspace.com/thebrill