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A SCHICKEL HISTORY
Schickel is a band. A band from Adelaide.
Adelaide is in South Australia, which is a state in the country of
Australia. The southern-most state of Australia, in fact. Unless, of
course, you count Tasmania... but who would want to do that? Anyway, it
has been speculated that Schickel is an Australian band. This is
correct.
This ear-smile inducing band was formed by
singer/guitarist Joel Sprigg in 2003, when he materialised a 7-track EP titled
"What's With All The Soup... Mary?" and needed an alias to go under. Some say he
just thought of "Schickel" out of thin air. Others claim it is regional German
slang. Others still allude to the fact that Joel once wrestled a bear. A big
bear. He trounced it by strangling it with his mitten-encased hands, and with
his (or her) last dying breath, this big bear wheezed "Schickel..."
That never happened.
After high-school friends Jason Golding and
Charles Young showed nods of enthusiasm and constructed sentences of "I'm
impressed, sir", he (Joel, not the deceased, supposedly gender-ambiguous bear)
asked them to join the band on bass and guitar respectively, with hopes of
further recording and joyous gigging. More home recordings were made, and joyous
gigging turned out to be one gig at Geoff "Come on, let's go" Stone's 18th
birthday party. Further ideas of gigging were shelved due to a drummer shortage.
Kind of an epidemic, actually. However, this all changed in December 2004, when
Craig Bunting took up stick duties as a favour, enabling the band to get out and
gig! Wooooo!
The year of 2005 saw Charles leave the band in
January, reducing Schickel to a leaner, meaner three-piece as it mostly remains
today, and have Schickel play the inaugural MusicSA "Louder Than Words" showcase
at Flinders University, drawing the biggest crowd without even headlining the
event, and being filmed and interviewed for AwesamTV.
2006AD had the 2006th edition of the month of
April, wherein Schickel started production of its first LP. Recording duties
were performed solely by Jason on bass and guitars, and Joel on vocals, guitars
and drums, as Craig's favour entailed that he stand in for live shows only.
Schickel's first full-length album, "Blue, Green &
Tuesday" is now available!
After Craig's decicion not to continue with the
band was announced, Joel and Jason began the search for a new drummer, looking
for someone committed to gigging and working on new material. Their prayers were
answered by a little chap called Hugh.
Hugh Linnane joined the band in early May 2007 and
Schickel is now in preparation to rock your world. Stay tuned.
Schickel's first full-length album, "Blue, Green &
Tuesday" is now available! CLICK HERE for
details.
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on the member's name at the top to see further information.
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