The Vines

Six years is, to quote Mott The Hoople, "a mighty long way down rock 'n' roll". Though it might only feel like yesterday that Sydney based band The Vines ram-raided their way into the public consciousness, 2008 finds them releasing their fourth album, which greets the world with the kind of blinking, wide eyed enthusiasm of a band just out of the garage. The real story, though, is of a band who have experienced an accelerated career lived out very publicly in a whirlwind of brilliant pop records, legendary gigs and gruelling world tours, breakdowns, break ups and the occasional fug of spliff smoke, enough to make lesser mortals run for the hills, never to return to the frontline...

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