Gettin' to know our 6th Birthday Bands: Martin King (Melbourne)

We get to know the bands playing our 6th Birthday Party in Melbourne next Tuesday night… first up is Martin King, best known as one half of Oscar + Martin. He’ll be pumping out a live set on the night so let’s take a moment to learn a bit more about the man himself:

Who I am: It’s me, Martin King. Juliet Rowe often lends her beautiful voice to my live set, and we have some singles we hope to release soon!!

How I started this project: I’ve been doing music forever, in my bands The Harpoons and Oscar + Martin… only recently been doing my solo thing though. I went to High School with Juliet, but apart from a couple of JT covers we did together in our school band (!!!!) we’ve only recently started playing together…

We Sound Like: …well one time, I was DJing at rooftop, and at the end of the night put on a master I’d just received of a track featuring Juliet, and this Scottish guy and his girlfriend, who were the last people there came up and were like “…this is amazing! It sounds exactly like BANKS! I love BANKS!” and to be honest I’ve only really heard one BANKS track, so I don’t really know if that’s true at all. It was a remix by Friend Within, and ah it was pretty good, although maybe that’s just because Friend Within is a genius. If I could sound like that id be happy. Seriously, listen to this:

I would love to play with: J-Lo

I want you to listen to this song I made:

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Tickets to our 6th Birthday Event in Melbourne – being held on Tuesday, September 2nd at The Workers Club – are $10 on the door and for the full lineup and more details, head to: https://www.theaureview.com/party

Larry Heath

Founding Editor and Publisher of the AU review. Currently based in Toronto, Canada. You can follow him on Twitter @larry_heath or on Instagram @larryheath.