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Walken (Band)Walken is a four-piece alt/pop/rock band from Melbourne. Walken's current line up is Leigh Baines (drums), Andrew Bowie (guitar), Heath Smith (vocals) and Daniel Soussan (bass). History Walken officially formed on the 5 August, 2000 when Daniel Soussan (bass) joined the band after watching Heath Smith (vocals), Andrew Bowie (guitar) and Bruce Chan (former drummer) play at a party. The name Walken was chosen by Heath and Andrew via SMS on the 7 August, 2000. Heath, Daniel and Bruce had previously jammed together "playing bad covers". Andrew and Heath met and started writing music mid 1999. They both responded to an advertisement by a third party to 'start a band' on the newsgroup aus.music. Walken's first gig as a full band was at the Duke Of Windsor, Prahran on Saturday 17 February, 2001. Shortly after Daniel went on a year long holiday to Europe. While Daniel was away the band recorded a 2 track single, Glory at Hothouse studios in St Kilda on the 8th and 9th of December 2001. Andrew played bass. Bruce, who had only joined the band as a temporary drummer, quit the band before recording but kindly continued on to complete the CD. When Daniel returned in 2002 Walken added Leigh Baines (drums) to the line up and started gigging again on the 14 July, 2002 with a gig at The Tote in Collingwood. The "Glory" single was reprinted in mid 2002 as Glory (Misunderstood) with two acoustic live tracks and officially launched at the Armadale Hotel on Friday 18 October, 2002. The band demoed songs throughout 2002 and 2003. They returned to Hothouse in February 2004 to record their 7 track EP, Current Melbourne Temperature. Current Melbourne Temperature was lauched at Laundry, Fitzroy on the 30 July, 2004. A video for the single Blue Sky was released on 18 November, 2004 with a launch at the Evelyn Hotel, Brunswick. Walken quote their influences as "Faith No More, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regurgitator & The Sharp." Discography 2001 Glory / Lucy - 2 track single (CDr)
2002 Glory (Misunderstood) - 4 track single (CD)
2004 Current Melbourne Temperature - 7 track EP (CD)
2004 Blue Sky - Video Webpages http://www.walkentheband.com/
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