Band Of The Week: Roadgeek




Slight Band History:


"Roadgeek" is a music project from Michael Shanks, playing every instument on his songs from guitars, saxophone and even vocals while recording all his songs from his bedroom.



Genre: Indie Rock, Rock
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Activity: 2012-2013
Name Origin: N/A
Albums:
  • Sugarloaf(2012)

Fun Facts About Roadgeek:

  1. Michael Shanks won Best Musical Video and Best Independent Music Video for his music video of "On The Borderline" at the 2012 St Kilda Film Festival. 
  2. "Towards The Sun" music video won Best Independent Music Video at the 2013 ST Kilda Film Festival. 
  3. Michael Shanks is also known as Timtimfed on Youtube, where he posts all of his different sketches. 
  4. Said that his influnces are Arcade Fire, Queens Of The Stone Age and Department of Eagles. 
Top Songs:




Alternative Links(top2):
(couldn't find rest)

  1. On The Borderline
  2. Towards The Sun




First Song I heard/Favorite:
On The Borderline


Other Favorite Song:
Toward The Sun


Personal Opinion:

My neighbor and I found Roadgeek accidently just stumbling around YouTube when we found the music video for "On The Borderline" I got addicted to that song and was hooked on it for a pretty long time and then I found out that he was in spotify and started listening to Sugarloaf for quite some time, getting later on hooked with "Towards The Sun" as well. Roadgeek for me is a very peculiar sound, I yet to find something that reminds me to how Roadgeek sounds, even after searching on spotify artist that are similar to him. Thanks to this I was able to find another artist that I enjoy a lot and also have talked about before here that being "Lucky Criminal". It's kind of sad that he hasn't made anything in a while but I'm pretty sure is because he's just focusing more on making videos and such. But surely is a good listen, he has a certain vibe I can't really describe but for me at least it's nice, if is not your type or can't get around his music well be sure to check out his music videos at least because they are really good and really entertaining.


If you find this band interesting and want to see more check them out:

https://www.facebook.com/roadgeekmusic/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXoIFuHdVHm-Zp9umA2seRQ
https://twitter.com/timtimfed
https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/roadgeek/id529248849


If you think I've missed something, disagree, agree or wanna add anything, comment!


-Skullky

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