Dallas Crane
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| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Years active | 1996–present |
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| Website | dallascrane |
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Dallas Crane are a triple ARIA Award nomainated Australian alternative rock band from Melbourne. Their self-titled third album was released on 10 July 2004, which peaked in the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. Its nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 2004, included Best Rock Album. Its lead single, "Dirty Hearts" (June 2004), debuted in the related ARIA Singles Chart top 50.
Dallas Crane's fourth album, Factory Girls (16 September 2006), peaked in the top 30. Their highest charting single, "Sit on My Knee" – a duet with Jimmy Barnes – reached No. 14 in July 2005. In 2009 they featured as a support act for The Who on a national stadium tour. After re-grouping following a short hiatus in 2012 Dallas Crane's began work on their 5th studio album "Scoundrels" featuring Chris Brodie on bass guitar, Dave Larkin on vocals and guitar, Steve Pinkerton on drums and Pete Satchell on guitar and vocals.
Dallas Crane formed in 1996 in Melbourne by Chris Brodie on bass guitar, Dave Larkin on lead vocals and guitar, Pete Satchell on guitar and vocals and Shan Vanderwert on drums. Satchell and Larkin were former school mates and Brodie and Vanderwert joined soon after. They rehearsed material for their debut album, Lent (1998), in a Port Melbourne oil shed on the property of Dallas Crane Transport. The local trucking company was owned by friends: their rehearsals were paid for in beer, and the group were renamed, Dallas Crane.
After working the Melbourne pub circuit they befriended local sound engineer, Robbie Rowlands, (The Fauves, Morning After Girls), who produced their debut self-funded album, Lent, which was released locally on their own label, Slant 6. Larkin later recalled "We were pretty young and that was the swag of songs we had at the time. It’s a fairly incongruous record when you look at it, but we probably rate it as our favorite for that reason. And because it was our first and the whole recording experience was new to us."
One of their fans was Richard Kingsmill of national radio station, Triple J, who invited them to record a track, "Nylon Don't Breathe", live in the ABC studios, during his Australian Music Show. The track was co-written by Larkin and Satchell: it appeared on the Five Alive: Live at the Wireless (1999) live 2× CD compilation. They were the only unsigned act of 35 artists to appear on the album. This endorsement led to wider interest in the band interstate as they began touring nationally.
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