MUSIC & VIDEO

Day For Night (EP)
Label: Lost & Lonesome Recording Co
Released: September 2005

Our second EP, again recorded with Steve Bond twiddling the knobs. Features 5 pop songs from us and a whole lotta colour, courtesy of a string quartet, brass section and... a flute.

1. She's Not Into Love
2. Like A Piano
3. Can't Be Beat
4. Leave It Out
5. Not So Long Ago

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REVIEWS

- Is This Music (Scotland): "Boy, it can get depressing having to trudge through badly-produced, uninspired demos, all the while hoping for that record to pop through the letterbox that will restore your faith in music. Thankfully, The Bank Holidays have delivered such a release and then some. The Australia-based quartet's EP Day For Night heralds the arrival of a major new talent. Perfectly blending sunkissed Beach Boys-esque harmonies and Europop without surrendering themselves to the realm of cheese, this record is just what we need to get us through the crap weather" - Losing Today (USA): "This new EP is simply ridiculously good believe you me - fans of Sarah, Summershine, Bus Stop, Matinee, Fire Station et al will swoon thinking that this had literally dropped into your lap from the sky while those of you much in awe and adoration of the very early Velvet Crush catalogue will check their pulses to make sure they haven’t died and gone to harmony heaven... 'Day for Night' offers up 5 perfect reasons to fall in love all over again with the notion of innocently uncluttered pop. Perfect." (full review)
- Unpeeled (UK): "This is a band making huge noises and doing impossible things with limited resources... mad Beach Boys, stoned Burt Bacharach and, hey honey, we got your nail, tightly wired Bjork."
- Tangents (UK): "share the kind of penchant for great Pop songs succinctly executed that the likes of The Shins or compatriots The Go-Betweens so perfectly encapsulate... if the universe was less perverse this should be spinning in CD players the world over." (full review)
- Vanity Project (UK): "The Bank Holidays take West Coast harmonies a crisp but feathery jangle that dips into the annals of Beach Boys history, but also fit contemporaneously with the Bluetones and Belle & Sebastian." (full review)
- Kitten Painting (UK): "you should be getting little synapse-tickling rushes at the saturation levels of primary pop colour bursting from these songs." (full review)
- X-Press (Australia): Of the EP "each of the five songs on this EP stands alone as being a cracker in its own right", and of the launch "the band wasted no time in bowling the audience over with their intelligently written pop tunes... the use of all four members as vocalists offered some brilliant harmonies, and everything gelled perfectly... this had been a gig that had truly lived up to its enormous potential".

LAUNCH PHOTOS

Photos from the launch are up at the picture book